Anyone else see a problem with this?
Some interesting information on phased array lasers in this extract about Zenith Star, which was an SDI-related laser project.
Nope but a parliament that votes against 419 of 650 constituencies wouldn’t be popular.
The F-22 can drop JDAMs at M1.6 and fire sidewinders at M1.2, whilst at a significant yaw angle but that’s all I’ve seen for sure. I read about supersonic bomb release at M1.2 in an F-35 too.
Brad – Very simple. Same reason people don’t try to break out of prison. They’re scared.
The EU haven’t exactly been friendly and with their gas pipelines they’ll be funding the Russian army more than the EU army.
I’m debating the purpose of adding a large unstealthy stand-off load to a stealth aircraft, when the stand-off range allows non-stealth fighters to use it just well.
panzerfeist1 – That’s because the US is light years ahead of Iran in rocket technology. Russia cannot be light years ahead of its 21st century self in rocket technology.
Time to get serious about no deal.
No deal is better than a bad deal, no PM is better than a bad PM.
It looks like an Iskander-M with a tail extension, which puts it at circa 4,000kg. A Brahmos is about 2,500kg. Besides the MiG-31, I doubt anything other than maybe a Backfire will carry it.
How would you mount a Kinzhal on an Su-57 though? There is no centreline pylon because of the bays.
A naked human eye, but don’t pilot visors have inbuilt protection? And I should also point out that using lasers for such purposes would be a breach of the Geneva Convention.
Okay, that’s interesting but can they vary the focal point? Can they put the focal point at any range? The other point which I think stealthflanker is getting at is how to aim your laser at fighters 20+km away. +/- 1 millirad gives +/- 20m left, right, up and down, could you usefully aim at an F-35/F-22 at 100km?