Source?
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bigger aircraft → Easier to detect
3 Aircraft together! → Much easier to detect
It’s further up. Search 190 on the forum. It’s all timestamped.
6 Jet exhausts next to each other being determined as there’s something there by the IRST isn’t a big accomplishment
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Apparently, you’re not understanding the words I typed out. The SU-35’s IRST range best case scenario is ~90km. The F-14D picked up something from more than 3x that range and still had good resolution to pick out the F-16s. These F-16s are on low throttle and are low heat sigs. The Tanker is probably a bit more hot, but it doesn’t have afterburners or anything. And it has to be a tanker that supports boom, because I don’t think the F-16 has any other method of refueling.
I did not mention the argument
I just commented that those 300km aren’t special under those circumstances
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I thought it was saying (Su-30) as a distinction to the Su-30 Series’s IRST. My bad.
What other fighter has that IRST range in those circumstances? I’m curious.
the F-35?
I don’t know, usually their Users don’t publish embarrassing tests like those
this is like saying the AiM-9B has a maximum detection range of 150.000.000km because it detects the sun
Incomprehensibly huge nuclear ball vs. jet engines isn’t close
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6 Jet engines next to each other!
this is at range effectively a Big bright ball for an IRST
did you really think this wasn’t exaggerated?
F-35 is american. They’d be fighting alongside each other. It’s different era’s of technology being upgraded.
How much further up are you talking? The only search results I can see from the last couple of days are just you claiming 190 mile detection range without sources.
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You asked what other plane does that, and i answered it.
I think I posted it on the F-14D suggestion thread.
Edit: @Flame My bad. I said 200 in the original.
Pilot statements? Do you have any actual documents that proves IRST range? That’s not the f-14d manul
Seems like there was some improvements over the years
Thanks.
Though your video does seem to counteract this claim
Referring to the tanker at 190 miles range he claims “APG-71 isn’t going to find it at that range”, and that “[the radar operator] couldn’t get a lock until like 100 miles”.
Meanwhile CAPTOR-M can track an airliner (remember that the US’s main tanker aircraft are converted airliners) at over 200 nautical miles range. Not bad for a radar that is less than 1/3 the weight of the AWG-9 / APG-71.
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