We don’t rely on the Toronto news or the Wollongong post for details on aviation

LOL I must admit I did rely on a paper from Wollongong for aviation news recently… the 747 landing at Wollongong airport.. Surprised you know about Wollongong!!:D

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Its not in the RFP its in the Original Tender/Air Staff Qualitative Requirements (ASQR).

The GoI require them to abide by the process where they got to be L1, one of the gates to getting there was the ASQR if they didn’t accept that ASQR they would not have progressed.

Dassault get to L1 and then say the stuff they said they would comply with in the ASQR isn’t relevent now because its not in the RFP.

So while Dassault are technically correct that condition isn’t in the RFP, its has been part of the conditions for entry to and part of the evaluations of the MMRCA.

So do they want to sell it to India bad enough.

I love the fact that an ’empowered delegation’ is on the way… who the hell was negotiating for the last 3 years then?

re the number of TR modules – There was some work done on sparse population of the array, whereby the array had a number of modules missing distributed over the face with little or no loss in resolution.

The balance of cost and resolution was considered and tested, but I don’t know if it was implemented.

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It was sortof part of the original design, the wing was supposed to be a cranked delta design, but the decision was made to go with the straight edge because it was much easier to manufacture thus reducing costs, and the area where the Typhoon is optimised for is the supersonic air attack arena and not the lower altitude turning and burning dog fight, in fact if a Typhoon (or any other modern fighter) ever gets into that situation then something must have gone very wrong.

While a cranked delta may be even more efficient at lower speeds the LERX goes some way towards it without the compromising the aircrafts primary design function.

Doesn’t replica look a little like India’s AMCA

Whats an SFT or am I being a bit dim? is it Supersonic Fuel Tank?