Is the Su-57 really worse than the F-22?

400kW probably only for very short bursts, not extended use

Man. Irbis Radar its one of the most powerful radar to date. It also have one of the higher Peak of not GaN based AESA.

That is Irbis with 5kw Average. On Chinese Su-35s. In that video someone even said that it was a tested for China. Normal IRBIS has 10kw Average

Here some calculation done by some Radargeek aka StealthFlanker.

Spoiler

The red one its suppose to be the AESA on Japanese F2. And Ftr same guy did Simulation on Su-57 main GaAs radar and in his calculation it just follow the same as IRBIS.

IF you are arguing that R-37m its limited by IRBIS. Imagine all these radar and Western plane that have worst detection range and Usually relied on AWACS. For long range shots.

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idk where you got that information from and i dont really see why russia is evaluating a radar for china,
especailly when russia had the su-35 in service before china

Is it J/APG-1 or J/APG-2?

I got it from the video that img come from. I’ve see that video posted in a lot of places.

Here some info in Chinese of the radar. This image also come from a video. I just can’t found the video.

Spoiler

Same with the 10kw avg. but even some Serbian source i remember they change it to just 5kw avg.

J/apg-1
Dhimas Afihandarin en X: “The full report is available here : https://t.co/1aULN9dKJe” / X

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it is this one:

but still su-35 entered service later with china than russia

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J/APG-1, it uses wattage estimates from the T/R papers we got a bit ago, could potentially be higher due to the unkown duty cycle, which is claimed to be higher then the average which is used here.

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oh god
a spreadheet that looks like it is able to calculate the last number of PI

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As per sources it is for a pulse mode

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Still better source then “Trust me bro” xD

give me 1 official claim of it having 400kw peak output

to put it into perspective if it is indeed 400kw it would end up having like 1000km+ agaisnt a 5m2 target or something

Maybe but also remember the Su-35 doesn’t need to use it’s Radar an A-50 can provide over the horizon data for BVRAAM shots.

Are you sure? At least, considering that almoat only A-50 Russia have - sovied made, with soviet datalink and systems overall…

anything can be upgraded.

also i believe they depend on DL updates from ground units like s400 more than AWACS, kinda their doctrine

You need money for that
Aswell as power

Sure A-50U exists… but only few of them

a bit of software upgrade to make it network centric doesnt cost much

Not software.
Hardware is also outdated a lot.

Also you need to pay workers

you still dont get the point, you just need to give the coordinates of the targets using DL to planes and missiles in the area

what kind of point is that? obviously they are paid.

Yes A-50 has been providing guidance for S-400 systems.

Russia have a pretty developed data link