Bue...no todo el mundo piensa que el Rafale es inferior al Tifon:
De un foro sueco...donde se habla de Grippen, Rafale y Tifon.
ppp56; your arguments are totally FALSE August 22 2006, 9:35 AM
AND Lies on NO ground at all.
Substanciate your claims for a LAUGH.
In reality, Typhoon is far behind BOTH (se refiere al Rafale y Grippen) in A2A and A2G capabilities and if you insist i'll have pleasure in proving this point to you.
For the time being swallow your superioricist pride and try to cope with the REAL world.
The only superiority for Typhoon is in the Eurofighter commercials.
"PPP this, PPP that, quit whining because you cant hack the fact the Gripens got limitations and flaws."
Because according to YOU Typhoon doesnt have any?
I can figure a few:
Range doesn't really make an impression with ANY useful playload does it?
Typhoon have ONLY three "Wet" hard points, its central hard point is limited to a 1,000 litre fuel tank, the other in a normal configuration are 1,500 litre.
This leaves you with NO way to carry more than a GBU 12s and AAMs for a long range strike mission with external tanks.
The futur Litening pod will take the central hardpoint position limiting the range further.
Station 4 and 10 are limited to 500KG/1000 lbs GBU 12s and cannot carry Storm Shadow, there is no space for it and the pylon itself can't cope with the weight.
"I said the Gripen was over gadgetised, being filled with things that make it more expensive which it wont be able to use to its full potential due to it's lacks in areas such as payload and range."
So according to you, the best country in Europe out of NATO for Electronic warfare doesn't know that they are doing? Arrogant troll.
"Gripen is a much less capable aircraft than Eurogfighter in terms of radar, electronics ect,"
PROVE it. Radar-wise they are getting their act together faster than the Eurofighter consortium, the SELEX radar is stricly a private venture as for Captor, its performances are not too hot compraed to RDY-2.
Typhoon AESA is still unfunded, and i am sure on one thing, Gripen ECMs are WAY superior to anything BAe and the rest can come up with, just in xcase you didn't notice just YET, Sweeden and France have been the European conutries which have developed the most advanced ECM protection suites and Electronic Offensive systems.
BOTH Gripen AND Rafale already have an Offensive SEAD capabiltiy.
"but sure Gripen can be upgraded to hell and made better and better but its smaller size compared to Eurofighter will severely restict what can be done with it"
Size is all you can understand about aircrafts, design, aerodynamics are as remote to your level of comprehension as the asteroid belt is from hearth apparently.
Fuel IS calculated by FRACTION. That of Typhoon is LOW.
Playload is calculated in terms of %age of airframe empty weight. That of Typhoon is LOW.
To summerise: Empty vs Max TOW / Fuel fraction.
Try this one you might well have a nasty surprise...
Basic Mass (Empty) 11,000kg (24,250lb)
Maximum (Take-off) 23,500kg (51,809lb)
Source:
http://www.eurogighter.com
WHAT, ONLY 13.500 kg internal + external playload?
"above all it will drive up the cost of the Gripen up and up making it less attractive to Gripens target customer and in doing so killing all exports and therefore the program since Sweden cant afford/isnt going to buy them."
Just in case it didn't hit a nerve YET. Gripen IS the European export market CHAMPION and this for a very good reason despite BAe skills for selling wooden chariots for Rolls-Royces.
"Your only arguement seems to be the same as Thunders, the old "oh but there's delays in weapon integration therefore lets pretend it cant ever carry them",
No delays there my friend and this is NOT my argument, my argument IS that Typhoon design is of an older technologic generation and inferior as an airframe.
AS FAR as Eurofighter are concerned, the Typhoon laggs BEHIND in every single developement point by a FAIR margin mainly due to developement time and lack of proper invesment.
MANY of Typhoon features are actually of an oldeer technology, at least in the case of Rafale it's even visible only looking at the specs.
Typhoon doesnt and WILL NOT have totally passive AAM BVR engagementsd which are Rafale F-2 capabilities right NOW.
"fact is we'll compare what weapons are advertised as going with the Eurofighter and compare that to Gripen, and in this case the EF carries a larger mud moving load."
So far it only manage to better the playload of Mirage 2000 and AGAIN it's totally missleading to compare their tonage, %age is how it should be compared.
"Did I state Gripen was lagging behind operationally? NO, did I claim EF to be the better platform? Yes, is it? YES!!"
In your WET dreams. It is ONLY a larger platform, better remains to be proven operationally only your bunch keep bubling "BIG's BEAUTIFULL" which is for a large part due to a cultural complexion, not reality.
"As for your response, stop mincing your words, if you think the EF is worse then say it and if you think the EF is better than say it."
The Typhoon does NOT better in operational reality for playload and fuel fraction period as for A2A capabiltiews they still are lower for now.
" When you say, PPP I think Eurofighter is worse, Rob I think it not worse, you are just admitting to your post being a complete flame, with no relevance to the topic. Two words... "Grow Up"..."
>>>"Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance." -- Theodore Roosevelt<<<
I think you guys are mad with ENVY, taking credit for a mostly German design which have the MOST obvious flaws of all 4th generation aircraft.
y sigue asi:
I need to double check all the stats, but I'm pretty sure the F-16 Block 52 is a clear step above the Gripen. Also, the radar is definitely MUCH better on the latest F-16s."
Absolute nonsense.
The Gripen Radar is the strongest radar in europe with 120nm range, over 25 targets at the same time, advanced SAR, seemless multimode in air/ground.
Couple that with a very small RCS.
The parts not made in Sweden for Gripen is dumb components such as fuel pumps, landing gear and about 40% of the engine. Most of the avionics and overall design is Swedish. Eurofighter is lagging behind both Gripen and Rafale in capability by several years. By the time EF is up to Gripen performance the new Enhanced Gripen will already be available. To even talk about F-16 is ridiculous.
And again as pointed out about the maturity and superiority of the Gripen radar vs the EF, the BVR missile METEOR is integrated on Gripen just because the EF radar can not handle the long range envelope.
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"It had once been planned to use only the Eurofighter for Meteor's airborne trials, but now the Gripen will lead the flight test team as the only available 'mature' platform. "
-- 17 January 2006 Meteor BVRAAM Operational status
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