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May be a naive question: Can any block/version of J-10 overcome the limitations of JF-17 against Rafales?
If Yes, how and on what parameters J10 can cope with Rafales?
If No, do Chinese have an export variant of any aircraft which can take up the Rafales challenge?
Of course. J-10 has better range and performance. It can also fire more missiles and different weapons. J-10C has larger more powerful AESA but slightly older.
J-10C can shoot PL-15 and possibly PL-x. Will PAF buy J-10 and PL-x? Will China sell PL-x? I think the new missiles are all still kept as secret until the next, next generation is ready for service. Because these new missiles maybe just reach service, there is no chance China will sell and reveal them.
J-10C is better than block 3 but not by much. So why waste money instead of just invest into AZM. IAF will not have 100 Rafale just 36 and half will not be position so close to Pakistan because they need them on eastern side too. How many airbases can be destroyed by Pakistan and how many Rafale can shelter and reload? I think with block 3 in high number this is enough for Rafale even if block 3 is clearly inferior.
I'm pretty sure F-22s don't fly around in stealth configuration except in mainland USA for military purpouses. They purpousely increase their RCS with a little attatchment normally.
Apparently this was flying around Korea where it is detected. Rumor only but it's not hard to test this principle. This is just one way to defeat stealth and still really not very useful unless it can guide missiles over long range.
You can build a smaller flying F-22 model with lower radar signature even if correct manufacturing and materials is used with the right shape. To simulate real thing for air defence. They can be dropped to glide and test radar and missile or they can even be powered UAV. I think F-35 is actually more stealthy than F-22 because they use some different principles too in materials.
Similarly there have been multiple incidents of Chinese hackers getting hold of sensitive stealth documents.
Yes of course we want all the information we can get. Same with everyone else. They hack and steal too. America buy Kh-31 missiles not because they cannot make better but to test and to study for weakness. We hack F-35 to study for weakness or for example its real radar signature from different angles and see if there are things we can learn too. Whoever is leading some field will have his next follow behind him trying to see how he leads even if to just find weakness.
There are many purposes for these activities. Not all of them is just so to do a copy. If China finds information on missile top speed and real range, of course that is useful and not for reverse engineering.
you are right, just like everyone else we are using every methods to obtain information for every purpose. They do it too. But this stuff is just one side. China has had good aviation industry for military for 50 years at least. Many of our own projects and studies and experiments and many improvements made from Russian ones. It is not all just hacking and copying which is also very hard without those other things already mastered.
Look at AMCA drawings or KFX prototype or TFX drawings. They all look like F-22 and F-35. Does that mean they also hacked them as well? I think the design is easier. Hacking for more useful secrets is the purpose.
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