JSR you are hilarious. In 2017, France defense budget will be ahead of russian one…

And what percentage will be used to make us an army of US puppets specialized in proxy wars instead of an army focused on national & sphere of interest defense ?

Nic

If you can track a missile you can track a fighter.

How? It is tied into SPECTRA, it does not provide imagery or tracking to MDPU. It is not possible as a plug and play without some integration with radar or OSF. Once aircraft passes out of FoV it wouldn’t be able to keep target track.

Do you understand the concept of sensor fusion at all?

Nic

Reliant Robin…. failed to reach orbit.

I’m quite impressed by the roll-rate though 😀

Nic

Simple:
1. It’s the first IIR based MAWS to provide video to the avionics
2. Nobody else has claimed that they can.
3. You can’t prove a negative.

1. No, see DDM-NG
2. Who would actually claim that they can track a space rocket at 900NM except some company desperate to find positives to sell the lemon of a plane they’re working on?
3. It was not a negative. You claimed that it’s the only MAWS in existence capable of doing it.

Anything else, I still have some time to waste tonight.

Nic

What are modular engines? Can a module assembly unit from an F414 be put into the ‘modular’ Rafale engine?

It means that the M88 is made of say 10/15 (I don’t remember) modules. If one of those fails, you take out the engine, replace the module, put the engine back in the plane & you’re good to go. No calibrating, no bench test, no nothing.

Nic

exhibit 1 : 170 effin millions just to define the capabilities of the damn thing.

Where does you see a cost equity b/w a Rafale and a ASH?! Modernized Rafale cost 150M$ (india) and this comes Without Conformal fuel tanks (CFT) and stealthy Weapon pod. I won’t even mention the reliability issue with a matured fleet-wide aircraft and systems on one side, and last call improvisations on the other at a time when the Fr industry doesn’t shine on the reliability front (Thank you Airbus!).

You are aware that airbus (which is not French but a multinational clusterfneb) isn’t the manufacturer of the Rafale right?

Nic