Originally Posted by jackonicko
Typhoon's AESA radar programme looks shaky and uncertain.
That's an interesting statement, seeing as the Typhoon AESA programme is fifteen years old if you count AMSAR. Amusingly, Thomson-CSF (at the time, now Thales) has been a partner in GTDAR for most of those fifteen years. They were interested in producing a replacement for RBE-2; Selex for the CAPTOR. I suspect that RBE2-AA and CAESAR share a lot of underlying design.
Others will know more about the comparative performance of RBE2 and CAPTOR, and whether this has any bearing on the need to spend money on putting AESA into Rafale, compared with the need to spend money on putting AESA into Typhoon...