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We have a publicly available J-8H radar document. Since that can use both pl-11 and pl-12 Ill take it.

Anyone get to use the radar? How was it?

The US purchase Moldovan Fulcrums and used them but after constant peg. Whatever it was called is not public. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yf8d41Kz2ng

I wonder what version they have in mind?

Couldn’t the J-8b carry pl-4?

I say you could make an argument that the Eurofighter, F-22, F-2, and J-10a since all four of them were built explicitly with new generation Soviet aircraft in mind. They all have different first flights and in service dates.

For documentation it’s probably much more accessible then commonly believed but it will likely require someone to go to Japan and ask around at Mitsubishi’s museum or find out who has US exploitation documentation.

I think MSIP I jets got AMRAAM support at some point. I know Saudi Eagles had AMRAAM including some given directly from USAFE stock to the Saudi airforce and then never received another upgrade. https://web.archive.org/web/20140526083455/http://www.touchdown-aviation.com/reports/2014/green-shield-157516041575158215901585-1588161016041583-2014.php https://www.runway-fever.nl/galleries/2014-2/green-shield-2014/ https://defence.pk/threads/saudi-and-french-fighters-get-familiar-f-15c-vs-rafale.330385/#post-6092696 F-15C MSIP would probably need AMRAAM to go 3-3 against AESA equipt Rafale. also in the late 90s Japan had a small number of aim-120b for their F-15J which are essentially MSIP I. J-MSIP II wasn’t till the early 2000s.

F-16ADF posted it on F-16.net. I’m not sure were he got it but the format looks like world power journal like the last post said.

DTIC apparently has a IL-78 manual You could send them a FOIA for the following ADB290462 The IL-78

Later production Soviet Fulcrums also had this mode removed. It wasn’t liked or used by pilots for some reason.

http://old.aviationunion.ru/Files/Nom_3_MIG_29_2014.pdf Software and mathematical support and calculations for determining the position of the control rod of MiG-29K/KUB aircraft to ensure safe takeoff from a ski-jump Conference of young specialists of JSC UAC, August 30, 2013 Technical brochure http://old.aviationunion.ru/Files/Nom_9_MIG_2014.pdf

It’s probably ECM and IFF which is pretty normal for every export radar.

The reality is the F-16 wasn’t going to do much without support. In Lebanon and the Gulf they were on a very short leash while Eagles handled air superiority. Still given the limitations of the Floggers sensors it wasn’t hard for a Viper to get close and hit it with a sidewinder. Here is a Pakistani F-16A killing a MIG-23MLD it just flew up too.