Now i’m confused whats the difference between the MWS and the MAWS?
Missile Warning System
Missile Approach Warning System
same thing, different acronym
yeah ik its not complicated enough
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That explains it, I knew what they meant but couldn’t figure out how the systems could possibly be different. Cheers.
btw the German EuroDASS wikipedia article incorrectly states that the Spanish Eurofighters have the LWS. they do not.
The Spanish Eurofighters do however have the same panels as the EFs with LWS but they dont have the actual receivers installed.
Its a modular aircraft and they chose this because it would be cheaper to equip the LWS if they needed it.
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Its essentially a different article in German and in English, damn I need to use German wikipedia more there’s waaay different information. I wish my pc would stop trying to translate the german for me though because 50% of the time its just wrong.
So i found out more
The AMIDS has its sensors in each wingroot and the probe in the back
The PIMAWS is another passive system added to the wing pods giving it 360° coverage
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oh it was Diehl Defence ^^
wow there’s a hole paper
Wayback Machine (archive.org)
Now its interesting that they put this on the DA1 because that one had some other stuff in the ECM pods(i think they’re cameras because there’s windows facing towards the aircraft… probably to monitor fing flex or smth)
ok now i want to see that being put onto modern EFs in addition to existing systems… absolutely rad that it can work as an IRST
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Espacenet – search results
Espacenet – search results
BAe patents for detecting the range of an rwr contact
so ig the DASS can estimate range as well…
Wayback Machine (archive.org)
brochure for the towed decoy
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That was an interesting read. Awesome find.
some info on the MWS
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Did Captor-M get SAR or no? I see that it says there was SAR implementation capability, but nothing beyond that.
I did not find an OG source but this site claims that it has it
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Finally, the radar also has a range of air to surface modes including:
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR)
Ground Moving Target Indication/Track (GMTI/T)
Naval Targeting
Terrain Avoidance
Ground Ranging
and another good read
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not only does it do SAR, it does automatic target recognition as well
https://web.archive.org/web/20130728120852/http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc?AD=ADA471132
https://www.airpower.at/news04/1114_pt/
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some things about the Meteor:
It does appear to loft
Booster seems to burn for around 2 seconds
Booster is not smoke-less
Ramjet is smoke-less
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Cool!
So about those Brimstones and AMRAAMs;
The Bundestag is going to be voting on an acquisition of a crap ton of AIM-120C-8s in Q1 2024. This is the sale that the US agreed to in July of last year. 969 AIM-120C-8s. I dont think that these are going to be for the 35 F-35s as the F-35 package includes the same missiles anyways. So the only remaining option is for these to be fitted to Eurofighters.
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Next, the Bundestag is also going to be voting on an acquisition of 274 Brimstone missiles(likely Brimstone III) in Q2 2024 for Eurofighter.
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oh yeah and P4E i guess…
Meteors are also getting a mid life upgrade, whatever that means.
Ah and ESCAN testing
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The only confirmed info so far is AESA seeker, there’s probably other changes coming but yeah
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thats good though. it was missing that
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On the topic of Meteor, looks like integration is slipping until the end of the decade despite MBDA having had its F-35 compatible variant ready for a good while. This is conveniently several years after the AIM-260 is supposed to debut and also enough time for them to ramp up production.
I’m betting either AIM-260 gets integrated earlier or simultaneously with Meteor.