Originally Posted by JFZ90
Also worth noting that there maybe a telling reason why rafale is getting the aesa upgrade & typhoon hasn't yet - i.e. the pesa rafale needed the upgrade a lot more than an ecr90 typhoon and as such was easier to justify. Just speculation of course.
Or the PESA was easier and cheaper to upgrade than the ECR90.
Or the French were able to decide to do the upgrade... whereas the ECR90 upgrade is mired in a multi-national committee, amidst arguing over production shares, cost estimates, desired performance thresholds, and who still owes who for lunch and that bet over last week's FIFA matches!
Or a dozen other possible reasons that have little or nothing to do with which systems performs better in which areas...
I strongly suspect that each systems has areas where it is superior and ones in which it is inferior!
Unless you can get hold of the classified performance documents for both current systems, as well as the classified documents on the new systems, including costings and so on, all you can give is biased personal-preference wild guesses!