Probably there are weight saving considerations/airframe center of gravity balancing factors, so a fixed antenna is adopted.
After all there are benefits and compromises to each system.
The only benefit I can see is the ability to fit a larger antenna (And perhaps slightly higher reliability by eliminating the mechanical system, but those should be quite reliable anyways).
As far as WT goes, I would rather take the smaller antenna on a swivel …
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Yes for more transmit and receive modules, J-10B and J-10C’s radars have between the range of ~1200 to 1300.
Should still have easily 120 if not 140 degree scan which is more than enough for ARB.
Well
Things like Irbis-E get 240 deg (±120)
And CAPTOR-E should be like 200 deg (±100)
Which allows you to stay in the notch and still look for targets and launch missiles at them …
Now this thing looks like it has around 30 deg tilt in elevation
So it they assume 60 deg electronic steering it will get +90 in elevation and if they assume 70 deg steering it will get 100 deg in elevation
Which if they implement correctly could allow you to roll 90 deg and use your elevation to find targets off boresight (Though it will be difficult to maintain the roll with RB controls, without some sort of manual roll control mode like helicopters get).
Yeah, only for WT.
IIRCm only Captor, Raven and Irbis (anyway semi-PESA) have mechanical scan. But every other country like US, China, France, Korea (but IIRC US-made radar) use fixed aesa radar.
@Abyss_Revenant
fixed antenna allows bigger radar, tilt installation allow even bigger and better stealth, rotating antenna is a huge reflection source
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New video shows the instruments edited into a dogfight video
This video is sourced from a new documentary producer by state TV “broken sword” (I don’t know what’s it in English)
The qualify is really bad in ripped video, with weird audio.
But you can watch it in CCTV online called《砺剑》 20250529 “出圈”的歼-10CE
That’s an old video.
“砺剑” means “Sharpening the Sword”, not broken sword.
Does the j-10c get a maws
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Again rear aspect only but should be good enough.
Certainly looks to be facing forward but I am unsure of it myself!
its facing outward, probably to cover a wider FOV
Well, obviously. It was a rhetorical question.
but it’s still covering most of the frontal hemisphere, by the looks of things there might be a slight dead spot directly of the nose
So no side coverage?
They’re all outwards angled and most likely wide angle sensors, up close there might be some dead spots but far enough away it’s probably close to
360° coverage
