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
The link i had saved no longer works, so i need to look more, but at least i have this
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
Though it also shows that the tech was there.
So the MAW could aswell be also AESA.
Maybe we find in the future a good source to clear that up
Its not as big as you might think
Nothing but AESA would fit in the tail. But regardless. Its not the “IR MAWS” that the anti-Britain guy posted above.
I would be very surprised if the MAWs was also AESA.
The jammers of the Eurofighter essentially seems to be pods fitted to the wingtips rather than conformal antennas.
The MAWS of Eurofighter are more conformal to the airframe which has the benefit of reducing cross section and drag at the expense of fitting more advanced or more powerful technologies.
