Chinese air to air missiles
- Thread starter tphuang
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Given what we've seen of Indian pilots at air shows, even this might be a very generous description. I wonder how this compares to Japanese pilots. Given they seem eager to start a war with China soon, I hope we'll get a chance to watch them cope with PL-15s and 17s of the non-exported variety.
But maximum ITR at low altitude, low speed is super important for dogfights…
This is a dangerous misconception - like, first, any pilot can turn away if warned; this isn't skill.
The failure on Indian side was clearly (criminal) failure of ROE and anticipation of threat radius, or perhaps outright political pressure.
Which is all more weird, b/c PL-15 performed exactly as per known dual pulse papers, which i believe @siegecrossbow brought here many(7? don't remember) years ago.
Where Indians failed technically is failure to identify launch maneuvers as genuine. Which is also political/peacetime failure.
Fin folding mechanisms!
Probably. I see it as just a general patent on how rear fins can be folded and can be applied on different AAMs.
As for PL-16 being a mini-PL-17... Afaik that's not true, but we'll see.
This is messing with my head lol
But after some rough calcs (with the angle of the photo and whatnot) it seems about right...