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Yea me too I’d love a J-10a, I love the J-10 family. Also they never said the Su-30mkk was never gunna happen just they didn’t have enough for a FF module at the time. Which they said from the beginning. If those ever end up happening and the J-11A gets the upgrades they wanna do 2000s red would be very respectable.

Some people like the challenge. Sometimes so older senarios before such missiles where operational. Other like to Use the Aim-120b as it’s more of a match for R-77.

Aim-120B is an older AMRAAM. C has longer range, a better warhead, and less draggy “clipped” fins. Our Aim-120c is a C5 AIM-9l and AIM-9M as all aspect sidewinders. M is just a slight overall improvement to L. X is a high off boresight missile that can be fired with a helmet mounted sight and has a much more advanced seeker. Our aim-9x is a block 1

I think for a lot of devs this is less a job you get paid for and more a hobby that you make money off from time to time

That’s a good idea, though Deka plans on doing that at some point

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/ADA301940.pdf https://patents.justia.com/assignee/thomson-csf-radant https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/electronically-scanned-array Some papers on how the “RADANT” antenna, the basis of the RBE2 PESA works.

A Jf-17 with a J-10 model and EFM is probably 80% of the way to a J-10. Great work. Also remember Deka added Pl-8 and Pl-12 in the game files.

A would definitely had advantages, but I’m reluctant to say “better” it’s the most “Zippy” but the power of the GE vipers is incredible. It’s usually either “block 10” or big mouth when asked who’s the toughest viper to fight.

Are the Malaysian migs of the second kind? I know they carried R-77.

Their actually not that dissimilar. With comparable loads the Block 30 has like a very small advantage in turn rate. The 30 has better pitch response. The Block 50 actually has better acceleration, about a second under mach 1 and more supersonic. The block 40 doesn’t compare that bad to either. There is a certain viper dedicated website with a topic on this. the F-16a on the other hand would have a very different flight model but the pros and cons would be more pronounced.

Yea that would be pretty cool

Best of luck to you!

By any chance do recall the resolution of the AMLCD screens?

I agree, actually I’m not sure how difficult doing both would be given their similarity. Docs on the 29s might be a bit hard to come by.

Oh absolutely. I can really get behind a block 40 because it offers capability we don’t have. Unlike say a block 30 which is a more austere version of what we have.

ADF was 240 planes, that’s comparable numbers to most blocks block 40 CCIP, pre CCIP, old, modern has one reason to simulate it. LANTIRN Pod. It’s what makes it unique. Everything else is a double of efforts.

Oh I was gunna suggest doing a FOIA request to the CIA. for the info Adolf Tolkachev and Viktor Belenko provided lots of documents from Oleg Penkovsky have been declassified over the years. the docs we need probably still are but might possibly be reviewable for release or have sanitized copies provided since they no longer are related to front line cutting edge weapon systems.

That would be a good idea too. FOIA them both and see if they can accommodate the request.

https://books.google.com/books?id=IeBAovG9tO0C&pg=PA354&dq=f-15+amraam+desert+storm&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjaqNeg0Kj5AhV8MlkFHXh6D9cQ6AF6BAgKEAM#v=onepage&q=f-15 amraam desert storm&f=false https://www.defensemedianetwork.com/stories/f-15-eagles-were-the-deadliest-birds-of-desert-storm/

Apparently Bahrain’s block 40s might have been the only Vipers to carry Aim-7 in the gulf war. Aim-7f was sold to the country by 1988 https://books.google.com/books?id=cgEErAddXGsC&pg=PA32&dq=aim-7+bahrain&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjoldGQyaj5AhXwpIkEHcQsA_4Q6AF6BAgCEAM#v=onepage&q=aim-7 bahrain&f=false AIM-7 was qualified on the F-16 for FMS in late 1989 https://books.google.com/books?id=VyFQAAAAYAAJ&q=f-16+aim-7+bahrain&dq=f-16+aim-7+bahrain&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjR86Hpyaj5AhWZlIkEHcApB3s4FBDoAXoECAUQAw#f-16 aim-7 bahrain they wanted Aim-7 from the start They definitely did use Aim-7 at some point it’s just pinning down when https://www.dstorm.eu/pages/en/bahrain/f-16.html

Well it’s complicated. It’s not really modern intelligent and the Russians have moved on. Worst case they deny the FOIA.

There was a very promising Mig-25 mod that unfortunately seems to have died. if your feeling ambitious why not file a foia with the CIA for the information Adolf Tolkachev gave them on the Mig-31 and R-33 for possible release. 40 years is about as long as most domestic equipment is kept classified, probably a possibility since just about everything he provided information on has been superseded.

Keep in mind 50% does not mean 50% of the flankers total fuel as it can’t pull 9g still under 50% total. Note the weight is listed 18920kg. You are likely aware but readers might not be.

This man called it.

I didn’t realize A2A was talked to. That’s a good sign.