No one knows the RCS of F-22. LM cannot be trusted with their word. 🙂

Chinese boffins know exactly how it works though. ‘Eeeesh, even I know that!

Gracias. It is AESA. All AESAs work the same way, no matter where in the world. There are small differences but are mostly negligible. Just as Toyota and Honda engines are not exactly the same, but work in the same way and have very similar performance.

So what you’re saying is, both AESAs of the F-16 and J-10B are basically the same, the J-10B’s isn’t superior?

Who’d thought waiting for a flight could be so amusing!

Numbers alone do not determine the winner of a battle. Take the Battle of Britain, where numerically inferior British planes beat off numerically superior German planes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Britain

Pretty much gave up on this forum, but had to comment this. But well, well, well… Not only do you not know anything, about anything, you know sod all about the history of the Battle of Britain, even worse, you provided a Wikipedia link which is rather vague to say the least anyway.

What else is rather laughable, albeit pathetic at the same time, you determine that numbers alone do not determine the winner of the battle, yet you boast about how China cannot be defeated (both before and after this post) because they have a larger population.

Priceless! You know that rule in China where parents can’t have no more than two children… What on earth went wrong with you…

Not to mention each J-10B can simultaneously engage up to 4 or 6 enemy planes.

Wow, something other, both still in service and many that have been retired, fighters can do.

Well, as I always thought, the F-15 (or F-35) was always going to “win”. Regardless of what I personally think, the F-15 is a rather credible choice and why shouldn’t it be chosen? See Toan’s points above. (Although, he’s missed out on quite a bit and pointed some things which are very passive and ignored).

The Typhoon would have also been a rather credible choice for South Korea and would have complimented their air force or specifically the F-15 fleet significantly, see Saudi Arabia. But what let the Typhoon down isn’t the current brass in charge, as the aircraft is coming along very well right now with a lot of support where it needs it despite the lack of coverage, it’s the past that has damaged it’s credibility, or more like the people that attempted to sell it back then, very poorly at that.

If you want to describe the design of F-15SE today as “something that hasn’t flown / been proven yet”, then I think you should also describe the Tranche 3 Typhoon design for the ROK Airforce’s requirement in the same way.

I’m quite surprised you said that, of all people. The not so silent “Silent Eagle” is a variant. The Tranche 3 is a production unit. That’s also something the DAPA also failed to grasp.

Actually, this story really looks like the story published in EF World, about Typhoon pilots claiming that Rafale were unable to spot Typhoon flying higher.
Rafale pilots said otherwise.

“Actually”, that DACT encounter indicated it was about aircraft performance, not anything regarding radar & what have you. Hence why the Italian pilot stated: “They are still trying to find where we were as we were flying and shooting at them well above the maximum flying envelope allowed to the Rafale!”

Given that it’s rather well known Typhoon performs better at higher altitudes than it does lower down, fighting at their advantages, it’s no surprise they had the upper hand. Of course, lower down it would be a different story – I’d put money on either if the Typhoon didn’t have HEA – but the claim by the Dassault rep regarding the Typhoon not being able to lock onto the Rafale is rather optimistic, and quite frankly, silly.

Why bother… got much more interesting things to do in life… like drop tune my Gibson’s and replace the Valves in my Amp Heads.

Ta!

… Just call it Typhoon. Saves the effort.

Halloweene,

What did you mean about this?

‘Not to talk about Canards position.’

Also, who told you that the Typhoon couldn’t get a lock onto the Rafale during Exercise Joint Warrior?

Curious.

A report from Jamie Hunter in AIR International stated that all the aircraft had had to take-off with a meaningful weapons load (an aircraft’s full A/A configuration) as well as with full external drop tanks, perform an aerobatic circuit then land using one engine. The F-16 and Gripen had to this without the use of reheat. The only fighter that managed to do this was Typhoon.

Ta-ta, for quite a while.