good news indeed

Really? and what happens?

If you put the same numbers then you obviously have no need for AESA, don’t you think? If such a major and expensive upgrade is only effective if equal numbers are on both sides, then you obviously are missing the point why AESA was developed (and so much money was spent)

AESA is constructed to deal with MULTIPLE targets by diving the reflector beam energy into separate transmitters… If a bunch of AESAed fighters only can master the adequate number on the other side then it’s just an expensive piece of junk..

So because a radar can see multiple targets by extension the aircraft should be able to bounce around the sky’s and be able to reach all incoming?

WHAT ???

come on guys be serious here

Will people actually think before getting into nationalist fervour and bang on about they learnt this and that and its not about the F/A-22 etc etc etc..

Read what ive written in reply to what the government official said to the newspaper or what ever it was, its clear he was trying to push better equipment along with the training, ive said that already.

The Sky is not small, even during a very old red flag which ive mentioned here lots of times before, the RAF got through with tornado’s and won against the US purely because even with AWACS the Americans had they could NOT get everywhere at once.

now repeat after me

AESA is a RADAR NOT GOD!
AESA is a RADAR NOT GOD!
AESA is a RADAR NOT GOD!

I am not denying that they both learnt lessons what i am saying is STOP THE CHEST BEATING.

oooh Total war new one? swweeeeettt!!! still like the very first one!

any heads up on what the CIV clan are doing ???

PLA most excellent picture .. love the serene nature of the background contrasting against the green military colours of the helo.

“We have started drawing (designing) the next generation Light Combat Aircraft, which we call as Medium Combat Aircraft (MCA). We are in a dialogue with the users (IAF) to find out their design specifications,” Scientific Adviser to the Defence Minister and DRDO Director General V K Aatre told reporters in Bangalore on Friday.

Next gen LCA still emphasis on LCA so no large internal bays ALA YF-23 or Mig 1.44 !

Guys please lets not forget it is Still India and we do have a limit on expenditure. who knows where the monsoons could lead us.

I find this a bit strange..

What the hell is the AESA for if it gets beaten 90 per cent of the time by a MiG-21 with Kopyo and Su-30 with N001V Cassegrain?

Superior numbers ! this is all well any fine i mean the report that is, but put about equal numbers of aircraft against each other and see what happens.

jaguar on Steroids ??

Yes, but without the additional stress of those wingtip railes. We all know that torque is the nastiest stress. In the end we all speak about the same problem: to make the wing strong enough for these railes you have to design oversized structural elements. And as aerodynamics limit your possibilities you can’t design those structural elements optimal, which means even more material if you don’t want to change the wing’s thickness. Ergo, it is heavy and provides not much room for fuel.

Rails??? do you seriously believe that wingtip rails would provide more aerodynamic force then the wing itself ??

If the problems are similar to those of conventionaly swept wings then the rails would actually help evleviate some of the prblems of wing tip bleed.

compared to the wing area and torques generated by it the rails do nothing.

I have already pointed out the fuel capacity issue why restate it?