The AEW&C program (biz jet based, S Band, 300km class for a small fighter target) is in trials. Follow on program is in development.
An airborne AESA radar for the LCA is in prototyping.

Would love to hear some more about those programs.

The airborne AESA for fighter one looks interesting. So India will directly leap to AESA instead of having some “interims” (slotted planar arrays or PESA’s) Like Other nation.

hmm so far i seen India developing planes, engines and A2A missiles. How about airborne radar ? Does India ever develop a fighter or AEW radar ?

Anyway i wonder if anyone can give me little bit info on what radar did China put inside their J-11 family ?

As far as i know.. the earliest J-11B were using a slotted planar array called as “Shedian-10” I wonder if that slotted planar array radar also make it to the J-15, J-16 etc.

Anyway i believe J-11D got an ESA radar, would love to know more about it.

High speed taxi test …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oONJsb3CGIM#t=12

Just like when PAKFA exhibited at first time… I scream… FLYYYYY… FLYYYY

We know nothing at all about PakFa.
Nothing on empty weight, thrust or lift/drag.

With that lack of transpherent insight the PakFa must be pretty horrible… according to these guys;

http://www.f-16.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=28006&p=316189#p316189

:):D

I just wish …when assessing stuff.. ppl can be more like Richard D Ward.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/298950019/FIGHTER-DESIGN-From-Soviet-Perspective

while some ppl behave as he wrote at the last section of the paper..

“Some quarters
have questioned the viability of this concept because
of the apparent support complexity of modern weapons
however, Soviet aircraft and their support systems have
always been designed to achieve this capability. The
question is in assumptions of the questioner. The problem
is possibly in demanding “mirror images”“

Anyway that AIAA paper is like a gold bar to me 😀 it’s nice to finally found one a paper that outlines how doctrine and situations affect fighter aircraft design.

well looking at those jammer pods brought me to an old question..does it support Crosseye jamming modes ?

sometime ago.. i tried to stick Hellduck into YF-23A form.

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anything released yet on weight statement 😀 ? I’m still curious on the empty (operation empty weight) weight of PAKFA.

I wonder if they managed to make it lighter than Su-27S.