Recent content by tphuang

time-tested and battle proven = OLD E-3 can't detect J-20s adequately. This is from Pacific Air Force chief. What more do you need to know? https://www.flightglobal.com/defence/e-3-insufficient-for-timely-detection-of-j-20-pacific-air-forces-chief/147939.article USAF is retiring half of its...

this is confirms by Patch. Deino, you have to stop underestimating Chinese engines. The reason why they have been so slow with WS-15 is because WS-10C has already reached the original designed specs for WS-15.

all the E-3 versions. They are just not very good. The E-2Ds can track things much further out. don't think about things from 1 to 1 point of view but rather from a system point of view. J-10Cs would not be countering F-35s by themselves but also with all the other sensors in service with...

they are not obsolete but there needs to be increasingly more advanced escorts to protect them. The best way to protect carriers is actually to not allow them to be found. But unfortunately, China has so many ISR satellites (260 based on the recent DoD report) that they can detect any carrier...

well, there is nothing about FC-31 that's so secretive. The only issue is that J-35 is not in service yet, so you'd have to wait a few years.

no idea how accurate it is, but has anyone heard about FC-31 to Egypt? I thought they were looking at J-10. https://www.tacticalreport.com/news/article/61145-egypt-sac-fc-31-procurement-and-tot-deal

F-22 has all aspect stealth. F-35 is really only VLO in front sector. Both F-35A and J-20 joined service at around the same time (2016 vs 2018), so they are quite comparable. The current production rate is about the same. It's not China's fault that F-35A took this long to get developed. In...

Yes, he would be a guy with access to these data (he is American fwiw). If you look at PLAAF, they don't really put J-10C in front line anymore. But that's purely due to range. I would be absolutely comfortable have J-10Cs along with KJ-500s defending Chinese air space against F-35s. For the...

no, I said there was a major upgrade from J-10A to J-10B. J-10B to J-10C changes were minor. J-10A itself can still be upgraded to have AESA radar, but the effect will be similar to the upgrade that USAF is planning for block 40/50 F-16s.

why can't J-10B not be upgraded to C? What's your proof for that? I can't control PAF if they want to make dumb decisions, but F-16V wouldn't do well against J-10C. If I was PAF, I'd ask China if I can get some used J-10A with avionics upgrade for low cost. A lot of them are headed to early...

track, whatever you want to call it. I don't quite recall his exact phrasing here, but basically you don't want to use E-3C to find J-10C. wrt F-16V, remember that J-10A to J-10B went through a huge redesign of interior in order to accommodate a new avionics architecture, data bus, heat...

you should ask the Saudis. They invested big money in this thing with local production line and transfer of technology.

my contact (and I won't divulge further background here) says that USAF E-3C has trouble locking on to PLAAF J-10Cs. It has really good emission control and EW suite. He also said that even with F-16V, its bus speed, subsystem integration and EW suite makes it way less competitive than J-10C.

On J-35, they very recently said the project has 3 variants. Most people guessed it's going to be naval, land and export. The land and export version should be quite similar. They will probably purchase at least 500 naval variant units. But this point, my assumption is that the Saudis are...

Keep in mind that J-10C is considered by US military to be almost LO, but that also has to be put in the context where China has a whole variety of EW assets flying around. PAF can achieve similar level of LO only if it buys some EW aircraft from China. I see that as more important than more...