You reguarly see J-10’s and other chinese aircraft for that matter, all rapped up, the reason appears to be two-fold. Firstly to protect the aircraft from the elements and secondly to hide unit numbers. Of course it would be better to put the aircraft in a hanger but this wouldnt allow people to photograph them and post the images on the internet (the chinese authoritys use a very clever system of ‘leaks’ to disseminate information to the public).

The aircraft in the background is very interesting, but had the ejection taken place whilst the aircraft was in flight one would not expect to see the aircraft at all-it would have crashed. For that reason I believe that one of two things happened, either the ejection seat was fired accidently or it was being ground tested.

There is a rumour floating around the Internet that this is the 100th J-10 but I cannot confirm this, we will just have to wait and see. What is certain is that the J-10 programme is well under way and production appears to be high rate.

For the 052C’s radar there are basically three possiblilitys, all of which are equally as likely and equally as unlikely.

1) A navalised version of the HQ-9’s HT-223 radar.
2) A PESA based on tech from the Ukraine combined with indigenous developments.
3) An AESA design, again probably with Ukrainian tech.

Unfortunately there dosnt appear to be any conclusive evidence.

Wow thats realy impressive, the Indians can track a ship that is on its delivery voyage, and that everybody knows when and where its sailing. :rolleyes: :p

BAe claims that it is possible to navlise a Typhoon and that they have done studies to prove it. But BAe says a lot of things. 😉

Cheers Fedaykin, and thanks for your very onformative contribution in this thread. It is nice to hear things from the people who are up close, what they realy feel.

Here is a link for the new Dutch ships,

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/dezeven/

they have the same radar fit as the F124 but have 40 mk41 VLS cells with space for a further 8 and mount a better gun, thus I would regard these ships as more capable than the F124.

Here is a link to the spanish F100 class ships. They mount the AEGIS SPY-1D radar which as I have explianed before is likely superior to the radar of the F124. It also has 48Mark 41 VLS cells as opposed to the 32 of the F124 and has a better main gun, so it to os superior to the F124.

The very fact that you have resorted to calling me a kid merely shows that you lack the knowledge and the skill to maintain a civilised and educated discussion.

You seem to be confused again. I would suggest that the T45 and the F100 are relatively closely matched but that the T45’s ability to take future upgrades gives it the edge (and possibly the sampson radar as well), but both are far better ships than the F124.