A materia abaixo eh de 2003 (press release Le Bourget 2003), porem apresenta uma curiosidade. O sistema de guerra eletronica do Mirage 2000-9, o IMEWS - Integrated Multimission Electronic Warfare System, desenvolvido pela Thales em conjunto com a italiana Elletronica eh tido por engenheiros franceses (vide abaixo) como um sistema mais preciso e rapido em certos aspectos que o Spectra do Rafale, permitindo que o -9 realize missoes de supressao de defesas.
UAE's Mirage 2000-9 Start to Arrive
http://aviationnow.com/shownews/03paris ... ft2_20.htm
Deliveries of the first of 30 Mirage 2000-9 multirole fighters for the United Arab Emirates has begun, with the first four aircraft arriving in the last few weeks. The rest will be delivered in groups of four every two or three months, according to SNECMA, which makes the aircraft's M53-P2 engine. The UAE plans to upgrade 33 older Mirage 2000s to the same configuration.
Now qualified for the 2000-9 is MICA IR, the infrared homing version of the MICA air-to-air missile, which is not due to be operational on French air force Mirage 2000-5Fs before 2005. According to French air force Mirage 2000-5 project officer Major Emmanuel Vialle, the missile has four modes: lock-on after launch, with or without a datalink; over-the-shoulder shot with a helmet-mounted display; and a mode in which the seeker is slaved to the fighter's radar before launch. MICA IR can engage targets flying below a cloud deck, and cab also be used in an air-surveillance mode, using its seeker as an infrared search-and-track system.
The Mirage 2000-9 also carries the Shehab infrared/laser navigation and targeting system (a UAE version of Damocles) and the Nahar navigation pod. Many key components-including the modular data processing unit (MDPU) mission computer-are drawn from the Rafale.
The Mirage 2000-9's integrated multimission electronic warfare system (IMEWS), developed by Thales and Elettronica, is characterized by French engineers as a targeting-capable system, with more precise and faster range measurement capabilities than the Rafale's Spectra, allowing the aircraft to perform defense-suppression missions.
France's 37 Mirage 2000-5Fs, which have been modified from older 2000Cs, are due to receive enhancements to allow them to engage targets beyond visual identification range. A MIDS Link 16 datalink should be integrated in 2006, along with the Thales AIDA visual identification pod comprising elements of the Rafale frontal-sector optronics system repackaged in the Damocles pod. This will give them the ability to declare a target as hostile using two independent means of identification.
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