Various countries including Algeria, Argentina, Myanmar, Qatar, Egypt, Iran, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, Nigeria, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka and Uruguay have shown interest in the JF-17.
Pakistan is buying about sixteen JF-17 jets every year. The older JF-17 jets cost $25 million each. Newer jets with AESA radar and other improvements will cost $32 million each.
Nigeria has ordered three JF-17 and Myanmar has ordered sixteen.
This will mean that the US Air Force cannot afford to be careless while operating in the middle east and Asia. Every third-rate military will have a chance to detect and get a lucky shot to take down a careless pilot in an F-35.
AESA Radar can Detect Stealth Planes Over 100 Miles Away
The radar uses a 3GHz bandwidth at the X-band, provides detection of fighter-sized targets at 170 km, tracks up to 15 targets simultaneously and engages four with air/air missiles. The radar also supports air/ground modes, with one-meter SAR resolution and terrain mapping at 300 km. Searching targets at sea, the radar can detect large targets from 200 km. The planar AESA array measures 60×60 cm and weighs 69 kg. The processor and power module weigh another less than 35 kg. The array consumes 3,200 VA of power.
FTC-2000G
JF-17 Block 3 will have avionics advancements such as helmet-mounted display and sight (HMD/S) system, a new single panel multi-functional display (MFD), an active electronically-scanned array (AESA) radar paired with an infrared search and track (IRST) system, and a cockpit with a flight-control stick on the side an NRIET KLJ-7A AESA radar. It will have more use of composites, a new engine, and a two-seater cockpit option, with a top speed of 2.0+ Mach.
Pakistani Air Force officials have described it as a “fourth generation plus” fighter jet. According to unconfirmed media reports the induction is expected to start around 2019. The PAF (Pakistan Air Force) is expected to place an order for 50 JF-17 Block-III fighter jets in the first half of 2017.
The FTC-2000G is a less expensive multi-role fighter.
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The Serbs did it with old tech 25 years ago.
F35 is a melon. They fall off the sky on their own.
bs article. aesa can detect stealth?. Explain why the russians have spent lots pf money to develop and build uhf and vhf mobile radars as the only practical counterstealth detection and tracking technology?
Missiles have limited range and missiles have to lock unto a target either by radar or by infrared. A F-35 signature isn’t large to either type of sensing. Also a F-35 has technology to confuse missiles. A missile killing a F-35 isn’t impossible but it will be difficult. So a F-35 sees another plane, shoots its missile and scrams.
To be noted we have Iran among the customers
Iran is going to buy many of them soon
TO be noticed Iran among the
customers
Can their planes see the F-35 before the F-35 sees them? Because it they can’t, they are dead.
-> Really> ? a evasion of missiles is totally impossible?
It would be suicidal for the US as well, ameritard..
China has nukes, many of them
I don’t see what’s supposed to be “anti-stealth” here – x-band radars are what RF “stealth” is meant to defeat first and foremost.
First, its hard to believe. Second, planes seeing planes ain’t the issue. The issue is can the missile lock on. Third, Can their planes see the F-35 before the F-35 sees them? Because it they can’t, they are dead.
To rephrase it takes a stealth plane with a missile that can lock on a stealth plane to kill a stealth plane. A F-35 itself might have a problem killing another F-35.
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China can conceive and deliver an entirely new plane in just 3 to 5 years. This is a firm guarantee that their near future air force will be greater than that of the US Government. Russia develops and delivers new concepts in aviation fairly quickly also.
Unlike the US Government, neither China nor Russia will tolerate corruption or disabling, internedecine competition in military hardware industries.
Missiles have limited range and missiles have to lock unto a target either by radar or by infrared. A F-35 signature isn’t large to either type of sensing. Also a F-35 has technology to confuse missiles. A missile killing a F-35 isn’t impossible but it will be difficult. So a F-35 sees another plane, shoots its missile and scrams.
To be noted we have Iran among the customers
Iran is going to buy many of them soon
TO be noticed Iran among the
customers
Can their planes see the F-35 before the F-35 sees them? Because it they can’t, they are dead.
-> Really> ? a evasion of missiles is totally impossible?
It would be suicidal for the US as well, ameritard..
China has nukes, many of them
I don’t see what’s supposed to be “anti-stealth” here – x-band radars are what RF “stealth” is meant to defeat first and foremost.
First, its hard to believe. Second, planes seeing planes ain’t the issue. The issue is can the missile lock on. Third, Can their planes see the F-35 before the F-35 sees them? Because it they can’t, they are dead.
To rephrase it takes a stealth plane with a missile that can lock on a stealth plane to kill a stealth plane. A F-35 itself might have a problem killing another F-35.
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