Smarana Mitra
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Again, you are not understanding the problems of air to air fighting in the past. Just read about the various maneuvers being done in the past. It was not simple stright flight and shooting. Gnat's low range and small size was a major disadvantage and there is no question of comparing to F86.You are just being a stubborn.
Yes in the past jets would fly straight to border because their was no long range threat from BVR missiles or SAMs and did not have to perform evasive manover.
Even P-51 had longer range and more ammo then Gnat does that make it a better plane? No. Loitering for longer period is not going to do much when your opponent can climb and accelerate much faster to escape from chasing fighter and quickly change the position where Gnat is on Sabre's tail. But due to IAF's POOR training they were not able to use Gnat better performance to their advantage and PAF better pilots were able to turn the table because of their better tactics.
Sidewinders has a psychological impact where Indian fighters would be more careful and hence reduces efficiencyF-86 was the only fighter of 50s and 60s to carry more bullets where as its opponents in europe and USSR carried higher caliber guns with less bullets.
Both Mig-15 and even mig-17 carried only 200 bullets and if USSR saw this as a draw back then they would have added lower caliber gun with more ammo.
Sidewinder scored only few kills and did not contribute much in PAF air dominance in 65 war.
We are speaking of 60s which is the past.More bullets is a thing of the past, its higher caliber gun that is better.
This is the present. In modern times, guns are not major weapons but only used to strike down drones, aerostats and to threaten during escort. WVR shooting is minimal but a provision has to be made for it.ah sure, F-22 F-35 makers are stupid to even add a gun in such a expensive plane where every inch of space is worth millions of dollars! lol indiot
Most planes were not fast in 60s. The maximum speed rarely exceeded 1 Mach. So, it was effective then for the planes which existed back then.A fast maneuvering fighter could out maneuver Aim-9b very easily since it was made for shooting slow moving targets.
AIM9B had range of 5km and it burnt for more than 2 seconds, though it was not for long. Nevertheless, when the guns had maximum range of 2km (in most cases 1km as the gravitational pull and air resistance would skew the flight path), the sidewinders more than doubled the range. This is very important in air-air combatAim-9b could only engage targets less then 4 km distance because its motor burnt for only 2 seconds and and after that it was just a flying brick.
I don't know. Even the data of how many planes of each side was lost is difficult to find out due to varying claimsHow many indian aircraft were shot down by sidewinders in 1965?
Why do you think other countries can't do that? What is so special about USA which others can't do?F-35's ACE in WVR combat situations is its cutting-edge EO/IR sensor suite (EOTS + DAS) which is electronically fused with the powerful AN/APG-81 radar system; this revolutionary architecture enables the pilot to have a 360 degree view of all types of threats throughout the duration of the mission as well as automatically producing a weapons-grade lock on each visible threat type. The pilot just has to select a threat type and press the button and watch an AIM-9X or an AIM-120D do the dancing with an opposing aircraft on a moment's notice. Must be fun to watch...
Russia has current account surplus and is fully capable of funding as much as it needs. USA just has bloated economy due to petrodollars but that does not mean Russia does not have funds. Russia has enough funds and there is no dearth of investment in R&D. Don't simply take USD as the base as it is bloated.Excuse me.
1. Americans are not sitting idle.
2. Russia have shortage of funds.
3. USA is able to invest far more in R&D programs and have world class education centers for all fields of study. Russia does not compare.
Russian defense applications are not necessarily in response to American defense applications. Su-57 is not an answer to F-22A - both are vastly different aircraft shaped by distinct thought processes behind them. Refer back to revelations in the Russian patent above.
This assumption that Russia is able to field an American-equavilent in each case in spite of significantly lacking in funds and/or investments in relevant R&D programs, is utter folly.
Japan is a vassal state of USA. The Japanese AESA was actually USA made and fitted on Japanese plane.Point was/is that USA left Russia in the dust, in the aspect of developing AESA radar technologies and applications.
Russia is really late in equpping one of its combat aircraft with a credible AESA radar system whereas USA continues to develop more powerful and advanced AESA applications over time - USA is the first country to develop and use (GaN)-based AESA systems. Russia is unable to keep up with American advances because American semiconductor industry is miles ahead of Russian, and this dynamic won't shift anytime soon.
That is like Russia finally figured out how to develop a capable sedan while USA is rolling out supercars in large numbers.
If history lessons are of significance in this debate then Japan was the first country to achieve breakthrough in AESA radar applications, back in the 1980s.
USA semiconductor is ahead of Russia but strategic semiconductor is not. Strategic semiconductor technology uses only 90nm+ nodes as the latest ones are too fragile to handle fluctuations and external temperature and voltage variations. Russia has 90nm nodes and it works well for its strategic needs. As I have mentioned before, the semiconductor advancement of recent 15 years have only been in civilian era and can't be used in military areas due to unreliability of smaller nodes in high operational stress conditions.
Russia was never interested in sedans as it is a utility based economy, not overconsuming economy like USA. Russia always focuses its energy on strategic technology instead of consumer goods.
India started UTTAM radar in 2008. It is undergoing testing in business and civilian jets since 2019. The hardware is already complete and the software is now being tweaked using test data. It is expected to be tested for 2-3 years. It will be ready in 2022, about 14-15 years from project start date.Are you alluding to Uttam AESA? Work on Uttam AESA started in 2008, right?
Well, 11 years have passed and counting.
India does have the luxury to receive much technical input from Russia and Israel. So best of luck.