BVR missiles won't matter as much because they have difficulty locking on to stealth aircraft from long ranges, so that the effective range of BVR missiles will be much more comparable to WVR missiles, and BVR missiles are typically twice the weight (and thus payload cost) of WVR missiles. Stealth allows aircraft to escape true BVR engagements i.e, you will only be able to target an aircraft within 50 km, interceptor missiles will allow you to knock out high-value targets at long ranges without having to go into short ranges, and WVR missiles will allow you to knock out both interceptor missiles, BVR missiles if they're launched, and kill other stealth aircraft in WVR. IMO, in the short-term, air combat will be dominated by stealth, interceptor missiles, and WVR missiles. Ironically, the fighter will be the bomber and the bomber will be the fighter. CUDA is supposed to bridge the gap and allow both the F-22 and the F-35 to carry 12 WVR missiles apiece (14, actually, if you include side bays, in the F-22), but it's still developmental and it's weird that CUDA cannot scale the F-22's weapons bay.Ībout the F-35 imo I think it will have a good reputation as a fighter-bomber (it is, after all, strike), but it is not designed for air superiority missions and the main role will be picked up by the LRS-B. The F-22, by the way, is rated for 6 AIM-120Ds (iirc) with folding fins, so its total AAM payload is larger than on the F-35. The J-20, unlike the F-35, can potentially load a missile diagonally, allowing the J-20 to carry a longer missile than the F-35, which has two narrow slits. With regards to the J-20, the unified weapons bay does have one big advantage over the F-35's dual weapons bay, however. After all, while both the F-22 and F-35 are expensive to operate, the F-35 will be significantly cheaper than the F-22, and when the F-22 is thrown into the strike role, instead of the air superiority role, it may be superior in parts but overall will be more expensive to operate as a strike fighter. Regarding fighter bays, the F-22 is designed for high operating costs, and because F-22 are both so precious and so few in number, while the F-22 has a theoretically superior weapons bay to the F-35, people are not going to go through the time to test, redesign, and recertify the F-22 to carry strike munitions like the F-35. Russia does have AESA being built for the PAK-FA, as well as the MiG-35, but neither of them, IIRC, are in service, and their performance figures are not commonly listed. If you bring up Russian radars, the reason the Chinese can outperform the Russian radars is because their radar generation is 1 generation ahead of the listed Russian radars the best Russian radars listed are PESA, which are more inefficient in energy transmission than AESA, while the Chinese have recently begun fielding their own AESA, which are comparable to first or second-generation GaAs AESA and are currently at least 1 generation behind the latest American AESAs. What this means, then, is that the APG-81 is more sophisticated than the APG-77 (I am assuming it can't jam APG-77v2 or whatever is the most current version), and consequently can outperform the APG-77 in certain ranges. Yet, for the APG-81 to be able to jam the APG-77 suggests that it is capable of outputting tremendously more power than the APG-77, and that in certain ranges it can flood the APG-77 to the point where it can jam it. The APG-81 has a smaller aperture than the APG-77 it looks as though there's a +33% difference in diameter (and thus 77% difference in area, 137% difference in volume). If you convert the 165 km range to a range vs a 1 m^2 target, it becomes around 800 km against 1 m^2 targets, but as the SPY-1D is a ship-borne radar, it's limited by horizon effects and has difficulty tracking detect / track targets at 800 km if it does not have a clear line of sight.Ībout the radar range claims on the J-20 well, take the APG-77 as an example, as well as the APG-81. Your assumption is that the Chinese are building yet more cheap crap, which I think is partially justified (the J-20 is not as mature as the F-22 or F-35, being pretty close to closing the gap with the latter, especially in kinematics) and partially irrational.Ībout the SPY-1D note that we're discussing.
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