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Originally posted by waynos
Cheers AMM, some people think I'm anti-American you know
Originally posted by ShatteredSkies
STOP GOING ONTO COPYING!!!
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
The FC-1 is the world's cheapest(in cost terms) aircraft and is primarily inted for export to countries like Pakistan, Zimbabwe, etc which cannot afford better planes.
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
Look at the positions of air bases. Only Lhasa that holds J-7's (mig-21) is close to India. Most of China's bases are towards Taiwan. While India has large numbers of air bases with top of the line jets close to the chinese border.
go check out the features of indian stealthy upgraded bisons. They might be Mig-21's but are loaded with the top israeli, french, russian, indian aveonics and are coated with Russian RAM and have an RCS reduction of 13-15 times. They also fire BVR missiles and are waaay superior to Chinese J-7's.
www.abovetopsecret.com...
I dont know which mythical missile that China uses makes them superior as claimed by chinawhite, but India use the top Russian BVR missiles, and will operate the Meteor in some time too. India will also recieve the AAMRAAM if it goes in for block 70 F-16's.
And the J-10's capabilities are unknown. The Israeli LAVI project which the J-10 has copied was cancelled(despite spending 2+billion $ on it)as the capabilities of the LAVI were no way close to that of F-16.
The FC-1 is the world's cheapest(in cost terms) aircraft and is primarily inted for export to countries like Pakistan, Zimbabwe, etc which cannot afford better planes.
Please guys dont turn this into a Indian AF vs Chinese AF thread. Both countries are not even close to having a war or something like that.
[edit on 25-5-2005 by Stealth Spy]
China has constructed 14 major air bases on the Tibetan Plateau, and a score of tactical airstrips. These bases give the Chinese air force control of Tibet's air space, the forward edge of battle in the event of war with India, and the capability to fly sustained combat operations over India's north and strike all India's northern cities, including Delhi, Bombay and Calcutta. Chinese electronic intelligence atop the plateau also confers an important advantage of combat information and battle management in any, air war. The high altitude of the airfields in Tibet is frequently suggested as precluding effective PLAAF air operations against India. The PLAAF may be able to overcome this problem through aerial refuelling, with strike aircraft taking off from lower-altitude airfields further away, and refuelling over Tibet for strikes at airfields or other targets in northern India.
China has acquired some unknown number of the Israel Aerospace Industry (IAI) Harpy unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) in 1994. The deal was not revealed until late 2004, when Washington was reported to have pressured the Israeli government to ‘roll back’ its defence relations with China. According to the reports, the U.S. intelligence spotted the PLA deploying Harpy UAV in its joint exercise held near the Taiwan Strait in 2004.
The ASN-206 can be used for day/night aerial reconnaissance, battlefield surveillance, target positioning, artillery spotting, border patrol, nuclear radiation sampling, aerial photography and prospecting, and electronic countermeasures. It is one of the most advanced tactical UAV systems in service with the PLA.
Originally posted by gooseuk
If you can think of a better fatal flaw, name cause, the inable to launch and defend itself will make it very unpopular with its pilots.
[edit on 16-5-2005 by gooseuk]
Originally posted by aerospaceweb
Originally posted by gooseuk
This got me thinking, I have heard much about the the Raptor and its assocated supercruise ability, my point is, will there be an offensive limitation on the Raptor while in Supercruise mode? AKA is the Raptor helpless while still in super cruise? Due to the fact that the Raptor would have to open the aircrafts payload doors INTO the slip stream, there by having its doors ripped in the related slipstream of the aircraft at supercruise.
The F-22 has repeatedly launched both AIM-9 and AIM-120 missiles at supersonic speeds during weapon separation and operational flight testing. The first shot was an AIM-9 launched at Mach 1.1 in August 2002, and subsequent shots were taken up to Mach 2. Perhaps the most extreme launch conditions have been at supersonic speed while the plane was pulling high g's and rotating up to 100 degrees per second. These test shots have cleared the F-22 launch envelope while proving that there are no structural problems or safe separation issues.
...it is important to note that the F/A-22 flight test program has been one of the most aggressive and most successful in history. Dozens of missiles were launched with the majority of them under extreme maneuver conditions beyond the capabilities of any other aircraft (and, indeed, beyond the initial design requirements of the missiles themselves). During the nearly 80 flight releases so far, no contact between aircraft and store has occurred, no significant damage to aircraft or personnel from a flight event has occurred, no unsafe conditions related to the aircraft that had not been anticipated through the ground tests and simulations have been identified, and simulations have either matched the flight data or been used to identify flight anomalies for every event. Credit for the outstanding success of the flight test effort belongs to all F/A-22 CTF members.
...it is important to note that the F/A-22 flight test program has been one of the most aggressive and most successful in history. Dozens of missiles were launched with the majority of them under extreme maneuver conditions beyond the capabilities of any other aircraft (and, indeed, beyond the initial design requirements of the missiles themselves). During the nearly 80 flight releases so far, no contact between aircraft and store has occurred, no significant damage to aircraft or personnel from a flight event has occurred, no unsafe conditions related to the aircraft that had not been anticipated through the ground tests and simulations have been identified, and simulations have either matched the flight data or been used to identify flight anomalies for every event. Credit for the outstanding success of the flight test effort belongs to all F/A-22 CTF members.