egypt is logical, because of suez canal, i dont see the logic in giving it away to israel tho

Powerful lobbies.

P(обнаружения) – “вероятность обнаружения” – probability of detection, IMHO

Can’t be, it gets higher for lower RCS.

Uhh ?
Source for a) and b) please ?

It’s a well known fact the Rafale’s radar is fixed, not swash-plate mounted. And it’s an equally well known fact that it only has a one way data link.

If you count like 6-8 meteors+ 2 MICAs + the pylons and a centerline tank that may be close to 16 times a clean rafale. Should the pointer even have MICAs, it depends on its RCS vs the RCS of the rafale. The rafale is said to have a really low RCS, so…

The pointer could fly towards the targets at low speed to reduce closing rate, reduce its RCS and expose its radar, from about 150-200km. As soon as the missiles have hit, it would escape in AB. The acceleration of a clean rafale is very good, so it might be able to escape. If the enemy planes are not too dangerous, the 2 rafales can continue to engage with their MICAs, otherwise they escape.

Only if you call ‘really low’ 0.1-0.3m^2 clean.

Two problems, the Rafale would have to wait for a long time before escaping because a) It has no radar swash-plate and b) it has no two way data-link to verify what the missile is doing or has done.

And if the enemy planes are 5th gen, the Rafale will be dead long before it’s even realised they’re there.

GHz is my guess.

And the wings are an obvious and distinct feature of the Wright Flyer.
That the Chinese have went after every military technological know how by buying, cooperating, hacking, spying, etc, its not exactly news, so have every other military power on earth:

That doesnt mean that the J-20 was developed anywhere other than in China, its telling that even with the spying, the hacking, whatever, the Chinese have chosen a very diferent platform by comparison with what the US and Russia are developing.

Not really, the wing planform is very similar to the 1.44 too.

The problem is the Chinese don’t just copy military technology, the internet is awash with examples of them copying literally everything.

The Have Doughnut was designed to evaluate the MiG-21, not copy it, hence nothing resembling a MiG-21 entered service for the US.

They’ve copied more than one aircraft but it’s still fairly obvious which bits came from where. It looks like the hell spawn child of a 1.44 and F-35.

And where exactly would they use a copy of the F135?

First in what?

J-20, or maybe just reverse engineer the technology. It may even have been the adaptive cycle tech they were trying to steal for the F135’s successor.

Anything really.

An AMRAAM can pull 40g at 15,000ft.