{"id":198078,"date":"2007-12-17T17:49:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/17\/gripen-upgraded-engine-cheaper\/"},"modified":"2007-12-17T17:49:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-17T22:49:00","slug":"gripen-upgraded-engine-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2007\/12\/17\/gripen-upgraded-engine-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Gripen Upgraded Engine Cheaper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that in addition to providing 20+% more thrust, the F-414 has about the same air flow requirements, meaning no major redesign of the inlets, and it is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Adf6022a1-6b56-4e57-8aa8-1a63b45dc889\">actually cheaper than the F-404 derived RM12 that it replaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, the AESA that they are looking at installing is angled:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sitelife.aviationweek.com\/ver1.0\/Content\/images\/store\/11\/8\/7b57c464-13dd-4f05-a895-ea62e5b21e90.Large.jpg\" \/><br \/>Which could give lower radar cross section, and possibly better azimuth performance if the antenna rotates.<\/p>\n<p>What is really amazing is that they expect the proof of concept demonstrator to fly next year.<\/p>\n<p>To the degree that there is a Mirage III type success of this generation of aircraft, I think that it will be the Gripen, though purchases of the previous generation (or half generation depending on how you count) F-16s may still dominate the market because of the relatively low cost.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It turns out that in addition to providing 20+% more thrust, the F-414 has about the same air flow requirements, meaning no major redesign of the inlets, and it is actually cheaper than the F-404 derived RM12 that it replaces. Of note, the AESA that they are looking at installing is angled:Which could give lower &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}