320km is wild for the size of missile, considering it has a jetisioned booster and not a built in air breathing engine.
Give FnF Brimstone put it in 13.0-13.3 in ground RB
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Agree, much better than need to guiding that thing or only work at close range.
i call bullshit on the 600kW
That is widely reported to be the peak power of the radar. I.e the power it outputs for a tiny fraction of a second during each radar pulse.
The average power will be far far lower.
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i mean if they have some massive energy storage on the jet sure but i doubt the plane can supply that even if its a peak.
for reference, the generators on an EPP are 150kW…
There is a RAF museum that states that with “carefree handling” the Eurofighter can achieve up to 25 degree of AoA. Now this source by itself certainly isn’t sufficient enough to be used in a bug report but it shows that Eurofighter is vastly overperforming in instantaneous turn.
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what is the point of arguing about the KW’s anyway? They do not define radar range.
Zaslon M on the 31 operates at 400Kw
The date (May 1987) is many years before Eurofighter’s first flight. I assume that is talking about EAP instead?
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Also it says “trial” it doesn’t mean it cannot be higher.
This is from the radar section of the report on the American evaluation of that MiG-25 which defected to Japan:
do they have anything on how much power the engines can supply?
That value would just be important for the “recharge duration” between pulses and the length of said pulses.
see thats why i said this
Ikr? Even if my estimate is off and it’s like 250-275km that’s still pretty good
I think 20kW might be the average power tbh, it’s all quite classified and it makes sense they’d only release the average since you can’t do much but estimate it’s capabilities with that number.
It was made to be the most outright powerful and a2a capable radar in the world for years after its introduction, it’s bigger than the F-35’s, with more T/R modules so very likely more range
I’ll take a look, but it is not uncommon for old pulse radars to have very high peak powers, but quite low average powers.
For example the Red Steer tail warning radar used on the Vulcan had a peak power output of 130 kW, but doing some maths using the pulse width and PRF provided you arrive at an average power of only 130 W.
For another example the H2S radar used on the Lancaster had a peak transmitted power of 50 kW, but the average power was only 30.2 W.
Then an example for you: If the pulse duration would be 0,36 seconds (which is insanely long) it would take about 60 Wh of storage for that 600 kW pulse (modern laptop battery).
Usually pulse duration is in the microseconds range which gives a needed energy of 0.0006 Wh for a 3,6 microseconds pulse with 600 kW pulse power. To generate this energy a 20 kW generator needs a fraction of a second.
Should generally be superior to AIM-9X Blk.II.