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Originally posted by American Mad Man
the long range radar was probably not equiped because the US airforce wants to keep info on it hush hush.
Originally posted by FredT
.....but this just smacks of a set up.
[edit on 12-7-2004 by FredT]
Originally posted by FredT
According to this weeks AWST the much talked about defeat of F-15's vs the Su-30's flown by India had a few tidbits that were not mentioned before. The pentagon claims that the Alaska based 15's did not have the new long rage active electronically scanned array radars on them. These would have proven to be a sig. advantage and would have allowed the AMRAAMS to be fired off first.
The article also went on to indicate that the 15's huge radar signature was making it very vunerable to the AA-10 Alamo missile that the Indians carried. In another intersting tidbit it also said they found that its IR signature was 3x that of most fighters.
Now I am a huge fan of the RAPTOR, but this just smacks of a set up. Why be so public about a defeat. Why provide such details about vunerabilities unless you were trying to make the point that we need more Raptors.
[edit on 12-7-2004 by FredT]
Originally posted by Stealth Spy
The F-15 went down tothe Su-30MKK which is not even the best plane India's got.I wonder about its fate when it takes on the Su-30MKI(read as Su-37)
Originally posted by jetsetter
I hope this was a plan to aquire more F/A-22s. The USAF needs to order more of them.
Originally posted by WestPoint23
But people have to understand this THE JSF IS NOT AN AIR SUPERIORITY FIGHTER the jsf is good but id cant replace the raptor cuz they are not made for the same role the jsf is an attack plane and the raptor is an air superiority fighter they work together on would not be good by itself.