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.

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?

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.

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)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/02/01/uk-may-not-able-buy-new-fleet-f-35-fighter-jets-unless-black/

Yep. I guess this summer Arctic challenge exercise will be strongly looked at…

Euromale will be contracted at PAS 19. (don’t ask for the source), aswell as NGF.

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?