According to the report of AW&ST, the frontal RCS of F/A-18E/F is 0.1 m2-class now.Ģ. How many times have US F-16s had to face tornadoes? I doubt the Europeans would sell their aircraft to potential enemy of the US, especially the britishs - who often fight with the US.ġ.
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It's probably not much bigger than the radar of the F-18.Īnd if the typhoon cannot jam the F-16 because it has an EASA and the F-16 can jam the typhoon, the F-16 may have the first shot.Īlso, the chances that an F-16 has to face a typhoon is quite low. And I don't think the captor is a very big radar either. An AESA radar has a much better range for the same size, and also all the advantages of being harder to detect and to jam. Don't know exactly what version of the APG-68 he was talking about.Īnd the captor might be a good radar, but it's still not an AESA. I also read an article where a pilot who tested it said it had 2.5 times the range of previous radars. I don't know exaclty how the range varies with the number of ERs, but I guess that with 10% less ERs, it should have a range about 10% shorter, so in the order of 200km. Since the 79 should have a range at least 50% better than the non AESA -73 which has a range of about 150km, it should have a range of 225+km. On the contrary, according to the report of AFM, the pilot of RAF declared that the Captor radar of EF-2000 could "track" MIG-29 (RCS = 5 m2 class) 160 ~ 185 km away.
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The AN/APG-80 AESA radar, as far as the information I know, has about the 200% air-to-air detective range of AN/APG-68 V5/V7, or the capability of detecting RCS = 5 m2 target 130 ~ 160 km away. When the missile is in the end-stage of interception, which means that the missile has run out off its fuel in the most condition, the TVC is totally useless and becomes the burden of the missile's maneuverability in the end-stage interception.Ģ. They said that although TVC can make the WVRAAM to have better off-boresight performance at the instance after firing, however, the TVC can only do its work before the rocket runs out off its fuel. The ASRAAM's designers also criticized the usefulness of TVC.
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The ASRAAM's designers and the RAF pilots believe that the higher speed and the longer effective range are the main key points for the victory of future air-combat, and in order to make these two main key points to be perfect, it is still reasonable to sacrifice some off-boresight capability and the high-G maneuver capability. The UK incorporated the design of "Lift-body" to the ASRAAM, and although the off-boresight capability and the high-G maneuver capability (50G) of ASRAAM are a little worse than the NG western WVRAAM with TVC and / or complex aerodynamic designs such as AIM-9X, IRIS-T, and Pythoon IV, its extremely low-drag design and the larger 160 mm rocket make it have the better speed performance (maximal speed: 3.5~4.2 mach) and the longer effective (>25 km) and no-escape ranges. There are two kinds of WVRAAMs for the Eurofighter in the near-term future: ASRAAM for the EF-2000s of UK only, and IRIS-T for the EF-2000s of German, Italy, and Spain.