Why not so? Acoustic Atlantique 2 system is way ahead of Orion’s anw (see Malaysian tests…)

Gripen E/F will use scattered conformal broadband antennas. Accurancy not public.

Really?

No SAAB wont, they’re hooked in NeuroN devs…

A video of the second Phantom Eye Flight :

http://www.boeing.com/Features/2013/02/bds_phantom_eye_02_26_13.html

I love that one…

Wondering what would prevent them form so… Captor is a fairly efficient radar, and those weapons were integrated to T1 no? Or am i fully wrong? Help Scorpion!

.Will send a personal request to former Atlantique 2 head engineer to see if he wanna say something

The RAF uses Hellfire on Reapers too. Looks a bit like someone decided that adding a couple of GBU-24s or similar to the standard reaper load sounded nice — so not that left-field, though it seems like an impossibly heavy load to fit in the internal bays of a supposedly 8000kg MTOW vehicle.

Despite earlier claims of Taranis being a dogfight-capable drone, no mention of a2a weapons. Possibly a hint they’ve decided that was a little too ambitious at this stage.

Technology demonstrator, certainly. Proof of concept? Maybe a little more. BAE seem eager to talk up Taranis as Britain’s Tornado replacement, though the first goal for the project will be to persuade the RAF that drones can actually do that job. More EAP than Replica I think, at least.

I think we’ll know a little more when the 450 Meuros given to BAE and Dassault in order to study EFCAS project will have been spent…

What makes AASM unique is its low level release – rocket enabled pop up capability and off flightpath / boresite attack capability. Don’t see anything similar with PGM 500 which is more like on of those Israeli dumb to smart and range extension kits.

Absolutely agree. In the end, AASM (specially with tri seeker incoming according to Air&Cosmos) main strength is its versatility. Main weak point being price. All n all, far from a “niche ” weapon as advertised by a well reknown journalist on some places :dev2:. It definitely has its flaws/limitations/compromises (whatever one call it), but also its awesome capabilities.
As usual, everything depending on intended use and mission profile.