Every radar is reduced in capability by counter-measures. Stealth is a important passiv one, but just one of several. None radar delivers a bubble view around your fighter in real-time, if at all. So wishfull thinking aside and put the performance test-data from producer into the next trasher. It is still questionable to achive a stable search and not even speaking of constant tracking in severe EW conditions.
Even when you are lucky about that the IFF is under such conditions a further hurdle to overcome.
The promises about computers in the military and the related super cockpits from the late 80s are becoming reality right now. In that the SH is more advanced than the F-22, but will be overtaken by the F-35. The Flanker upgrades do reaching late F/A-18C/D levels right now.
Man do not exagerate, the F-18C level was achieved by the Russians in the MiG-29M and early Su-35 in the late 1980s and early 1990s, todays Su-35BM can fire eight AAMs at eight different targets simultaneously.
Data link was also a thing known by the Russians since the MiG-31, in fact the MiG-31 was like a mini AWACs for MiG-23s and MiG-25s and it did the same job as GCI systems in the case of the MiG-23P
That is the typical western attitude of declaring Russian tech is inferior but it is not, Russian technology is simple but practical and in many ways is superior to western technology.
For example
The F-15A/C is not as good as the Su-27B however it is comparable
the F-18A/C is not better than the MiG-29M
The F-18E is in the same class of the Su-30MK
the F-15E is in the class of the Su-30MK
Modern export Russian fighters can fire active homing missiles such as the AA-12
the Su-34 is in a class beyond the F-18E and F-15E
There is no Western equivalent to the MiG-31BM
Do western aircraft sometimes have more advanced features well sometimes, however not always and sometimes they are less capable too
For that capability you are in need of a cooperative target or at least one what is unaware of such threat!
But you can be shure most of the time, that your opponent is briefed by his intel about that capability, be trained to handle that threat and did plan and fly his mission accordingly.
Going after AGLMs (robots) is something different.
It is not like that, the main issue will be if a radar can detect the target even throught the ECM and RCS, the whole idea is have radars that are difficult to jam.
Data link also helps for that, in few words Sens fighters like the F-15 and F-18 are more or less in the same class, only new aircraft like the F-22 or F-35 can be considered up to a degree inmune to the fourth generation technological level.
True, it is possible the targets will be difficult to adquire, but by the exception of the F-18E few fourth generation fighter have a high degree of stealthiness.
When was Meteor “fielded”????? Do you know something that we don’t?
When did the Russains fielded a ramjet AA missile?????
BTW is there any Su 35 “fielded”?????
Do you have any contact with real world?
The Meteor is closer to get fielded than any other Russian or Western equivalent weapon.
The Rafale has a instantaneous turn rate of more than 30 deg/sec, compared to the F-15 in less than a decade the F-15E will become obsolete in terms of air to air at BVR.
The Eurofighter is the same and it has supercruise.
In terms of combat capability the F-15 lost the niche of the best fighter at BVR combat in the late 1990s.
The F-18E more or less is a modern equivalent of the F-15, in few words aurcov the F-15 in 2007 is more a strike aircraft than a fighter, see that the main version sold is the F-15E.
http://www.f-16.net/f-16_users_article4.html
red that part over F-16C in 1986 in the meanwhile f. e.
Sorry I forgot, you do ignore details not fixing to your special views.For the benefit of all. Radar equipped fighters are limited in view. Just a small sector is covered and shifting it, it does reduce range. Even the AWACS has blind sectors shielded by fuselage and modes. So the AWACS has to fly circles to cover that from time to time during mission. Intel-people do brief their crews about the related radar-capabilities of all parties for mission profiles. Intelligent CGI guideance has to assists the fighters to explore or to avoid that. “Positioning” is the name of the game. You has to “see” and “identify” before you fire your AAM.
Same problem with every AAM. You have to be shure, what the seeker-head does “see” really, before the AAM is started. You have to be shure, that no friendly fighter passes through the line of flight, when the AAM is fired.
So in 1982 most of the fighters were unable to fire in anger to the anger of the pilots. Such firing opportunities are limited to a few seconds in multible engagements. In real fights your opponent will disengage most of the time. Just in training exercise more than a single firing opportunity is created for training purposes. Typical weaponsload is no more than 4 AAMs for practical reasons. In 1991 the US fighters were limited to visual ID Rules of Engagement for good reasons.The few Iraqi opponents did not face that problem for obvious reasons, when chased by own SAMs/AAA too.
In 1973 several Arab SAM-kills were own MiGs, when no time was left to coordinate the own AD properly. (~50 losses) By the way one of the reason, why ground defences are limited in number.
Modern aircraft have better processing radar computer and have also multi-engagement capability, even old fighter like the Su-27 and F-14 wiil carry 6 long range air to air missiles
The whole idea behind a long range fighter is long radar detection range and engagement at long distance
fighters like the MiG-23 or early F-18 would had dispatched one or two targets at long range before coming at close range and dispatch one or two more at close combat.
In the MiG-23 quick and brief attack at high speeds; in the MiG-29 and F-18 a close combat mellee was not out of the question.
The F-16 was different it was a point defence fighter like the MiG-21 it relied in close combat and a short flight to the target.
It was not an scort aircraft, in bombing misions it was to be scorted by F-15s
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