Indian Air Force: News & Discussions (43 Viewers)

[randombully]

@randombully but still how can even a b1 have less rcs in frontal aspect compared to rafale in frontal aspect?

It doesn't.
Rafale with it's composite and radar absorbant paint( not as effective as RAM on stealth jets, though much more durable) has frontal clean rcs( without any external payload) between 0.5-1 m2.
Tejas, eurofighter, gripen e also has similar 0.5-1m2 frontal rcs, clean.

Super hornet tho has frontal clean rcs between 0.1-0.5m2, the lowest out of all the non stealth jets.

Lowering Rcs is a combined effort of shaping + radar absorbing material.

The radar absorbing material of choosing is lot times about finding balance between actual benifit and cost + maintinance.
B1b while not stealth, does have extensive radar absorbing treatment.

 

[randombully]

Sir pls write books, you can dominate the indian bookshelves with your knwoledge

Lmao.
@Azaad, dekh rahe ho, kaise phuul barsaye jaa rahe hai.

 

[VictorDelta4]

View: https://x.com/IAFTPS/status/1939992017389728228

 

[Interested]

Mate, there is literally no 4.5th gen fighter than can hold a candle to the F22.

The F22 was designed from the ground up for dominating enemy airspace and assert air superiority.

There is a reason the Americunts never considered exporting the bird to even their closest allies.

It is literally THE air superiority fighter, best in the world at what it does, even without stealth.

It can smoke Rafale, Eurofighter or Gripen in a2a combat. The Rafale will not even see it before getting smoked.

How do you know ?

It has never scored a direct kill in all its existence

 

[liberalredditor]

How do you know ? It has never scored a direct kill in all its existence

exactly, its just a balloon killer

burgers give reason or excuse to not use in real life is that they dont want to expose its rcs and capabilities, its just like pork def min saying we didnt use our ad because we didnt want to reveal its location

 

[Azaad]

Lmao.
@Azaad, dekh rahe ho, kaise phuul barsaye jaa rahe hai.

Phool toh arthiyon mein bhi barsaaye jaate hain woh bhi jamkar. Are you so desperate for my validation ?

What's all this got to do with me ? Ungli diya tha toh kya haath pakdoge ? Don't you understand the meaning of DO NOT ENGAGE ? Ya 2-4 laat ghoose ke baad samjhoge ?

 

[liberalredditor]

guys pls continue the elafda in chitchat thread

 

[Noob_Saibot]

How do you know ?

It has never scored a direct kill in all its existence

It hasn't been needed. No war fought by the US has seen its air superiority challenged.

Doesn't mean you discount its capabilities.

Literally every expert worth their salt will tell you this is the best and strongest air superiority fighter in the world.

 

[randombully]

Literally every expert worth their salt will tell you this is the best and strongest air superiority fighter in the world.

Then they aren't worth their salt.

In an actual fight, f22 will rely on data from f35 and other sensors and will be used as stealthy agile missile carrier in most cases.

There's a reason USAF is upgrading the Raptor with f35's tech.
Plus f22 IR stealth even with those 2d nozzels will be worse than f35, j20,su57 due to use of more metal instead of composites.
Plus f22's majority metal airframe and it's relatively fragile stealth coating requires lot more maintinence causing it's availability rate to be low, though its older architecture will limit how much it can be upgraded, & with avionics&sensor upgrade it's availability will be even lower, and operational cost even higher.
At this point they should just buy more f35 and ditch f22, that extra maneuverability and supercruise ain't worth it all.

 

[arjuntank]

View: https://x.com/joysamcyborg/status/1940060974964170965

 

[shade2]

View: https://x.com/joysamcyborg/status/1940060974964170965

Assuming Rafales can't use meteors or we haven't bought them.

No worries.

Dalals will start RR from now only about how we need to acquire F-35 & AIM-120
In another 10-15 years they'll get their wish.


Anything Russian is out of the question because Govt is scared of CAATSA and the dalals will cry about "inferior ruzzian weaponry proving useless in Ukraine"

 

[username unkown]

View: https://x.com/joysamcyborg/status/1940060974964170965

Thease blue tick x idiots should know missile like r 37 and pl17 are awacs killer not sucessful against fighter jet as thease missile are not manuverable due to thier massive size
On meteor part main selling point for rafale was meteor and spectra ew not sure why we spend that money on bugette