Synthetic aperture resolution is one of those things that will always see gains. Higher resolution images taken in less time will always be advantageous.
GaN will allow for up to 8x the energy transmission (assuming available power). Increased sensitivity. And a significantly wider frequency range. (all vs traditional GaAs) Relevant to the F-35 block IV, is probably the increased sensitivity, and wider frequency range. The increased power output would likely be more useful for jamming rather than active radar use. If it did increase transmission power though, between that and the increased sensitivity, it could double the range of the radar (which is already enormous due to the APG-85's very tight beam capability). Also there is a jamming-related use for it. Increased processing is a boon as well, but the driving reason this is being pushed out to aircraft quickly, is the GaN. It should give the F-35 about 160 degrees of radar capability (and related capabilities) greater than an AWACS. Some out there will understand some of the more significant aspects of that. It'll have to be liquid cooled though, instead of air cooled. And it's unknown exactly how much power generation could be leveraged. The power generation in the F-35 is also getting an upgrade, associated with this. The F/A-18E & G will get GaN slightly earlier though, in the APG-79. It's being implemented there as a smaller, lighter, more sensitive radar, with wider frequency range. But no power increase. While the APG-85 is taking a bit longer to implement, as they're going full size & water cooled with much higher power capacity.
The official guy Northrop sent to Greece to showcase the F35 we'll receive, it's going to have the first major upgrade/overhaul all around. On one hand, unfortunately due to high demand, the first ones will start arriving in Greece in 2027/8. On the other hand, as I mentioned, they'll be the most advanced F35s, but only 40 airplanes we purchased. Can't wait to see them in action with our Rafale, Mirage 2000-5 and the internally upgraded F16s we're doing here in Greece. The most advanced F16s worldwide. From block 50/52Adv (Gen 4) to block 70/72 (Gen 4,5) with AESA radars, engine hours, "zeroed" and many other goodies. Our 170 F16s will keep being the main workhorse. The Rafale and F35s for special missions and different dogma, but all combined into a mega-project. We recently re-structured again our army with the new Belharra Frigates incoming. Now, we're in the phase of choosing Corvettes. All these weapons will be interacting seamlessly, their interoperability will be more than great. Even our new Submarines include Link16 and just a couple of months ago received the latest version of torpedoes. Lastly, the best ASW Helicopters, the MH60R started arriving here already. The NH90 did arrive already. The mainland has 3 layered AA defense with the Patriot PAC3 as the top. We now seek to build a similar 3-layered AA defense for our islands, but most likely the Israeli systems will be chosen. Greece might be a small country, but clearly punches way above her weight. On the border with Turkey we've got the Steel Force, consisting of Leopards 2A6 and 2A4. We're now sending to our islands our Leopards 1A5 and the Marder we've got from Germany. We've got our allies, our pacts outside of NATO since Turkey is an "ally" to the Western World in name only. We only need to establish the supplying routes. That's why we signed with Bulgaria and Romania for infrastructure. In case any of the 3 gets attacked either by Turkey or Russia, said infrastructure will help facilitate easier transfer of weapons to help each other. Some more from the Western Europe and we're afraid of none. Well, we were never had been afraid of anyone, just saying.
@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 Don't take them, then. it's not your country's obligation to buy them. Furthermore, in case you haven't understood, the F35 is the new F16. Most NATO members will be operating it and continuously updates and upgrades will be performed, like on the F16. I already told you, Greece will receive the most advanced yet with the first major upgrade in most aspects. Lastly, we have too many aircrafts. The F35s can play a crucial role since they're essentially flying computers with the capability of releasing weapons. Again, I mentioned our new dogma takes place which will combine all our forces with interoperability capabilities. For instance, Turkey has S-400 which proved to be not that good. Our F35s will come with the latest HARM (anti-radar) and HARPOON (anti-ship) missiles. Now, Include the Rafale, the most advanced F16s, the upgraded Mirage 2000-5 with our NAVY and helicopters and our countless land forces, I'm fairly sure, we'll be more than fine.
Do you think they implement FPGA with Neural Module Aggregation or some ASIC component for these type of radars? FPGA with aggregation can be better starting point of simultaneous multifunctioning radar like this one..? Sensitivity booster and background differentiation can be also be well performed by this one...
These AESA radars are basically hundreds of ASICs, it's how they get their performance. Each of the radars in the array is a very special tranceiving amplifying chip!
What's not being discussed is using loyal wingmen and other F-35s as synthetic long wavelength radar aperatures. Instead of having physically large antenna on the planes, a flight of drones or other f35s can simulate long wavelength antenna and fuse their data together to detect other stealth aircraft. China has something similar using multiple wavelengths and synthesizing their data for the anti-stealth role. Synthetic Impulse and Aperture Radar.
What drones? No branch in USA has a combat drone of this type. Nobody in NATO does for that matter, and Turkey will probably be the first. It might be in service in time with NGAD. For now it's a fantasy, they can't even start to develop the technique you're talking about.
@@kdaltex "we?" USAF has 300, USN has 30, USMC 110, spread throughout dozen of deployments in different theaters. China already built 300 J-20s btw. Don't forget global commitments bud
APG-79(V)4 uses this newer GaN technology as well if I'm not mistaken. To be used by ground based USMC F/A-18C and RCAF CF-18A++(36 of their fleet). Any comments?
Good Morning Ariccio! Big thanks for that detailed answer! You of course are right that previous jets were packed with electronics and software - I just never thought about it until I started reading here on this channel, Gus / Millennium 7 does catch ones attention and lust for learning with his endless knowledge and humour! You are right, electronics have been in jets for a long time - and haven't fallen out of the skies every day! I had to laugh at your last sentence - yes, I also was fed a Microsoft Windows diet for years and learnt to anticipate a crash lurking behind every corner!😂😂 Thanks again, info was great! Have a lovely weekend..
