Hmm I think a few guys at key forums would disagree with you
But in all seriousness, can you list a few ways (platforms?) in which PLAAF has a higher "commitment" to EW than IAF? Is it the Y-8 GX EW planes, JH-7/A with EW pods, slightly larger variety of AEWC platforms or what? (How do you even evaluate EW proficiency? Is it through the number of dedicated EW, ELINT platforms, variety and potency of radars and ESM, datalinking?)
Because IAF "legacy" fighters have gone under quite potent modernization programs to bring up their EW, ESM to modern standards (I can't recall them immediately but IAF fans proudly list the new foreign avionics installed in old mirages and Mig-29s). Has the PLAAF made similar strides to their own legacy fighters? (I assume they have, but the transparency of the two countries are obviously different).
Keys = garbage forum. airplane porn kiddos overthere didn't even know what a cryogenic windtunnel is and how is it essential for aircraft development. may be that's why LCA can only go to a pathetic 13 deg alpha at low mach
The way one evaluate how serious one commits to EW is look at amount of Elint resources one is dedicated towards.
with out Elint one has no ew capability.
also jail-breaking.
"small boys" buys equipment from "big boys". they also buy from them a certain data base. for example, if you buy a ground based airdefense radar from a manufacture, the manufacture will tell you, yes, we are robust against this and that bands of jamming up to this degree. the small boys takes their word. and just use it, every time it has a glitch the manufacture's support guys are on ground to lend a helping hand. Just like buying a smart phone, you don't buy it and reverse engineer it and find out all the nuts and bolts of it, you just use it.
If one goes one step more geeky, one can find these hardcore guys who actually jail break./ heavily mod the smartphones for their own use and enjoyment.
if you go up one more step up. then you are in league of big boys .
moral and ethical issues aside,
when china buys equipment such as S-300, it first always jail breaks it. Jail breaking is done by giving the equipment to all these numerical Institute of such and such, subsystems by subsystems. once they knew it right down to the things the designer wish they have a chance to fix. that has happened on every single foreign procurement china had since 1950s..
Once you jail break, it have no secrets.
IAF is like this big customer who has all kinds of flashy money, it can go to a manufacture and wants its own special phone.
sure it can be done, it is just a mod on a existing phone with alots of unique features. but it is still built around the basic models.
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as for airplane EW and jammers, who knows,
but I assume the data sucked up every time those Tu-154Ms or Y-8GX goes around eastern china it is not just collecting dust.
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also, who else beside russia and US has elint satellites.
china does and it is launching a bigger network. same goes for spaced based radar.
Ship based? notorious. In the worst times, they askewed building modern warships but has kept up their ELINT SIGINT fleet.
ground based? you betcha.
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