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Perhaps I wasn't clear. 9100kgs is not the empty weight. It is the loaded weight. I'm not saying the mentioned loaded weight is wrong. What you said is indeed true. But with the above loaded weight, the TWR of the JF-17 is only 0.91. The only way JFT would get a TWR of 1.1 is when it is loaded...

For one thing, Wiki should not be trusted. For the second thing, only the wing span is mentioned with wing tip missiles. Empty weight is left without any conditions implying it is the empty weight. Normal Loaded weight has conditions with wing tip missiles. In any case, that wiki info is...

What? No one calculates empty weight with weapons. There is a reason why it is called "Empty Weight".

True. There is the latest info on JF-17 on Farnborough's board, and also on the 2008 IDEAS board. I have posted it here- http://www.defence.pk/forums/1105775-post468.html

He is right. TWR of 1.1 is not accurate. There has to be a limit where one can lie. I have posted a response here if anyone is interested. http://www.defence.pk/forums/1105775-post468.html

There are a lot of Myths in this thread. I don't even know where to begin. Anyway, I'll just list some which I read. Myth: RD-33 is a smoky engine while RD-93 is not. Reality: RD-93 and RD-33 are the same engines. The initial RD-33 smoked a lot, but the RD-33 series 2 & RD-33 Series 3 don't...

HAL, due to its incompetency, has run outta money while manufacturing the 140 fighters, as correctly predicted by CAG, and now more money is allocated to HAL to continue production of 42 jets plus the 50-60 or so jets from the 140 jets initially allocated to HAL(HAL has finished manufacturing...

That is right. However CAG has already ripped apart the government for it. There are couple of things which are mentioned wrong. 1: HAL manufactures the jets here, not Russia. So there is no issue of price rise by Russians to begin with. As usual our reporters who are fit to write only...

Ah.. another member. I thought no one would have known about Area 88 here. I guess I was wrong. : ) I wish they make a second season.

Oh.. thought so. I've been looking everywhere, but couldn't find any. I guess these 2 are the only series there are in the world. And both of them are animated. I guess the chances of finding a non-animated series is close to zero. :( Glad to know someone here knows about Area 88. I guess...

This is a thread requesting recommendation on something military based. In any case, it's already posted here, and can be moved there by the admins if they think that's appropriate. I don't want to create duplicate threads everywhere. Please no off-topic posts from now on.

^ I have covered that aspect in my post. Please only respond if you have anything positive to contribute to the topic.

Why isn't there any off-topic forums in defence.pk. I was searching where to post this. In any case, since this is military based, I hope the mods will let it can stay here, or atleast move it to the airforce forum, where aviation fans are abound with good recommendations. ---------- Can...

Why are you keeping on repeating the same old thing again & again? Repeating the same thing doesn't make it more believable. Those ranges never mentioned under what circumstances. Only a fanboy who can't accept the truth, would reject solid official RCS numbers, and claim ranges for vague large...

What such bomber? Like I said, "large bomber" is very vague. A Tu-95's rcs is lesser than an IL-76 or even a Blackjack. Zhuk-MSF says a "large target". A Tu-16 is also a large Target. These kinds of vague phrases should be avoided at best. How can the M version improve for less power generated...

Yes, please do. That's probably due to advanced signal processors. U.S is the leader in this field afterall. So it's not surprising. If the detection range is higher then it naturally means the guy is able to get the info that there is an enemy out there and can caution his strike group to be...

I'll check that out tomo, benny. It's 1:30am here. :D

That guy is probably on crack. That's even more range than Raptors' APG-77!! lol If you go through the previous pages, you'll find a graph by that same website. There he has claimed a different range. We have an official brochure, which clearly mentions the range along with rcs for the latest...

^ That can't be right. They themselves released a graph which says otherwise. -------- Scenario 2: The RCS of a Mig-29SMT which is going around the net is 5m2. Zhuk-ME has a detection range of 120km for a 5m2 target. Lets consider a loaded Mig-29 to have an RCS of 8.5 +3.5 like a F-16...

The RCS of Su-30MKI is a number between 10-15m2, and the RCS of F-16 is 1-2m2. That's the unofficial fig which is going around on the net. Say a worst case scenario of a fully Air-Ground loaded MKI with an RCS of 20m2, and a fully loaded F-16 with an RCS of only 5m2. In this case, the MKI has a...