Russian Knights new Su-30SM:

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I wonder if two seaters fly with full crew when on display shows.

MSphere,

This is relevant solely if the Iranian Airbus shootdown exhonerates the wilful negligence of pushing an incomplete BVR SAM system into an operational environment in which proper C3I wasn’t going to be present.

Do you believe the USN allowing a reckless CO to command Vincennes means that it was fine for the Russians to put a Buk TELAR in the hands of people who could not employ it properly?.

No one has yet offered a motive. Why would Russia give rebels a Buk? A Buk! You are a rebel in Ukraine and the thing you need the most is a SAM?

You are thinking old school.

In the F-35 it works like this and is the same for either a LOAL 9x or AMRAAM shot:

1. The F-35 calculates the target’s GPS location and velocity (ie bearing, acceleration, and speed) based on any & all sensors or datalinks available (ie sensor fusion).
2. It passes that information to the 9x or AMRAAM (9x Blk2 & 120D use GPS internally while older missiles use traditional INS) along with the F-35’s GPS coordinates & velocity.
3. The missile is launched & will follow the flightpath calculated using data from #2
4. Any F-35 in the area can supply updated data via datalinks where appropriate
5. THe AMRAAM D can also answer back via it’s 2way datalink

The key takeaway is that the weapon is not “linked” to a particular sensor or a particular fighter after launch.

And what happens when there is no GPS signal? After all it is a satellite signal. Even heavy clouds affect it! You can’t beat physics!

You guys realise that what goes on in these threads is a p*****g contest between those who hate Putin/Russians because they grew up to hate communists, those who hate Putin/Russians because of ethnic reasons, those who love Putin/Russia for ethnic and political reasons and those who may or may not have a more objective view.

The point is that I think we have lost any objectivity. I am sure some people will never be satisfied with anything.

No, the HMD “says” in what direction you’re looking, regardless if there’s something to lock onto or not. What tells your missile that there’s someting to lock on are sensors positioned to cover that part of the sky (or ground, if it’s a ground target) and who detect it.

Basically, with the HMD you tell the system “hey, look that way”, the system looks and displays what it found to you.. then you can designate this or that target and shoot at it

It doesn’t have to be part f the plane. It may well be the missile’s seeker head. No IRST required

Your “evidence” doesn’t explain how you know you’re in the firing envelop. So you’re wrong, and now that’s the end.

The Greeks mounted AiM-9s to the Mirage F1. Not compatible systems. What they did, was take the feed from the missile’s launcher, and wire it to the cockpit’s Mica buzzer. The pilot by selecting missiles via the switch, powered the feed and the missile’s seeker head feedback could be heard in the cockpit via the mica buzzer. The pilot’s were trained to recognise the ‘tone’ the head made when it had achieved lock! Needless to say this worked.

I am no expert but I think that’s how it used to work for most 3rd gen planes and probably still the same.

Does anyone know why did they changed the wing configuration from delta in Mirage III to normal in mirage F1 then back to delta in Mirage 2000 ?

delta had limitations before the F1. F1 was bleeding less energy and needed less thrust and space to take off.

Mirage 2000 was FBW, unstable, better engine. No issues with having a delta

Not in a way useful to an enemy. It would just be cancelling radar reflection if they used active cancellation. So all they would see, or not see, is a reduction in detection range. It’s not exactly giving away top secret data, destructive interference is a well known phenomenon.

You mean in a red flag scenario, traffic controllers who monitor the exercise, awacs and the red team fighters would not notice that they cannot pick up a fighter that is not supposed to be VLO within a predefined area? How exactly would they miss on that?