Hi M7 ! Sorry may I ask ,who is the source of data for the ''Peak Power'' of that or any other AESA as 20/30 kW's ??? As we know the ''Peak Power (Ppeak) is the maximum pulsed power the radar can emit.'' All the best !
Time traveling Congressman from 2001 who had signed off the procurement of a 200 million USD JSF program: "Block IV ! Where ? When ?! At what price ?!!!"
Yay EW and radar video👍 I can see the F35 being the only manned platform a lot of small and medium sized airforces use in the future with everything else done with UAS or contracted out.
Or ECRS Mk0, as it’s already in service with some operators. Or ECRS MK1 as production should have already started considering it’s slated to enter service in 2025. Is it possible that the TRMs of the Mk1 are GaN-based, because Hensoldt has been building GaN-based AESAs for years?
No-one can give a credible ECRS Mk.2 'review' as there is practically nothing about it available in the public domain, or for the Brightadder programme that led to it...
Thank you for your video. I would not be surprised if this is just a version that just takes manufacturing improvements into account. Think about how often in electronics they bring out the day one release then a few years later the "slim" version.
Too bad there’s a massive cooling issue with the F-35; it’s got all these amazing systems but the damn jet doesn’t have the cooling to run everything at max efficiency. The current work around is running the engines much, much hotter than usual which, although it works for the time-being, it reduces both the reliability and longevity of the engine.
If the proposed EPACS (also a block 4 addition) delivers 80 kW of cooling, which is more than double the platform’s current capacity, it would provide sufficient cooling to support planned F-35 upgrades and also have an additional margin for the life of the aircraft.
If there was really an issue with the cooling you wouldn't know about it and even if such an issue existed, it would have been fixed. Or if such an issue would exist when the new hardware upgrades are installed, the cooling system would be upgraded as well
The new radar comes in in Lot 17 which is 2025 delivery. But....realistically most will want to upgrade their fleets to the Lot 19 standard that has extra EW antenna, amongst other improvements. There will be an engine upgrade (not new engine) and seperate PGMU upgrade to manage power and cooling...we still don't know the cost or timeline on those....and without it Block IV doesn't happen... But....it will also take at least 6 months for older aircraft to go through the upgrade to reach that (and truth be told its not as expensive as we feared)...and managing those upgrades whilst keeping some of your fighter fleet operational will be tricky...Bottom line is most operators won't be able to get their entire fleet on the same Block IV standard until 2032/33.... There are European weapons already.....Paveway IV and Asraam Block V and lower are already integrated and operational for the UK. We're waiting on the joint US/Norway JSM and the UK's Meteor, Spear, Asraam Blk VI and Paveway IV Penetrator to be added....and then thats it for a while on non-US weapons as no other integrations are currently planned...the Turkish SOM'J has long since stopped being mentioned...
Yep but still in major war games pre F-35 TR3 fighters win with a kill ratio of over 7 to 1 against euro and US 4th and 4.5 gen fighters. With the Block 4 this aircraft will be a generation ahead of Rafale, Eurofighter, F-15EX. 5th gen stealth, network centric is far superior to the old dogfighter 4.5 gen warfare.
@@Leon1Aust 4th Gen still has it's place, but I doubt we'll be seeing many more be produced in the coming years with the shutdown/transfers of the F/A-18 lines next year. Rafales and Typhoons are fine though, they were designed with upgrading and modularity in mind so it really shouldn't be an issue to keep them in the British and French arsenals into the 2030s. The UK will have all their F-35s on carriers and the current order won't be filled for years, they still need their Typhoons.
@@120mmsmoothbore2 There will always be those nations in the world that cannot be in the trusted category, that do not by Russian or Chinese, but cannot be sold 5th gen. Maybe that's why they kept keep open the F-16V, F-15EX production line. Having Typhoons come up against Chinese networked stealth 5th gen fighters in 10 years is risky. If one is keeping the 4.5 gen aircraft option that country should obtain dedicated escort SEAD DEAD ESM ECM like Growlers to protect their 4.5 gen assets or even ESM ECM escort drones. USN and RAAF purchased EA-18G Growlers and Germany are developing a SEAD ECM version of Eurofighter. The Global Combat Air Programme of British, Japanese and Italian 6th gen looks the goods for future options and Germanys'/French "New Generation Fighter" are options for non US countries' in the future. It is time for major NATO/West countries to get off the 4.5th gen tactics and progress to 5th gen or even go to 6th gen or China could give them a future shock on air dominance.
There’s simply zero chance that Chinese/Russian planes can compete with these Radar systems. This is what ensures any contest with the F35 will not be a fair fight
@@Ianmundo F35 engine is very unreliable because of insane turbine temperatures. Electronics overheat because of undersized cooling. Only 10% is full mission capable because it's a flawed aircraft. Useless in war. Not even talking about the vulnerability of the centralize JIT and predictive maintenance logistics.
Considering that the PLAN defeated the Growlers, and that Iran recently managed to track the F-35Is that tried to attack it to the extent that they didn't dare enter Iranian airspace, the F-35s are now just as vulnerable as any non-stealthy aircraft.
They're racing to get a new engine, seeing as how the current "solution" is to keep the engine running hotter than it really should be constantly to address the power and cooling issues, at the expense of the longevity and reliability of the engine itself.
