That’s depend of what version of APG 68 or RDY we are talking about. When the F 16 blk 52 (or 50?), Mirage 2000 and Gripen C competed for the Polish contract, the RDY had the longest detection range, followed by the APG 68(V)9, and the Gripen’s radar was the last.
This is very, very intersting, and confirms my estimates.
What’s your source?
P.S.: The radar should have been the RDY-2, though…
MICA IIR is an all aspect missile with LOBL & LOAL modes and datalink updates for BVR engagements. MICA IIR can also be used as an extra sensor by Rafale’s weapon system.
MICA can be used as a FLIR, not IRST… and the same is possible for the Typhoon with its IRIS-T 😉 (source: RID)
First batch was for 30, and it looks like it is almost complete, which nice because the first 2 took forever.
Regarding MiG-1.42, gents, I think there is too little info on the program, coupled with the fact that it never gestated, to say if it was more or less advanced than F-22.
So, as of now, how many MiG-31 has the VVS decided to upgrade? 30 in total?
Yes. But as I said, Gripen etc. can guide missiles with their radars switched off.
Western designers all seem to have realised that one of the advantages of active radar missiles is that the launching aircraft doesn’t need to use a radar, if it can get targeting information from elsewhere, so provided their aircraft with separate data channels for communication with AAMs. Gripen makes a big thing of it. And, of course, it works equally well for IR homing missiles.
So… could a Typhoon uplink an AMRAAM without switching on its radar?
Whats the reasoning behind the land based version being cold-launched?
I think it’s due to the position of launchers… there’s no space between them and the ground so extremely hot exaust gas could damage the vehicle and its wheels.
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