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Astra MKII have good chance to get into FGFA which in range wise should equal to Meteor since it will be using Ramjet.
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When will Russia begin with the weapons test with T-50? Wold be interesting to see the weapons they are using for PAK-FA.
No. 54 would be used to test weapons-
Astra MKII have good chance to get into FGFA which in range wise should equal to Meteor since it will be using Ramjet.
Only radar and only if the seeking radar is looking at the 'stealth' fighter. If the 'stealth' fighter is in a tail chase situation, he can fly with external stores and his adversary would not know about him.We should get MK1 ready and mature first and design it with folding wings to integrate it into the weapon bays, before thinking about an MK2. Besides that the Ramjet is not the key for range, but for speed and a larger no escape zone, but as I explained earlier, this is only important for non stealth fighters!
A stealth fighter can close in to a nost stealth fighter below 100Km without beeing detected, but the minute it opens the weaponbay and launches a missile, it can be detected by radar or EW sensors. So why should you expose yourself at long range, only because your missile has a range of 100Km+, when you can savely get closer and give the opponent less reaction time?
That's why I said, that for a stealth fighter MICA might be the better missile than METEOR, although for Rafale it would be the other way around.
We should get MK1 ready and mature first and design it with folding wings to integrate it into the weapon bays, before thinking about an MK2. Besides that the Ramjet is not the key for range, but for speed and a larger no escape zone, but as I explained earlier, this is only important for non stealth fighters!
A stealth fighter can close in to a nost stealth fighter below 100Km without beeing detected, but the minute it opens the weaponbay and launches a missile, it can be detected by radar or EW sensors. So why should you expose yourself at long range, only because your missile has a range of 100Km+, when you can savely get closer and give the opponent less reaction time?
That's why I said, that for a stealth fighter MICA might be the better missile than METEOR, although for Rafale it would be the other way around.
Only radar and only if the seeking radar is looking at the 'stealth' fighter. If the 'stealth' fighter is in a tail chase situation, he can fly with external stores and his adversary would not know about him.
We should get MK1 ready and mature first and design it with folding wings to integrate it into the weapon bays, before thinking about an MK2. Besides that the Ramjet is not the key for range, but for speed and a larger no escape zone, but as I explained earlier, this is only important for non stealth fighters!
A stealth fighter can close in to a nost stealth fighter below 100Km without beeing detected, but the minute it opens the weaponbay and launches a missile, it can be detected by radar or EW sensors. So why should you expose yourself at long range, only because your missile has a range of 100Km+, when you can savely get closer and give the opponent less reaction time?
That's why I said, that for a stealth fighter MICA might be the better missile than METEOR, although for Rafale it would be the other way around.
If and even then, it is dubious because weapons bay doors do not stay open for long. Further, when popular media articles make the claim that an opened weapons bay door will reveal the 'stealth' aircraft, they do not mention the fact that the best such view is when the radar is looking STRAIGHT at the opened bay, but the reality is that a weapons bay on the other side of the aircraft is the one that opens.But jets whose radars have rear hemispheric coverage can detect jets at the hind, can't they? At least
at 50km range.
Weapons bay door opening do not create IR emissions.EO-DAS or the EO-DASski on PAKFA can detect heat signatures at rear as well.
Any time frame from which this begins?
It would start soon and this year... once the aircraft completes initial testing and sensor testing etc.
Only radar and only if the seeking radar is looking at the 'stealth' fighter. If the 'stealth' fighter is in a tail chase situation, he can fly with external stores and his adversary would not know about him.
if both fighters approach head on, then 4th gen fighter can use it's IRST, FSO etc to detect the stealth fighter right ?
if it's tail chase what advantage has a stealth fighter compared to non stealth fighter ? (talking about 4gen fighter which has no rear looking radar ).
even for ramjet version of bvr missiles nez will be 80km -100km head on right ?at that ranges both party will be alerted that enemy is out there ?
1)Do you think No Escape zone and range of the missile (read ramjet propelled) has no relation?
With 5th gen planes employing a particular weapons bay configuration, I think it would be harder to use foreign weapons unless the bay configuration allows that. May be a universal weapons bay is the answer if India is considering using French weapons. Russians would not want that.
Only radar and only if the seeking radar is looking at the 'stealth' fighter. If the 'stealth' fighter is in a tail chase situation, he can fly with external stores and his adversary would not know about him.