According to Singha on BR, the radar is EL/M-2032. Looks like MMR is dead. Maybe upgrade to 2052 later when it is available.

“All inlets are critical in flight, subsonic or supersonic. ”

Don’t change what a person said in order to start a flame war in this thread. Post a DSI thread if you want to discuss that.

No, I am not interested in neither starting a flame war nor starting a useless thread. If you feel irked about someone pointing the obviously ridiculous figure of sixteen minutes test flight, what can I say?

The DSIs used on FC-1 for sure would have been wind tunnel tested, but they wouldn’t factor in the test flight unless the plane went supersonic, which I would bet it didn’t.

BTW, the DSI affect subsonic as well as supersonic flight. The F-16 DSI test flights resulted in superior subsonic performance.

Sure, DSI do affect, but it will be CRITICAL in supersonic.

Isn’t that remarkable? You do a full SIXTEEN minute test flight and it is ready for serial production!! What did they verify? That it can fly straight, come back and land?

Recently in the series “Airplane” a Southwest plane at the gate got hit while on camera. Inspection shown a hole on the belly.

I think the real reason is, if you use fluoroscent lighting, you will misjudge the fan speed. The spiral will clearly show the actual rotation. That will help maintenance crews. JM2C

denlop, a lot of stuff come to Pakistan in the name of war on terror which has in fact no use against either the terrorists in Afghanistan or “freedom fighters” in Pakistan. It is just a feel good factor. “See we got this super-duper indgeneous kool stuff and the “enemy” is crapping in their pants, (oops dhothies)”. There is no other use for them, unless someone in a powerful position actually believe that BS and do any misadventure. Not that these things have any significance then either.