Scenario: J-10A Vigorous Dragon engages Five French Rafales
J-10A carries four PL-12 AAMs (air-to-air missiles) that fly at Mach 4. (See
China vs. Japan Military Match-Ups)
A Chinese KJ-2000 AWACS registers the presence of five French Rafales on its AESA radar at over 200km away. There is a single J-10A Vigorous Dragon nearby. Carrying four PL-12 AAMs, the single J-10A engages the five French Rafales at 70km.
The J-10A is beyond the range of the French Rafales' 50km (or 60km) range MICA missiles. The J-10A calmly fires all four PL-12s and shoots down four French Rafales. The J-10A banks and flies towards the nearest Chinese air base. The lone surviving Rafale gives chase, but its slow 1,800+ km top speed means the J-10A is receding into the distance.
Another J-10A is tasked to intercept the fifth and lone surviving Rafale. The Rafale pilot quickly flees to avoid coming into the 70 to 100km range of the J-10A's PL-12 missile.
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China's PL-12D ramjet BVRAAM
China has its own Meteor program.
Chinese Military Aviation | China Air Force
"Several improved versions have been under development at 607 Institute, including PL-12B with improved guidance system, PL-12C with foldable tailfins for internal carriage by the 4th generation fighters (e.g. J-20) and
PL-12D with a belly air inlet and a ramjet motor for long range attack similar to PL-21 (see below)."
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China's KJ-2000 AWACS has a maximum range of 400km
China's KJ-2000 AWACS has a maximum range of 400km. In this thread, I have kindly said only "200km away." The actual KJ-2000 detection range is double that figure.
Kongjing-2000 (KJ-2000)
"The KJ-2000 is the latest Chinese early warning aircraft, comprised of domestically designed electronics and radar installed on a modified Ilyushin IL-76 airframe. The KJ-2000 system is based on the Russian A-50 airframe, and was said to use an indigenous phased array radar.
It was reported that the system can track 60-100 aerial targets simultaneously at 400km away."
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Armed Rafale probably has RCS of 2 to 3m2
Only a "clean" Rafale has a sub-unit sq. meter RCS and probably only from the frontal aspect (e.g. not side aspect).
A "dirty" armed Rafale with missiles, bombs, or drop tanks will have approximately 2 to 3m2 RCS.
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China builds more KJ-2000s and KJ-200s to ensure air battle advantage
New KJ-2000 AWACS with yellow primer
New Chinese KJ-2000 AWACS (NATO reporting name: Mainring)
Close-up of new KJ-2000 AWACS
KJ-2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Design
The current KJ-2000 AWACS in Chinese service is equipped with a domestic AESA (active electronically scanned array),[4] also known as active phased array, radar. The radar was designed by the Research Institute of Electronic Technology (also more commonly known as the 14th Institute) at Nanjing, and it utilizes the experience gained from the 14th Institute's earlier indigenously developed Type H/LJG-346 SAPARS (Shipborne Active Phased Array Radar System) that was completed in 1998. The same Type H/LJG-346 SAPARS was also the predecessor of the active phased array radar system equipping the PLAN Lanzhou class destroyers. The radar is arranged in the same way as that of the Beriev A-50I.[4]"
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This is at least the sixth KJ-2000 AWACS in the fleet.
Reference: "Five were estimated in service as of 2008." (see
http://china.usc.edu/App_Images/military conflict 2008.pdf).
[Note: Thank you to Greyboy2 for the pictures.]
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Chinese Y-8W / KJ-200 Balanced Beam AEW&C ~ Chinese Military Review
Chinese Y-8W / KJ-200 Balanced Beam AEW&C
New build Chinese Y-8W / KJ-200 Balanced Beam airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) undergoing pre-induction flight tests.