You want to know why you catch so much merde, BW?  It's your damn attitude.  You're all about bonhommie and charm, but only if the poster agrees with you 100%.  If they don't, well, they're complete morons not to be paid attention to.

 

So when GF-Aust comes on here and posts some of the very graphs, ideas, and links you claim to be the only one here to do (which is complete BS; even I post links now and then), you throw him in the same bag as Hamlicar simply because he disagrees with you.  And that's been pretty much your modus operandi since the first day you came to SP--if we agree with you, you're our best friend, but if we disagree with you, we're horrible ignorant anti-French poseurs.  You simply cannot accept the fact that you might be wrong about something, especially if it's your favorite aircraft.  (I love the A-4, but you don't see me on here claiming it was the best aircraft of the Vietnam War.) 

 

This "anti-French bias" you claim to see everywhere is nothing but a crutch.  The Rafale isn't selling? Must be an American plot.  God forbid it would be the fact that the Rafale might not be what everyone wants or that it's in a glutted fighter market.  It's an American plot because Dassault is perfect and has never turned out a dog or rushed a design into production. 

 

Or maybe it's perfect because it's French.  Someday you people will get over Waterloo, and I wish that day would come soon.

 

BW, I regard you as an intelligent human being.  I don't often post in these threads because I get lost very quickly in radar design, ranges, and anything to do with math.  I don't try and pretend I'm an expert at this stuff, because I'm not.  I think you would get a lot more people listening to you if you quit acting like a spanked child every time someone disagrees with you on something.

 

Because it isn't. 
Hate the French conspiracy.

 

 No, it's more like we're tired of having you squirm around and morph every discussion through two or three other topics.  Now you've mutated this one into something (and I'm not sure just exactly what) about a French PCL radar and a French HF radar.  What's the point, and what are we supposed to be discussing about them--in particular, that we haven't already discussed previously?  We've (including *you*) discussed HA-100 and other systems like it *thoroughly* here on SP already.  I'm not sure that anyone really talked much about RIAS here before, but it is not a new system.  As I recall off-hand, that radar is not operational as part of the French air defense network, but was built many years ago for research and testing of OTH radar--but maybe I'm wrong about that.  Neither of them is something of any special interest to me, nor I would guess, to anyone else here.  But then, pretty much *nothing* about the French air defense network is of interest to me, because I am not particularly interested in the air defense networks of our allies.  Now, if you were to report to us that Thales is trying to export some HA-100 systems to a country that we might actually have to go bomb someday, *then* I'd be interested to hear any other new details you might have read, or heard from one of your two friends.

 

Although, I do admit I still would not mind hearing how many HA-100 are in operation with the French military.  If you can tell me anything about where they are, what units use them, where they deploy to during an alert, what communications systems they use to pass data into the French air surveillance network, maybe some details about the externals and internals of the datalink signal used to pass tracking and amplifying data, which commercial transmitters they currently rely on, how quickly can they switch over to synchronizing with alternate transmitters to maintain their air surveillance picture in case their primary transmitters happen to, ahem, go off the air for some reason, whether they have their own transmitters useable in case all the nearby commercial transmitters go off the air, etc., that would be somewhat interesting, as well.

Ok Gentlemen , it is my own fault if I get some slack , if it is what you want me to say .

Just a question : do I have to agree that everything the USA do is the best there is ? Just asking ...

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Cheers .

i'm not anti french, thales is one of aussies bigger suppliers, i just dont like the way you act

JJ :

Hamilcar , your post makes very little sense .

When I read in between the lines , you know that I am right and you only try to escape .

Don 't bother , it is not important as we are on the Net ...

 

Cheers .

It's probably a combination of that (a bluff) and willing himself into believing anything he doesn't understand is not related to aviation and relevant and thus must be an attempt to escape.

I cannot fathom the sadness of such a mind.