Is UAE more democratic then the other arabic nations? It surely has enough cash to pay for these machines. But it seems to be bit strange that they suddenly have so many super high tech planes and almost none internal pilots. There was a row in the past about maybe UAE using foreign pilots. I know that in Turkey thay had only UAE pilots to get used to F16. But is UAE able to handle it internal? Do they have enough UAE engineers? Or is it like the KSA contract where pilots and enineers are hired from western nations?

As it appears they do not have half the pilots they need to run these machines, I am not exactly sure about the maintenance technicians either. Practically the whole Saudi AF is maintained by foreigners, flown though by Saudis. One of my friends from school, he’s Pakistani and his dad used to fly for the UAEAF a while ago, and was an instructor on the Hawk I think(he’s an instructor on the Hawk in the NATO training school in Canada) and he says that tehy are very corrupt, that many pilots would not pass anything but would still get through with connections.

What about the RC-400– Mica combination for the A-50? This would be possible right?
Get 12 JAS 39 C/D Gripen doing dedicated A2A and 24 of the A-50 doing A2G and antishipping and secondary A2A with MICA BVR. This would be a potent force. A total of 36 aircraft all multirole. Give it tanker support and a couple of Erieye AWACS. Nice…….

And why not just have one single type doing this? When it comes to maintenance, commonality and such it would be a lot more cost effective.

I still kind of lack more info on the R-37M, it’s max g load and etc. If it’s something like 6-8 Gs it will be harder to outmaneuver, however if below that then it will be…..this all depends on how you would launch your missile.

Also, as to my understand, SAMs travel in pretty much straight trajectories, and if they do get close enough to an aircraft, the fuze will sense it and it will explode thereby damaging the aircraft. Now let’s say the R-37M at the end of the day is not maneuverable enough, can it be modified to do this too so if it does get close enough to an aircraft it can explode like this?

I see, what about Kh-31PD and AD? Those versions are said to have been developed and are essentially longer ranged too, but no other info is available on them.

Ohhh RWRs lol

Ok if SARH missile needs mid course guidance to hit a target, how does an ARH missile work then?

Also, if a radar keeps signalling and guiding the missile, will the radar be detected or the missile, or both?

Ahhh, F-4, Mig-21, far by the uglies planes around. Somehow I don’t like the Mig-23 either. F-5 is not so bad looking. MIII and Draken are beauties.