plawolf
Lieutenant General
Wow, you guys must be really bored to waste this much time and attention on this reoccurring joke. Seriously, this story seems to have more lives than a zombie cat or the coyote who chases after the roadrunner.
Wanting the Su35 for a rearward firing missile when in the same article it was mentioned the PL10 should have this exact same capability? Why buy this never-before-heard-of Russian missile when the PL10 should already be in the same league? Even if they want the missile, why does the Su35 have to tag along? What next? China wanting to buy the Su35 because they really wanted baluga caviar?
HMS is what is needed for over the shoulder shots. A step beyond that would be to introduce a DAS like 360 situational awareness system (which China should be development anyway as part of the J20 and J31 next gen avionics package) and use that for true 360 degree engagement capabilities.
The rearward facing radar on the Su35 is tiny and will have very limited range and field of view to be of much use in any realistic tactical application. During a dogfight, an enemy would have to be trying to nail you with guns for that radar to have any realistic chance of locking on to anything. Needless to say, that is not a situation you want to find yourself in at all, never mind devoting this much resources into trying to acquire a capability that will only be useful in that extremely rare situation, and one where odds are you are dead already anyways.
The whole story, on its own merit (or rather the distinct lack of any merit) should be raising all sorts of red flags. Add to that the dubious source and zero secondary confirmation and its hard to see how it could have gotten past anyone's BS detector.
Wanting the Su35 for a rearward firing missile when in the same article it was mentioned the PL10 should have this exact same capability? Why buy this never-before-heard-of Russian missile when the PL10 should already be in the same league? Even if they want the missile, why does the Su35 have to tag along? What next? China wanting to buy the Su35 because they really wanted baluga caviar?
HMS is what is needed for over the shoulder shots. A step beyond that would be to introduce a DAS like 360 situational awareness system (which China should be development anyway as part of the J20 and J31 next gen avionics package) and use that for true 360 degree engagement capabilities.
The rearward facing radar on the Su35 is tiny and will have very limited range and field of view to be of much use in any realistic tactical application. During a dogfight, an enemy would have to be trying to nail you with guns for that radar to have any realistic chance of locking on to anything. Needless to say, that is not a situation you want to find yourself in at all, never mind devoting this much resources into trying to acquire a capability that will only be useful in that extremely rare situation, and one where odds are you are dead already anyways.
The whole story, on its own merit (or rather the distinct lack of any merit) should be raising all sorts of red flags. Add to that the dubious source and zero secondary confirmation and its hard to see how it could have gotten past anyone's BS detector.
