And what about costs? The bigger, the more accurate, the more powerful a IR seeker, the more expensive it is. With stuff like a target database and CPU to process it all, the unit cost will further increase. You might as well go for a proper AShM for sea targets and lasers will work just as well if not more so for guiding bombs on land.

your only going to use for a high profile target liked a $2 billion destoyer or a $20 billion nuclear aircraf carriers.not on a $6,000 truck liked the US does with it hi-tech weapons.

Because laser seekers are cheaper purhaps? :p There is also the issue of seeker range and targeting. The best IRAAM seekers can only get a lock on a very hot jet engine in a cold sky at a handful of miles. The ground is hotter, so will make the contrast lesser and reduce range, targeting ID will also be a problem for ground targets.

For targets like ships, there are hundred-mile-ranged AShMs because in this day and age, you are not likely to be able to fly anyhwere near close enough to a remotely capable warship to use bombs, even glide bombs. For unarmed merchants, dive-bombing with free-falls or unguided rockets straifing would be just as effective for a fraction of the cost.

well laser seeker is limit to about 6km and a very large infra-red seekers can be use on a big bomb you need to know what the the infra red signiture the targets in the data base.and target sigiture will be differnt than surronding object it can have very long detecting range.

lol, the silence is deafening after your reply to him 😀

no wonders ya outta office see you on the unempolyment line :diablo:

Pakistan-150 Agree
Myanmar-40/60 not sure about this one
Bangladesh-12 Agree, maybe even more
Zimbawe-30 Agree
Sudan-80 80 is way too many
Venezuela-100 too many
Albania-40 unlikely
Libya-150 I am not sure about this one
Nigeria-80 way too many
Egypt-120 very likely, amount unknown
Iran-150 likely
North Korea-40(free from PRC) maybe even more
Vietnam-70 impossible
Sri Lanka-30 possible
Indonesia-40/60 don’t think so
Philippines-40 very unlikely
Thailand-50 unlikely

Pakistan-150 maybe not that many
Myanmar-40/60 probaly some since they get alot aids from china
Bangladesh-12 another Myanmar
Zimbawe-30 30 too many
Sudan-80 80 is way too little they ships $ 2 billion of oils to china every years probaly more since the price of oils risen they better buy another 20 jets.
Venezuela-100 they only sell to venezuela if US sell more jets to taiwan.
Albania-40 Who they?.
Libya-150 for oils hell yes.
Nigeria-80 they just got $ 4 billions from china better buy another 20 jets again.
Egypt-120 maybe but the JEWS won’t liked about this one
Iran-150 $100 billions coming they way from china. double the orders!.
North Korea-40(free from PRC) none at all south korea is china more perfer allies.
Vietnam-70 not now but in the future maybe
Sri Lanka-30 Who they?.
Indonesia-40/60 $40 billions coming they way from china in the next decade I see 100 FC-1
Philippines-40 some but maybe just 20.
Thailand-50 not for frozen chicken or longon or lychee fruits. hahaha! :diablo:

more pix!

thoese RD-93 enigine dodn’t smoke as badly as the RD-33 but they still
smoke.

nice ones

Notice, that a ferry range of 3650 km never gives a real combat radius of 1650 km!
Except the weaponsload is reduced to two small AAMs alongside all ext. FTs. Even then with optimum height, reduced range-speed and avoiding different power-settings, required in true combat-flying.

well that goes to show you the spey turbofan is badly underpower rumor the next version will use the WS10A and that will grealy enchance the payload and endurnce hope it’s true about the new engine

Interesting how much people can write without having sligthest knowlegde (with some exeptions of course like the fellow I quoted).

With M0.37 and 19.5 degrees of alpha in 16.000ft the F-18 (or whatever) isn’t really in a favorable position. Next second it just falls out of the sky. If it was a dogfight, it was a very strange one and the F-22 (or whatever) was fooling around. In that altitude no F-22 (or any other fighter) would get so slow.
The “hunter” is himself in a pretty bad condition, having a miserable energy state and flying on the left edge of his flight envelope.

so you know how fast the raptors was flying?. huh!