Nice work [USER=”52039″]SergeyL[/USER]

Much more probable a N035 derivative, putting AESA N036 means founding places for side array radars and completely change plane weight distribution, a Pesa radar, already thought for a Flanker would be a way easier way to go.

There is no need to include the cheek array. If wider situational awareness and near omni-directional high bandwitdh datalink is desired. the interested party can purchase Su-57.

Allow me to answer this for of MLight too, anti-radiation seeker are not useful against fighters because:
1. They home on what is emitting so they can’t chase aircraft who run away or simple have their radar offline when missile reach terminal phase
2. Same as above, anti radiation head can be countered with terrain bounce jamming (shine your radar, jamming beam toward the ground surface and let the missile hit reflection lobe)
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or blinking jamming (2 assets alternatively switch their jamming beam on then off)
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The thing is that. You will not know which missile have anti radiation warhead nor a warning unless they already launched.

Plus you should not confuse Anti radiation with HOJ. Though both are passive there are clear differences. Namely that the former is specifically designed to engage emitting target while the later is an operating mode using existing hardware.

You can easily see that Anti radiation missile seeker is designed with wideband antenna like spiral or conical and use interferometer method in extracting target angular position. while HOJ missile is basically your AMRAAM with HOJ mode.

and turning off radar is basically a loss of situational awareness. Your enemy may have mixed type of seeker, while the ARM one might be fooled, you might lost another IR or radar homer coming. This is why it’s preferable to have towed decoy or an expendable decoy in ARM situation.

That datalink pod really look like one used for Have Nap.

i think it’s an old news. should be in previous thread.

What i would like to see now is T-50-2 flying with pair of Izd-30 engine.

I sincerely hope Rafale’s radar has an LPI TF mode, because someone will use ESM to build a weapons quality track and shoot it. If it emits, it dies.

Terrain following is easily LPI as it basically needs only few to tens of Watts. and Phased arrays can support it no problem. Remember as during TF your target which is earth is alot closer, and its wide thus quite large RCS already to work with without a hassle. Sidelobes are manageable depending on what kind of algorithm supported by the radar.

The one actually need to worry for ESM sneaking around is the air to air combat modes as this entails more power requirement.

Aside from radar tho, one would be worried more about datalink and communications as this is usually use wide beam omni antenna and always operate at full power. But then communications can have almost noise like waveform (DSSS) Something which radar can’t use (yes there are no real “noise radar” except one wish to lose doppler filtering capability)