I have read years ago that Pakistan chose to implement air cooled radar instead of liquid cooled radar on the JF-17 due to price over getting better performance, which is logically the only benefit known to general public. I assume that lower performance air cooled radars would not just run less capably than liquid cooled radars, but also not run for longer periods of time versus radars with better cooling.
Is this assumption of mine correct that fighter jets with air cooled radars are unable to keep it active for multiple hours continuously or for the duration of a typical fighter jet sortie? Though with good data linking this might never become a problem given how fighter jets could set their radar in passive mode and rely more heavily on information from their AWACS.
Then again even the supposedly upcoming F-35 with its TR-3 Block 4 electronics upgrades are having overheating problems with its new liquid cooled radar so the problem is certainly not just with air cooled radars entirely.
Is this assumption of mine correct that fighter jets with air cooled radars are unable to keep it active for multiple hours continuously or for the duration of a typical fighter jet sortie? Though with good data linking this might never become a problem given how fighter jets could set their radar in passive mode and rely more heavily on information from their AWACS.
Then again even the supposedly upcoming F-35 with its TR-3 Block 4 electronics upgrades are having overheating problems with its new liquid cooled radar so the problem is certainly not just with air cooled radars entirely.