Under another video on this channel F-35 defenders already conceded that it will have to fly stand off missions against land targets, and in air to air it will have to carry missiles on external stores because it doesn't have enough. Stealth not a trump card anymore. Furthermore, to have a fighting chance with something like R-37 armed fighters it would have to make use of that recent SM-6 conversion or another long range AAM which won't fit in bays. I want to see that loadout, because it would look hilarious.
@@piotrgrzelak2613 The problem with the R37M and other long range weapons in use by China/Russia is that the radar of the aircraft cannot get enough data to launch the missile until they are well within the MAR of the Delta version of the AMRAAM. They could use the launch and lock tactic but even then, evasive maneuvers and the tiny jammer pod to mimic the F-35's RCS would be enough to fool a weapon that has only direction as its info. The F-35 doesn't need huge weapon supplies and it is getting approval for the meteor missile soon as well. This combined with ongoing efforts to enlarge the weapons bay will make the F-35 significantly more effective than a F-15EX with a RCS literally thousands of times larger. A system like that will be incredibly easy to shoot down with weapons like the R-37M.
@gnueshk1344 The problem with your post is that you have nothing to back it up. "Radar of the aircraft cannot-" let's stop right there. Who says it? What aircraft? You just assume things because USAF had the top stuff in 2000s. You're behind the times. Downstream. Russia and China now have distributed networking and detection and you're stuck in what was back when.
@gnueshk1344 Out of pity I won't address the "thousand times larger" rcs and the idea that US would buy the meteor, a dangerous competitor that will be ruthlessly fought with by thr American MIC. You're all in fantasy land assumptions.
@@piotrgrzelak2613 Im refering to the AESA radar on the Su-57 which struggles at detecting long range stealthy targets but would have no difficulty with the 4th gen F-15EX.
But Elon thinks little drones can do the same thing, so Trump will cancel it. America will resemble Russia soon in terms of military strength and oligarchy
For me this sounds highly complicated and a lot more electronic hardware & software on board. The F-35 is bursting with hardware ( so I have read on other videos). For me there is one question: isn't the F-35 a very delicate machine for external "powers"? Let's say by coincidence a bullet hits the body and ends up in some hardware. Can't something like that immediately cause a system crash and the F-35 falls out of the sky? Or a weather incident somehow get's right into the systems? Most of you probably now would like to wring my neck for even just suggesting something like that, but I never had really good "relations" with computers and software so I automatically think that any hard-and software is vulnerable....??
@matheuscerqueira7952 Thanks, yes, it is basically a computer with wings! So the "stay away from trouble" - strategie and deal with it from a distance makes sense!
@napobg6842 True, I sometimes wonder myself why these gadgets still work after being used consistently! Just one thing: if I would put a bullet through it I do not believe it still would be able to go on like an F-35!!😂😂
@@martinabowm1786 Well, there is so much tech inside a phone but it is really small on size so your bullet would do a lot of damage to a lot of hardware. While on the F-35 you have a lot of very big hardware. This means that you bullet would do a log of damage to just 1 type of hardware 😂😂
@@napobg6842it’s a flying brick with two tiny feathers. The reason is the power of Lockheed over the acquisition process (the general in charge of the JSF program called it “acquisition malfeasance”). Instead of mass producing hundreds of deficient block 3 f35 aircraft that will never be upgraded to block 4, DoD could have bought literally hundreds of new F15 aircraft with lots of upgrades including the F15EX
That can apply to all systems. What we do know is the US and allies test there systems a lot. Conduct exercises like red flag to work out strengths/weaknesses of different systems and how to use them with other systems effectively
What a sloth ridden rather stupid meaningless comment- that’s also incredibly ignorant of testing systems before hand - think harder - or some next time ..
It might interest you to know that F35 visited Iran recently. Although you are righr, it wasn't combat, it was just bombing. Iran knew about it in advance, yet all their russian air defense systems didn't even lock on to the planes.
F-35 is an amazing platform but it suffers from power supply problems. Once that is fixed it truly be one of the most dominant multi role aircraft in history!
Maybe learn to read, FMC is at 52 percent and can be throttled up in a war where you can surge parts without worrying about customers or production aircrafts, F-22 on the other hand would be in trouble with a similar 53 percent FMC with no parts, look at F-15, F-16 availability right before desert storm and during the war, massive increase.
@@maksimluzin1121 i read it more than you know, the percentage you cited is the approximate increase in funding to operate and sustain them (A,B and C) over '22, nothing to do with FMC or MC rates, try actually reading the whole thing instead of google AI suggestions and search results that says 15, 20, 30 etc...
How many billions does it cost? America and NATO betting on insanely expensive high maintenance and low numbers militaries. Didn't Germany tey that already? 🤔
25 million per f35 for the entire block 4 upgrade which includes a whole host of other upgrades. Russia is so far behind it’s not funny. Egypt tested their Rafale’s vs their new Su35s and found that the Rafale’s spectra EW suite made the Irbis-e radar on the Su35 useless. Rafale had first look, first shot, and first kill every time. The block 4 F35 will receive the AN/ASQ-239 EW suite which has 10x more jamming power than a F18 growler. Israel has been experimenting with said AN/ASQ-239 on the F35I. I think it’s obvious how they obliterated Irans IADS in one night now.
First : It doesn't need to be very agile if he can just shoot its opponent down before even being noticed. Two : It's actually way faster and more agile than any other 4.5 gen fighter with its weapons, pods & fuel tanks attached under its wings.
Fact: it's more agile than any 4th gen aircraft with it's combat load, the advantage of having no drag with weapons inside is much more than you think.
