No there WAS an overheating issue in the weapons bay……. Has it been resolved?

Nic

And why they only finished 0.5 ahead of a Gripen’s EW in Swiss Eval.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-u9A1B1CJxwY/TziFDQ6i_YI/AAAAAAAACYw/Zw1pk2MaDoQ/s1600/Swiss_eval_AP1.png

Spectra is good but it’s incredibly overrated nonetheless. Marketing it as substitute stealth is grossly misrepresentative.

Because they didn’t have access to the “war setting” capabilities?

Nic

This is bull.

The Mirage 2000 was only a testbed for the Rafale radar.

This radar was never planned to equip the M2000 and brought severe weight imbalance.

Nic

So just because you are not satisfied by the “western” coverage of US fvckups, you want the Russian ones to be covered up ?
What a weird logic.

BTW, be reassured, US fvckups get a lot of coverage in Russian and Chineese media :angel:

In other words western propaganda is just as bad (if not even worse) as russian/western propaganda. Thanks for making my point.

Now all you guys seems to be loving it. Taking for face value whatever western media say & discounting other sources.

Nice!

Rafale will get HMS and a number of other goodies due to the Indian contract.

Perhaps Rafale and Typhoon will be roughly on par 5 years from now, mainly depending on how much is invested in Typhoon. What will remain though is that 5 years from now both will be far above and beyond the F-16, F-18, and F-15 in terms of capabilities.

The Ef will never be on par with the Rafale because of the carrying capacity & landing gear position. Period.

Maybe technologically-wise the EF will be in 5 years where the Rafale is now. But who knows where the Rafale will be by then?

Nic

I don’t think they’ve been withholding data because it would implicate them as direct culprits in this somehow (be it that ludicrous fighter jet story or the “covering behind civilian jets” story), I think they’re withholding it because it would show they were carrying out air strikes all over the place and that would eventually have some ramifications for them.

I mean, it would show that a proper aerial campaign was going on at the very same time, with all that would entail in terms of the aerial bombardment of cities in the region, in terms of prompting the rebels to pursue ever more potent AA assets, in terms of the situation in the Eastern Ukrainian sky over those fateful days in July and so on.

In short, I believe they’re withholding this data in order to downplay the severity of the war as it were, because if it all would be out there they might find it difficult to motivate keeping the airspace open to civilian flights and you’d have people question the way the so-called “anti-terrorist operation” was carried out. That “absolutely no tangible threats above 30,000 feet” or whatever thing would get all muddy, too.

I don’t think what you are saying is true, but if it were, it means they are directly responsible for prompting rebels to go for air defense systems & to the buk usage.

Nic

At the moment the F35 isn’t even able to fuse the data from its own sensors. So much for being net-centric. Maybe in a distant future.

F22 can’t even share data, if I’m not mistaken it can only receive, unless it’s been updated. So much for being net-centric.

Nic