F-35 were not there during first week of Atlantic trident

So what? The article is about BVR combat.

The first week focused on basic fighter maneuvers, the second on defensive counter air operations, and the third on offensive counter air.

Though, i do agree that according to earlier article, we were told that in offensive counter air, Red air were F- 15E, E-3 and T-38. Still it worth waiting a few days for confirmation/denial from more reputable sources like aviationweek.

F-35’s performance at the 2017 Huntington Beach Air Show:

Linear array beamwidth is basically 2/N Thus for array of 24 elements it is 2/24=0.08 Radian or 4.7 degrees

Does that formula take into account elements spacing?. Elements seem very close together, your example wavelength is 24 cm, 24/2= 12, i doubt that woman wrist can be 12 cm wide. Even 6 cm wide wrist seem very rare

Items of note:
— 21:50 – 6 x 2k JDAMS + (int) AMRAAMS + 9x going mach 1+

Why there isn’t any afterburner flow?

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As often seem to happen, you were making petty technical remark

Why is it petty if it true?

See, in my country we use to call such kind of sponsored documents “marchette” i.e. the way that was used to pay for the girls’ services in old times’ brothels.

So the remarks I have made about the figure you reported were intended just as practical examples of how some data can easily be twisted and sugarcoated in order to fit the sponsor’s agenda. Rest assured that if instead of the Northrop-Grumman there have been some IRST producer to pay the bill there would have been completely diferen considerations.
The fact you replied in the way you have done just confirm me that, sadly, you have eat not just the bait but also the hook, the angle and the whole fishing pole.

You do know system like DAS MS-177 were designed and produced by Northrop Grumman right?
LM themselves also produce Tiger eyes, Legion pod, EOTS, Sniper-XR.

Now, according to this absolutely indipendent and interest free istitution report, all others except the mighty americans are just wasting money and time in the vain effort of match the superior intelligence, wisdom and cool look of the homo nordamericus…is ‘nt it?
Repent you fools and bow!

Iam about 99.999%sure that America isn’t the only country that followed that stealth game.

Just look how in the published figure they have very convenientely dropped out the conventional scanning radar range published in figure 3 (from which you can get that the IRST and the radar range of the Typhoon are actually the more or less the same),

Conventional mechanical radar are relatively old technology for fighter aircraft. Newest versions of Sukhoi, F-16, F-15, F-18, F-22, F-35, Gripen, Rafale.. etc all have electronic scanned array. Because Pirate is a very new IRST, so it make sense to compare it to young generation of radar such as AESA, PESA radar. If you want to compare with slotted array then i think IRST like the on old Mig-29 will make more sense

add also how in the case of the IRST they have published both the front and rear aspect when in the case of the radars not only they don’t differentiate them but neither note what the one published there are (degradation of radar performance according to the aspect is even greater than this but it work in the opposite way, so in case of a rear aspect engagement IRST wins hand down).

100 miles is around 160 km, that is very short range for a radar, i would guess that the tracking range again small air target.
Anyway, radar degradation due to aspect isn’t as big as IRST one, because radar range is affected by Doppler shift and side lobes clutter. Doppler shift can be very high still if speed different is big, side lobes clutters can be reduced by shielding to reduce leaking of radar lobes. By contrast, IRST will always have smaller range head on because aerodynamic heating are much colder than engine nozzle or exhaust

A Closer Look at Stealth, Part 5: Nozzles and Exhausts
F135 Engine

In designing the nozzle of the F135 engine that powers the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, Pratt & Whitney aimed to rival the low signature of the nozzles on its previous F119, while beating it on maintenance costs. The F135 nozzle comprises two overlapping sets of 15 flaps, offset so outer flaps are centered on the gaps between the inner flaps. The inner flaps are thin, have metallic exteriors and straight sides and terminate in inverted “V”s. The sides create rectangular gaps between them with the nozzle fully diverged. The outer flaps, which Pratt calls “tail feathers,” are thicker and covered in tiles with blended facets. They terminate in chevrons that overlap the ends of the inner flaps to create a sawtooth edge. Toward the fuselage, the tiles end in four chevrons and are covered by additional tiles (not attached to the engines in this photo) that terminate fore and aft in chevrons and interlock with adjacent tiles in sawtooth-fashion.

The F135 nozzle likely suppresses IR signature using multiple methods. The trailing-edge chevrons create shed vortices, shortening the plume, while their steeper axial angle likely directs cooler ambient air into the exhaust flowpath. The inner surfaces of both sets of flaps are white and covered in minute holes similar to those on the F119, which might supply cooling air. The space between the tail feathers and the trailing chevrons may also contain ejectors to provide even more cooling air. The tiles and inner flap surfaces are likely composed of low-emissivity, RAM composites.”

http://aviationweek.com/defense/closer-look-stealth-part-5-nozzles-and-exhausts#slide-3-field_images-1655211
P/S:
Bypass ratio and infrared

Serrated nozzle

Again, what model of F-16?
Because, given that the wing area doesn’t changed while the weight increased at every new version, the wing loading changed dramatically along the years.
And an high wing loading is a good thing for a strike plane as it made it a more stable platform.

all f-16 model have higher wing loading than F-106, Mirage yet it is a much better energy fighter.