Greeks : Remember on an F35, you need to enter a code every morning. If uncle Sam warms up to Turkey for thanks Giving... he won't give you the codes and you will be screwed like a dönner
perhaps at the end (when?).... IF... F35 will become a good stuff, from when started till today.... how many money and resources of taxpayer which have gone in very wrong hands???... and... if that immense wealth would have used for the good of the citizens...... all of you must think how many citizens would have had chances to live somewhat better than having F35 going more efficiently...... but I dubt we will have the results that burocrats and gerarchs behind F35 promised more than 30 years ago. escuse me for the little english
The F-35 is one of the most successful platforms in recent times. The incidents relative to the number of birds produced so far is practically 0% and of those that happened already, only half are due to malfunctions which makes it extremely reliable.
the F35 is a very black hole, and incidents happened were many. your 0% is referred to a parallel reality that only you know. The same reality where Russia finished missiles in 2022,or the one where russian technologies are developed from chip stolen in banderastan
@pappagone6066 there are about 1,100 F-35 produced. And the incidents were mostly pilot errors. The % is practically 0. Also the F-35 is the cheapest 5th gen right now and the most advanced. That's called economy of scale
@@pappagone6066Looks at F-16 Class A mishap rate for first decade of service. Methinks the F-35 isn't so bad. And how quick we forget, you should read what people were saying about the F-15 during its development. The eagle was so infamous the Simpsons even made a gag about it!
what economy, if you know that only 10% are in operational mode because the quantity of issues are overwhelmingly evident. in italy and Uk Thereare carriers that have harriers because F35b is unusable, but also the others versions are for the majority into hangars.... so the ZERO you represent has the same valor of disherbant (agent orange) of covid vaccine when west government told was the sole solution for virus PRO PA GAN DA for the subliminally hypnotized citizens..... instead of somewhat other....... the imminent collapse of the west and their corrupt governments, the implosion of the extreme absolute wrong system which brought citizen s poverty thanks to gerarchs and burocrats, quisling and nazis zionist way they are improving in all the west will not bring us to a good future, a very disaster they thinks to solve balcanizing Russia and China..... not understanding that is the west on the way of autodestruction (the people of the west) that people is accepting every infamous decisions of their corrupt leaders.... if you live in whatever western country is under your eyes
@@Statueshop297 Don't be fooled, test data is also propaganda. It should be treated with the same skepticism as any other data from any country. They're all playing the exact same information game with roughly the exact same tools.
@@DrVictorVasconcelos if it was fake info that would cause massive issues with items that are sold to other countries. What western companies tend to do with defence stats is to understate the maximum. See the MBDA products will say things like maximum range at least 20km for asraam. When it’s been recorded going 50km. If you assume everything is fake then you have no knowledge that is acceptable to your standards
Synthetic aperture resolution is one of those things that will always see gains. Higher resolution images taken in less time will always be advantageous.
GaN will allow for up to 8x the energy transmission (assuming available power). Increased sensitivity. And a significantly wider frequency range. (all vs traditional GaAs)
Relevant to the F-35 block IV, is probably the increased sensitivity, and wider frequency range. The increased power output would likely be more useful for jamming rather than active radar use.
If it did increase transmission power though, between that and the increased sensitivity, it could double the range of the radar (which is already enormous due to the APG-85's very tight beam capability). Also there is a jamming-related use for it.
Increased processing is a boon as well, but the driving reason this is being pushed out to aircraft quickly, is the GaN.
It should give the F-35 about 160 degrees of radar capability (and related capabilities) greater than an AWACS. Some out there will understand some of the more significant aspects of that. It'll have to be liquid cooled though, instead of air cooled. And it's unknown exactly how much power generation could be leveraged. The power generation in the F-35 is also getting an upgrade, associated with this.
The F/A-18E & G will get GaN slightly earlier though, in the APG-79. It's being implemented there as a smaller, lighter, more sensitive radar, with wider frequency range. But no power increase. While the APG-85 is taking a bit longer to implement, as they're going full size & water cooled with much higher power capacity.
The official guy Northrop sent to Greece to showcase the F35 we'll receive, it's going to have the first major upgrade/overhaul all around. On one hand, unfortunately due to high demand, the first ones will start arriving in Greece in 2027/8. On the other hand, as I mentioned, they'll be the most advanced F35s, but only 40 airplanes we purchased. Can't wait to see them in action with our Rafale, Mirage 2000-5 and the internally upgraded F16s we're doing here in Greece. The most advanced F16s worldwide. From block 50/52Adv (Gen 4) to block 70/72 (Gen 4,5) with AESA radars, engine hours, "zeroed" and many other goodies. Our 170 F16s will keep being the main workhorse. The Rafale and F35s for special missions and different dogma, but all combined into a mega-project. We recently re-structured again our army with the new Belharra Frigates incoming. Now, we're in the phase of choosing Corvettes.
All these weapons will be interacting seamlessly, their interoperability will be more than great. Even our new Submarines include Link16 and just a couple of months ago received the latest version of torpedoes. Lastly, the best ASW Helicopters, the MH60R started arriving here already. The NH90 did arrive already. The mainland has 3 layered AA defense with the Patriot PAC3 as the top. We now seek to build a similar 3-layered AA defense for our islands, but most likely the Israeli systems will be chosen.
Greece might be a small country, but clearly punches way above her weight. On the border with Turkey we've got the Steel Force, consisting of Leopards 2A6 and 2A4. We're now sending to our islands our Leopards 1A5 and the Marder we've got from Germany. We've got our allies, our pacts outside of NATO since Turkey is an "ally" to the Western World in name only. We only need to establish the supplying routes. That's why we signed with Bulgaria and Romania for infrastructure. In case any of the 3 gets attacked either by Turkey or Russia, said infrastructure will help facilitate easier transfer of weapons to help each other. Some more from the Western Europe and we're afraid of none. Well, we were never had been afraid of anyone, just saying.
