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The yaogan triplets are way larger than Elise satellites. This can be seen in their orbits. Elise is placed at around 650 km while elint Yaogan are placed in 1100 km orbits, the same as NOSS, which provides way higher detection area when observing at the same angle.. Only 1 of the systems (...

If you think Its a poor attempt to copy the US NOSS satellites. The small size of about 120 kg means they are unlikely to detect low energy radars common on S/MRSAM batteries.( atm scatter) Besides, you need several triangulating quartets/ triplets to have any sensible probability of being...

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I wasnt talking about emissions from rafale. Any radiation from a SAM hitting rafale for it to detect that SAM battery will unavoidably reflect back to the recieving sensor on that SAM radar, exposing rafale's location. Its that supression( non reflection due to RAM coatings) that doesnt happen...

Detection from SAM aka 'radiating target' will need to happen for that, The only way a rafale will employ those Anti rad missiles is if it first detects that it has been 'seen'. This is the event in the SAM operators kill chain that F35 tries to avoid entirely, it will employ the weapons...

Thats all well and fine, a jet can still perform its missions if its detected. But if the main mission parameter is execution without detection, then i'm afraid rafale will have a low success rates.

This part will not come until all enemy defenses have undergone a heavy SEAD/DEAD dose. After that you can fly a mig 21 there and it wont matter. In all stealth critical missions, F35 will use its huge internal bays capable of lugging >5000 lbs of stores.

I'm not sure about that.. The research they put into prototyping a twin engine medium stealth jet will certainly be used in iterative models, eg a new aircraft carrier jet to go with type 003.

Why not?

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So choosing the best conditions for rafale and worst conditions for f35..

Even if we consider that somehow a GaAs T/R module on RBE2 Aesa is at same power rating as compared to GaN module of apg81 which is highly unlikely, Rbe2 has only 838 modules, while apg81 has 1676 modules. That results in 2 x peak power. F35 rcs is atleast 1000 times lower than rafale (1 vs...

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Poland specific changes?!? It already has everything that India gets as an 'enhancement' for Rafale and then some more.. Weapons? Poland already operates 48 F16 and the weapons employed are identical to those of F35. Infrastructure setup? " Extras that come with the Polish aircraft include -...

Ofcourse, or the deal would've been close to $5.5-6B.

I mean, its certainly cheaper.. $4.6B for 32 vs. $8.8B for 36 But since we don't know what the rafale deal exactly specifies, so we can't make an accurate guess. Imho, a fraction of cost of rafale deal goes to the fact that it was bought as ' emergency requirement' , making the manufacturer...

Here are the complete details of Polish F35 deal (+1 spare F135 engine) Rafale cost breakdown is quite vague and doesnt provide much details. You'll be hard pressed to find it, and even when you do a lot of things won't make sense.

Thumbs up for Deccan Herald for this infographic.

What rafale will certainly lack as compared to f35 is working around enemy AD. The F35 was designed using this in mind while any inclusion of S/DEAD mission will weigh down on rafale's mission capability.

China is the common adversary to both US and India. If India has a couple of squadrons of F35 to use 'exclusively' against China and not against Pak, exactly how pak pretends to use F16 against terrorists and not India, then US will have much more incentive to sell it to India, and India will...