J-10 Thread IV

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Franklin

Captain
Maybe the old picture isn't the radar itself but a protective cap to protect the radar from prolonged exposure to the (dirty) air. And the red symbols on it are letters. The resolution of those pictures are not high enough to see it clearly. Or maybe this is a different radar altogether.

Can anyone tell if its a PESA or AESA radar ?
 
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latenlazy

Brigadier
Franklin said:
Maybe the old picture isn't the radar itself but a protective cap to protect the radar from prolonged exposure to the (dirty) air. And the red symbols on it are letters. The resolution of those pictures are not high enough to see it clearly. Or maybe this is a different radar altogether.

Can anyone tell if its a PESA or AESA radar ?
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We know for a fact that the red parts of the old radar were IFF probes.
 
JayBird

JayBird

Junior Member
Franklin said:
Maybe the old picture isn't the radar itself but a protective cap to protect the radar from prolonged exposure to the (dirty) air. And the red symbols on it are letters. The resolution of those pictures are not high enough to see it clearly. Or maybe this is a different radar altogether.

Can anyone tell if its a PESA or AESA radar ?
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Old radar is this one, not red symbols.

j10bradarbetter.jpg
 
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latenlazy

Brigadier
SinoSoldier said:
I'd wager that it is a J-10C with its new AESA radar.
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Two thoughts. 1) Assuming that the picture of the J-10B prototype radar from years back was an AESA, and this picture is of a J-10C with a different radar, the rumor that the J-10B has a PESA is bogus and based on fanboy handwringing and speculating that AESAs don't have IFF dipoles (apparently whether a radar has IFF dipole says nothing about whether it's an AESA, though it's not typical) or don't look like other AESAs. Instead the J-10B does mount an AESA, but the J-10C has a newer AESA. 2) This is in fact a picture of a J-10B, which could mean that the radar we see may actually be of the supposed PESA it uses instead of the AESA we saw in the prototype and described in those academic papers.
 
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taxiya

Brigadier
Registered Member
some times I think the debate of whether a J-10 prototype is of B or C variant is a moot point. The Chinese military or Chengdu never gave out any designation of variants. They continuously add improvements to the airframe, only people in the internet forums use B and C to distinguish different batches, so what is the definition of B and C, or D...? Who is to define them? In my opinion, nobody in the internet has the authority. So I'd suggest we concentrate our discussion on the specific improvements, changes, not the letters.
 
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