An ADS with 35mm~76mm AHEAD AA-GUN and TOR/HQ-17 is Ideal solution to deal with UAV threat.especially AHEAD AA-GUN will defeat every UAV that is below 3000m heigh efficiently.
Without a perfect C4IRS system and general data link of the three services,It will be difficult for you to take advantage of SH15 as a digital gun.How can you command each gun and let them aim the target automatically when you don't have such C4IRS SYSTEM?
It fit nearly every country that has not such high budget but want to buy as many howitzers as possible,Quantity itself is the greatest quality for someone who is preparing a total-war to his enemy.
100 engines are not enough,when each TFX need two engines.Or Turkey only want 50 or enven less TFX fighters?Turkey will finally have to go for a new engines soon or later.
Do you know why no one buy archer system?It's really extreme high cost that as a mounted howitzer,only stupigs will go for the mounted howitzers but not SP howitzers when they have such High budget.
IMO,250KM is hard to reach.We can see the air-cooled LKF601E's Rated power is ≤11KW,it means each TR modular will reach 10w~12w in air-cooled mode and a Similar TR modular will rise to higher(maybe 14W~15W) in liquid-cooled mode,but old RD-93 engine will hard to supply such electric power to it...
I just reply #2080,he said huateng corporation finished a 680M dollars contract and signed a new 280M dollars contract for someone(most likely Algeria).(Huateng corporation is belong to China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation Limited)
GaN. T/R Modulars based on GaAs had been eliminated in China and if you had been to zhuhai-airshow 2021 you will find all the new AESE Radars were using GaN T/R Modulars.
New air-cooled LKJ-601E had improved it to more than 200KM against typical fighter,i think as a winner of the competing liquid-cooled KJL-7A should do better.
611 Institute Researched&Designed J-10 and CAS manufactured it with many technologies that was introduced from the Europe,they(Europeans) helped a lot.
Mig-29 is suitable for CCCP but only suitable for CCCP,that is the problem.Mig-29 will defeat F-16A with its BVR capability, helmet sight system and R-73 SRAAM in the Europe,but F-16C is another story it's much more powerful than F-16A and Mig-29s.