Chengdu J-10, History, Performance & Discussion

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.


Is the front sensor not forward facing?

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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


After a we bit of googliing it seems to use the same S740 MAWS as the Jeff block 3 and J-11B

Cant really read the blurry text but can make out 360°×90° 15km and 60°×90° 25km on it

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360°×90° wide range (大区域), 15km missile warning (导弹告警), fully passive mode (全被动模式), 6+ multi-target warning (全目标告警达6个以上).

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Is Gaijing going to model the DSI intake on the J10 to increase stealth?