From Eurofighter magazine 2013-2 about hardware changes in T3A: http://www.eurofighter.com/fileadmin/web_data/downloads/efworld/ef_world_02-2013.pdf
P.S.: Is this true, the weapons bus is going to change from MIL-STD-1760 / MIL-STD-1553B standard to STANAG 3910 fiber optics?
I know that the Typhoon already has 3910 optic fiber buses, but the weapons suspension points are 1760 compatible, not 3910.Bye!
Yesaccording to wikipedia
I thought Oman was buying 2nd hand RAF Tranche 1?
Should read high speed data network. It’s a complimentary fibre optic data network to cope with future data transfer rate requirements.
Which went largely unnoticed and seems very important to me…
And you have the best “open source” information about the three types, having a reknown independent test pulot that flew all of them (afaik the only one in the world) and published his tests… About what i wrote above, yess when talking about data fusion and MMI , yes i wasn’t talking about advanced super hornet.
Cheaper to Rafale (roughly the same price, but in Euros). On the other hand, Rafale MMI, data fusion, kinetics, range etc. are better. (should i say vastly as our friend?)
No it was in yesterdy press release about the end of engine testing on first Tranche3
One interesting thing about recent EADS comments on Tranche 3 : Provision for fast speed datalink…
Some atlantique 2 are going to be modernized (weapon system is old), dunno for the rest.
Notice i carefully used past tense.
Very true and it’s at least adequate for the next 10 years maybe more……..
Btw, good enough for USAF to ask AdlA to play agressors during Red Flag 2009 😉
But the operation of RAmjets had been ongoing for about 30 years and NASA had flight test campaigns ongoing for well over a decade.
Way more then that, prototypes late 50ies
No, but RDY2 is a fine mech radar.
Looks like the nose has been extended??? Are you saying that the Rafale AESA Radar in the Mirage 2000. Would have a negative effect on the aircrafts performance??? If, so do you have a source???
Not any official, but quite a lot on air-defense forum. (french), including pilots… Its nickname is “BOB” another photo
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Said to imbalance the plane due to weight.
10 years maybe but 15-20 I am not so sure. Plus, why not incorporate the AESA Radar from the Rafale. Which, would lower the price not to mention shared Parts, Logistics, Supply Chain, Training, etc. etc.
Because…
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Imbalanced configuration (this is m2k test bed for Rafale radars)
OK buoys were terrible… As i told in another topic, while it took 2 hours to find a submarine during a competition in SE asia, Atlatique 2 found it in 10 mins…