Why don’t you define for us the difference between “limited” LOAL and “true” LOAL.

IMO, there is no difference here, just semantics.. but it was not my claim, so you gotta ask lukos on that one..

As usual, no source. What is the basis for your claim that the AIM-9X has the potential to achieve “virtual immunity” to flares given that Mercurious and others have already provided credible information to the contrary. Certainly an imaging seeker has an improved resistance to flares, but “virtual immunity?” Nope…

Sorry, I can’t be bothered with constant looking for sources and evidence and whatnot.. really got no time for this.. Finally, I am not appearing before a court here, am I?

Nevertheless, that article of yours pretty much proves that IIR seekers already are virtually immune to flares at all ranges over 600 m.. On top of that, they are pretty much immune even below 600 m at angles beyond ~30 deg in azimuth and ~40 deg in elevation.. Further improvements in image recognition will have furthermore reduced the flare effectiveness cone to even more narrow angles and shorter range..

In other words, it’s becoming rather desperate.. I can safely kill my target in all thinkable scenarios except a tight tail chase when I am right behind him.. good.. if the guy has balls of titanium to try to counter my ASRAAM with flares (good luck!), then I’ll simply slay the sucker with a burst of my 30mm which just loves to finish off anything at 500 meter ranges.

6x GBU-10, 4x AIM-120C, 2x IRIS-T, 1x 1,000 liter EFT. That’s over 7,500 kg. If you replace AMRAAMs by Meteors and centreline fuel tank by a 1,500 liter version, you get another 620 kg, making the total loadout of almost 8,200 kg.

12 ton? that’s utter nonsense.. the MiG-35 only has 9 hardpoints, that would be over 1,300 kg per hardpoint, such load would be impossible to achieve even if the structure was able to hold it..

hopsy, quite on the contrary, your article proves his point. Lukos has claimed that

a) AIM-9X Block 1 did not have “true LOAL” which has been proven (read the limited lock-on-after-launch bit).
b) IIR seekers were pretty immune against flares and that the only deficiency was the image recognition algorithm. Now, your article shows that with an software upgrade you can achieve greater capability against aircraft employing flares.

Which is basically exactly what he has claimed, albeit using different words..

RT Arabic Victory Day parade video from Khmiemim airbase gives us a glimpse of 3 Russian special aircrafts – 1 x A-50 and possibly 2 x IL-20M (one looks like an upgraded variant) and another smaller turboprop with high mount engines which I cant recognise. Probably an An-140?

Which minute?

What exactly is there on the WAH-64Ds that they have to be replaced already?

Yes you would think that Klimov is working on it.. their exports depends on it. RD-93 is the same engine(core) as RD-33, but with different gearbox position. Like i said, Klimov need to step up the game if they want to stay relevant.

As said, they are putting the figure up to 98 kN on their ad posters. At 1,055kg that would put the engine right on par with the EJ200 (which is sufficient for a mid-tech fighter like the FC-1). Of course, I expect the service life to suffer a bit here..

Given the rising weight of FC-31, it would make sense if WS-13 engine is targeting F414’s output of 100 kN. IIRC P&W had plans to take F414 past 110 kN.

Russians should be able to make ~110-115 kN wet thrust out of an RD-33-class engine. At least that is the current technological level of Saturn Izd.117 (147 kN out of dry weight of 1,420 kg). Don’t know the specs of the future Izd.30, though..

Chinese propulsion is probably not up to that level yet, but they will have learned a lot out of their 117Ss.

will it be as capable as the mig-35?

Should be way beyond that..