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February 5, 2009 at 8:33 pm in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2461996

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Or base U.S raptors in Japan and Korea 🙂 In larger numbers and F 15s back home.

February 5, 2009 at 8:15 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462014

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When will people realise that any Radar made for MIG 35 has a huge retrofit market on existing 29 fleet of Russia and other countries :(.

February 5, 2009 at 8:11 pm in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2462019

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May be the Koreans too, the Northies have just torn apart all the treaties.

February 5, 2009 at 7:50 pm in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2462068

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Appears sensible to me. How about selling a few to Israel as well.

February 5, 2009 at 7:46 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462074

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Then it´s simply wrong… It´s a typo, unless that fighter his a mig 31…

:rolleyes:

February 5, 2009 at 7:34 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462125

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I have read DTI for has long has it was made available in the internet, that´s a long time (more or less :)), and that includes the 2008 October issue, if you look at AW defense Blog ARES, you will find that i am a usuall comentator.
The 300 km range was a 2006 Phazotron claim against a “high rcs” target, that means something between a Lockheed Hercules and an Airbus 380.
The latest numbers for the AESA Zhuk coming from Phazotron (late 2008) are “200km´s” against a fighter sized aircraft (3 sqm´s).(http://translate.google.pt/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.missiles.ru%2FAESA_ph_5.htm&sl=ru&tl=en&hl=pt-PT&ie=UTF-8).

No it said fighter sized target not a C130.

See it in the link posted above 🙂 I feel vindicated.

February 5, 2009 at 6:58 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462178

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Please read that issue of DTI. I posted the image its legible please read it as well. It was done in Ocotber 2008 a year after Aero India. Also note that the 300 Km range was the range for the production radar not the one displayed at Aero India.

February 5, 2009 at 6:21 pm in reply to: The PAK-FA Saga Episode VII #2462204

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The time line for the FGFA was always 2017sh. So no change there, but there will be delays i think it will be like 2020.

February 5, 2009 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2462225

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Japan’s lack of seriousness with respect to safeguarding sensitive systems will likely prevent them ever getting F-22. (Example is when officers/enlisted were caught exchanging porn on the AEGIS classified computer network).

Is that true :confused::D

February 5, 2009 at 6:20 pm in reply to: Japan to consider F/A-22 to replace its F-4s #2462229

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Not up to date, are you?
The decline from the world economic crisis not even included, when China will face a growth of “just” 5% and Japan a shrinking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal)

Still have not shrunk enough to be below China. I do not underestimate the bouncebackability of world markets either.

February 5, 2009 at 6:16 pm in reply to: The F16 C/D block 52+/block 60 vs F/A 18 E/F Super Hornet #2462232

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Well has the US ever sold such kind of aircraft to a strategical partner? You see where I’m aiming at . I think it’s about time to settle that topic. If you are optimistic about that fine. I have my doubts. In the end we’ll see how the future will develope.

Ok thats fine then :).

February 5, 2009 at 6:04 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462240

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Please don’t call me a liar may be the online version dont show it. I don’t have a scanner will take a pic and post. Please check it again its on the right side of the page near the end of article.

I have uploaded the pics are taken with my webcam, but they are legible (just about).

I am sorry I don’t have a scanner/digi cam to convince you anymore.

February 5, 2009 at 5:59 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462250

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BTW, why do you consider a radar which is stated by the German government to be a requirement for its aircraft, & to have government funding, to have a more doubtful future than a radar for an aircraft (the MiG-35) which isn’t even wanted by its own government? Come to that, why do you constantly harp on about your imagined doubtful future for Typhoon, but never mention the MiG-35s total lack of any future whatsoever unless it gets export sales? Dual standards, yet again, I see.

Again you forget that MIG 35 is not that fundamentally different from the MIG 29. The Russians and many other countries offer large fleets of Mig 29, so Zhuk-AE has much more potential than the iffy MRCA deal. I do not have any dual standards when it comes to the EF, it is the most potent A2A platform in the MRCA but its high price, A2G problems and radar timeline ( yes I know several others may be running a tight shedule as well), the combination of these three problems will make it the last in the pecking order.

February 5, 2009 at 5:53 pm in reply to: IAF – News & Discussion – II #2462305

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It was the Zhuk-MAE not the AE. What is the difference? Well the original Zhuk-AE turned out to be way to heavy (450 kg), therefore Phazatron developed the Zhuk-MAE as a first demonstrator weighting in at 285 kg. This radar retains much of the Zhuk-MEs components, which is currently fitted to the MiG-29SMT and the Indian Navys MiG-29K/KUB. Zhuk-MAE offered a detection range of 130-140 km against a 3 sqm target according the manufacturer. Once the technology is more mature and the weight problems are solved the Zhuk-AE will feature a larger antenna and is claimed to provide detection ranges up to 200 km against a 3 sqm target. (A good example to demonstrate the difference in range performance given the antenna size. Hint Captor vs. APG-80).
Saab is working on a demonstrator with the antenna to be sourced from somewhere else (Thales). This demonstrator has yet to be completed and test flown aboard the Gripen Demo aircraft.

It says 300 KM in the dti article i believe them over you. You can check the issue if you want to.

Eurofighter isn’t at a disadvantage here in comparison to Saab or MiG.

May be not in terms of radar.

February 5, 2009 at 5:42 pm in reply to: The F16 C/D block 52+/block 60 vs F/A 18 E/F Super Hornet #2462311

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Hence the relevence of Radar source codes 🙂
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