The EODAS provides the best IR coverage and IR awareness a Fighter can have nowadays . It really is top notch .

 

The idea behind the concept is not brilliant because obvious , but as long as you have the funding and the technology to make it real , it is brilliant . The amazing stuff is not really to fit excellent IR systems all around the airframe (which is already a very nice piece of work) but to archive what seems to be a very good sensor fusion with other sensors and a nice MMI . I wish that our Rafale would have this stuff :-)

Now , the video is talking about "strange" things ;-) like using the EODAS and sensor fusion in between aircraft to make a possible "collision" . This is a hidden but clear way to talk about trigonometry to direct a missile onto a moving point .

Since it is an official video (and a nice piece of advertizing) and it can most probably be trusted , I take the occasion to remind some people that when French posters like myself talked a long time ago about 2 Rafales sharing OSF and Spectra datas to get a passive firing solution on a target by using (sharing) trigonometry , we have been called liars .

The F-35 seems to use the same approach , strange isn 't it ... (Now , imagine the F-22 with a similar capability but is hasn 't because it is a 5th gen airframe and radar with 4th gen avionics)

 

Cheers .

 

What are you talking about.  The only part I saw that had anything to do with collisions was the part where it showed that each of the F-35 pilots could potentially see a Predator UAS in their flightpath ahead of them early enough to each make an evasive maneuver to avoid it.  The video did not show anything about sharing any data to triangulate the track of the Predator.