RECO-NG is the same as DB-110 on F-16, if needed similar system will be integrated into F-35 multi-mission pod

If the wall of text came from someone else i would have been impressed, but remembering what LEG posted and his style (mixing a bunch of military terms to sound like “someone in the know” then mix it up with facts and factoids both real and imagined) in https://forum.keypublishing.com/showthread.php?2902-F-32, i have no choice but to be skeptical. Just a head up, long posts may or may not be accurate

Its a Titanic level disaster. Or the shuttle Columbia. For one of the 1st operational F-35’s to be broad sided by an old Soviet missile is a historic disaster

yet it is every bit as legit as Doomsday in 2012

Also, another point of interest might be the J-20 radar. Now that we have precise measurements, the radome is about 1.3 meters, implying about 1 meter aperture diameter, or a 30% superiority in size over the F-35.
There’s this article I’ve been meaning to find of late that reports the J-20 jamming and spoofing older Chinese AESAs. With the large diameter, what this implies is that the J-20, with same generation radars, can suppress the F-35’s radar system, nullifying its inferiority in stealth and forcing the latter to rely on EODAS

In real combat environments with surface clutter, jamming and decoys, all stealth fighters will detect and track each others by IRST and ESM long before they can see each others on radar.

If the J-20 is flying higher than the F-35, the latter can’t utilize its EOTS while the J-20 can, meaning that the latter is now out-sensored by the J-20 and has to rely on its defense systems

There isn’t enough altitude difference between J-20 and F-35 for J-20 to stay out of EOTS field of regard and aircraft cruising near their service ceiling will fly pitch up slightly anyway to generate more lift.

About rafale RCS you can find a good rafale documentary which is available on YouTube :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7RYZovAj54

Bruno Revelin Falcoz, the father of the rafale, states directly that Rafale frontal RCS is equivalent to a smal bird which puts it in the VLO category. That would be for a “clean” rafale of course

I don’t think Rafale is in VLO category in the same way J-20, PAK-FA or F-35 are..etc.
One can also look at the scattering chart below and say a clean F-16 has RCS of a bird from some very specific aspects, while it is technically correct, it doesn’t make F-16 a stealth aircraft. Rafale, Eurofighter, Gripen are likely to have reduced RCS in the same way F-18E/F is

^ Everyone can make meme

M1A2 and M2 are demolished by 100-150 kg IED but F-35 can take a direct hit from a missile that has 200 kg warhead, flying at Mach 5. Seem legit .It take a special kind of stupid to believe that.

providing stand-off EW range counter-VLO capability or/and burn-trough capability in heavy jammed environment.

The table is strictly in no jamming environment.

I would expect half wavelength spacing, hence a 2x2m array @ 4000 elements,

S band with 15 cm wavelength (2Ghz).
4000 elements=> 64 vertical and 64 horizontal lines
If the aperture is square then its length 64×15÷2 = 480 cm or 4.8×4.8 meters with half wavelength spacing.

S band with 11.5 cm wavelength (3Ghz) need 3.6×3.6 meters array for 4000 elements.