😂😂😂😂
Everybody knows the F35 is a piece of junk.
A penguin will always remain a penguin, even if you graft the eyes of an eagle onto it.
@@alexdarcydestsimon3767 Don't take them, then. it's not your country's obligation to buy them.
Furthermore, in case you haven't understood, the F35 is the new F16. Most NATO members will be operating it and continuously updates and upgrades will be performed, like on the F16.
I already told you, Greece will receive the most advanced yet with the first major upgrade in most aspects.
Lastly, we have too many aircrafts. The F35s can play a crucial role since they're essentially flying computers with the capability of releasing weapons. Again, I mentioned our new dogma takes place which will combine all our forces with interoperability capabilities. For instance, Turkey has S-400 which proved to be not that good. Our F35s will come with the latest HARM (anti-radar) and HARPOON (anti-ship) missiles.
Now, Include the Rafale, the most advanced F16s, the upgraded Mirage 2000-5 with our NAVY and helicopters and our countless land forces, I'm fairly sure, we'll be more than fine.
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That was a great explanation of SAR short but on the money- I love it.
1:38 what is the source for the doc re waveform recognition/etc shown here? I'd love read it.
Found it. Awesome
It really is an amazing system. The current system was already fantastic
Do an honest comparison to the F15EX radar with a larger antenna array and more power available
Block 4 available to all customers?
M7S, I love your content. The best.
Do you think they implement FPGA with Neural Module Aggregation or some ASIC component for these type of radars? FPGA with aggregation can be better starting point of simultaneous multifunctioning radar like this one..? Sensitivity booster and background differentiation can be also be well performed by this one...
These AESA radars are basically hundreds of ASICs, it's how they get their performance. Each of the radars in the array is a very special tranceiving amplifying chip!
🤘🏼 King of the skies
What's not being discussed is using loyal wingmen and other F-35s as synthetic long wavelength radar aperatures. Instead of having physically large antenna on the planes, a flight of drones or other f35s can simulate long wavelength antenna and fuse their data together to detect other stealth aircraft. China has something similar using multiple wavelengths and synthesizing their data for the anti-stealth role. Synthetic Impulse and Aperture Radar.
What drones? No branch in USA has a combat drone of this type. Nobody in NATO does for that matter, and Turkey will probably be the first. It might be in service in time with NGAD. For now it's a fantasy, they can't even start to develop the technique you're talking about.
@ in development.
So a post-hoc idea, while the primary, multirole mission is falling behind
@ at the end of the day, we have over a thousand f-35s. Better than 12 vaporware fighters like the su57.
@@kdaltex "we?" USAF has 300, USN has 30, USMC 110, spread throughout dozen of deployments in different theaters. China already built 300 J-20s btw. Don't forget global commitments bud
APG-79(V)4 uses this newer GaN technology as well if I'm not mistaken. To be used by ground based USMC F/A-18C and RCAF CF-18A++(36 of their fleet). Any comments?
So do they do anything with waveguides on the nose cone? Or is it just a purely radar transparent structure?
Good Morning Ariccio! Big thanks for that detailed answer! You of course are right that previous jets were packed with electronics and software - I just never thought about it until I started reading here on this channel, Gus / Millennium 7 does catch ones attention and lust for learning with his endless knowledge and humour!
You are right, electronics have been in jets for a long time - and haven't fallen out of the skies every day!
I had to laugh at your last sentence - yes, I also was fed a Microsoft Windows diet for years and learnt to anticipate a crash lurking behind every corner!😂😂
Thanks again, info was great! Have a lovely weekend..
Hi M7 !
Sorry may I ask ,who is the source of data for the ''Peak Power'' of that or any other AESA as 20/30 kW's ??? As we know the ''Peak Power (Ppeak) is the maximum pulsed power the radar can emit.''
All the best !
Time traveling Congressman from 2001 who had signed off the procurement of a 200 million USD JSF program: "Block IV ! Where ? When ?! At what price ?!!!"
Yay EW and radar video👍
I can see the F35 being the only manned platform a lot of small and medium sized airforces use in the future with everything else done with UAS or contracted out.
ECRS MK.2 review please
I swear by the time it's integrated into a respectable number of aircrafts it'll be outdated, they need to get their shit together.
Or ECRS Mk0, as it’s already in service with some operators. Or ECRS MK1 as production should have already started considering it’s slated to enter service in 2025. Is it possible that the TRMs of the Mk1 are GaN-based, because Hensoldt has been building GaN-based AESAs for years?
I've been saying this, let's keep reminding him
No-one can give a credible ECRS Mk.2 'review' as there is practically nothing about it available in the public domain, or for the Brightadder programme that led to it...
Do a video comparing the ecrsmk2 with other radars
Thank you for your video. I would not be surprised if this is just a version that just takes manufacturing improvements into account. Think about how often in electronics they bring out the day one release then a few years later the "slim" version.
Too bad there’s a massive cooling issue with the F-35; it’s got all these amazing systems but the damn jet doesn’t have the cooling to run everything at max efficiency. The current work around is running the engines much, much hotter than usual which, although it works for the time-being, it reduces both the reliability and longevity of the engine.
If the proposed EPACS (also a block 4 addition) delivers 80 kW of cooling, which is more than double the platform’s current capacity, it would provide sufficient cooling to support planned F-35 upgrades and also have an additional margin for the life of the aircraft.
