great read Zare 🙂
so we can conclude that it isn’t advisable for craptor to tackle Su-35BM with 120-C7

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080122/tpl-uk-russia-spain-flights-43a8d4f_4.html

I wonder which particular oil magnate is funding the overtime for this one…

http://tinyurl.com/2t6lxz

The MiG-31M was an 80’s/90’s program to refine the MiG-31 with various airframe changes, new avionics, and the addition of six conformal stations for the new R-37 AAM. This is NOT the same aircraft as the current MiG-31BM upgrade. The MiG-31M was one of the post-Cold War programs that didn’t survive into the 21st Century. It never reached service, and only a handful of prototypes were built.

Also, the MiG-31BM will have an upgraded Zaslon radar set, but it isn’t being replaced completely with the MiG-31M’s Zaslon-M set as far as I am aware.

Zalson-M upgrade was necessary after Tolkachev leaked info.
This upgrade was introduced in 1990.

“A new version of the ‘Foxhound’ with upgraded avionics, the MiG-31B, was introduced in 1990 ts development was the result of the Soviet discovery that Phazotron radar division engineer Adolf Tolkachev had sold information on advanced radar to the West. Tolkachev was executed, and a new version of the compromised radar was hastily developed. Many earlier MiG-31s were upgraded to the new standard, designated MiG-31BS.”

http://www.wikimirror.com/Mikoyan_MiG-31

^^ keep telling yourself that.

1. MiG-31 (Zaslon-M)
2. F-22A (turbo, laser)
3. SU-27SM (AL-31FM1 engines)
4. SU-30MKI
5. Mig-29SMT (over typhoon any day)

well its obvious AESA’s have much better beam agility, but its not as if modern PESA’s are like 50 year old MSA’s in this area either. Clearly, the AESA will have a more diverse collection of LPI modes than any PESA, but a modern PESA should have a decent collection of LPI functions built into it, I dont pretend to have access to classified information or to even comprehend all the math involved (not my area of research at all), but a modern PESA should create some of the same problems an AESA creates for RWR developers. They certainly arent just dumb 20kw flashlights.

Could not have said it better myself. 😀

I disagree here. I am not a bi fan of the plasma stealth claim. I am simply missing any useful scientific and/or logical background for this. How exactly should this plasma thing work?

well soyuz basically summed it up, I’m sure djcross might know a thing or two, but I’m done mentioning it.

Why should I be an expert on plasma stealth to not know that the Raptors RCS claim isn’t far fetched?

and please since you know so much about plasma explain to us how it can’t have an RCS of 0.0002m2 for nine microseconds
and how many megajolts does it require for your brain to work properly?

This value could be correct for a very specific angle, specific radar wavelength and specific factors of other parameters playing a role. Other than that, Raptor’s typical RCS values could be ca 10-50 times higher from frontal aspect and 100-5000 times higher for other angles, which is still a pretty impressive figure.

Yeah, but that could be said about any jet then (specific angle, specific radar wavelength, etc..)
I don’t care how much and what kind of RAM it’s using at 62 feet long, 17 feet height, and 44.5 feet wingspan It won’t look like a golf ball. LOL!
Plasma stealth sounds more reasonable.