Are you sure thats how it works? Sure, maybe some very short radar blockers have a limitation that actually matters but if you look at proposed solutions for the Pak FA you see that the blockers pretty much are miniature S or C ducts or angled “tunnels”.

To get past the blockers one pretty much need to use wavelangths that are long enough to get past the bending, and that usually means at least the UHF band.

Otherwise the reflections will be pretty marginal. Pak FA will carry L-band AESAs in the wings (15-30 cm) and that could be enough in some cases, but the primary radar (as always) is in the 24-37 mm range.

When’s all this kit like the L-Band radars and inlet blockers supposed to be fitted to a flying PAK-FA? Are they not leaving ait a little late in the game by now considering that testing the aircraft without these things (especially the inlet blockers airflow ramifications) will give vastly different results then testing the aircraft with them. I have to doubts about how much of this stuff is actually going to be seen on production airframes.

http://elpdefensenews.blogspot.be/2012/11/faulty-f-35s-limp-to-yumas-operational.html

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Nic

Now i’m not saying any of that is false, but, considering the author is highly questionable in the eyes of many I have to ask where are the citations for all of these pieces of information? Remember this is the same guy who blatently made up a report a while ago regarding a supposed NATO simulation that showed the F-35 to be a dog or some such other term. He’s also a close associate of Kopp, i’m suspicious of him.

Then you have made the wrong conclusion after talking to your pilot friends..

Err no. Afraid not. BTW, they are my pilot colleagues (not ‘friends’) and having spent 14 years working around them you get to learn a thing or two even if, like myself, you’re not a pilot.
But no matter, i’ll be sure to tell them to go read your little book and educate themselves on how it really works. Can you offer them any flying tips whilst your here too? I’m sure they’d love to be taught how to fly and fight by a true expert!

So much for your trying to prove AWACS not being the most important SA assets out there..

I wasn’t actually trying to prove anything and I never even mentioned situational awareness. What I was doing is simply pointing out that some pilots find working with AWACS to be a hindrance. They are not a magic ‘I win’ tool as some seem to assume they are. I tend to find that when I learn some interesting information, such as what i’ve just posted regarding AWACS, I am pleased and not at all upset as you seem to be in this case. I guess some people all ready know all there is to know in their mind and have no desire to learn knew titbits of informantion.

Excellent news for Eurofighter and and UK jobs! Lets just hope this deal is squeaky clean and not mired in controversy like the other deals have been.

All i know, is Sukhoi allways has other(higher) figures for RCS than other manufactors, something is different in their calculation.. just pick one and be done with it..

If you’re talking about Sukhoi giving other manufactuers aircraft inflated RCS values then that would probably be down to be their marketing department knowing full well that can vastly inflate oppossing manufacters RCS figures without ever facing any legal comeback.

If on the other hand you mean the RCS for their (Sukhoi) jets is always higher than those of other manufacturers then that most likely means their aircraft do indeed have a higher RCS than other companies jets.

Speaking of the RCS, Lockheed has in mind the minimum value, paralay – average.

How on earth are you managing to evaluate the RCS average figures? All you have is a base figure from a frontal aspect and know way in hell of guessing the rest, not to a reasonable degreee of accuracy anyway. Sorry but your figures are worthless.