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Gambit, when you're not busy trolling you're highly informative. I was not looking for a lecture on how minutae of radar operation can prevent weapons locks, but this is very interesting and something one appreciates being made aware of. One criticism I would like to make is that when I speak...

The one special possibility is that the J-11Bs catch the F-22 off its central RCS reduction zone. That is relatively unlikely, as the F-22 is considered to have decent side-stealth, but off the centerline the F-22's RCS is likely to increase to -30 dbsm. It would extend range to around 80 km...

The assumption is that the Chinese have AESA technology comparable to that of older versions of the F-22. Using the same technology, and scaling it up to the aperture size of the Flanker (the F-22 has an aperture around 900mm, the F-15 and Flankers have an aperture size of about 1000mm), you...

I'm surprised that Gambit didn't pick it up, but the F-22 has a minimum RCS of .0001m^2. It means that an AESA with 250km range versus .1m^2 RCS has about 45 km of range against the F-22 at its minimum RCS. This is because detection range scales with the fourth root of RCS; instead of linearly...