China’s northern and western frontiers could easily fit the description above.

Who said the Brahmos is manoevering?. Does the weapon have sufficient AI to detect that its under attack and initiate evasive manoevers if so thats very impressive?. Its also something I’ve not heard anyone else claim for the weapon!. Sea Dart has intercepted non-maneouvering 40k ft targets at ranges in the 40km region.

I don’t believe the Brahmos has this but doing this is not hard at all. The radar you are recieving when you are being locked at by a missile or a gun is going to be different from when you are being scanned. All you need to do is detect such a change and once the RWR detects that change in frequency and modulation, the missile jinks.

Basically a locking frequency used by CIWS or missile guidance would be higher than a tracking frequency, which in turn would be higher than a volume search frequency. If your RWR is good, you can even determine what mode the radar scanning you is on, since each mode is going to have their own frequency signature.

That’s the old style PLAAF helmet. The current ones look more “ordinary”, got four holes across the top and may have fittings to allow you to attach helmet sighting systems. You can see them across the previous page with the two pilots inside a dark striped JH-7A.

One time I saw someone selling a PLAAF helmet in E-Bay.

Restricted as in from where? Made In Taiwan? Made in Singapore? Made in South Korea? Made in China?

It’s 10,000kg thrust per engine, not total of two engines, by the way.

Also the JH-7 is not powered by any turbojet (Wopen). It’s been powered by turbofans (Spey) and the WS-9 followon is also a turbofan.

It’s definitely not like a Japanese F-1,as the JH-7 has more range and is a bigger jet. But the payload is mediocre for a plane of its size (5,000-6,000kg). Still that would be more than sufficient to carry four antiship missiles.

To increase the payload, the JH-7A uses composites to lighten the airframe and a more powerful WS-9 engine. To improve flight performance, the pitch only FBW is replaced by a full digital FBW working on all three axis with terrain avoidance.

Currently, there are three groups of JH-7s in all. One regiment of ‘original’ JH-7, one regiment of ‘block 2’ JH-7 with the slotted array JL-10A radar and glass cockpit, and one regiment of JH-7A with the improved airframe and avionics.

Xian AC is trying to find a niche for the JH-7A against the Su-30s, J-11s and J-10s. Suffice to say it’s going to be an uphill battle.

It is not 10,000lb thrust. It is 10,000kg thrust. WS-9 replacement is 12,000kg as per Jane’s.

Also the combat radius is about 1300-2000km. That’s not so bad.

JH-7 is equipped with dumb bombs, rockets and the YJ-81 anti ship missile, with PL-5 for self defense.

The version with the better radar (Block 2) has the same range of weapons as the JH-7A: Kh-31P ARMs, YJ-83 antiship missile (up to 255km range), LGBs with Blue Sky pod, PL-12 BVRAAMs, PL-8 and PL-5 IR missiles.

The Russians have also learned to use RAM, though not in their Cold War products. Planes like the MiG-21 Bison have RAM. Also Russian planes also not just operate in conjunction with GCI (plane – GCI datalinks) but also with other Russian planes (plane – plane datalinks). We’re not just talking of AWACS here which they can also operate with. We’re talking of Su-30s talking with 16 others of their own kind in one net (two way datalink), and each Su-30 supplying info to as many as four Su-27s/MiG-29s as subordinates (one way datalink). Ground sources include radars from S-300 systems.

Si MMICs: Google around. SiCi MMICs are being research now by all major countries as a replacement for GaAs type MMICs. That is why I think PLAN shouldn’t waste the money for an active array system and using a existing passive system on the 052C. Use a good enough system, spend money on research on something even better.

I don’t think Si could reach at least 8ghz needed for X-band tracking radar. At least not for a while.

You got better luck with developing another promising transistor material.

With Si02 at least you can be satisfied with low frequency search radar at least.