Genuine question : there is atm a temporary fix on F-135 engines no? Is there any permanent fix on the way? Schedule? Which engine would be used for Operational Evalutation? Will the present engines will be fixed or replaced?

SAAB has just proposed the Gripen M to India, so it is still a possibility,
but a shared development for India and Brazil would have been a stronger proposition.

And India precised they wanted twin engines only for their Navy.

Gripen E uses commercial ethernet and 1553B databus networks:

http://oi34.tinypic.com/k327og.jpg

Look at the system architecture up close and you will see.

Doese not mean there is any overflow on BUS. 1553 are quoted as very reliable standard.

@Mrmalaya: Agree. What stunned me was that there was no cover or added physical barrier against sea spray for example. Then I had a second thought on that silver coating of the bevel parts of the nozzle that might be so resistant due to temp and IR shielding requirement that it won’t certainly bother much of a bit of salt.

@Hallow: you are confusing fused data and correlated ones. We had the debate earlier. No need to bother everyone with a second one.
Also, the DDM-NG isn’t up the task for all kind of threat and azimuth situation. If so, we won’t have seen those poor Rafale pilots frenetically doing tight donuts in the air in order to visually detect a Raptor buzzing them. The lacks of coverage needs to be addressed such as the lack of a 360 in helmet display. That bird needs a new cockpit suite.

No i am not confusing. But YOU are assuming Rafale data aren’t fused but correlated. tight donuts were several years ago during BFM vs F-16 (flown by instructors at Luke btw). The only images we have of a Rafale vs F-22 bfm manoeuvers are not really in favour of F-22. Although, if you read statements at the beginning at the video, you will see (last slide) that it is nowhere intending to say Rafale or F-22 are superior bird in dogfight.

Fusion is NOT software driven. No matter what Saab or Dassault will tell you, Fusion is a direct legacy of your system architecture, hence driven by decisions that were taken upstream at an early stage of design with only a few possibility of retrofits.

Some confounds fusion and fused information display. Those are not the same. Although Fusion typically ends up to pilots with the latter, this is just the modern way of interfacing the results.

Fusion drives the plane design which itself interacts with the former. No matter what’s your wishes are, post implementation of fusion will lead only to a poor increase of data deepness. It is then perhaps better to decorrelate your sensor sensitivity from each other and cluster the information treatment in a more traditional way. That’s what many are doing reading b/w the lines. Only marketing fuses the process.

That is absolutely false, no matter what LM say. Rafale (just example) was esigned for fusion since the origin (and it works without extra tracks appearing. . The whole architecture of the system is done for. Eurofighter also to a lesser extent. Gripen E/F also will. LM marketing … NOTHING new (except in US environment).

In Brazil they didn’t have enough buck to get the bang.

Nic

apparently the former president assessed brazils economy as sufficient to buy rafale,
he even went as far as proclaiming rafale had won and would be bought.

for some reason, probably a lingering bribe investigation, he decided to back off and defer the decision to next government, whom decided to hand over the decision to the industry, whom favored gripen

I’d take care about bribing during Brazil competition if i were you… SAAB is in a quite bad scandal there… Involving Lula and his son…

Popcorn for me please

Help yourself