Now, the N011M was the tail stinger radar, yes? Or was it an upgraded radar for the nose?

Reason I ask is that 711 doesn’t have the white dielectric tip in the tail stinger, leading me to believe that it was not fitted with the tail radar. Whereas, 712 DOES have the white dielectric tip.

(I hate that this and my other thread are separated because it seems like they are revolving around the same issue. Could a mod merge the two?)

I didn’t notice that at first. I was paying more attention to the bort number.

You’ve got a good eye.
This means that not only 711 had a rear facing radar (or at least, was prepared to have one installed), but 712 was also.

Good wiki’s will have a whole list of open source references at the bottom. It should be fairly straightforward to assess the accuracy of a wiki on that basis. Just as one would to to assess and article in a professional journal. In that sense, it is folly to dismiss wiki outright.

Your statement pulled from the Wiki page didn’t have a source. I checked.

Like I said, usually Wiki is a very good source for information. But only when sourced. The statement on rear facing radars was not sourced and was labeled as [citation needed].

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And haavarla has a good track record from what I’ve seen.

I’m usually okay with getting things from Wikipedia, but when it’s unconfirmed things that have a track record of being more ideas than serial components, I’d like some other sources.

I think the designation I’ve heard for the tail radar in both the Su-34 and 35 is N012.

Any truth to this? And is it on the serial aircraft?