Let me guess, APA, Kopp, Goon, Mills, Jensen et-al.  If they are the source, then they have been repeatedly and persistently shown to be talking out of their sphincter muscles by real pilots with an excess of 6000hrs.

I am curious as to why anyone informed about the next stages of comms (and it's mapped out to 2014 the last time I attended a briefing).

I'd suggest that anyone making comment about comms for battlespace fusion etc in combat aircraft is not in a position to know because the details have not been released.  Air Forces don't advertise like commercial sellers. And IME, claims made by commercial sellers outside of their own test requirements usually spectactularly fail.  I can say that with confidence as I was involved with testing an "over achievement" Swedish comms solution last month.  It could deliver 50% of the vendors claims and they complained that we were too harsh in the testing environment.  (gee, welcome to real world testing) 

"I am curious as to why anyone informed about the next stages of comms (and it's mapped out to 2014 the last time I attended a briefing) would be rabbitting on about Gripen - when it's pretty clear by their request to participate in this tech development clearly impacts upon all their indigenous development. (There's a hint in there somewhere)

Beazz , I hear you loud and clear . I re-read what Phaid said and the problem is probably because english language is not my native language but I try my best when I 'm not in a hurry to respond ;-) (sorry)

Indeed , I misread him ( I do apologize Phaid and I mean it) .

Phaid said nothing about transmiting to legacy platforms , I acknowledge the fact .

 

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Phaid :

You are a troll bluewings, and worse, an idiot.

 

You show up here, confused about something you don't understand, and then try to start a flame war. 

 

If you hold to your typical pattern, once someone takes the time to educate you... you will start making up imaginary technology  and insisting that you are some kind of expert when you clearly don't know the first thing about the subject at hand.

 

Now, getting to the point of your troll post...

 

Just to reiterate, yes, what I said was that the F-22 has a shared tactical picture, composed of data exchanged (transmit and received) between F-22s via IFDL and received from other platforms via Link-16.

 

The fact that the F-22 can't transmit over the non-stealthy Link-16 is not news, and it is not an oversight.  It is also not nearly as much of a disadvantage as some would make it out to be.  From an Air Force article... about Northern Edge '06:

The F-22?s capabilities were highlighted during several air-to-air engagements that included facing an opposing force at a four-to-one disadvantage.

In each circumstance the F-22 teams - paired with joint-service jets such as F/A-18 Hornets, F-15C/E Eagles, E/A-6B Prowlers and E-2C Hawkeyes - were able to soundly defeat their enemies.

?Throughout the exercise we were able to see just how effective this jet can be at integrating with multiple joint assets for a number of different missions,? Col. Tolliver said.

?The Raptor?s success here is something that should be shared among all the services, because it means our entire force has capabilities that it didn?t have just a short time ago,? he said.

The F-22?s integrated avionics, stealth and supercruise ability were just some of the advantages that played into the exercise success.

?They were able to fly in threat rings using their stealth technology, opening up doors for us,? said Capt. Mullani. ?Their ability to ensure air dominance gave us the opportunity to operate freely.?

For our troll's benefit , there is something new called a NODE [SARCASM] where the F-22 can transmit IFDL what it sees and then receive other platform information "translated" into its IFDL that is configured to its "language". Can an F-22 talk directly to an F-15? No. Can it talk to an F-15 through a BACN say, or any joint air operations controller aircraft configured to talk via both  legacy data link and low probability of intercept telemetry systems aircraft as an intermediary?

 

Well yes it can. It is supposed to do that, so that it, the F-22 can continue to retain its LO characteristics.

 

Herald

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Please re-read what I said :

I said that the F-22 can be tracked and shot down and Leroy posted that very stupid answer :