Would be welcome news. Azerbaijan strengthening and modernizing their air force is good. Wish we could have our jets ready so we could sell to our allies as well. I see this as an opportunity to integrate these planes with our systems and more of our payloads as well. Interoperability of all 3...
Shortly: With technological advancements, the S band radars that were only previously meant for early warning against air breathing targets will now be used also for guidance of anti air missiles. Furthermore there will only be a single x band radar against surface targets. The radars will be...
But it is an AESA radar so you can allocate a fixed or dynamic ratio of modules for scan vs illumination and have an overall larger multi purpose radar than have multiple small ones. The rest is programming.
I mean AN SPY 1 is also S band and Arleigh Burke doesn't have big X-band radar, neither does Istif or FREMM( S or C), or Type45( L and S band) so why can't we do it without X band primary radar?