Dassault Rafale - Variants, Characteristics, Armament and Performance

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)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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

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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

The link i had saved no longer works, so i need to look more, but at least i have this



Jams multiple things at once

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link?

I can upload it if u want

nvm, found it

Thank you. Yeah that works for the jammers.

That’s interesting. It explains why they needed to use an extra « pylon » on the wing to fit all of that equipment. It’s definitely not a compact system to be able to fit a relatively small AESA with older tech.

I can see why some people mistakenly attribute the MAWS to be AESA if sources state DASS has active phased array antennas when that is attributable to the jammers specifically, with DASS incorporating everything.

That might be the case, but if it is, explain to me what type of radar would be small enough to fit into the tip of the tail. It should be safe to assume it is some kind of ESA

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