UPDATE: Eurofighter AESA Radar Full-Op By 2015

5 thoughts on “UPDATE: Eurofighter AESA Radar Full-Op By 2015”

  1. Isn't it just a matter of semantics? Re-positioner (Captor-E) = Swash-plate ( Gripen's Raven). Marketing gimmicks with sprinkling of jargon for the gullible.

  2. Yea its a bit ridiculous of them to try and work around and obscure the fact that the radar is essentially the ES-05 Raven with a few tweaks.

    None of the EF partners felt it necessary to develop a AESA radar. And then SAAB wanted an AESA from SELEX and the EF consortium simply told SELEX to fit it to the Eurofighter as well.

    Rather clever way to save development costs.

  3. "ES-05 Raven with a few tweaks"

    A few tweaks?!

    How about a 50% bigger antenna, a completely diferent backend and a diferent mechanical repositioner?

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