I trust more the pilots than Korea times. And they state Rafale RCS to be way lower than Typhoon…

“*Availability ” is a very complex concept (how much do you want to spend in repairs, overhauls etc.). Availability during war ops is somehow much more sensible.

EELightning is a rafale fanboy. That’s bloody hilarious

EElightining is an intelligent Typhoon fan. He knows the qualities of his horse…

Lukos, fist about the over performing blah blah blah of RAF (which did an excellent job, no doubt), i recommend you to read NATO article : Done.
http://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/natosource/national-composition-of-nato-strike-sorties-in-libya

So much for Cameron btw.

There are 2100 Kms between Sigonelle and furthest part of Lybia…
No sophisticated DRFM decoy? Really Ever heard of PEA “LEA”?

Etc. etc.

How do you know that future Dass will be more powerful than spectra 5T? Pure speculation.
You cited a huge number of antennas in another post, can you cite a reference?

It could but it never will because it’s (a) unnecessary and (b) impractical in terms of realistic mission execution. If you’ve noticed the mounting points for a Storm Shadow are a lot nearer the rear of the missile than the middle and there’s about almost a metre of space behind a 3.68m EPW II loaded on the same pylon. An SS is 1.4m longer, so 80cm out back and 60cm out front…..

NO IT CANT. Heck why do you think they are being qualified on wet points??? And you would like to change the mounting points on Storm Shadow now… :confused:

I love the way you and the other Rafale-fanboy find time to focus on this rather than examining the fact that the Typhoon will be able to carry 18 Brimstone IIs or 24 SPEAR + 6 AAMs, whereas a Rafale will only ever carry 12 AASMs and 6 AAMs maximum. You know, taking out 18-24 SAMs or tanks instantaneously in one go at ranges up to 120+km might actually be useful but no, lets try fly 16,000lbs of load through extremely hostile airspace instead.

Btw heavy configs with three drop tanks and 2 Scalps were used during operations for deep strike in South Lybia.

Considering the induced drag and fuel fraction, aswell use G2G missiles, you will have a similar range… Even MBDA in its artwork didnt dare to show that type of totally unpraticable config. (btw the quad launcher is also an artwork atm, nothing more)
Can you explain your fantasy numbers about AASM? Rafale has 14 hardpoints inlucing 5 Wet/Heavy and a bigger payload.

Which it would never need to do without refuelling so… guess what……… the point is moot!

The point isn’t moot. You can’t refuel within contested airspace. So again if you wanna do Deep Strike, you need range.

Well it’s starts with radar jamming but then moves into overloading and corrupting datalinks used for missile guidance and comms, as well as messing around with RWR and certain kinds of doppler-based MWS. So at the end of it, the opponent has a non-functional radar, they can’t communicate with missiles supposing they could get lock, they can’t communicate with other assets and they’re RWR/MWS is driving them mad. Possibly, it also includes corrupting their entire avionics suite so that it begins to operate like a Packard Bell and messing up their DSMS so they don’t even know what weapons they’re carrying, possibly even jettisoning them along with any drop tanks they have. AESAs can be used to send massive amounts of data. What’s even more disturbing is that aircrafts are flown by FCS. This may be why the resistance had to fight Skynet with A-10s.:very_drunk:

At present not all AESAs can even jam, so it’s a misrepresentation to say that all AESAs have this capability.

Ok, don’t you think it should also include defensive means against that type pf jamming?

So far only APG-81 has RF cyberwarfare capability and possibly APG-77 (not sure).

Define RF cyberwarfare? It is a huge subject!

the accuracy of a modern (with short base interferometry) EW-system which is in the range of 1-2 degrees

Less than 0.5 degree… Doesnt make your point invalid. There are now anaechoic rooms so as to perfectly know RCS of planes using different configs (cf Solange facility in France). How accurate they are?

What is more impressive is the matured ability to interfere with on-board electronic by disrupting or directly hacking the computers via your own radar. This is another step ahead. Refined, classy and… Human friendly*. And the fact that they are speaking openly about that tells us a lot about the level of maturity they seems to have achieved.

All modern radars are constantly upgraded in order to contain such a thread. Interesting point still…