@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 4. fighter. Note that there were already rumours in 2004 as s.o. asked the question about Rafale's alleged active cancellation to Popular Science AKA DARPA-Magazine. The DARPA dude just gave the same answer: feasible, but needs serious computing... Well, Rafale's computer in the
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 3. it became truly feasible, and it needs serious computing power, guess why the 1st asset to use it was the 1st stealth warship ever, the🇫🇷Lafayette frigate in 1996. It took a few more years until the Moore law allowed a computer enough powerful to do it inside a mid-sized jet
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 2. to get rid from background noise! In fact, it was attempted this way as soon as 1958 by McDonnell-Douglas, IIRC with a full-of-coils Sky-Knight (AKA the druT). ONERA started to work on it in 1960! In fact, it wasn't before the real time digital treatment of wave signals that
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr You must have missed physics lessons!
Radar waves are just like radio or sound waves as well as electric current and can absolutely be cancelled by applying the same signal with a 180° phase! Same principle as the balanced mic cables in a PA/recording system which allow
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 2. it was designed by General Dynamics (Convair) and Boeing!
Do you know what Lockheed proposed for the ATF program which later was shortlisted with YF-22 and YF-23?
A "SR-71" with collapsible canards!!!
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr Only from the front and for radars over 3GHz, and that's what Lockheed says! Have you verified on your own?
You know, Lockheed, they come with claims that their fighters are Klingon Bird'O'Prey, in the end, they're from Mel Brook's Spaceballs. If F-22 is coherent, it's because
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr Maybe you should learn to read French and learn to corroborate OSINT, better have some other ways to inform yourself that may NOT be online.
Thus... I'm constantly on the razor's edge on the subject in order to NOT enter classified domains.
I knew about Rafale's active stealth
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr Just read the NATO pdf about the operations in Libya. They entered 30 minutes after the UNSC resolution, not preceded by ANY massive TLAM bonking🤣
NATO pdf even reveals something I wouldn't have dared: In🇫🇷, all A2A kills are classified since 1953.
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 13. run with Dassault Systèmes softwares, they can very easily switch the production, they would spare GIGANTIC money which can be used for significant numbers of NGADs.
LHDs can easily be modded to operate Rafale-M as STOBAR and it's already used from US CVNs
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 12. expect to see F-22 around until 2040 at worse.
Frankly, the best solution for the Yankees would be making just like for the Starfighter: pull the F-35 plug dump 'em 2nd hand to idi0ts, and stop with the F-15EX, F-16, Super-Hornet, Harrier and go Rafale: Boeing factories fully
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 11. due to the 28h recoating per flight hour, this would mean no less than 40 years of use per airframe, if not done, it's no less than 26 years and this is by Flying F-22 the maximum you can in a year. Frankly, I do not expect the NGAD to be introduced before 2035 at best, and
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 10. weapons pods. Seems that USAF is willing to add the Thales Scorpion helmet to gain HMD capability. The Scorpion is... Rafale's HMD, although you can also get the Elbit Targo-II as India wanted it.
Considering that the F-22 airframe is to be extended to 12,000 flight hours and
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 9. USAF head gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. recently made CLEAR that F-35 is not even able to replace F-16.
F-22 has recently became a little more interesting: I"ve seen a picture where an IRST pod was installed under the left wing's external hardpoint and two disposable enclosed
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 8. a perfect exemple, especially since the scandal went public, was the Lockheed F-104 "winning" the then NATO "competition" over the Mirage-III.🤣
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 7. fulfil the features from this very spec sheath!
The real F-35 is no match for Rafale and if you had knowledges about how military aviation procurement works, choices are RARELY held on the gear's capabilities, especially when there are US aircraft competing!
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 6. In Dutch tests, Rafale scored 95 points vs. 97 for the F-35's... SPEC SHEATH, but also with more capability to evolve at a point where the theoretical F-35 would be outmatched!
Head of Joint Program Office gen. Chris Bogdan himself declared that F-35 will NEVER be able to
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 4. already saturated the Typhoon's radar with 200 of such ghost-Rafales, and in order to make the drill more fair, the Rafale's e-warfare capabilities had been degraded by 50% on the 4 first runs, then by 70% on the 4 nexts, to allow Typhoon to go home with 1:7 instead of 0:8
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 3. infringement, too bad, Dassault has its nose inside, Thales will have either LM or BAe a$$ for lunch. They already had a Raytheon missile program cancelled as the missile used several ghost radar-echoes to lure air defences, thus infringing🇫🇷patents: Rafale in the mid-00's
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 2. the 2nd and 3rd gen stealth patents are held by? Thales or the ONERA, Thales=🇫🇷state+Dassault JV and guess what? The same Dassault's daughter company that built close to 200 F-16s got maintenance contracts for F-35. If BAe, which is in charge of ECM, or even LM do ANY patent
@NathanXurah @marcin14110 @francis_scarr 1. LOL! The ONLY S-400 in Syria is in Hmeimim airport which is RUSSIAN territory until 2054 or 2055, if not 2114 or 2115AD.
🇷🇺is not enough stupid to shoot at🇮🇱aircraft
F-35 has no "new" stealth tech! It even still has to spend 28 hours re-coating per flight hour and since all