The Australian roundel is the back is very nice, love the AI’s choice of decoration
Yeah it looks awful but that’s the first pic I found on google images after searching “Fat Eurofighter”.
Not just a long time but just not viable
yeah i know that
its a proposal for a possible external jammer pod. the proposal for eurofighter EK has always had something like that and it’ll probably be part of the step 2 versions.
the t1s dont have the same structure or basic electronics as the later ones.
hell, even the T2s can’t fit all the new electronics, most notably the Mk2 radar.
Erase my memory please. Is so ugly.
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It is AESA. No space there for MSA.
There is…
Yeah, you can’t squeeze AESA into T1 planes.
Different installation layout. T2 and onwards are AESA ready.
They probably don’t need with CAPTUR M, ECM and the Typhoons IRST system.
Would it make the jet better absolutely. Meteor also has LOAL and home on jam
That has been a standard feature of radar missiles since AIM-7P and R-24R in the 1980’s, why is that relevant
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home on jam?
Has a Ram jet powered missile that can loiter and then accelerate to hit it’s target been a thing since the 80s?
Maybe technology has improved since the R-24.
Smarter people than you or I seem to think having an AESA Radar on the Typhoon isn’t a necessity. That says they either think the CAPTUR-M is good enough or that the AESA radar technology of the time was not the leap it was reported to be.
Will Typhoon receive an AESA of course does it need it currently, probably not
What do you mean by AESA tech of the time
Missile instead of looking for an aircraft signature looks for jammer emissions and guides the missile to the source of the jamming. Makes wing mounted ECM pods less effective.
Before the Jammer would create “noise” on the Radar could not provide a firing solution.
I mean early AESA technology
Basically, use the antenna already on the missile to make it into a ARM
Speak for yourself, smarter people made stealth fighters and AESA radars with proper LPI before the Eurofighter took its’ first flight. There is a reason everyone who can afford to is moving towards at least PESA. They can stay in the past if they want, but modernizations like this are what keep pilots from flying in coffins.
Obviously, and LOAL + HOJ features have also improved. You didn’t explain why anything you said was relevant as a reply to my comment or how it’s related at all.
Not exactly the same thing, though ARM such as R-27P/EP can also do HOJ and slightly better than a standard ARH missile would in theory.
Well if your comparing it against prototype J/APG-1 ofc it’s gonna be better, but put it up against product J/APG-1 or AN/APG-77 (which outclasses the CAPTOR-M in every metric) which are both fairly early production AESA radars, AESA is a huge jump
That’s my understanding of it, I would like to see the impact jamming has on a modern radar. There are reports of a Su-30Sm over the Black Sea shut down an Italian F-35 systems (of course very close to each other)
Yeah I’m aware, but to me it was easier to understand it like that in general concept
that report is bullshit