red admiral said:Multiple AESA within a non-rotating rotodome (so that would be just a 'dome') will give 360 deg coverage. This is not possible with the Wedgetail/Erieye configuration.
SpudmanWP said:Wedgetail has a 360 coverage area.
http://www.northropgrumman.com/Capabilities/MESA/Documents/mesa.pdf
TomS said:There are endfire arrays in the top "surfboard" of the Wedgetail antenna system.
Brazil, probably by a large margin. Size is not the end-all.Looks like the new Japanese C-2 is about 1.5 times the size of Brazil's KC390 transport. We wonder which country will export more transports????
Brazil, probably by a large margin. Size is not the end-all.Looks like the new Japanese C-2 is about 1.5 times the size of Brazil's KC390 transport. We wonder which country will export more transports????
How does the C-2 hit its STOL specs without an externally blown flap?
How does the C-2 hit its STOL specs without an externally blown flap?
large T/W ratio provided by the CF-6 engine maybe ? The T/W based on wiki shows 0.4. quite considerable slightly more than B-1B and Tu-160 while basically twice the commercial jetliner.