true, In my head it was a scan zone of like ±30° lol
Claims without sources are borderline worthless. Also, AESA’s can assign a LOT of different beams to unique targets simultaneously unlike PESA, so mechanical motion and beam time on target are irrelevant.
I saw a brazilian pilot who tested it for the fx2 program at an arms expo talking about it briefly, not a lot of data or docs, it was just an interview, but Im guessing its not really relevant in real combat, just like you said and I did too, its aesa technology
so guys what do we think of this?
ron_23
October 19, 2025, 4:32pm
2439
N001, no canards and no TVC
worse Su-27sm
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ron_23
October 19, 2025, 4:33pm
2441
oh great a TV guided cruise missile which is slow af
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Painman
October 19, 2025, 4:34pm
2442
But more range than KH-38 have
kizvy
October 19, 2025, 4:34pm
2443
surely China will also get it
ron_23
October 19, 2025, 4:35pm
2444
more range dosent equal better
sure you now have a missile with 150km range and how will you use it after spawning 30km away from the battlefield?
it will also travel for ages
bigger chance of getting intercepted tho
Painman
October 19, 2025, 4:43pm
2446
The Mavericks are nearly the same speed, don’t see such a big problem here
kizvy
October 19, 2025, 4:44pm
2447
there’s like 0 point using it over the kh38, all its gonna do is prolong the grind
does it get 77-1’s?
Jesus, from the kit you described it literally sounds ass
kizvy
October 19, 2025, 4:47pm
2450
(in service no) technically no, but they can add it cause its compatible
probably still has the base AL-31s like on the normal 13.0 flanker
Painman
October 19, 2025, 4:49pm
2452
SU-30MK2 only use KH-29 or KH-59, and now?
I see, other than that, since its not the TVC AL-31, it has like 11650kgf like the base Su-27?
oh right, you just answered my next question lol
Rip that’s bad, not even the slightly better acceleration (like the SM)
ron_23
October 19, 2025, 4:51pm
2455
they will probably not give it the r77 at all so that they can put it at 13.0