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Russians are bad at EW technology. When were real American and Israeli tech used to stop TB-2? Did USAF send in their F-35s or growlers in one of these missions? Yes any fighter jet can easily take down these types of UCAVs. That's why they are great when the enemy does not have air...

Well, you were on the right track until your next post below, which I also replied to. As for the former, the utility of having these small UAVs (which TB-2 is, but Akinci is not) is that they are relatively hard to track and they can stay up in the air forever. You have to have a certain...

The reality is that it's a slow moving and maneuvering UCAV with no stealth. It will get tracked very easily and there is a lot of time for enemy to scramble a jet to intercept it. Wars are not fought in vacuum. It's amazing the kind of stuff I read sometimes. UCAVs are great when you can...

It's a slow moving/maneuvering turboprop UCAV with very large RCS. Inherently not all that survivable. Why do people keep saying you want to use this in A2A roles or against advanced SAMs? It's just ridiculous.

IMO, if PAF really wants to threaten Indian air defense and military bases, it should try to eventually import GJ-11 or CH-7 from China. The current UCAV you see are pretty low tech stuff. They are cheap to operate to attack armored vehicles or army groups that have no air protection at all...

Wait PAF F-16s don't even have DRFM jamming or AIM-9X and people here are eager for more of them? DRFM was high level of technology back in 2000s. It's not something you want to use against modern AESA radar aircraft anymore. No wonder PAF realized them needed J-10C. That level of technology...

Sure, but that advantage goes away the minute you start hanging missiles and fuel tanks outside. As much as I mock su-57 for not being a true 5th generation aircraft, it's RCS will be an order of magnitude lower than any aircraft carrying missiles externally Right now, there are basically 4...

In general, aesa technology is more advanced. It's better at eccm, harder to get picked up by opposing maw and should generate more power for longer track range. As such, against more advanced target aircraft, it should have a better chance of tracking them at range. There were some earlier...

All batch 2 J-20s (produced since 2nd half of 2019) have been with WS-10C. You can easily spot them by looking at the nozzles. There are about 60 of them produced by the end of 2021. Even the US intelligence would admit to that.

hmm, you are going to have access to more advanced aircraft than you ever would have through Western channels. Right now, we have 2 countries that have produced 5th generation aircraft. By early 2030s, those same 2 countries will be producing 6th generation aircraft. It seems like PAF is...

Right, building turboshaft and turbofan engine is the same thing. Lol, the kind of hilarious stuff that I read sometimes. And both of which are obviously years and year away from actually being ready to be reliable and used in production aircraft. So you are promoting a half complete model...

Take it easy people. At worst, pl15e has slightly worse kinetic performance than pl15. It is still a really long ranged aam with nez that's probably well north of 50km against rafale. How much longer do you need than that? More importantly, it is probably the only aam in the world using aesa...

If you have full control of air space, then you can do whatever you want. But something in that configuration would have very low maneuverability and no stealth. The survivability even against something like Mig-21 would be pretty low. the main pro for UCAVs vs manned aircraft is its loiter...

lol, you don't use a gunship for firing BVR missiles. That is a terrible idea. it really isn't. The fact it has done well simply shows you how MIA the RuAF have been. Now, if you think in general that UCAVs eat armored vehicles for lunch, that's probably true. But there are a lot of UCAVs...

dude, chill. It's not a fighter jet. It looks like a AC-130 style gunships. You wouldn't want it to do more than CAS. It's nothing all that complicated.

I think this is a pretty big deal. The air defense system will be a big deal. If PAF is getting HQ9B and YLC8E + I guess JY-27A from before, then you have the basis of a modern air defense network that can detect stealth aircraft at medium to long range. I'm assuming that PAF would have to be...

As someone who has followed this area for a long time, I can tell you there are no accurate disclosure of dry thrust for any ws10 version. Al31 dry thrust is not meaningful here. They are completely different engines. Therefore, analysis of how much power it can generate for ew suite based...

Do not underestimate what US would ask for. After all, UAE gave up on F-35 purchase due to overly onerous demand. China is exporting J-10C to Pakistan with the full expectation that US would likely have more access to J-10C than vice versa with F-16. Keep in mind that PAF still cannot use...

Right, none of these are really legit sources for dry thrust. Most of the commentary from Chinese sides have been just comparing the thrust with afterburners. The only thing we know is that the WS-10 has thrust of 12.5 with afterburners, WS-10B is most likely using the version with 12% bump in...

Again on the topic of Chinese aircraft EW capabilities, it's very advanced. Not my word, from USAF https://www.airforcemag.com/article/dominating-the-spectrum/ Now, USAF is probably overly alarmist with this statement, but at a minimum this means China has gotten USAF attention at how good...