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ohh tjen fine . i thought msy be because of our neighbourOh yes. It is routine. He has spent a good time at PAC.
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ohh tjen fine . i thought msy be because of our neighbourOh yes. It is routine. He has spent a good time at PAC.
Any chance of Italian AESA for blk 3 this time???A Block-3 airframe has arrived at PAC Kamra in one of those large Russian Transporters.
Alas, we might see the bird in the Pakistan Day Parade.
Any chance of Italian AESA for blk 3 this time???
Leonardo’s Grifo-E AESA is again popped up.... multiple articles hinting....
Leonardo’s Grifo-E AESA is again popped up.... multiple articles hinting....
Any chance of Italian AESA for blk 3 this time???
Leonardo’s Grifo-E AESA is again popped up.... multiple articles hinting....
I think we are going to have different batches of B3 with different AESAs fitted with. someone has already mentioned in previous posts. (B2s will be upgraded in similar fashion).
We are keeping B3 wide open for both Chinese as well as Western weapon systems.
From public info max range is 92km pointless having a short range radar if the Chinese radar offers a longer range.
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Where???Why is the Rafale mentioned as a 3.5 gen fighter while usually we tend to hear 4.5 gen?
Meteors are expensiveActually the Grifo E-scan is fairly comparable to the KLJ-7A in range (detection for fighter sized aircraft is said to be >45-85NM or 157km vs 170km of the KLJ-7A. Tracking of saod fighter listed as >75NM or 139km). Additionally, leonardo is among the best producers of combat radars (see CAPTOR, RAVEN ES-05) and the radar can also be air or liquid cooled and utilizes GaN meaning it has low power consumption. It is the M-Scan Radar on M346 that has a 92km range.
The major issue however issue is armament. PAF has a huge cache of Chinese weapons and China's willingness to sell mire advanced weapons (see Pl-15 and Pl-10). Now of Italy can get a weapons package together for PAF there is a possibility but it would need to involve an HMD/S, Meteor, and ASRAAM/IRIS-T, and A2G munitions and allow integration of Pakistan's own weapons (RAAD, H2, H4 ect). Now they have allowed Pakistan to do so in the past (mirages), but that will need to continue. All of that would make it very expensive,so if this happens you would likely only see it on a small number of thunder (likely 2-3 elite squadrons). All of that is to say that the system overapl would need to perform as well as the chinese radars. Beyond this, the chinese radars could theoretically be fit into the blk 1 and 2 aircraft during an MLU and certain systems such as EW suits and HMD/S can be added with minimal cost. So theoretically you could get Chinese weapons for these and if European weapons are able to be sourced, get Grifo E for block 3 aircraft. Any such acquisition however would need to include other systems including brightcloud drfm, possibly skyward irst, and sale of CAMM-ER for airforce and naval use.
I hope to see the Chinese AESA used for MLU in the blk 1 and 2 aircraft given both can be air-cooled