Well, that is my opinion, one I have backed with substantial reasoning and evidence.
It’s just concept with an unknown future. And it’s antenna have diameter ≈ 150mm ( compare with pen )
Yes, the 9B-1103M2 was conceptualized as a spherical antenna without gimbal
Thanks for the post. It was an interesting read and that many missiles were based on Aim-9 and Aim-7 series.
There’s exciting development on the performance of some of them.
True. AESA radars aren’t secretive. You can order them off Alibaba and dji themselves sell the T60 agriculture drone with 60kg payload and AESA radar (I’m not sure why would you need a AESA radar for agriculture work, but I’m guessing this drone will see use in more fields than just agriculture)
plus, china already exported AESA radars to Pakistan.
I have no doubt they don’t worry about export of such technology.
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it’s for obstacle avoidance, mainly avoid being knocked down by electric wires. there is also bigger loadout for topographic mapping and scanning crops.
The evidence provided doesn’t look like the plate in any way. Do u have a picture of what a wave guide looks like. I personally am going to say I can’t make the conclusions based on this but I 100% do not understand how you comprehended this as wave guide based off a bunch of holes. Also, there is a reason they are called ‘slot antenna array’ and not hole antenna array.
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I found one.
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well, new evidence, I guess this is convincing enough. as I said, just some kind of back plate, and limiting frame
and @TIGER_TANK_1 the T/R unit is even from 10 years ago, I guess they just produced too many of AESA units.
Are these pictures from the recent “event”? Also, I baidu’d the wnb7068h. Apparently there is a wnb7068h-b, on a bid website (now expired)
yes
I guess it’s not only just for missile, but other uses
Dual use technology I guess. This stuff’s gonna end up in someone’s microwave oven someday!
Why Ku band though… I’m not too familiar with this stuff, but isn’t the power to frequency shift for each TR module, that makes AESA good and hard to detect?
As I know, one radar can only have one band, you can make a dual band AESA, because it’s formed by units, but it’s just make them into 2 smaller radar.
this kind of design often seen on ships and AWACS, 2 different band radar back to back or stand together, and share same backend, usually one for searching and one for tracing.
but in missiles seeker, a limited environment, it means performance loss.
I remember advanced AESA radar has it’s way of making it hard to detect, usually against old type RWR, by managing its tracking pattern
the picture of the wnb7068h T/R units could from LY-80, this matches the time, delivered in 2016
the others still match the pl-15 seek image
That’s PL-12AE lol.
Do u have the full pic? What was it hanged under.
Speaking of which, maybe someone can write a PL-12A suggestion over the suggestion board so we can have something to fill the gap between PL-12 and PL-15/PL-15E.
That wasn’t the backplate though, the front has square style antenna and the modules are on the back, This missile has quite a substantial number of antenna–but about half of what was shown on the AAM-4B test subject it seems.
If this is indeed the same wreckage and scrap, that is an AESA radar.