Means the pak-fa can exceed 34mbs. This is also the equipment we know about. Its probably just the bottom ability. The article says this can be expanded or made greater by more channels. How much more is probably the secret we would love to know. They are giving out details which gives comfort to opponent’s, with surprises when its needed.

well that can just be said about anything western or estern system, we may not actually know anything
Meteor may have 300 km range
F-35 may be super agile
T-90 ERA may not be effected by tandem warhead
S-400 may have 100 % hit rate
….. etc

Bm, you don’t know what you’re talking about:

https://www.sbir.gov/sbirsearch/detail/415307

…and before you get too excited about Gb/s, note the preceding word “scalability”.

MADL is on f-35,B-2 for super LPI+ high speed data link
L-3 is basically upgrade for all AESA equip fighter for high speed data link(it have lpi too but less advance compared to MADL)

basically when trying to talk to other fighter f-35, b-2 use L-3 ( AESA data link) when it between themselves ( stealth asset) they use MADL)

These are lab tests. But actual equipment used on current planes such as f-18, f-35 not using asea but normal communication. Im assuming the Pak-fa asea will have similar function to those tests. But standard data communication. I know western fighters talk of 16 bit link but what is this in transfer rates

no they are starting to use AESA to transfer data because it use directional beam that very narrow thus harder to detect , all US fighter that have AESA radar will have that ability in future
the 34 mb/s data transfer rate on PAK-FA likely use the same method too ( ie : data link by AESA )
technically you can say the result of PAK-FA is lab test too
f-18 E/F, f-35 , F-22 all going to use datalink by AESA radar , f-35 and B-2 will have MADL as well

MiG-31bm, you’re talking about using AESA radar transmission. The two are very different:

In the same vein the PAK-FA could use it’s AESA X and possibly L-band.

If the above quote is accurate then Link-16 has a data transfer rate of 163.84Kb/s (kilobits per second). Which makes 34Mb/s pretty impressive (i.e. >200x faster):

http://vpk.name/news/116510_opk_sozdala_novyie_radioelektronnyie_sistemyi_dlya_istrebitelya_5_pokoleniya.html

you cannot compare them like that Link-16 is quite old and it equivalent is not PAK-FA’s data link ( very different time period ) , PAK-FA go into service very far in future , as a matter of fact USA are changing from Link 16 to L-3 data link ( AESA radar data link ) with 274 megabytes a second , so in future that what PAK-FA datalink have to compare to
( it like no one going to compare T-90 with Panther tank because they are from really different time period )

Report in Russian military website. Pak-fa has the ability to communicate with other planes, ground etc at 34Mb a second. But this can be improved by increasing channels. How does this compare with western fighters.

western datalink is 8 times faster

. They then demonstrated the transfer of a 72 MB synthetic aperture radar image in 3.5 seconds at a data rate of 274 Mbps

During the mission, the team transmitted and received in full duplex at 274-megabits per second burst rate.

http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/elec-tricks-turning-aesa-radars-into-broadband-comlinks-01629/

Raytheon has demonstrated the system can transmit data at rates of 274 megabytes a second — “a speed that starts to approach instantaneous –

http://www.aviationtoday.com/av/military/AESAs-Advantages_25395.html#.U__3v8VdWbM

Thanks for all the fascinating (and entertaining) replies so far, sorry mine has been so delayed. For clarification the ‘hero’ will definitely not be piloting – at this point in the book he/she is a relatively unwilling but more or less cooperative civilian scientist with little or no idea why the USAF is so keen for them to get to Alaska without delay, so if any kind of specialised outfitting, training or prior experience is essential (as opposed to preferred) to just sit in the aircraft it probably won’t work.

To go into a little bit more detail, time and therefore speed is absolutely crucial to this portion of the plot. The main character is being flown likely from somewhere in Pasadena, probably by an LAPD AS350, to Edwards – a flight of roughly twenty minutes as best I can tell. Assuming Edwards are alerted at the same time while adding in the time it takes for the USAF to contact the LAPD, get the AS350 airborne, fly to Pasadena, land and pick up the confused main character, Edwards likely have about half an hour to get something ready to fly within a couple of minutes of the AS350 touching down. Alternatively if there’s ultimately not much difference in sustainable speed I may just have the AS350 drop the main character off at a commercial airfield next to a Cessna Citation X or Gulfstream G650 the USAF have commandeered for the occasion.

Roughly what kind of speed could the B-1B and F-15D/E maintain for the entire flight beyond their official cruising speeds? As previously mentioned neither aircraft can sustain supersonic speeds for the whole flight – but what speed might they be able to attain and maintain (assuming ideal altitude and performance and that it doesn’t really matter if the aircraft collapses into a pile of burning wreckage after it lands so long as the scientist character arrives as quickly and safely as possible)? Aside from dramatic impact the main reason I am looking at using a military jet is because I am assuming that combat aircraft and crews are inherently better equipped for being rapidly prepped for flight as well as being pushed beyond their normal performance envelope.

The main focus of the book will push suspension of disbelief a bit far so I want to make as much of the rest as realistic, grounded and factually accurate as possible (or at least as realistic as the US government stuffing a terrified scientist into a fast jet and lobbing them towards Alaska at breakneck speed can ever be). That said, my one concession to my own “no proposed/retired/hypothetical aircraft” rule is that I am considering having a B-1 variant feature in a pivotal role later in the book (something extremely similar to the proposed B-1R with F119 engines so it is at least close to being a real world aircraft – also, I am working on the assumption that this would be capable of supercruise) but with a very different mission and only after the main character has arrived at Elmendorf as it is directly related to the nature and location of the crisis.

Once again, thanks for any and all answers that have or will be provided, this is greatly appreciated.

B-1 can maintain about mach 1.2 at altitude