The su35 radar is a directional antenna which can be locked and seek over a target/area?, i mean a controlable antenna?, the EF/rafale radars are controlable antennas?

If these could be shut down and switch on, could be true LPI radars,not as LPI is known nowdays, but if you can control the direction of your antenna , you can add uncertainly of the true position of the emissor (since the receptor doesnt know the antenna position), of course that would only work if

1-You can contror ur antenna
2-You can switch off ur radar (and have a datalink with other radars with the same nature)

Anyway, on brute performance TVC gives you a clear advantage, now if we compare radars, ECM, ECCM…ECCCCCM….is hard to know..at the end all sides can upgrade their planes, so..

bout ROE’s in peacetime exercise such as minimum seperation

Believe me, you will find the same problems even in peace-time excersices, no matter how you think, a plane is not fully controlable

How in the world can a direct quote of a RAAF pilot be misinterprated ? Are you saying he doesnt know what he is talking about??

Sometimes ppl dont know how to report (im not commenting about the pilot), still i find interesting that pic just came out from nowhere…i have found on other ocasions some fantastic quotes from pilots, dont know if were done as a joke or as a real claim

I understand, the plane can do this and that..

F-22 pilots demonstrated that cruise altitude has a significant effect on combat performance, and routinely attributed their altitude advantage as a major factor in achieving an unblemished kill ratio against other US fighters and 4th/4.5th generation fighters

from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor#cite_note-avweek_20070107_ul-35 , seems is quoted from aviation week

Absolute correct. When the simpleminded USAF took care about the ground-warfare, the Russians did held an air-parade in the stratosphere.

That “air parade” as you call is what give you the advantage on air combat since it give u better range on missiles, the decition from where you will attack, better energy levels to maneouvre and better control on the air-battlefield in general

MiG-29 and Su-27 still have adjustable inlets for Mach2+

A few seconds on speed is enough to launch your missiles , and give them the advantages of a high initial kinetic energy, is funny, because most ppl still think traveling 100000 kms at M1.5 is better to give kinetic energy than to launch them on a 100 km run at M2.5 -at least most ppl thought that when i came in this forum-

about the 20ks of modules on the tu-160, star49 and others, that is just a speculation , never has been thought, never was designed, so i dont get why such mess from just a idea

LoL, crazy claims vs crazy claims….funny funny

That point of view is popular and is good, but is not entirely true, radars have an aperture beam, them does not cover all the airspace, mobile antenas give you some alternatives to play, a radar can actually keep tracking planes while avoiding the ARM, if it calcule well the aperture, or just can ask asistence for another radar partner, which also can avoid the ARM and cover the area the other radar is not “watching”, also active heads helps in the game

Thanks for the link btw

You guys are overating the sa-10 as it would be the magic silver bullet

Aircraft forces would work effectivelly against sams , but only if you have numeric superiority (a bunch of planes jamming one with out being worried by other sams), and if you could overwhelm the enemy with cruiser missiles, also ARM’s (the main weapon against radar sites) have their weakness

Is really hard for an ARM to take down a radar site once it shuted down it radar, you will find trouble with an active head, because the ground return, and a IR head won’t have enough range, since the signature of an radar site isn’t that big ,they can also been deceived easely against such target

Tactitians can shut down and switch on radars within time periods, dont think it will have a special effect for a missile against an air target, especially an IR head or active head missile seeker, you can also switch 2 or more radars, so if one is locked by an ARM and must be shut down, the other start to work on other place

Is not about the magic missile (s-300…or S-125 :rolleyes:), is about tactics, SAMs can effectivelly denie air superiority (specially movable ones),of course you can control the SAM treat with numbers, but in a one to one play, if both sides play well…SAMs (movable) wins, and at the end you will need your army to deal with the trouble

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Anyway, about the topic, someone can tell me what plane was considered for the interim bomber before the fb-22?