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Egypt was operating Mig-21 in the 1973 war and they performed pretty well with it against the F-4, the Sky hawk and the Mirage .. Now that was a plane 2 generations behind the SU-35 we are talking about.. this proves that the men using the machine are even more important than the machine itself..No its actively emits in the L band it isn't a passive receiver. Anything that emits can be detected.
Russian airborne radar and avionics in general is terrible, they make decent ground / ship based systems when unrestricted by volume, power and cooling. From the same source quoted by SC the side lobe performance of the horizontal eight element layout is poor. Poor side lobe performance translates to poor resolution, peak power performance and jam resistance.
Did you know the russian mission computer on the Indian Sukhoi's were so bad that the Indians replaced it with one made in India that runs on a COTS 1990 era I486 chip?
Russians make great jets for air shows don't exaggerate Russian capabilities just because Egypt was foolish enough to purchase Russian birds.
Well.. one can consider those wing mounted L band things as just sensors..still can be useful in detection since L-band radars are able to penetrate clouds, fog, rain, storms because of their range of frequencies in the radio spectrum from 1 to 2 gigahertz ..
The article is a 2008 one.. we can assume that many upgrades were performed on the technology used in these wing mounted small AESA sensors-radars in particular..