I do not know if this will interest anyboy but…
I recently lookedat a Peter Ricketts interview by the defence commission at french assemblee nationale (he participates to the new whitebook). He stated that cataplts would have cost 2-3 billions and therfore were dropped.

Assuming reason on a fighter aircraft forum, are you suicidal Tu?

this kind of jamming only jam 1 radar at a time

So you assume F35would shoot 2 missiles or more at a time? Considering its internal emport, they’d be out fo ammos rather quickly.

And the really, really interesting question: the future of 60-odd extensively upgraded Mirage 2000-9.

I really can’t fathom who’d want these.

I could see Brazil getting a small batch to replace current Mirage 2000C/B which are nearly out of life but that’s about it. Perhaps Jordan to replace F-5 but then they retired more capable Mirage F1s due to cost of operation..

Argentina doesn’t want 2nd hand, Pakistan is not a customer cause Dassault would not want to jeopardise Rafale contract.

There were rumours about Lybia and Tunisia.

I like that article on the subject. It’s a bit technical at time, but the summary would be that as long as the missile’s ECCM aren’t designed to counter cross-eye jamming and that your ECM system can do it successfully using repeater techniques (same as in DRFM), you can make the missile think the real target is way off where your aircraft is supposed to be.

The problem I would think would be that one of the ECCM technique used is dual link. If a hostile radar can keep tracking your aircraft even as the launcher is manoeuvering away (another fighter behind for exemple)…

Definitely agree… But that also means that fighter radar should keep tracking target during the whole flight… Way after its “first shot” (and absolute probability to be detected), ****s up the idea of “sneak into invisible, shoot and run”. Maybe i’m doing science fiction…

In a dream world, both eurofighter and Dassault CEOs would tweet at the same time that they consider Bin Zayed conditions unworkable 😀

Wait and see… Hard to wait!

I’m wondering about something after reading many assumptions about stealth and LPI radars…
Is an ARM weapon to be induced on F35? Because if i understand some aruments given here, it would be completely useless vs modern AESA LPI ground radars no? (unable to lock them)…