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Great article halloweene, EO sensors should start to become standard equipment. Is the translation correct that there are two total DDM-NG devices per?
I guess I have two counterpoints to the systems of the Gripen and the Rafale being analogous to the EODAS. The AN/AAQ-37 of the F-35 has, in my opinion, a bit more utility. Other aircraft may have a similar EO sensor, but what about the algorithms and fusion engine to take full advantage. Will similar systems be able to coordinate a target track passing it off from radar to EODAS, or vice versa while assigning symbology to it so the pilot can keep track of multiple targets?
http://www.sldinfo.com/whitepapers/the-f-35-and-advanced-sensor-fusion/
It was fully integrated from the start in the plan for the software and electronic defensive suite of the F-35 not added on. It can alert the pilot to a threat or target at greater distances than the actual resolution (detecting shape, heat source), the EOTS can be slaved to AN/AAQ-37 to positively identify a target/threat at long range. What is really going to be mind blowing is that NG has hinted that a flight of F-35’s may be able to fuse the data from the AN/AAQ-37 they act as one large sensor in the future.
http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/F-35-Integrated-Sensor-Suite-Lethal-Combination_1145.html#.UvuhuziYa1s[/QUOTE]
Thank you FBW, i’m just sick i had to cut analyses of sensor and frequencies used on MBDApolite request…
Yes, there are only two fish eye sensors / plane, the reason is they had to make the stuff fully compliant with previous planes.
The 6 o’clock shot i’m mentioning was done using data fusion (and believe me it wasn’t exactly short range, when i say 10+ NMs in the article, it is much more). All data (and that include those from pods, missile sensors for ex.) are fused . I will soon release an raticle/video with commented tactical situation screens from rafale.
Inorder to answer you, SPECTRA was originnally conceived so as to fuse every data of sensors since the beginnning. The DDM NG is not added to Rafale, it replaces DDM without any change in material or software. As i told earlier, every subcomponents are virtualized on Rafale.
Certainly a limitation as it wont allow full utilization of the sensor (i’m thinking about HMD) without costly implements on spectra software. But still nice no?
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