G/ATOR : just contracted
TPY-2 idem
TPS-77 announcement made 2 years ago, no idea if in production/operational

Raytheon fabricates it’s own GaN modules. They’ve been offered, like Saab’s, since 2015. The DoD has just started green lighting G/ator, AN/APY-6, LTAMDS, and the like. The technology reached MLR 8 certification at the same time as Saab was releasing Giraffe GaN.

If there is a difference, it is that Raytheon can offer GaN radars across a wide spectrum built from their own foundry.

That is the beauty of it. If Syria ends up as a secular muslim rule with ties to terror group, then US can move in easily. More bad guys to bomb, perhaps a little ground operation as well. The military industrial complex allways loves the smell of Napalm in the morning.

The napalm, FAE, Custer munitions, and unguided bombs are being used by your fav apologist nation. Of course, they are only hitting terrorists in Aleppo, the hundreds of thousands of civilians are being missed by these precision strikes.

Opit, you want a cookie for posting the whole of the document? While you were at it did you look up the policy arguements over storm shadow export? This is not a sorta/maybe. The range was constrained by the MTCR treaty; period. As was the decision to fit a 450kg warhead, or do you think they settled on that because 450 kg would do?

Even then the US cried foul, which is why the Black Shaheen carries a lesser fuel load “wink, wink”.

The diameter of the Storm Shadow has been forever quoted as 0.48m but looking at this picture of it relative to a JSOW (330mm) and KEPD 350 (1080mm), it’s pretty evident it’s nearer 0.7m.

Additionally this brings a problem. MBDA state range at 250+km (ho-ho-ho) and the RAF at 300+nm.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/E28BE76F_5056_A318_A833EB4C9A735AD8.pdf

No I think both these figures are BS. let’s see why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomahawk_(missile)

Tomahawk

Weight – 1300kg
Length – 5.56m (sans booster)
Diameter – 0.52m
Warhead – 454kg (1,000lb)
Volume – 1.181m^2
Range – 1,700km

Storm Shadow
Weight – 1300kg
Length – 5.1m
Diameter – 0.7m
Height (body) 0.5m
Warhead – 450kg
Volume – 1.785m
Range – 250km(?)

Now either the engine in Storm Shadow is like 10 times less fuel efficient or the range figure is ballocks (RAF and MBDA playing games again).

MTCR- that is why.

MBDA wants to export storm shadow. Therefore the range is as stated. MBDA states range at low level flight to dodge the 300km range limits of MTCR.

Propaganda cartoons?

:stupid:

Nah, don’t be so insensitive! That is how the State media educates people on Paralay’s level so they understand.

a GaN AESA radar mounted on a swivel makes it the best radar in the world,

Let’s forget the rest of your fantasy and focus on this radar. So this mythical, nonexistent radar is the best in the world due to being GaN and mounted on a swivel? That simple, no other factors come into play huh?

India is offered the worlds first GaN AESA, and it aint selex

If it is being offered right now, you should have no trouble posting Saab’s pdf or brochure on said radar, no?

But you won’t, it does not exist, and won’t until someone signs on to pay and help develop it.

Here is what Saab actually said:

We offered to co-develop its Gallium Nitride AESA (Active Electronically Scanned Array) radar with India. In meetings held with a visiting Indian defense ministry committee this week, which included Indian Air Force (IAF) Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Arup Raha — and following on from briefings in New Delhi last month — Saab officials have pitched the idea of joint development of the technology to India,

We will, of course, still have to outsource production and we will still have to design a radar around the technology and figure out LRUs (Line replaceable Units) in order to fit it into an aircraft.”

http://defensenews-alert.blogspot.com/2016/06/saab-offers-cutting-edge-gan-aesa-radar.html
http://www.defenseworld.net/news/17225/Saab_Offers_Technology_Transfer_Of_Gallium_Nitride_AESA_Radar_To_India#.WAAX-hTPzHg