In article , "Charles Talleyrand"
wrote:

"Harry Andreas" wrote in message
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If you want to build a modern fighter radar, then AESA is the only way
to go.

There's only 3 companies in the world with the expertise to do an AESA
radar.
2 of them are in the USA, and only one of them has AESA in production.


I'm pretty sure the Russians and the French would disagree with you.

I took the French into account.
The Russians...I'm not sure that what they're building is an AESA.
I could be wrong though.


For Canada to come up to speed with a purely domestic system
would take a minimum of 10 years.

Could you offer some justification for this estimate? I'd be interested
in any
reasoning you might offer.

I takes very specialized knowledge and facilities to build an AESA.
It's a fair bit different than a mechanically scanned array.
Someone with no base in building fighter radars would have to bring
a lot of engineers up to speed, while simultaneously building factories,
foundries,
and test facilities. That takes time.
Other than that I really can't comment on specifics.

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Harry Andreas
Engineering raconteur