I do not believe the (1800) range but it is indeed pretty amazing and passive. The concept is probably background noise and the receivers are maybe comparable with those GSM antenna's you all see...
I agree that it has 4 stations under the fuselage but none able to carry BVR. The frontal are probably going to be used by targetting and IR pods. The back ones are not capable of holding any BVR size weapon without obstructing gear bay doors or ground clearance.
If you could use them efficiently then there is indeed just two difference but you do not look at the numbers but the usage. If you have no decent BVR stations then you are bound to use your wingstations for that. Two of those wingstations are to be fueltanks. And those body stations can only...
The j10b is a nice plane but one shortcoming is extremely problem. If you look at the counterparts in the iaf mrca program then i have to conclude that the design is not good enough. Both the Rafale as Eurofighter have belly stationd for three or four bvr's. They both better utilized...
It amazes me that people start making comment about 150 MKI using their superior radar and launch BVR from 90 km's away. These people have truly no idea what they say and their motivation is nationalism and nothing else. Let me try to explain little bits...
If you track an enemy then its radar...
Cardesh, I like them very much. The problem for pakistan is the number (huge army) and the related costs. Pakistan has already H&K background so it should be able to make some. Maybe together with Turkye. And the rifles are not the major issue cause it has already multiple and even modern...
This forum is probably the cheapest and easiest to promote Indian propaganda. Pakistan pushes terrorists over the border? It is India that terrorizes millions of Kashmiri and does not obey UN. I do not mind Indians. They are the same as Pakistani, yet I do not think we should start using...
There is a point that some forget if they see all the weapons. Not all weapons are used or released. If you know that Egyptian F16 have never received BVR (and many other goodies) then you might see the reality of the picture.
Turkey is good. They are our brothers and we can learn a lot from them. If Turkey doesn't buy Pakistani goods then it is because we have to improve them. Not because it is Pakistani. And Turkey is far ahead in developments.
I think you pretty much said the truth. While China is still being ignored and banned by western economies (because it has or will beat them) it is forced to go its own way. We know the dual use boycot... It has to build copies and then evolve with real Chinese products. See the change in...
Exactly. If you know exactly how the radar onboard works... You just make it go crazy. Without eyes the missile is a dumb thing. Even if you do not made the missile you just get the signal and react realtime with garbage. That is where ECM, ECCM and DRFM comes... It can read the signals, and...
The next gen does have MAWS. Not extremely profitable but atleast you know where something came from. The newer gen will have laser system to counter IR attacks. But I agree that getting into WVR is no-no. The US netcentric warfare is opposing that. But what if two equal nations fight a2a. That...
I do not see any value for dual A5 if the Flanker series can do anything a lot better... I think China hopes to get export orders from nations that cannot afford Flankers but the reality is that those nations are going for a few Flankers rather then squadrons of other types.
If you knew the effect of speed related to puling G's then you might understand that even a very agile missile can miss target in certain situations. Surely the kill zone is very big, it still is not 100% sure and there are CM to get the missile exploded before it hits target. Can't talk about...
I think we need to understand that Chengdu is extremely busy place with J10 and JF17 production. They are busy with development of J20 and J10B. So just adding big numbers of planes is not easy task. But we know the Chinese have no real issue with training fast big numbers of engineers. I think...
Everyone knows that Egypt has been bribed and paid for not being offensive in any way to Israel. It is laughable that one gets big numbers of AMRAAM capable f16's but no AMRAAM. But if that is strange then what about Saudi oil being pumped into US tankers and then floated direct to Israel and...