Hello Topspeed,

The light, small, fast stealth interceptor idea is great but i have a couple of pointers.

1: Isnt the AN/APG-67 outdated/obselent even? It is made from 80’s technology and its small dish means that it doesnt have any good range at all (148 kilometers max range). The problems will only grow worse with the advent of Russian and Chinese 5th gen fighters which have all a good focus on combatting X-band radar signals which in turn means that the AN/APG-67 can only detect them at a range that is too close for comfort.

Continuing on this is the fact that Russian and Chinese 5th Gen radars are much, much more newer/more advanced and in the case of the Su-T50, it has L-band AESA’s which can transmit signals at full power to alert the T50 pilot in which direction a stealthy opponent is roughly positioned at and with a full powered nose mounted AESA radar sweep in those coordinates, it means that the T50 can detect at the same time or even earlier then the Velociraptor can the T50 just due to the better tech the T50 has at its disposal.

And that brings me to my next point:

2: No OLS? Do you have a deathwish? A T50 with its OLS can passively detect non afterburning targets in a head-on engagement at ranges of ~100 kilometers (Assuming the OLS-50 is ~11% better then the OLS-35M). With that, the T50 can just turn off the N036/N050 nose mounted AESA and do the above mentioned L-band detection and use the rough direction/source to focus the OLS to zoom in on the rough area of suspected stealth aircraft and find the Velociraptor that way.

All it would then take is to arm the R-77M1’s and prepare a short burst of the N050/N036 to acquire a lock and fire the missiles earlier then the Raptor can detect the T50. With the Velociraptor pilot busy avoiding the R-77M1’s, the T50 pilot closes in and uses the OLS to fire R-74M’s to kill the Velociraptor, denying the Velo pilot a chance for a dogfight.

3: You are seriously comparing an interceptor to multirole aircraft like the T50, F-35, J20 and J-31? Apples and Oranges.

Hi XTX-Horus !

Great questions…thanks.

1. AN/APG-67 is there to see that a necessary radar fits in…just like e-seat and 4 AAMs and cannon ( small AESA ala Rafale will do ).

The whole point here is that this VR is 1/5 of the size of T-50, SU-27 etc. This means that its detectable volume is just 1/5^2=1/25…so and it is stealth design as well..it reflects radar waves and absorbs the rest. It leaves no IR signature when cruising since it is slow and engine sorta concealed from above.

So no matter how good you radar is it cannot see VR..especially as its frontal area is just 1/7 => 1/50 in relative radar signature size.

2. No OLS this can come so near big 5th gen fighter or any other similar design that they never realized it was ever there. Using the cruise engine this can loiter hours and after detecting a foe this can sneak behind and use the rockets to close in the foe at 300 m/s climb rate or mach 2.5 in level flight for really short period…and it is over quickly..also this plane can be deploeyed in large numbers that carrying just 4 AAMs isn’t really a problem.

3. No not really..this is a 7th generation fighter. So you are right..we are talking about bitter citron with old melons.

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PS: This is pretty much my own design..we did go this through in defence site but really this is not backed up by any instance. General concern was however about the developement where for instance Finland can only have a handful of newest fighters in the future. Maybe this is a “homebuilt” back up if something goes horrifyingly wrong in the next megabillion €/$/£ fighter investment.

update

I realised that this must be world smallest fighter aircraft ever since this is actually around 4% smaller than a Folland Gnat.

This also about 70% of a famous russian fighter Yakovlev Yak-3.

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Edit the cruise consumption on PW617F-E is only 280 kilos 340 liters ( it is thus 300 times more less fuel burning than J-20 on full AB…pretty good eh ? ).

Here is how a Velociraptor really supposed to have looked like !

The Japanese, after the extremely small agile flaming napalm tank Zero, tried this with the kamikaze.
Did not work too well, or does yours, if the pilot is still alive, after a mission, eject the pilot?

I try to decrypt this…are you saying that napalm was used in Zeros in kamikaze attacks in 1945…and they bursted into flames ?

Why would kamikaze pilots need e-seats..I think you are mixing up things or living in a VCR/DVD alternate reality.

I am talking about small radar and e-seat fitted interceptor that flies mostly subsonic but has capability to meet the recce features that for instance FAF needs.

This is to go up to see when a Russian MIG-31 comes over our borders or a U-2 spyplane flies in our atmosphere. Did you know that a fierce battle was fought in Finnish air space between a B-47 Stratojet and three Mig -17s after WW II ? People witnessed and heard this and collected cannon shells on the ground.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-47_Stratojet

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On 8 May 1954, after a top secret reconnaissance mission in the Kola Peninsula, a 4th Air Division 91 Strategic Reconnaissance Wing RB-47E reconnaissance aircraft, with Hal Austin at the controls, flew west from the Soviet Union. The RB-47E was flying at high altitude, out of reach of MiG-15s, but unknown to USAF intelligence some MiG-17s had been stationed in the area that were able to intercept the intruder. The RB-47E was chased by three Soviet MiG-17 fighters attempting to destroy the aircraft with their guns over Soviet and Finnish airspace. Although sustaining damage, the RB-47E managed to escape over Sweden back to its home base at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire. Its top speed and combat radius superiority to the Soviet fighter jets were the deciding factors. The mission marked the first time a jet aircraft equipped with modern photography equipment was used for American military reconnaissance. The incident was kept secret by all parties

That is correct…Kaario’s idea came to him 1932 and build one in 1935.