It could be a stronger PD radar. But it is not feasible for any nation to have had AESA maws in the 90’s. It’s just not possible. Keep in mind AESA radars didn’t exist on fighters at the time either, with F-2 and F-15 being the first application of fighter aircraft’s.
It is harder to make smaller AESA antennas than bigger ones, similar to how older technologies were much bigger to newer technologies.
If the technology of main AESA aircraft radars required more maturation, then miniaturized smaller AESAs would definitely need more maturation.
It is why every country has AESA radars on their aircrafts before they can even miniaturize it and mount AESA radars on their missiles.
EF had AESA jammers
Source?
If you give me some time, sure.
When was this achieved? Or was it upgraded to AESA? Rafale did not have AESA jammers until 2010+ after the AESA RBE2 had been mounted.
Whenever jammers were instaleld in the left pod
It’s not AESA. It’s a commonly known fact that it uses quantum entanglement to see in the future to see if the plane got hit by a missile.
Proof : about as much as the argument it uses AESA
Do you mean the Rafale?
Can this not turn into yet another vs between the 2 its really getting old (and dont start with the they said this they said that)
The MAW of the EFT, duh
It is not ? It’s just about as far as i get there is no proof that the eurofighter have an aesa maws, nothing else and people are discussing about it.
There will always have some comparison between planes otherwise it doesn’t go too far especially compared to what happened in the eurofighter thread, probably only thing that i have against it is that we are on the wrong thread but well it happens.
Nah it had AESA MAWS. Nothing else would have fitted. I dont get why French mains believe the EFT was so bad. It was on-par or even superior to the Rafale in all respects
These arguments tend to get out of hand very quickly in any thread tbh
Should be around 2001
And this here should be proof enough.
Huh ?
Rafale used IR MAW. It’s known, we even know the sensors used.
For the EFT, appart from the fact that it’s PD, we have no proof on what type of radar it is. Regular PD, PESA or AESA. Considering no fighter jets equipped AESA when the EFT was in development, it’s highly unlikely the EFT uses such a system.
And since you often claim it has an AESA MAW, yet have never given a single proof of that, I can claim just as well that it uses quantum entanglement technology than you can claim the existence of an AESA. Both are as likely
Edit :
Since you edited your comment, here’s what I was originally replying to before he edited it
See post above
Mind that was in regard too the ECM Unit
Guess what could have fitted. A regular PD system. A PESA system.
Those aren’t bigger than AESA systems
