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Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem No such thing as 'Wahabism' brother. It was just one of the terms coined by the British to malign the Azadi movement in the sub-continent in the nineteenth century (when both our fore-fathers fought together). I have lived a long time in Saudi Arabia, never met a...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem. Was also ??? It's actually the fourth picture. The gentleman in the immediate foreground is looking at the horizontally-laid out munition second from the left.

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Right on, sir. Being able to compete alone is a major accomplishment. The Eurofighter Typhoon had no (export) takers for a long time and it was a fine air-superiority aircraft. The Rafale and Gripen were rejected by almost everybody in the 2000s and they were as...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Sorry no, my mother is Qureshi descended from Umar ibn Al Khattab (Razi Allah u Unhu). My patrilineal grandfathers were actually descended from Brahmin pundit-rajas and reverted to Islam at the hands of Aurangzeb (and were martyred for that). The Hilal is related...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem You were quite prescient about future developments, sir. I don't know but the $5 billion price tag of the current deal seems to point more towards the procurement of six customized 039B Yuan-class SSKs plus two 094 Jin-class SSBNs. However, it's probably just my...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem We know from scripture that she was wise, just, consulted the elders of her realm, and was loved by her people. This was the beauty bestowed upon her by the Divine After she accepted the Abrahamic religion and married our King and Messenger of Allah (Peace be upon...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem You do know that the F-16A had much greater range and combat persistence than the F-15A and was still better than the F-15C model after the F-15 was hastily re-designed to add a couple of thousand pounds of extra internal fuel over the A model. I cannot estimate...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem People who break the laws of a land they willingly come to, should face the consequences. Forging documents would have a more severe punishment rendered in most lands than just deportation and a little bit of "jail" time. Whenever the Afghan government bestows its...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Thanks for the video. Was looking for it for a while. To see the similarities with the JF-17 in design philosophy and radar development:

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem I have been working on an analysis of ferry and combat ranges for active fighter aircraft. The conclusion will seem to be that (except for a couple of outliers) these figures are mostly similar for most modern combat fighters/attack aircraft. Not surprising...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Was wondering what a 5kW laser could be used for. The following is from RheinMetall's website: "The systems supplier showcased this weapon’s capability in mid-October 2013 at the 4th high-energy laser live demonstration at the company’s own test center in...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Even the almost equatorial Rub al Khali can go to freezing point in the SUMMER nights and back up to 50 Celsius at noon. Tabuk has seen snow and the record there is -6 Celsius I believe. Hifz u kum Allah

What is your opinion on widely distributed arrays of VHF antennas (or other suitable long-wavelength antennae) to guesstimate a stealth aircraft's position with somewhat more precision (if possible) and guide salvoes of Infra-Red terminally guided missiles at the aircraft. Sorry if it's a...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Thank you, especially for the 1v1 part. Everyone forgets that it is just one small part of ACM training and trained for last-ditch scenarios when you have lost your wingmen and been forced to a merge. It is just the most glamorous and most easily understandable...

The Tejas has a decent fuel fraction. With three drop tanks it can go 3000 kilometers. The Su-30MKI also goes 3000 km on full fuel (carries all fuel internally, no external fuel). If the question was on payload, definitely the Sukhoi can carry four times the payload as far or farther. But with...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Not to go further off-topic (one last time) but to expound on what the brother said: The F-110-GE-129 engine used in the F-15E and F-16C, for example, is nominally rated in the 29,000 lbs. class Static (i.e., un-installed on a test bench) Thrust in Full...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Was wondering why we had Lightnings in the 70s with the large expanses of the Saudi deserts. They would be pretty useless except in Tabuk, Khamis Mushaiyt, and Dammam (and even then would be wiped out at Tabuk before actually being able to do much damage)...

Bismilah ir Rahman ar Raheem Thank you for the explanation. My charts above are quite old. With the advent of fighters such as the Su-35, F-22, F-35 that have large internal fuel fractions, this method is being changed now. Older-generation fighters are now being evaluated with drop tanks...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem I have found it is better to look at just the Ps:0 and Ps:800 (or Ps:1200 if available) lines for sustained and instantaneous capabilities. The Mirage 2000's chart above may look like it is peaking almost 4 deg/sec higher than the F-16's but the Ps:800 (and...

Bismillah ir Rahman ar Raheem Do you mean FMF (Foreign Military Funding). CSF is Coalition Support Funding, I believe. Thanks for stating what should be patently obvious to others by now. Hifz u kum Allah