J-16 is very much being used as an air superiority fighter
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The F-15EX doesn't have an equivalent to the PL-17 missile. Enough said there.
At the moment yes, but it is very much suboptimal as a non-stealthy air superiority fighter.
The preference will always be to use a stealthy 5th gen.
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But look at the situation in 2030, when the first J-16 MLUs are presumably due.
There will be 1000+ 5th gen fighters plus UADFs.
There's simply no need to use the J-16 for air superiority, so there's no pressing need for the J-16 to receive the best radar.
Why not wait until India installs this so-called advanced radar on its aircraft before boasting about its power? They just can't shake this bad habit of exaggeration; they start bragging before they've even accomplished anything. We are all well aware of the gap between India and China in the field of radar; they shouldn't even try to compare themselves to China in this area!
Armenia already bought indian weapons before. For them it's a way to pinch Russia, and maybe also pretend for Europe they aren't buying Russian weapons anymore.
Downsides (there's a reason no one buys Indian armament) don't matter for Armenia, if they ever thought about combat capabilities, they wouldn't be buying 40t jets.
They have Su-30SMs.
That's why I called Super SU30 as mini AWACS
And Virupaksha radar is mounted on a movable swash plate of a PESA radar, making it a PESA-AESA hybrid system.
Hate to be that guy, but can you get back to us after the headline says "Su-30MKI is Equipped with..." instead of "SU-30MKI to Be Equipped with..."?
Rv
Even by their own estimates it won't happen until 2028, by then even Russians would have probably put AESAs on their own flankers, this is not factoring in all the teething issues this thing will inevitably have.
IDRW ist nothing but a piece of shit! It has a similar low credibility like Bulgarian.BS.com, NationalInterest-Idiots.com and Armyrecognition. So please spare us this nonsense.