To what extent? And what makes you think that a Su-35 fielding force is not willing to put up with that RCS issue for the advantage that having a huge 1 mtr dia aperture dome brings you, and that too with a movable field of regard radar today, which the Gripen NG will field tomorrow.
The NG armed for Aircombat with Meteors will be far stealthier than any Su 27/35 out there unless they invent some sort of magic paint. This I believe would lead to the flanker being detected earlier.
Other fighters can stay silent, datalinked and soak up that data. Every bit as effective as what the Gripen claims.
Sure but staying silent they will still be picked up by the NG’s Radars won’t they and if anything the NG appears to have a better datalink/ better MMI and sensor fusion. This is the advantage all Eurocanards possess over legacy airframes like F 15/Su 35 etc.
As matter of fact the Su-35 is the one aircraft out there, with an already gimballed ESA as versus the in developed gimballed Raven, still in trials. And judging by NIIPs experience with PESAs & the upgrade path clearly established with the PAK FA, there is nothing to say it does not have excellent performance already, matching or exceeding what the Raven may bring and won’t go further up that path either to an AESA which will boost its performance even more.
I am not going to give much importance to the in-development status becuase the video was the Gripen NG vs Su 35 not the C/D vs Su 35, so it having the Gimballed AESA is a given. And being an Active radar it will have its advantages and because its a far stealthier platform it needn’t worry that much about the Su 35s more powerful array.
Today, the USAF is finding out that its AESA equipped F-15s can effectively complement its limited number of F-22s, do think about why they are not just putting in larger numbers of upgraded F-16s instead!!
I can think of many reasons. They are trying to accompany a long range fighter the F 22 and the F 15 has more range than the F 16. The F 16s being cheaper to operate are mostly worn out and does not make sense to upgrade them. And the Bigger radar on the F 15 can complement the LO F 22, which can stay silent and attack.
But from here on in your logic is utterly flawed. The F 15 – F 22 combo works because the F 22 is a LO platform. Which means it can stay near invisible to the enemy’s radar and EW suite as long as it is not emitting, so the enemy sees only the F 15 and would not know what hit him (atleast in theory). But We are talking about Su 35 here not the T 50, even the non-emitting Su 35s will be perfectly visible on the opponents radar because of its huge RCS.
And RCS itself – Russia has a long history of RCS reduction programs, has a stealth program in development, enough EW houses now exist to provide you state of the art AESA equipped high ERP jammers to couple with your own specialized algorithms, so as to break the last mile of the kill chain & the weakest link, the RF part. Hardly such a big deal as you make it out to be.
Oh Blah, applying low RCS coating small MIG 21s is hardly breakthrough tech. On the jamming part I doubt it would be superior to what you get on the NG. And close in the Gripen has better HMS and better HOBS missiles.
As it stands the only real advantage is the Meteor, and the RVV-BD may limit that advantage to some extent, besides which MBDA offers the Meteor to anybody willing to meet them halfway in terms of integration.
I doubt we will see a Ramjet powered Russian AAM in the near future. As for the Meteor integration onto other platforms, that is not really an argument or an option but for a select few countries like India who are in friendly terms with both Russia and the West and have the money to do it. Even then it won’t make much sense and I don’t think we will ever see it. In the open market for the majority of customers Meteor on Su 35 is not an option.
And who says its brute force. That is your inability to come up with any details of how the Su-35 is anyway a brute compared to the Gripen NG and not an equally sophisticated platform in its own right, which can be exploited to win air wars as well.
Su 35 is a very capable platform regardless, it however is not as sophisticated as any of the Euro Canards or the American fifth gens.
You are a just a big Flanker fanboy because the IAF uses it and that is about it.
Sweden hardly had anything to offer India geo politically and that is the main reason why the Gripen lost MRCA.
Which is what the Flanker, F-15s are, for the fighter world. Just ask any Viper jock about the Eagle.
From what I know close in the Eagle almost always lost to the Viper.
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