@@SilverShamrockNovelties still needs an engine with more energy generation to run all that, that's why they are running to get the new one
If there was really an issue with the cooling you wouldn't know about it and even if such an issue existed, it would have been fixed. Or if such an issue would exist when the new hardware upgrades are installed, the cooling system would be upgraded as well
@@napobg6842 , name them.
Only a partial solution. Compare it to the electrical power of the F15EX
Thanks :)
How are they going to cool this beast? F35 already has cooling issues.
Source
PPT only
So, early adopters of bl.4 are screwed - delayed TR3, no european armament, no new engine, no new radar.
Buy all American.
If you're nice, maybe uncle Sam will give you the code to start the F35.
Unless you fight Turkey
I mean : i agree with you.
The new radar comes in in Lot 17 which is 2025 delivery. But....realistically most will want to upgrade their fleets to the Lot 19 standard that has extra EW antenna, amongst other improvements. There will be an engine upgrade (not new engine) and seperate PGMU upgrade to manage power and cooling...we still don't know the cost or timeline on those....and without it Block IV doesn't happen...
But....it will also take at least 6 months for older aircraft to go through the upgrade to reach that (and truth be told its not as expensive as we feared)...and managing those upgrades whilst keeping some of your fighter fleet operational will be tricky...Bottom line is most operators won't be able to get their entire fleet on the same Block IV standard until 2032/33....
There are European weapons already.....Paveway IV and Asraam Block V and lower are already integrated and operational for the UK. We're waiting on the joint US/Norway JSM and the UK's Meteor, Spear, Asraam Blk VI and Paveway IV Penetrator to be added....and then thats it for a while on non-US weapons as no other integrations are currently planned...the Turkish SOM'J has long since stopped being mentioned...
Yep but still in major war games pre F-35 TR3 fighters win with a kill ratio of over 7 to 1 against euro and US 4th and 4.5 gen fighters.
With the Block 4 this aircraft will be a generation ahead of Rafale, Eurofighter, F-15EX.
5th gen stealth, network centric is far superior to the old dogfighter 4.5 gen warfare.
@@Leon1Aust 4th Gen still has it's place, but I doubt we'll be seeing many more be produced in the coming years with the shutdown/transfers of the F/A-18 lines next year. Rafales and Typhoons are fine though, they were designed with upgrading and modularity in mind so it really shouldn't be an issue to keep them in the British and French arsenals into the 2030s. The UK will have all their F-35s on carriers and the current order won't be filled for years, they still need their Typhoons.
@@120mmsmoothbore2 There will always be those nations in the world that cannot be in the trusted category, that do not by Russian or Chinese, but cannot be sold 5th gen.
Maybe that's why they kept keep open the F-16V, F-15EX production line.
Having Typhoons come up against Chinese networked stealth 5th gen fighters in 10 years is risky.
If one is keeping the 4.5 gen aircraft option that country should obtain dedicated escort SEAD DEAD ESM ECM like Growlers to protect their 4.5 gen assets or even ESM ECM escort drones.
USN and RAAF purchased EA-18G Growlers and Germany are developing a SEAD ECM version of Eurofighter.
The Global Combat Air Programme of British, Japanese and Italian 6th gen looks the goods for future options and Germanys'/French "New Generation Fighter" are options for non US countries' in the future.
It is time for major NATO/West countries to get off the 4.5th gen tactics and progress to 5th gen or even go to 6th gen or China could give them a future shock on air dominance.
Who pays for the upgrade ?
There’s simply zero chance that Chinese/Russian planes can compete with these Radar systems. This is what ensures any contest with the F35 will not be a fair fight
@@Ianmundo F35 engine is very unreliable because of insane turbine temperatures. Electronics overheat because of undersized cooling. Only 10% is full mission capable because it's a flawed aircraft.
Useless in war.
Not even talking about the vulnerability of the centralize JIT and predictive maintenance logistics.
Indeed.
But the gap isn't widening by a lot
Considering that the PLAN defeated the Growlers, and that Iran recently managed to track the F-35Is that tried to attack it to the extent that they didn't dare enter Iranian airspace, the F-35s are now just as vulnerable as any non-stealthy aircraft.
@@jiokl7g9t6Considering that one of those events is imagined and the other is exaggerated I’m going to go out on a limb and say you are wrong
ROFL @hresvelgr7193 you're not paying attention, are you?
ww.ruclips.net/video/wk03RJCTWq8/видео.html
It's a pity the power supply in the airplane is insufficient and has serious overheating problems.
Explain why couple crashed, one couldnt be located remotely, probably because power was out
They're racing to get a new engine, seeing as how the current "solution" is to keep the engine running hotter than it really should be constantly to address the power and cooling issues, at the expense of the longevity and reliability of the engine itself.
Choisis the rafle, it’s better
Limited by and wasted on that platform. Put the same technology on a F-15EX, just with a bigger antenna and more power.
Under another video on this channel F-35 defenders already conceded that it will have to fly stand off missions against land targets, and in air to air it will have to carry missiles on external stores because it doesn't have enough. Stealth not a trump card anymore. Furthermore, to have a fighting chance with something like R-37 armed fighters it would have to make use of that recent SM-6 conversion or another long range AAM which won't fit in bays. I want to see that loadout, because it would look hilarious.
@@piotrgrzelak2613 The problem with the R37M and other long range weapons in use by China/Russia is that the radar of the aircraft cannot get enough data to launch the missile until they are well within the MAR of the Delta version of the AMRAAM. They could use the launch and lock tactic but even then, evasive maneuvers and the tiny jammer pod to mimic the F-35's RCS would be enough to fool a weapon that has only direction as its info. The F-35 doesn't need huge weapon supplies and it is getting approval for the meteor missile soon as well. This combined with ongoing efforts to enlarge the weapons bay will make the F-35 significantly more effective than a F-15EX with a RCS literally thousands of times larger. A system like that will be incredibly easy to shoot down with weapons like the R-37M.
