Maybe, but considering how long HMD integration took we can’t assume they added everything.
It was overkill originally, but ugrades for an aircraft that is already seen as too much are unlikely to continue overloading it with everything you got and raise the cost further.
HMD only took that long bc dimensions of the cockpit were not really suited for it, due to stealth
I assume they mean mm lol I don’t think there’s 4in of coating, that seems like it would be absurdly heavy.
But it did end up implemented. If it had been seen as priority, it could’ve been done much sooner.
Is AN/ALR-94 3D RWR? I thought it’s 2D only
It’s good enough to provide enough information for a accurate, very narrow radar beam, so I’d assume 3d would be necessary for something like that
Where do you get these numbers from?Nothing has ever been published anywhere for the Su-57
Here
Ahaah What nonsense, neither the dimensions nor the mass of the empty have ever been published.There are not even mathematical calculations confirming 1.3M SC
Ok then what is the supercruise speed?
I do not know, I did not do the calculations for the Su-57
PIRATE can range fully accurately using kinematic ranging, its a state of the art IRST and cost as much as the radar did to develop. There is a reason LEGION and IRST 21 utilise the same tech. We know CAPTOR-M can range to within 10 metres, PIRATE is described as having equal accuracy in range and better in angular resolution than the radar.
Pirate can also guide missiles all the way with 2-way datalink.
the reason legion and irst21 use the same tech is that legion is literally just an irst21 put in a pod
its a radar, so yes
just not possible without laser ranging. it compares visual/IR signature, size, angle etc with models stored in its data and then calculates a rough range to target
how rough exactly im not sure, but its not as accurate as a radar unless the actual range to target is like… visual
under ideal conditions it might but this wouldnt be that hard to mess with
yep, i think you can mess up its ranging with multi-spectral flares
i have heard the F-35 new sensor has this capability too, to accurately range through triangulation
might be harder to counter comaped to a fixed database
this is basically visual identification and size matching with the dimensions of the target aircraft stored in the data
basically theyre the same, triangulation is the method used, the database is the data
i have heard it can use datalink to do this too, with more than 1 F-35 looking at the tagret then it would be more accurate in triangulation no?
i think the F-35 has LRF no?
and yes with two F-35s, it will basically give a precise location to target (WRT GPS even)