Cheek arrays are about as close to realisation as Tempest.
GaAs has a more than acceptable bandwidth to spread power over.
cheek arrays, really? did you read links? THERE WILL BE cheek arrays aon Rafale. See restless technophile or portail aviation. Official announcements.
Some news from FCAS/SCAF
http://www.portail-aviation.com/blog…s-concepteurs/
english version clickable on it (“the restless technophile)
Notice :
Breton: Le Rafale va bénéficier des radars tuiles, et d’une mise à niveau en connectivité pour l’intégrer au SCAF. Nous introduirons des « Remote carrier » rapidement pour pouvoir les expérimenter en opération. Nous intégrerons aussi de l’IA dans le Rafale vers 2025.
Please somone posts the english version on F-16 so as to see reactions. Will be fun.
The best part is LM answers. It could be a copy paste… “old news, we fixed it OR ar on the way to fix it”… Well, i guess concurrency has a cost in terms of early airplanes to be completely rehauled or scratched.Are UK F-35 concerned?
you found it:cool:. Latest version from early 2018.
Does it have a reheat ?
Clearly one can see th einjectors for reheat. I wouldn’t be so sure aobut “standard turbojet” : there is it seems bypass + those two pipes. Let’s wait and see.
I also think that in ultimate upgradability terms Rafale is limited by radar size
Definitely not, cheek arrays are in the pipelines. Size of a radar is one factor, among many ohers.
http://www.microwave-rf.com/document…%20MANCUSO.pdf
See slide 17. Document is from early 2018.
The advantage of GaN is power, which affects range, it does not change beamwidth
Do not forget the extremely important bandwith factor.
could be worse, the aircraft could have been in production for 18 years and only produced ~170 aircraft and a handful of exports. That would constitute an embarrassing failure for a signature national aerospace defense project. Meanwhile the fools at L-M will produce 130 aircraft in 2019 for an expanding portfolio of international rubes. Go figure.
Because the quality of a plane is measured using its sell numbers? (btw, the 170number is pure fantasy, nvm)
So let’s sum up. Germany is out, and Uk dubious didt hey get the notice about low life expectancy?
For rotten tomatoes, we ‘re waiting for the fun part, ALIS to be rearchitectured 😉
Yep. I guess this summer Arctic challenge exercise will be strongly looked at…
But it is true for eery contender. All of them evolved.
Euromale will be contracted at PAS 19. (don’t ask for the source), aswell as NGF.
Only read in diagonal, quite worried about ALIS. (in the end, despite arguing etc on forums we are allied and a poorly functioning ALIS would not be a good news)
Interstingly, in Aix la Chapelle recent agreements between France and Germany, there was a tidbit in a sentence. Instead of usual “defense of the allied country”, it was written that France would defend Germany BY ANY MEANS. Maybe just a detail or did Germany go under french nuclear umbrella?