Compared with su30, j16 has a different vertical tail and cancels the pitot tube. The early gray j16 in this picture is pl15.
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Don’t need to upgrade to j16 level, just do some cracking.
What’s the point of a little hacking - if the planes are the oldest of 2004… and they will fly for another 20 years…Or were there packages of gradual updates…?
There is a photo of the Su-30MKK with Chinese missiles.?
Bro, your information may be out of date. China’s su30mkk has been modified and can use Chinese air-to-air missiles.
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What year…- it’s 2020…
This is a picture from 2015. su-30mk2 uses pl-12. The time when su-30mkk uses pl-12 is still unknown. I guess it may be 2020.
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Im not trying too say that the Su-30 is bad, but at the end of the day the J-16 is probably going too be superior in most metrics that count, and it’s AESA radar is definitely going to be better than the PESA radar found on Russian flankers. Also why got caught up on the Pl-12 when we have missles like the pl-15??
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We don’t know the characteristics of the Chinese radar yet…I wrote in the posts above that Antennas of various types have their positive and negative sides…We do not know the characteristics of the Updated Bars/Irbis radar…
But there are statements from Radar Developers…and some 2006 data on the Irbis-E…
“At least in terms of detection range, Irbis surpasses all airborne radars known in the world with conventional phased array antennas and AFAR.” «Разработчик радаров для Су-35 и Су-57 — о сирийском опыте, конкуренции с F-35 и «умной коже» Су-57» в блоге «Армия и Флот» - Сделано у нас (sdelanounas.ru)
http://www.telenir.net/transport_i_aviacija/vzlyot_2006_04/p23.php?ysclid=lp79p50ptb971367929
We know the J-16 has AESA and that no Russian flankers in service does. This means that J-16 already has an advantage over the Su-30. It doesn’t matter how good the radar is on the Su-30, it’s still PESA which will always have shortcomings that AESA simply doesn’t, that’s not up for debate and I don’t know why you keep getting caught up on this
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Notice how they say “conventional”? It’s because there’s no point in trying to compare your PESA radar with AESA if you want it too sound good…
Also does anyone know if the Chinese ever bought Russian targeting pods for their Russian Flankers? Or have the Chinese ever put their own domestic pods on the Su-30MKK or Su-35???
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In the future I expect and look forward gaijin add J-11A & J-11A MLU to china tech tree
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Well now we know that the Chinese leak list seems to be correct, and if true then we might expect the J-11A!
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If it is really J-11A, then we can expect R-77 and PL-12 (on J-8F) too
in the original Chinese leak he didnt specify which J11, but then other lists had it as J-11A so thats what im hoping for
so gaijin do, that means they only need to change the sign for Russia/Soviet AF to PLAAF
J-11A MLU armed medium-range active radar homing Air-to-Air Missile RVV-AE (R-77) and guided Air-to-Ground armament but J-11A basic limited R-27ER1/R27ET1 & unguided Air-to-Ground only