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Doesn't look fast forwarded at all, especially when you see it several times. Also, fast forwading can't alter the fact that the turn was done in a really short amount of space. When the indigenous WS-10 engine variant with Thrust Vector is inducted, it will become even more agile. :yahoo:

Don't know if this vid has been posted before, but check out the turning ability between 1:05 and 1:13. That is a tight turn.

LOL - That last link says that the head on range is 150km. That's the most over-exaggerated figure I've seen yet. Again, that 100km claim is debatable. I've seen maximum ranges of 80km (warefare.ru, sinodefence), 90km (wikipedia, link) or even 100km claimed. Even if the MKI pilot fired...

Which source? The lattice fins are advantageous only at high supersonic speed because less energy is lost whilst manoeuvering. At speeds of mach 1 and lower they lose more energy while manoeuvering - The consequnce of this is that it decreases the effective range. Okay, suppose that MKI...

The JF-17 has 7 hardpoints - so why only carry 2 BVR's??? You must be thinking about the fire-control radar only being able to engage 2 targets. I seen many different figures for the performance specs of these missles on the internet that I don't know which to believe. One site...

I was just replying to the original comment someone made about the F-15 being "far superior" to any of its competitors, when clearly there are fighters out there that (on paper at least) can match or even exceed the F-15 in performance. But your right about one thing, experience counts...

After the Redflag exercises, there's a video of a USAF officer giving a briefing where he even states that the MKI has better radar, more thrust, vectored thrust, longer ranged weapons and is slightly better than F-15. Russia already has a more advanced plane than MKI, Su-35 - so where do you...

Why do you guys say: Ideally: Plane X Realistically: J-10B Do you guys think J-10B is NOT comparable to fighters like Rafale and Super Hornet? Chinese seem to think highly of J-10B.

Agreed. Using an aircraft carrier to go after pirates is like to cracking a nut with a sledge hammer.

The airframe has been improved over the Su-27 by reducing RCS and use of composites to reduce weight. The engines, although currently using russian AL-31, will be replaced by WS-10 or WS-15.

Super-10 IS J-10B, not J-10C. J-10C was supposed to be a naval variant to be used on China's aircraft carriers, but I think they might choose to use modified Su-33 instead.

I read somewhere on a different site (Ausairpower) that Sukhoi claimed the RCS of the PAKFA is 1/40 of the SU-35. I don't know exactly what the RCS of SU-35 is but I've seen estimates of between 1m2 and 3m2 agreed? So work it out yourself. 1/40 would put it between 0.15m2 and 0.47m2 (or...

Nobody doubts that the F-22 is the most advanced AC in the world and there are strategies designed at trying to combat it. What I'm trying to point out is that these strategies, as ineffective as they may be against the Raptor, will have a higher chance of countering a lesser stealth aircraft...

Nope, I'm not confused. An F-16 has scored a kill against a raptor - the excuse that the USAF gives is that this was due to an F-16 regenrating during the excercise, but you have to wonder..... I'm aware of the E/A-18 Growler scoring a missile kill against the raptor by using heavy jamming...

Low frequency radar and AWACS could be used to track the general location of the F-22 and direct say 15 MKI's towards that general direction. The MKI's could then use infrared to engage the F-22. 99:1 is just rubbish. An F-16 scored a kill against an F-22 in a red flag excercise. A...

India won't be getting 500 5th Gen planes, more like 200. Russia will start inducting PAKFA between 2013 and 2015, with mass production about two years after. India will start inducting FGFA around 2018, but who knows how long it will take to reach full production. China is due to test...

The PAKFA will not be the game changer that most indians seem to think it will be. It will be a L.O aircraft but probably not true stealth (like the F-22 or F-35) - most estimates around on the internet put the frontal RCS at 0.5m2, compare this to current 4.5 Generation A.C's that have...