What fighter has the best radar?

I thought the improvement let it engadge 6 targets.

Ok 10 objects. I just read it.

the MiG-31BM is capable of intercepting up to 24 targets simultaneously, there are many versions

I think that F-14 have the best radar. It can track 24 targets and engage 8 targets simulanteusly. It have a veeery long range. With its Phoenix missiles it is deadly. It can intercept most aircrafts BEFORE entering their radar and missile range.

As stated above, mig 31s have the strongest radar

im for mig31


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HAhahahahahahahahh here it goes again," whose army is the best.....whats the best tank.....whats the best way to say you all dont have an ounce of knowledge on this subject"( except for a few of you)........honestly. it funny how someone said, MIG-31 has the most advanced radar.

1) how the hell would you know.
2) The newest technology covering all areas of the US military will not be declassified for at least 25 years from now " the technology gap" ????? i belive this covers the " who has the greatest militiary question posted a while ago"

3) and as for most advanced electronicsavionicsradars..... the russians have been using vaccum tubes in their planes up till between 5 and 10 years ago. Pretty amazing how they got the power supplies working that way but there is a complete exllpantion covering all this........if you really know what your talking about, can anyone tell me why?

i wouldnt trust a french plane

Vaccum tubes in radars are actually a good idea. they are more reliable and are easier to mantain. One of my jobs on subs is ESM, and I see a lot of different RADARS. More often then not, the older types are better.

I was looking for the fact that they are resistant to EMP, and i understand you work on them, but how in the world are they more reliable. The simplest tube phase inverter type assembly burns out a few times in its lifetime while an OP- AMP will never burn out, almost never. Considering the fact that the power supplies are all reveloved around an amplification type setup. Right.?

F-14 has 33 radars in it.
X-25 has the most advanced.

You are sure about X-25?
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Whoa... wait a minute.
F-14 has 33 radars on it?
Where'd you get that?
F-14 uses Raytheon's An/AWG-9, except for the F-14D's which use the APG-71 -
AN/AWG-9 is 1960's hardware technology with 1990's software technology, it can track up to 24 targets and selectively attack any six of them simultaneously in any weather and at ranges exceeding 110 nautical miles.

The APG-71 is basically similar hardware with some minor tweaks, and retains the vital features of the AWG-9, but upgrades processing speed, flexibility, and signal/data processor capacity.

Don't understand the 33 radars on an F-14... You aren't smoking crack by any chance are you?

And X-25? What's that? Could you be meaning the X(F)-35?



[Edited on 14-1-2004 by intelgurl]

this might not totlay come under the radar topic but the swedish fighters have a sneaky system that allows 2 fighters 2 only use 1 of thier radars so since radars dont only show u where the bad guys are they show the bad guys where u are this means that the enemy fighter wing thinks it only has 6 targets 2 worry about when in fact it has 12 2 worry about sneaky ha but i have 2 agreee awacs is the best

I believe the questions was "which fighter has the best radar".

The MiG-31 (while being a fine aircraft) is not a fighter per say, it is an advanced long-range interceptor. It's radar suite is specifically tailored to engaging multiple targts, in heavy clutter and at low altitudes, at long range. In this role it performs exceptionally well.

But as far as "fighters" go, the F-22 has the most advanced radar in the world. It also maneuvers like a fighter.

My grandmother's old rocking chair can fly circles around a MiG-31 at subsonic speeds......

The russians have been using vaccum tubes in their planes up till between 5 and 10 years ago.


No solid state device can match the quality, and precision of a good vacuum tube. They may not be perfect for every application, and do require replacement, but for the receiver pre-amp on a radar they perform best.

Even our Aegis radars use giant vacuum tubes.

Do not judge electronics to be dated because they use tubes. Some of the best, and most advanced in the world uses tubes because there simply is no other device that can do what they do with the same precision.

this is going to "what radar has the best fighter"
and not "what fighter has the best radar"
i mean that you should imagin that you take of the radar and put it on a stand for testing and then we judge.

- longest range
- maximum angle for tracking
- number of targets being tracked
- number of targets being engaged
- vulnarubility to antiradar.........
- specials................



I'm not much into radars but I'm very curious to know more so what fighter has the best one?


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offcourse the MiG-31 is a fighter and it was designed for air superiority like the f-22 and even if it is not that much manoeuvrable it still is a FIGHTER ment to interseptat long range

I'd have to go with ghost on this one. The Tomcat all the way. It can pick off four different targets simultaneously from something like 200 miles away.

Some of these opinions are pretty wild...
for instance the F-14's use some very effective radars (the An/AWG-9 & the APG-71) but these units are far from the "best radar" on a fighter aircraft.

This honor has to go to the AN/APG-77.

The AN/APG-77 currently being installed on the F-22 Raptor is the most advanced radar in any fighter aircraft anywhere.
Close to one BILLION dollars have been spent on development of this radar and it's software/firmware integration into the other onboard avionics.

The AN/APG-77 is a "Low-Probability of Intercept" (LPI) AESA radar utilizing an array of 2000 transmitter/receive modules
generating a wide beam of soft varied signals called a "spread spectrum transmission".

The best way to explain the difference between the 77 and an ordinary radar is that with a regular radar a lot of energy is emitted at high power on a very narrow freqency range. Most Radar Warning Reciever (RWR) equipment is set to those frequencies, so any radar emissions will be picked up about two times farther than the distance where the radar's operator can get useful data from the return waves.

Spread spectrum transmission uses the opposite priciple: putting out a little bit of energy on a very wide frequency range. When all the low-energy echoes are compiled by the F-22's computers, the picture is more or less as clear as the narrow frequency returns one would get out of an ordinary radar, but it is highly unlikely that any enemy RWRs have picked up the emissions because the energy levels are so low.


This unit's displays are a combination of screens that show multiple aspects (x, y and z axis) of the air space and can detect very fine Doppler shifts in the target's signature to actually form a 3D image or "map" of the return signal.

The 77 is completely integrated into the entire avionics package on the Raptor, including a BAE (formerly LM-Sanders) AN/ALR-94 RF warning and countermeasures system, a TRW comm/nav/ID system, a Mk-12 IFF (Identification Friend or Foe) system and the Litton Inertial Reference System.

And via networking the 77 utilizes on-board computers to integrate flight data from the ground, satellites and other friendly aircraft such as AWACS and even other Raptors to get an even better picture of the area of operation.

The 77 with the Block 3.0 software can provides multisensor fusion enabling accurate acquisition, tracking, identification, and engagement of multiple targets (the specifics are still classified) to a greater degree than any other system in the history of military aviation.





[Edited on 15-1-2004 by intelgurl]

Has anyone ever thought about the B-2A? I am not sure on it's radars stats, but I know that Northrop-Grumman is replacing the radar on some B-2s right now.