yesn’t, yes because modern AESA ans PESA radars do have that advantage over their predecessors, but no because this is not because of the antenna type but rather because of the technology behind it
wasnt meant to be taken serious
The F-14D could do the same thing. It’s one of the most famous F-14D occurrences.
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Yeah the only really IR stealthy jets are B-2/B-21 and maybe F-117 to a lesser degree
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By far. The F-14D’s went out to 305km and found 2 F-16s and a tanker with good resolution.
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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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