Good...Share them. If you are honest about your sources, and if they are not paywalled, then there should be no problems telling us where you got your info.
Rafale:
Two sources have already been presented many times.
One is the VP of Dassault who said the frontal RCS of the Rafale is 0.0001m2 class (sparrow).
Another is a person who has worked on French surveillance aircraft, nukes and developed weapons that carry nukes (ASMP) etc. So he has the necessary expertise to comment on this subject.
Both have said the Rafales are VLO.
The second person has explained that the 0.0001m2 RCS increases to 0.001m2 to 0.01m2 depending on the weapons carried. And this is for the currently operational F3R version. The new F4 that will become operational by 2024 will better it. Plus, that this is not just restricted to X band, but all relevant bands, if you are willing to pay for the integration of the antennas, which the IAF has agreed to. So we are talking about VLO from "low band", all the way to 40GHz. It's currently operational from 0.5GHz to 18GHz.
And even an IAF Air Marshal has pointed out that the Rafales are stealth jets.
So the Rafales have all the advantages of 4th gen aircraft, high endurance, large payload etc, and capable of achieving supercruise, 11G performance, while also being VLO and possess sensor fusion to boot.
As for the F-22 and F-35: Neither jet has been built with EA in mind. The F-35's radar is capable of EA in the X band and pretty soon the F-22 will be able to do the same. But that's about it. The second person has also said that the kind of EA that the F-35 does, they could do it back in the 90s (with AESA antennas) and is no longer necessary (in fact pointless) and that EA has advanced beyond high power brute force attacks.
French Carbonne demonstrator.
USAF officials have openly said that the upcoming jets will be built with EA in mind.
http://nationalinterest.org/blog/th...at-comes-after-the-f-22-raptor-f-18081?page=2
Stealth will almost certainly play a role in a future PCA—should the Air Force analysis show that a requirement for such an aircraft exists. But the service is also likely to heavily invest in electronic warfare capabilities for the next-generation air superiority fighter. The Air Force sees electronic attack as one of many potential requirements for survival in the 2030 plus timeframe, Coglitore said. The PCA will likely use a combination of stealth, electronic attack and other factors such as speed to survive. “There is a balance out there,” Coglitore said. “There are many ways to achieve survivability.”
All:
My 2 cents. US deployed and got their backsides kicked in iraq with humvees and flatbed trucks. They would not admit that mine proof vehicles were a simple matter of engineering. When casualties were mounting to 2/day then it became politically unviable and GM and its cronies brought over armscor design engineers to design oshkosh series which are nothing more than carry overs from Casspir.
The notion that US knows all is a fallacy.
In the field of EW which was my life's work, noone is allowed to give out any information on systems, techniques, active/passive counter measures; what is put out is mediocre and just trivial stuff from which nothing can be deduced. If you really want good EW, look towards Saab is all i can suggest.
Tnxs.
Even Saab is way behind the French.
The Gripen's non-existent EW technology on a non-existent aircraft scored behind operational French technologies and aircraft during Swiss evaluations.
A non-existent Gripen E should be able to match the Rafale F3R in a few years.
The problem for the Swedes is they don't have nearly as much money as the French. The Spectra's software upgrade budget itself is as much as the cost of the entire Gripen E program.
Its highly classified systems those are just raw release by US government and US show only one EW item we don't know how many EW items in F-22 and F-35, you're realy a retard
@randomradio
So you're saying a USAF General has openly lied to the US Congress? 20 year jail sentence right there.
