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The secrecy part I can understand, but one can at lease have a name. As it is we'll just have to refer to it as the "J-10C radar" or the "J-10C aesa". Quite tedious.I suspect the PAF wants to keep the J-10CE's details opaque to keep India's knowledge about it as minimal as possible. However, the PAF wasn't going to induct a legacy mechanically-steered radar or even PESA radar with its new fighter platform. It's not only an issue of it being older technology, but in the current environment, it would be a liability to bring in that specific tech.
Interestingly, a few years ago, word got out that the PAF asked Russia to equip the Su-35 with an AESA radar, but Russia said it couldn't. Initially, I thought it was some rumour nonsense, but it turns out, several countries asked, but Russia wasn't able to do it for some reason and it lost out on a couple of contracts. However, this tells us that an AESA radar was part of the ASR.
Come to think of it, since the engine is called WS-10, maybe the radars is 'JS-10'?