It can use it to some extent. But that’s quite different than saying that a radar is “completely unnecessary”. Maybe you should enlist in the military to learn a thing or two instead off talking sh*t all day long.

It is completely unnecessary when you have not only IRST, but missiles with built in IRST

Your “evidence” doesn’t explain how you know you’re in the firing envelop. So you’re wrong, and now that’s the end.

How you know you’re in the firing envelope with an ASRAAM WVR? That doesn’t even make sense. And the evidence I posted clearly shows IRST being used for lock and ranging. And please explain how an OTS shot is possible if you need radar. Care to point out the F-18 or Typhoon’s over-the-shoulder radar?

http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/103248/raaf-fires-asraam-in-%E2%80%9Clock-after-launch%E2%80%9D-mode.html

The goddamn video above even shows an ASRAAM being fired by a Typhoon at a target locked using the IRST at 1:30. I don’t see how I can possibly provide any more evidence than that, or why I’d need to.

I give you the Rafale fanbois, he embraces fiction, and denies fact.

and why not?

they can call it any way they like, what’s the problem? Is there any rule stating that a product has to be named in a particular way?

+ or X.1 is usually used for software block updates. A new number is used for a new version.

The EF can’t do more than M2.0
I’ve seen others like you before.
It was claims that F135 had static thrust of 45.000Ib, cause it was mentioned in some magazine.
But at PW site it says 41000Ib of thrust.

Well and then we have JSR..

Same club as far as i’m concerned.
Never underestimate nationalistic mixed with ignorance.
A terrible result.

The uninstalled thrust of an F-135 is 50,000lbf, but the installed thrust is 43,000lbf. However, citing AIR International July 2015, the F-22’s engines are underrated.

Take it up with the Austrian AF.

http://www.bundesheer.at/waffen/waf_eurofighter.shtml

The difference is all my claims have supporting evidence. The EAP and DA2 with RB199s even exceeded Mach 2.

If HMD can’t collect any information by themselves then how can you use them to designate(choose) targets for your HOBS missiles?

You can either look at the target directly or the IRST or radar or RWR relays targets to your HMD. IRST has a much wider FOV than radar in WVR modes, so it’s utterly pointless to use radar.

actually, HMD doesn’t measure the range… you need either your radar or a laser range finder to do it. and I don’t know of a fighter using the latter in dogfight to do it… without measuring range, your system can’t calculate lead, and you’re pretty much stuck with something close to a fixed sight, not unlike fighter in early WWII… good luck hitting something with it today 😉

PIRATE can do it.

http://www.leonardocompany.com/documents/63265270/65493314/mm07797_Pirate_IRST_LQ_March14.pdf?download_file

And it can lock missiles. See 1:11 and 1:19. You can cue directly from IRST, or use HMD to view target after and cue that way. You do not need radar WVR in a Typhoon.

fact is that nobody here has access to real data, but then, if you’re here just for trolling, you don’t care for data anyway… 😉

an example, when you ask “why would you need radar in WVR?” I find it strange from someone claiming his expertise on fighter matters… maybe you need to light your radar because your onboard computer needs to know where the target is and pilots eyes aren’t directly linked to it. Even for a gun shot, your radar has to get the information and bring it to your weapons system so you get the range for your target in order for the HUD to display the pipper at the right place..

An ASRAAM can lock without a radar. Does an A-10 have sidewinders? Does it have a radar?

Forgot about the IRST too did we to?

Your blogs are simply comedy. French Sputnik.