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March 23, 2017 at 4:19 pm in reply to: SAAB Gripen and Gripen NG thread #4 #2141841

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F-16 production moved to Greenville, South Carolina.
Dropping out of India procurement?

March 22, 2017 at 10:00 am in reply to: USAF T-X #2142162

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http://www.kokpit.aero/tai-snc-tx-ihalesi

According to Turkish sources SNC/TAI will have new partner Airbus USA and Raytheon for Freedom Trainer.

Why would the US reward Turkey with anything, after Turkey accuses the US of staging the coup last year?

March 21, 2017 at 5:21 am in reply to: SAAB Gripen and Gripen NG thread #4 #2142614

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Didn’t IN specify they want a twin-engined fighter, so that rules out both F-35 and Gripen Maritime? Did it change again?

The RFI issued by India did not specify how many engines.

March 20, 2017 at 5:48 pm in reply to: SAAB Gripen and Gripen NG thread #4 #2143576

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Vishnu Som, thanks for posting. It will be interesting to see how this develops.

Do you know anything about the timelines for this process?

When India announced the procurement they said that decision would be made in 2021.

The LM offering is unlikely to be further developed during this time, while Gripen will be much closer to FOC.
If India wants Gripen, they will not get it before that date.
If India wants F-16, why wait until 2021?

March 20, 2017 at 12:21 pm in reply to: Russia moving tac air troops to Syria #2143688

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Thus it’s legal for Syrian to shoot.

but well.. i believe some people will say otherwise.

Israel and Syria is at war.
Still it seems to be surprising to some people that acts of war occur.

March 17, 2017 at 8:13 pm in reply to: Radar AESA GaN vs. Radar AESA GaAs ! #2144499

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Where does it say it will be flying soon? The article, and every article I’ve seen has stated the same thing

They are looking for a partner to invest in developing said radar. They have shown models, but obviously need an application. The latest offering is a sensor package for the Tejas:
https://www.compoundsemiconductor.net/article/101064-saab-offers-gan-based-sensor-for-indian-fighter-aircraft.html
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/digital-battlespace/saab-unveils-fighter-sensor-package-tejas-lca/
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In the last sentence of the “ITAR-free” paragraph.

Tossman announced, “AESA Gallium Nitride ITAR-free (International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which are U.S. rules for controlling the export of defense technologies). That means we own our own technology. We decide what to do with it. So we are not dependent on any others’ approval if we can or cannot share that technology – it’s our decision,” adding, “We are now having the prototype and soon going to fly with the AESA GaN. That’s where we are and this is ITAR-free.”

This means that they have a radar, but it might not have the right dimension for a Tejas version
(Or indeed a Gripen version), so it would need customization.

It is of course possible that the journalist has confused the fighter radar with the GlobalEye radar.

March 17, 2017 at 12:01 pm in reply to: Radar AESA GaN vs. Radar AESA GaAs ! #2144788

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Yes..so far there is no commitment from either of the two Gripen-NG customers to completely swap out the Selex’s radar for SAAB’s current set (SAAB categorically denied that this would be the case) and there is no program of record to do anything with the current Gripen-C installed base. As of yet it remains a test article that to my best knowledge has not been flight tested. When I first heard of it, during SAAB’s PR efforts in South Korea it did appear that they were coming out as a fast mover and were looking to upgrade the current Gripen installed base while at the same time also seek new programs to integrate the sensor on. It now appears that they would require customer funding before they move ahead with serious development, testing and integration.

Volume has a great way of bringing cost down so short of a very large order, folks looking to upgrade fighters will be very picky in terms of what industrial efforts they decide to fund. Once you have other programs also leveraging the same industrial base for similar components you can then drive cost and risk out. This is the approach I see fighter AESA upgrades take once ground based sensors have created the infrastructure and reduced cost.

SAAB announced in June 2016 that they had a prototype of a GaN AESA radar, and that they would be
flying soon.

http://defenceupdate.in/saab-offers-cutting-edge-gan-aesa-radar-technology-india-selects-gripen/

Visited SAAB last autumn and they said that the reason the Selex radar was selected was timing.
The decision on radar was made way before the GaN could be shown.

March 17, 2017 at 5:50 am in reply to: Radar AESA GaN vs. Radar AESA GaAs ! #2144893

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70% increase in detection range is quite decent, but i dont see it really change the situation much versus stealth, say for example if before you detect stealth platform from 25 km then now with GaN that number gone up to 42 km, still much shorter than the distance that a stealth platform can detect conventional assets.

If I understand things correctly, current radar filters out small echos early in the process.
This reduces the number of echos that needs to be tracked.
By removing this filter, you get orders of magnitude more echoes to process,
but with enough processing power you can throw away uninteresting echoes like birds,
and detect the small echoes that are stealth aircraft.
This can of course be done with GaAs based Radars as well.

