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The Rafael “Drone Dome” system above includes 360 S-Band AESA (range to 30km), an EO/IIR sensor ball, RF detection & jamming capability, and now adds a 50kw laser to the mix.

If all he had was his own soapbox, then I could comfortably ignore him…

Unfortunately too many “reputable” publications will re-post his “analysis” without so much as a minute spend on fact-checking.

Then those get picked up and republished, and so on, and so on, etc.

Next thing you know I have relatives upset at a program they have no clue about.

Engines have nothing do with radars and don’t get me started on historical Russian Engine performance. :stupid:

first understand what is happening

Lol.. All of the top Western military powers are switching to AESA, as is Russia with the T-50, Mig-35, SU-35, etc… But a software updated Mig-29 MSA is comparable???? :very_drunk::stupid:

lol… It’s an F-16-sized AESA.. in fact the APG-83 (SABR) was chosen as the radar for the next version of the F-16 (ie Block 70).

Sorry to burst your bubble but older Russian tech (ie a Mig sized MSA) is not going to beat newer US AESA tech, especially since the APG-83 is derived from the F-35’s APG-81 (90% software mode compatibility).

The APG-79 AESA which is currently on the Superhornet was not available in 2002 as OPEVAL started in Dec 2006 for the APG-79.

Initial Super Hornets had the Classic Hornet’s radar for Block 1 which is what likely was used to compare to the Su-30MKM.

Am I surprised that a very large phased array ESA outperformed an older MSA, no… But that’s not the issue we’re talking about.