Is that what they taught you? that 50% composites in a plane = 50% stealth?any electronics engineer would study Radar somewhere in his/her degree.
it's not a show-off...but just that i am aware of the Radar fundamentals... and it's not that whatever i have posted is anyway wrong or incorrect.
looks like someone slept through radar classes
@ all
this forum is a good place to add-on to one's knowledge...although whatever we're discussing is sprawled all across the net...
are you disagreeing with the elaborate use of carbon composites not being a contributory factor in reducing the RCS?
I have explained exactly what the role of composites are in my previous post. Please re-read it. composites help reduce RCS at certain critical points and both LCA and JF-17 use composite at those points.
somebody is arguing that jammers cant contribute to stealth as they are just an electronic confinement technique...so you are agreeing to it being a contributing factor to the reduction of the RCS...but since it is not an inherent part of the design they cant be taken into account...well partly correct...but what i am saying is that...with the size+composite+a non-canard delta design(canards increase the RCS) comibned with an ew device like a good radar jammer would contibute to the overall stealth...where am i wrong in this?
lets keep the posts small shall we?
that somebody is me.
I repeat counter-measure is not equal to stealth. ECM are great protection to an aircraft but IT IS NOT STEALTH.
Since this thread is LCA vs JF-17, let me put it this way.
1. You can put a jamming pod on an LCA. You can put another jamming pod on the JF-17, or you can take the pod from one and put to the other, or take it off from both. You cannot take out the aerodynamic properties, engines, maneuverability of one plane and put to another.
Put simply, you can have 3 LCA (or JF-17)...one with no jamming pod, one is a less sophisticated one, or one with a advanced one depending on how much money you spend. But they all remain 3 LCA ( or JF-17). OTOH, if you change the RCS, aerodynamic properties, of one LCA from the other...they become different planes.
2. ECM can be countered by better radar and better BVRAAMs. While your ECM may jam a less sophisticated radar, I doubt it would jam and AESA with a AIM 120 C or MICA or METEOR. It depends how powerful your radar is.
3. Someone correct me if I am wrong on this on:
with jamming its difficult to lock on the aircraft...deosn't mean you are not aware of its presence. With stealth, you are completely unaware of the presence.
LOW RCS = very few radar waves are reflected back
ECM = countering the waves by emitting more powerful waves that confuses/nullifies the incoming ones
STEALTH = Absorbing the waves as if you aren't even there.
Hope that is explicit and clear. And do read my previous post regarding composites.