Ask anything Thread (Air Force)

[polati]

Source? Indeed looks like the H20 we are all expecting but obviously high risk it's a fake.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WarplanePorn/comments/1hqjgd7

 

[Nautilus]

Are there any good resources to learn about the use of radars in satellites for military intelligence purposes?

 

[Awenumick]

Why is there an 'A' appended at the end of J-35A? What does 'A' stand for? Is there any J-35?

 

[dingzhen]

Why is there an 'A' appended at the end of J-35A? What does 'A' stand for? Is there any J-35?

J-35 is carrier-based, J-35A is a conventional take-off and landing

 

[defenceman]

Hi,
what’s the Chinese ALCM equivalent to LRASM - ER
if anyone have information
thank you

 

[Iron Man]

Hi,
what’s the Chinese ALCM equivalent to LRASM - ER
if anyone have information
thank you

AKF-98A, assuming it has an antiship mode.

 

[Carlborsuk]

I found this video quite interesting but I don't know about it's veracity. It seems quite well researched but I not come across this before and wondered where their sources come from.

 

[grulle]

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Apparently the US is running into problems with its IRST system. IRST is pretty standard these days in the Chinese airforce. Is China ahead in this area by any chance?

 

[siegecrossbow]

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Apparently the US is running into problems with its IRST system. IRST is pretty standard these days in the Chinese airforce. Is China ahead in this area by any chance?

Gordon Chang — treacherous Chinese sabotaged American tech with defective components from Huaqiangbei.

 

[Lethe]

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Apparently the US is running into problems with its IRST system. IRST is pretty standard these days in the Chinese airforce. Is China ahead in this area by any chance?

It's kind of remarkable how far the US has lagged in integrating IRST into its combat aircraft when such systems have been standard on Russian, European and Chinese aircraft (in that chronological order) for many years now, and when the US itself integrated IRST on F-14D and planned to do so on ATF. One can explain how that situation came about, but that doesn't make it any less striking.

I do wonder if there are some cultural-institutional dimensions to this, akin to the US' aversion to the ski ramp or (historically) non-acoustic ASW sensing, or the more recent spurned-lover "I never even liked you anyway" attitude towards integrated masts.