the fan boys can’t decide whether it has s-ducts or not. one half is like, yes it has s-ducts.. the other half says we don’t need s-ducts we got something better (but we really have no proof, we just assume they did because sukhoi so smart). You can see our schizo bacon clone (probably same people) change his story a bunch of times and spam a bunch of russian language documents he can’t even read. its no different than LEG and Picard. people will figure out the bs, no matter how much junk info you throw.

Ok you made you point. Everyone can read it and make up their own mind. move along now.

Do you believe that you can see the engine from the front of the |Pak Fa ?

It doesn’t matter what I believe, that is what I am saying; nor you, nor anyone else for that matter.

>Posts two pictures.

>Discussions devolves into invention of s-ducks and trollfest.

>Lesson learned, better not post anything.

No, keep posting, but learn to ignore useless comments.

And the J20 is “duplicate” of what? The BAE EAP?

At this stage I don’t care which plane is a copy of which or if it is. I want the damn things to get into service so we can find out if the cornerstone of their existence, i.e. Stealth has been achieved. I am tired of all the other bs. Final RCS values are all I would wish to finally be made known.

All I know is that the space was needed for Sparrow-related hardware. According to Bill Gunston, a lot of work had to be done to make the missile compatible with the fighter’s NASARR radar.

This is something that puzzles me always.
As an engineer I know there is almost always a way to make an interface between two systems. Why is it so hard to integrate missiles to various fighters, I never fully grasped.

If both aircraft are at 30,000ft, the horizon is 425 miles away. How could you even lock something at that range if the horizon is in the way.

I don’t know, I didn’t make the weapon.

On a long-range shot, the missile would fly under inertial guidance, and would get target-position updates from the F-14. These were intended to bring it close enough for the seeker to achieve lock-on. The victim would know that he was being tracked by the F-14, but until the seeker activated, a basic RWR would probably give no warning that a missile was on the way.

Correct me if I am wrong, but the Phoenix was capable of an ‘over the horizon’ shot. Which means for a large fraction of its flight, the plane would not provide mid course updates.