Lots of sense here ;).
Aereo, plz remember Spectra was recently upgraded before joint warrior, and probably used the.se upgrades. That will simply help defining a software upgrade for Captor M i guess.Then another Spectra or Praetorian upgrade etc. Cat and mouse game.
Afaik, still 60 AESA ordered, not delayed like airframes (but that is an excellent question i’ll try t dig!!!) RBE2 AESA is plug and play on F3 standard.
Like Captor M, PESA is still evoluting.
French pilots do quote RAF pilots capability to use high altitude to energize their weapons btw.
Agree on IR missing channel on OSF IT on the other hand a very powerful camera is fine for FF identification. OSF IR channel certainly wasnt the best, but wasnt as crappy as sometimes described. In fact operationals didnt use it a lot due to very long time consuming training. (quoting). In fact, CEAM pilots say it is already very complicated to fully redact employment procedures of “passive” fighting with MICA IR sensors (and imho we have a huge prob with sensors lifetime here). New IR channel will come later probably (as on indian Rafales).
We are all here aerotechs “Geeks”, and we tend to forget that operatinal procedures tend to take more time to implement then tech…
All in all we should be happy to have two (three in fact) top notch fighters in Europe.
PS. French pilots would like to have HMS. On the other hand, have a look ar JR Vianney article on Defesanet and passive targeting in six. Not sure DAS can do that. 😉
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