this is where the full report starts

https://youtu.be/g2-gETOEFXM?t=51m34s

it will take me like an hour to type this (dont have rus keyboard) if you could ask paralay or berkut .. they are quicker @ typing

You can try this http://russian.typeit.org/ ,i just need the part where he talking about how they know the object in the area is a Predator and belong to US. Since you always reference Russian video , i figured that you may be able to speak or write Russian ( it would be rather weird if you cant ). Berkut and paralay probably not interested in writing transcript for video they didnt cite ,hence, i ask you.

1. he said predator class,

Now that is vague , there are probably hundred things that can be put in predator class depending on aspect angle , NCTR is never an easy thing , that why i said nothing seem clear here in this case.

i found the whole interview, i can summarize what he said.
“due to laying the blame for this on russia we are forced to release sensitive radar data, as we stated before syria is one of the places that we have a total radar “visibility”…. we noted a predator class unmanned drone ( from the coalition side) it was in the area when this happened and left 30 min later. Who ever was the owner of that craft needs to provide its data because they are the only ones that saw what had happened

I want the transcript crow, not that i dont believe you but i think it fair to provide a transcript when the language isnt English or may be you can write down what he said in Russian

you are right about the 29’s

(ignore the annoying music)
i do not know why they dont attack at night… maybe old nav units maybe not well maintained or maybe they rely on visual confirmation
They probably do not have the money for missiles (look at the barrel bombs they make…)

this is the transcript in english:
“Our military have already made statements that our aircraft did not operate here. The Syrian aircraft could not have operated [there], because the attack against the convoy was conducted in the night time and the Syrian Air Force does not perform flights in this time, it has no such capabilities. The attack took place after humanitarian cargo had already been offloaded in eastern Aleppo,” Lavrov

The problem here is you have very skeptical attitude regarding what US or western has to say , but then you are unable to keep the same skeptical attitude regarding statements comming from syria or Russia , that is worrying , because in reality , may be they both tell the truth , but there is also chance that they both lying too.

The pic i showed you is the s-400 range of radar and missile, thats how they know who is flying where the s-400 has an array of radars and moskva the flagship has its own radars. They can definitely see whats going on in Aleppo because its pretty close to the russian base

I agree that they have capability to detect something flying in the area but the question is how do they know it is a predator ? knowing something is over there and knowing exactly what it is , are not the same
And then what i said earlier apply too , there is nothing clear at the moment , you have no problem believing that the US is lying , but how come that doesnt apply to the otherside ? got it ? that why i said you are biased

glad you asked

a) b 17’s carpet bombed, there were 10’s if not 100’s of them just randomly droping bombs

Syrian airforce has a bunch of Mig-29 and Mi-24 , both has thermal system , the Su-24 can carry Kaira-24 IIRC , technology wise there is nothing stopping them from bombing at night really.

Statement about syrian AF : (in russian) https://youtu.be/4F6g7gVlX0E?t=1m21s 1:21-1:45

Give the Russian transcript pls.

b) US dose not disclose things like this and thats why the S-400 is there
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also moskva might still be there

Doesnt disclose what ? what are you trying to say with that photo ? and you haven’t answer the question , if US didnt disclosed information then how did they know a predator was in the area ?

How is that? because i quoted the russian MOD?

or because by pure coincidence the rebels decided to coincidentally change their mortar positions just as the aid convoy was rolling through the streets in broad daylight with drones and the VSS watching? (perhaps their thinking: “maybe if we blend in with the trucks, the russians will think we are carrying aid too” facepalm…)

No , but because of how you treat similar case of collateral damage so differently just depending on the country who did it. ” It is not a bombing because the truck was mostly intact ” ? what kind of stupid logic is that ?. And just because the moderate truck was near the convoy doesnt make that attack an acceptable thing to do , you have to think about the colletaral damage. This kind of behavior from either US or Russian is irresponsible and disgraceful , and cause load of innocent people to die.And if you cant see the problem with that then you either blind or delusional

Nope but it’s pretty obvious that the swash plate is a dead end, as logic dictates that the future will be “smart skin” with 360° multifunction GaN coverage.

Nic

Quite sure that you wont have 360 uniform radar coverage on a fighter even with smart skin, jesus the cooling and power requirements would be enormous, and then the cost.

What it DOES NOT do is reduce the time needed to scan a given volume (at least in a significant way). That time is limited by the speed of light (emitted signal has to come back to the source…).

I disagree, electronic scanning do improve scan rate, especially with big aperture, you are not going to steer something as big as the SPY-1, SBX-1, NEBO SVU at the rate of dozens – hundreds degrees /second using mechanical ways.

There was never a Ramjet AARGM-ER design proposed. The Navy did an internal trade study as part of the AOA to see what may work within a given cost and performance scenario and that trade study included everything from a solid rocket motor, liquid ramjet to solid IRR. Raytheon at one point had a ramjet HARM that they flight tested but AARGM is different from the HARM.

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Isnt that the only difference between AARGM and HARM is the seeker?
BTW, iirc there was a consideration to make the Meteor dual role (similar to T-3 program) sadly, it doesn’t seem to go any where.