Is the image correct?
Is it true the F-35 is superior to the PAK-FA simply because of its ridiculously powerful radar and jamming ability?
>inb4 but PAK-FA maneuverability
Doesn't mean anything if the enemy can kill you before you see him.
Is the image correct?
Xavier Rodriguez
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Anthony Taylor
You'll have better answers on /k/ and that's fairly true. Russian airframes are decades behind Americans.
Lucas Sanders
/k/ will give me meme garbage about the projects cost, not a decently well informed opinion.
Gavin Price
We don't know. The majority of the F35 program is Top Secret. Also, the project has been in development hell, so that slide you posted is likely a customer want, not necessarily a real combat test.
Jose Rodriguez
It's just a simulator using as accurate data as possible and I set the scenario up of head-on course with each other to see who would detect who first and who would react and how.
needless to say the F-35 closed to AIM-120D range of about 70km, fired 2, egress'd the area and the PAK-FA was killed before it could get in range for a shot.
This follows the line given by Lockheed and Northrop about how the F-35 is intended to engage targets in the real world.
but again, it's a simulation, so experts might be able to enlighten me on how the PAK-FA would counter such sophisticated AESA.
Angel Baker
The jammong capabilities aren't BVR (Beyond visual range) which is what the F-35 was built to excel at. Like you said
>T-50 maneuverability meme
When you get locked and shot down from 200 km's it doesn't matter if you managed to fit stealthy canards on your plane.
No matter what anyone on /k/ tells you a few things are true about stealth planes:
VHF and UHF radar frequencies used in early warning, and weather radar can detect a stealth plane just as easily as a comparable size conventional jet
The F-35's or F-22's or PAK FA-s or J-whatever the Chinese have radar's aren't E-3 tier. They will have an extremely hard time locking at even within visual range. The reason the F-35 simulates wins so often is the E-3 can data link to the F-35 and provide it targetting data. Which is incredible but otherwise the small low power acquisition radars on fighter jets will not be able to lock other very small rcs objects.
In terms of jamming, becaus the radars don't really matter against each other until the planes are VERY close, it won't matter plane to plane. But against assisting radars it will. So if the Russians came up with their own E-3 then the F-35's E war would give it a run for its money and significantly reduce it's effectivness. Finally is SEAD's. Or the meme magic buzzword on /k/. Supression of enemy aor defences is a philosophy of employment and technology that does exactly as it says. The F-35's E War is pivotal to that. It's not going to overpower huge truck based radar's in the slightest, it's not magic (despite what /k/ believes) but it will significantly reduce it's ability to provide accurate targetting and detection data.
Brayden Barnes
The jammers on the F-35 definitely are BVR, it's the jammers that allow the F-35 to engage enemy SAM sites without AEW&C aircraft like growlers sweeping first.
And like you said, the F-35 can be it's very own SEAD.
From the simulation testing, I see very powerful ground radar can detect the F-35 but any supplemented missile systems can't do anything with that data except watch the aircraft get closer and closer until GBUs are falling on them, then they can lock onto those instead.