Super-30 sounds great, but how will they deal with the Flankers rather large RCS profile? With all this talk about “bringing it up on fith gen level” I assume they intend to deal with this in one way or another?
Simple radar blockers like Super Hornet, or something more exotic like internal weapon bays? (or stealthy external pods).
Flanker received RCS reduction way back, it is nothing new. Su-35 already has these measures included, to what extent, I do not know.
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/blogs/defense/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&plckScript=blogscript&plckElementId=blogDest&plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Af423e576-2a68-47c1-9d02-9746754fb493
http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/3717/stells03.jpg
Stealth this does not make it, but certainly afford a reduction in signature. RAM application to an extent, cockpit treatment, radar treatment are probably the most likely measures. I am not aware of any plan to actually treat in service A2A missiles with RAM (in either Russia or India), but that has been done experimentally.
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