There are a few aspects to consider with eurofighter deal.
1. MMU has still a good while to start making deliveries. If first deliveries are made about 2030 it will still take a couple years to deliver initial batch. Then I imagine there would be some time before the next block starts serial...
Might make more sense for UCAV where you have no pilot and need to process more data before transmitting. Could be used to run a more complex AI model as well.
In robotics you have layered architectures where longer more complex planning tasks are run in parallel while system is continuing...
I was baffled at first, but this makes some sense. Istif have 16 vls each. They were supposed to be equipped with quad packed essm. Now we are going to use Siper and Hisar-D but these won't be quadpacked at the moment. So from 256 ESSM missiles we have gone down to 64 total for 4 ships, even if...