@gnueshk1344 The problem with your post is that you have nothing to back it up. "Radar of the aircraft cannot-" let's stop right there. Who says it? What aircraft? You just assume things because USAF had the top stuff in 2000s. You're behind the times. Downstream. Russia and China now have distributed networking and detection and you're stuck in what was back when.
@gnueshk1344 Out of pity I won't address the "thousand times larger" rcs and the idea that US would buy the meteor, a dangerous competitor that will be ruthlessly fought with by thr American MIC. You're all in fantasy land assumptions.
@@piotrgrzelak2613 Im refering to the AESA radar on the Su-57 which struggles at detecting long range stealthy targets but would have no difficulty with the 4th gen F-15EX.
the chips in these are made at tsmc in hsinchu. they have american soldiers at the plant guarding it
by American soldiers do you mean American "contractors"? Oh, guess where the Gallium Nitride comes from?
@ no actual american servicemen are stationed at the plant to guard the particular fab the chips are made at. you see them on the access road
Don't fool yourself, Anything made in Taiwan is already compromised.
China OWNS Taiwan.
Bonkers??
It will probably dont work until 2035 as usual.....
No, they're finally catching up to the original conceptions.
But Elon thinks little drones can do the same thing, so Trump will cancel it. America will resemble Russia soon in terms of military strength and oligarchy
Uh, no.
@Hyposonic OK great. Yay Elon
That would be an upgrade. Russia is 80% russian
@piotrgrzelak2613 Lol.. No
There's no way anyone trump or not can cancel the F35 especially without a replacement in sight.
What a dream this F-35, it will do everything in the future not now and probably will cost nothing to the countries who already bought it.
It would be easier to understand your English if you slowed down a little bit.
So bonkers, that F135 engine is not enough to cool it down!
Source please. Im interested
Where did you hear that? RT? Literally never saw a single western source mention that
@gansior4744 i literally never heard of it until the comments here suddenly spread it. Like, cmon man! 😂😂😂😂
bro, pin a comment with the full video the clip is from, i wanna now watch the whole video, but i'm not gonna guess for 20m where it comes from
Good suggestion
For me this sounds highly complicated and a lot more electronic hardware & software on board. The F-35 is bursting with hardware ( so I have read on other videos). For me there is one question: isn't the F-35 a very delicate machine for external "powers"? Let's say by coincidence a bullet hits the body and ends up in some hardware. Can't something like that immediately cause a system crash and the F-35 falls out of the sky? Or a weather incident somehow get's right into the systems? Most of you probably now would like to wring my neck for even just suggesting something like that, but I never had really good "relations" with computers and software so I automatically think that any hard-and software is vulnerable....??
Shouldn't be that vulnerable, but the test pilot said every piece of software affects the entire system, so I guess it is possible
@matheuscerqueira7952 Thanks, yes, it is basically a computer with wings! So the "stay away from trouble" - strategie and deal with it from a distance makes sense!
If you think about it, your phone is full to the top with all kinds of hardware and while there are issues, it is functioning pretty well.
@napobg6842 True, I sometimes wonder myself why these gadgets still work after being used consistently! Just one thing: if I would put a bullet through it I do not believe it still would be able to go on like an F-35!!😂😂
@@martinabowm1786 Well, there is so much tech inside a phone but it is really small on size so your bullet would do a lot of damage to a lot of hardware. While on the F-35 you have a lot of very big hardware. This means that you bullet would do a log of damage to just 1 type of hardware 😂😂
A penguin will always remain a penguin, even if you graft the eyes of an eagle onto it.
why putting a so refined radar in a flyin brick !
It's better than a tinfoil hat.
The F35 is already combat proven. Israel used it to strike Iran. Iran didn't even see it coming, despite their massive air defense networks.
Because you are told it is a flying brick.
I just noticed that you spelled Pierre wrong in your account name!
@@napobg6842it’s a flying brick with two tiny feathers. The reason is the power of Lockheed over the acquisition process (the general in charge of the JSF program called it “acquisition malfeasance”). Instead of mass producing hundreds of deficient block 3 f35 aircraft that will never be upgraded to block 4, DoD could have bought literally hundreds of new F15 aircraft with lots of upgrades including the F15EX
I died of laughter when Elon Musk said drones will use vision to obsolete fighters like the F35. Cringe and laughter, I died. 🤣
Means not much until it enters the battle.
That can apply to all systems. What we do know is the US and allies test there systems a lot. Conduct exercises like red flag to work out strengths/weaknesses of different systems and how to use them with other systems effectively
What a sloth ridden rather stupid meaningless comment- that’s also incredibly ignorant of testing systems before hand - think harder - or some next time ..
and yet I'm sure you'll turn around and simp for Russian systems with low to no production and no combat history.
@@Pietari55 a very sloth ridden comment
It might interest you to know that F35 visited Iran recently.
Although you are righr, it wasn't combat, it was just bombing. Iran knew about it in advance, yet all their russian air defense systems didn't even lock on to the planes.
F-35 is an amazing platform but it suffers from power supply problems.
Once that is fixed it truly be one of the most dominant multi role aircraft in history!
This was too short, and not as informative or insightful as your other efforts, should have listened to the robot!
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j20. j35. j16 j10c got GaN radar long time aho
😆 no.
Why only 24-35% of F-35 (A,B,C) are the combat ready, according to the Report to the US Congress? Sept, 2023.
