What radar is the new J-8IIM meant to use?

maybe the KLJ-6?

but why wouldn’t Iran just go for the J-10..

Bangladesh should rather consider buying Mi-24s and Mi-17s to support their UN operations. What do they need F-7s for?

for air defence what else? :rolleyes:

Now who’s running away with her imagination? 😉

for chinese exported aircraft I think we have achieved a breach in Africa. Wonder if this can be replicated in South America, and by that I mean not just Cuba and Venezuela but the other major countries. Brazil and Argentina I think are the key. Maybe they would be interested in having their own production line for the FC-1, I think the Brazilians have a taste for manufacturing their own stuff, and they arent really happy with the Mirage 2000s that don’t have the Mica and the F-5s that are, no matter what modifications you make, underpowered and lack range.

Market penetration in South America is a great opportunity waiting to be taken. The purchasing decisions made by Brazil or Argentina are far less politically swayed.

Concerning Venezuela and Cuba, they too need replacement of their planes. Cuba badly needs it as their handful of MIG-29s are rather poor and getting old and outdated. Chavez wants a replacement for the F-16s. FC-1s are just right for these two countries.

The J-8II and FBC-1s are ideal for Brazil and Argentina, because of the range and payload that these countries could possibly want.

One problem is the lack of a strong diplomatic and political move by china to push for a bigger role in South America. I think with the present political climate this will change and as china completes its roundup of Africa we’ll see more attention being paid to South America.

I’d actually give credit to star for bringing this up because I scent that the external improvements such as LERX and DSI are accompanied by an equal amount of internal improvements. With the old slotted array radars the US are offering pakistan with their f-16s (and this is considered High tech) the JF-17 has come up to that level (and is therefore also being considered high tech). Mush may be an army man but I clearly remember him before calling the JF-17 ‘mid-tech’ (read low tech).

I’d actually expect PESA radars with the second batch or so..

The quality was poor originally, but has drastically improved as the technological base matured. Funny an Indian would be talking about quality when their planes tend to fall out of the sky all by themselves.. 😮 😉

Just reading through, some arguments make it sound like a PESA radar would have a greater detection range… could this also mean that the PESA radar would be a better counter to a stealth plane?

Also:

An AESA radar would have better multimode capabilities but for a pure air superiority fighter would this mean that a PESA could function in practical terms as well as an AESA?

Lastly:
the F-22 radar is claimed to emit a “special frequency” once this is figured out would it not be easy to detect it? Or maybe it has a mm frequency wave length but even in that case would not figuring out that frequency make it vulnerable in real air combat?