However SM6 has some drawbacks:
Depend on AWACS to increase range (>400km with E2D)
. The purpose of AWACS or 3 party guide is to extend radar horizon again low altitude targets ( this is the same case for all kind of surface launched missiles not just SM-6). In case of DF-21, it is a ballistic missiles, ballistic missiles do not, in any situation, cruising at low altitude, so third party guide for SM-6 isnot necessary ( at the altitude that DF-21 flying, radar horizon will be in order of thounsands km) .
p/s : OP, no offense but i think your understandingof basic physics is very shallow so you really should improve it first , otherwise everyone here will just keep making fun of you, which personally i find it not very nice.
Despite F-22, B-1B, and all the goodies USAF has, they chose using A-10Cs with good old Mk series bombs and its 40 year old Gattling gun.
B-1 do ways more sorties than A-10, and even A-10 also use AGM-65 and CBU-105 for many of its mission. The only reason they sometimes use gun is to reduce collateral damage ( since bombs, missiles have very wide destruction radius)
Russian prefer to spend their money into the targeting system aboard of their planes instead than in the ammo itself, precision is just slightly worse but the cost is way inferior.
a slightly worse accuracy is a very exaggerated statement,again stationary target, precision of dumb bombs is ways worse than guided bomb. Again moving target, it pretty much pure luck to hit them with dumb bombs.
And you are talking like Western aircraft doesn’t have targeting system at all.
Range 750 km, radius 263 km
where does this range – radius value come from? and what profile is it?
The Su-35S..
sukhoi family (su-27 and it’s various version all have structure G limit of 6G with full internal fuel tank)
P/s :please use normal aircraft name like normal people, intentionally miss spell is very childish
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So readers can only accept or reject any non-public-domain material that I post, based at least partly on my track record over the last decade or so in this and other fora.
What gets annoying is when some people are not happy to disbelieve and reject, but want to use their imperfect understanding or even erroneous opinions to “prove” that what I said was technically wrong.
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Dude , people will reject an idea if they think it is wrong , and when people think an idea is wrong they will try to disprove it , nothing abnormal with that . And whether you are legit or not we cant know for sure , everyone is entitled to their own opinions on that matter
I think in hindsight that Northrop Mc Donnell Douglas’s YF-23 could be the new JSF.
the F-35 is a complete waste of time and money when you have PAV 1 & PAV 2 sat collecting dust, when they could be developed as the new fighter bomber.
She has large weapons bays a longer range than the F-22 and is stealthier.
money does not grow on tree , redesigning YF-23 for STOVL and CAPTOR would be extremely expensive , een the airfrorce version gonna be much more expensive than f-35
True she doesn’t have STOVL but why design a bird for 3 different missions? All those tax dollars going to waste
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It is even more expensive to design aircraft that only fit their specific mission
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How can I claim “superior technology”? I’m an analyst, and don’t manufacture anything. My only end product consists of sheets of A4 paper covered with lines of 11pt Helvetica text.
You expect us to accept a posting on a Russian aviation forum as evidence on a technical issue?
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Mecurius, the problem is none of us can know for sure whether you are an actual analyst or not, just like we cant be sure whether the post on Russian forum belong to a pilot or not. Since neither provide any source to back up what they say so you cant blame people for being skeptical
Another set of great observations by TomcatVip & Hopsalot, thanx, my votes are fun 4/5, content 0/5.
The highlighted area above is the MultiFunctional Antenna GaN AESA to be used as RWR, directional data links and possibly (?) active radar,
if you talking about the wing tip then a radar of that size would be close to useless to detect anything further than 1-2 km
Is directional GaN EW suite & directional datalinks 6 gen? Perhaps since some of it obviously isn’t present in “5”gen.
directional EW and datalink are present on 5 gen too
Always same story, they comparate it with a F-16 and after it say that it is a game changer.
One entered service in 1978, other still have to do it in 2016 so it’s a 48 year span between the two. Also because Danish, Belgian , Dutch and Norwegian have just F-16A/B block 15.
It’s like to make a comparison between a MiG-23 MLD and Su-35S or in our case between f-104S and Typhoon block 3A.
The evaluation in Denmark do compare Eurofighter , F-18E/F and F-35
Survivability rating
Effectiveness in relation to mission type :
Because SEAD/DEAD missions are not carried out against centralized, immobile targets somehwere in nowhere and unprotected. They have early warning radars, procedure to send interceptors and focusing their search on the coordinates of VHF radars. .
The early warning radar will be detect and located by asq-239
Not from any ranges that would matter, if you can see it with they can see you long before that. .
What is this assumption based on?
where is the evidence that S-400 can burn through F-35 jamming long before F-35 can locate it by SAR and GMTI
The VHF radars would so take care of the first part of the acquisition sequence, looking throught the whole sky in Wide search mode, they will detect incoming aircraft and give an initial assestment of its own position and ABOVE ALL route and pass the information to the decimetrical and centimetrical that would search just that portion of sky using narrow o even a spot on search mode , using such modes resolution and the range increase dramatically as they concentrate their power beam in just a portion of sky in order to reduce the acquisition boxes after they would pass the obtained data to SAM batteries that would launch missiles.using their own radars to do mid course guidance, usually such radar would be positioned at a consistent distance one from the other and would so illuminate the targets from different directions.
Give a look to the document Ozair has send there is a good illustration of how the NEBO_M i.e. their latest operative air defense radar complex operate.
No offence but i think you have a wrong perception of how a radar works , when they say a radar have FoV of 120 degree or 360 degrees , that doesnt mean it will transmit a beam that is 120 degrees wide , the beam of fire control radar is normally only 1-2 degrees wide.You can focus the radar beam but only to a certain extend ( the limit is what we called gain )
Even in this case are we talking about an acquisition box of 200X 1600 meters at 100 nautical miles
the box is 200*1600*5000 , that is a massive box , think about the different between attacking target flying at 45000 feet and 60000 feet.
nothing than a ARH seeker can’t cope with.
This the effect that RCS reduction and jamming have on missiles seekers
Problem lies probably more in elevation error but in this case
a altimetric radar can be easily added.
And how can that altimetric radar determine altitude of stealth aircraft ? , if it work in high frequency it wont be able to detect the platform , if it is low frequency then it would be inaccurate just like NEBO SVU
And Nebo SVU is a radar introduced in 2001, so hardly the newest kid on the block.
Unless there are some new VHF radar with much bigger aperture , i dont see any significant improvement in accuracy
For what I have seen looking into VHF radars brochures even the most modest ones claim a probable location errors of some hundreds of meters while ARh missiles ones claim their own seekes ranges in order of several kilometers or tenth of kilometers also, even in the case of low RCS targets.
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I think you mistaken between the range error and the angular error , iam talking about the angular error due to wide beam width