Maybe learn to read, FMC is at 52 percent and can be throttled up in a war where you can surge parts without worrying about customers or production aircrafts, F-22 on the other hand would be in trouble with a similar 53 percent FMC with no parts, look at F-15, F-16 availability right before desert storm and during the war, massive increase.
@kermittoad , GAO report, Septeber, 2023. Find it and read.
@@maksimluzin1121 i read it more than you know, the percentage you cited is the approximate increase in funding to operate and sustain them (A,B and C) over '22, nothing to do with FMC or MC rates, try actually reading the whole thing instead of google AI suggestions and search results that says 15, 20, 30 etc...
@kermittoad , the official GAO Report to the USA Congress. Your opinion & words doesn't matter, at all.
@@maksimluzin1121 oh my god, it's not my opinion bruh, the GAO report literally contradicts your original comment, did you actually read the thing💀
How many billions does it cost?
America and NATO betting on insanely expensive high maintenance and low numbers militaries.
Didn't Germany tey that already? 🤔
You think the radar costs billions? 😂😂
25 million per f35 for the entire block 4 upgrade which includes a whole host of other upgrades. Russia is so far behind it’s not funny. Egypt tested their Rafale’s vs their new Su35s and found that the Rafale’s spectra EW suite made the Irbis-e radar on the Su35 useless. Rafale had first look, first shot, and first kill every time. The block 4 F35 will receive the AN/ASQ-239 EW suite which has 10x more jamming power than a F18 growler. Israel has been experimenting with said AN/ASQ-239 on the F35I. I think it’s obvious how they obliterated Irans IADS in one night now.
@@Likeawormany links I can read please?
@@Likeaworm Which is crazy stupid, as Rafale has 1. weak engine on high altitutdes 2. relatively short range missiles (Mica).
Yes, more than 1,000 built, what a low numbers platform 😆
There was edits in this that didn't need to be there.
China already has the plans and software 😂
So much technology pushed in that the plane has become fat and lazy.
kek real
First : It doesn't need to be very agile if he can just shoot its opponent down before even being noticed.
Two : It's actually way faster and more agile than any other 4.5 gen fighter with its weapons, pods & fuel tanks attached under its wings.
Fact: it's more agile than any 4th gen aircraft with it's combat load, the advantage of having no drag with weapons inside is much more than you think.
@@kermittoad LOL
F35 : Mach 1.2
Su35 : Mach 2.25
@@artiefakt4402 So it has to be fat and lazy.
Perfect.
Greeks :
Remember
on an F35, you need to enter a code every morning.
If uncle Sam warms up to Turkey for thanks Giving... he won't give you the codes and you will be screwed like a dönner
perhaps at the end (when?).... IF... F35 will become a good stuff, from when started till today.... how many money and resources of taxpayer which have gone in very wrong hands???... and... if that immense wealth would have used for the good of the citizens...... all of you must think how many citizens would have had chances to live somewhat better than having F35 going more efficiently......
but I dubt we will have the results that burocrats and gerarchs behind F35 promised more than 30 years ago.
escuse me for the little english
The F-35 is one of the most successful platforms in recent times. The incidents relative to the number of birds produced so far is practically 0% and of those that happened already, only half are due to malfunctions which makes it extremely reliable.
the F35 is a very black hole, and incidents happened were many. your 0% is referred to a parallel reality that only you know. The same reality where Russia finished missiles in 2022,or the one where russian technologies are developed from chip stolen in banderastan
@pappagone6066 there are about 1,100 F-35 produced. And the incidents were mostly pilot errors. The % is practically 0. Also the F-35 is the cheapest 5th gen right now and the most advanced. That's called economy of scale
@@pappagone6066Looks at F-16 Class A mishap rate for first decade of service.
Methinks the F-35 isn't so bad. And how quick we forget, you should read what people were saying about the F-15 during its development. The eagle was so infamous the Simpsons even made a gag about it!
what economy, if you know that only 10% are in operational mode because the quantity of issues are overwhelmingly evident. in italy and Uk Thereare carriers that have harriers because F35b is unusable, but also the others versions are for the majority into hangars.... so the ZERO you represent has the same valor of disherbant (agent orange) of covid vaccine when west government told was the sole solution for virus
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for the subliminally hypnotized citizens..... instead of somewhat other....... the imminent collapse of the west and their corrupt governments, the implosion of the extreme absolute wrong system which brought citizen s poverty thanks to gerarchs and burocrats, quisling and nazis zionist way they are improving in all the west will not bring us to a good future, a very disaster they thinks to solve balcanizing Russia and China..... not understanding that is the west on the way of autodestruction (the people of the west) that people is accepting every infamous decisions of their corrupt leaders.... if you live in whatever western country is under your eyes
A new radar on a shitty aircraft is like a bandage on a wooden leg.
OK we get it, you're not a fan, move along sunshine.
I'd take american claims with a ton of salt.
*ROR, RMAO EVEN*
I bet you take russia and Chinese claims 100% serious every time. Even though the US will publish test data but others don’t.
@@Statueshop297 I'm sorry i don't speak little bitch.
@@Statueshop297 Don't be fooled, test data is also propaganda. It should be treated with the same skepticism as any other data from any country. They're all playing the exact same information game with roughly the exact same tools.
@@DrVictorVasconcelos if it was fake info that would cause massive issues with items that are sold to other countries.
What western companies tend to do with defence stats is to understate the maximum. See the MBDA products will say things like maximum range at least 20km for asraam. When it’s been recorded going 50km.
If you assume everything is fake then you have no knowledge that is acceptable to your standards