March 15, 2017 at 5:53 pm in reply to: Radar AESA GaN vs. Radar AESA GaAs ! #2145660

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There is a size difference as well.
The GaN power amplifier is 1/3 the size if the GaAs power amplifier,
and you need a lot of them.

SAAB has offered Gripen with GaN radar to India.
SAAB GlobalEye is GaN based, and will have 70% more range than the previous GaAs version.
It is also able to detect stealth aircrafts at much larger distances
They claim they are the world leader for GaN based radar and got an award
from Aviation Week in 2015 for this.

March 13, 2017 at 6:10 pm in reply to: Finland Air Force #2146578

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Yes, in the case of Crimea it’s really just get over it and move on. It’s a region which has historically belonged to Russia, only got annexed to Ukraine 30+ yrs ago by accident and always has had special autonomy rights.. The people living there are predominantly ethnic Russians, speaking Russian, feeling Russian, clearly having expressed their will to belong to Russia.. The annexation was virtually bloodless, with very little violence involved and very little harm done.. By all means and purposes, I think what happened there was right, in the end (technicalities aside)..

So, again, get over it.. not everything happening on this planet must be done with US approval.. get used to it..

Russia occupied Crimea in 1783, so history is quite short.
Considering that the Soviet Union deported most of the Tatars, and have had Russians move into the area,
casts doubt on the legality of Russias behaviour.

March 13, 2017 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Finland Air Force #2146581

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Of course, you would ignore the UNDP vote polls having been executed in Crimea since Q3/2009 which have consistently shown a clear YES for joining Russia (results 66-70% for YES, 9-14% for NO and 16-25% for UNDECIDED). If the polls were in favor of staying with Ukraine, you would scream the results all over..

I don’t believe for a second that you or anyone here really cares about Crimea.. you just would like to pi$$ on the Russians.. anyway, it’s all done with Crimea, get over it and move on..

Q3/2009 70% 14% 16%
Q4/2009 67% 15% 18%
Q1/2010 66% 14% 20%
2010 Q2 65% 12% 23%
2010 Q3 67% 11% 22%
2010 Q4 66% 9% 25%
2011 Q4 65.6% 14.2% 20.2%

In the election it was 95% in favour, which just shows that the election was a giant fake.
We care about law and order, and Russia don’t.
Crimea is just the largest theft by the Putin led mafia.

March 13, 2017 at 6:49 am in reply to: Finland Air Force #2146858

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Some this , order this . It’s all hearsay. You can’t even point out how many Gripen really operational with Meteor.

All Gripen C/Ds can be upgraded to MS20 and the Meteor support is a S/W upgrade.
Sweden started updating its Gripen fleet in June 2016.
I would be really surprised if not all C/Ds are updated by now.
The Czechs plan to upgrade this or next year.

March 12, 2017 at 4:48 pm in reply to: Finland Air Force #2147021

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Controversial? yes.. Illegal? not necessarily.. Russian intervention was the dubious part of it all, true.. but it has enabled a referendum about the Crimean status to take place.. just like in Kosovo, Crimeans have then decided by themselves.. do you want now to deny them this right and forcibly annex them back to Ukraine even if they don’t want it?

Most of that is just your screechy media blowing up a bubble..
http://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2054&artikel=5466480

You haven’t written anything worth mentioning, in the first place..

Enacting a referendum in one week after an occupation is a joke.
It is not something the occupying power should initiate.

It is also against the constitution, so it is illegal…

It is understandable that a Russian stooge pretends that they are not responsible for the deteriorating situation.

March 12, 2017 at 8:35 am in reply to: Finland Air Force #2147118

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Are Stalin’s actions acknowledged as right in current Russia? And is Russia threatening Finland? Or Baltic states? :rolleyes:
I hope you got some very good sources for that nonsense..

Russia has has shown that it is not respecting International Borders by its illegal annexation of Crimea.
Their behaviour over the Baltic Sea is aggressive and reckless.
They openly practice nuclear attacks on our cities.
They also make unveiled threats when Sweden and Finland is discussing security.
Putin considers the creation of the Baltic States a geopolitical disaster.

What else do You need?

March 12, 2017 at 8:28 am in reply to: Finland Air Force #2147136

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South Africa was brought to BRICS by China . The problem with Swedish exports is they selling to countries that can easily be pressurized to give up technology. And Sweden simply don’t have vast industrial complex to keep up with constant updates and modifications. Chinese made several balance beam AWACS .

That is why Meteor was qualified first on Gripen?
Gripen updates arrive at regular intervals, latest was MS20.
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