It's sad that the last 2 S-400 regiments are now delayed. We could've put one more S-400 system in Arunachal to completely take KJ-500 out of picture. Without AWACS support, PLAAF will find it very difficult to penetrate Indian IADS and overcome IAF fighters.China Places Large Number Of Fighter Jets, Helicopters in Tibet: Reports
China has placed a large number of fighters, helicopters and importantly, an airborne early warning and control system and an air-to-air refueling aircraft in three airfields in Tibet, reports say., World News, Times Nowwww.timesnownews.com
I don't think we should too flatter the Meteor missile. Both the United States and China have developed it, but both have given it up. Because ramjets accelerate slow, and they have low intake efficiency at high angles of attack.
No system is perfect. I understand where you are coming from. But Meteor is next gen solid fuel ducted Ramjet. Its real strength isn't just massive 300+kms range, but its 3 times larger no escape zone. So if you fire Meteor within 100kms Pole, the bandit has little chance of survival.
What I mean is slow acceleration, killing close range is too long, which is unfavorable in stealth air combat，
Its speed is comparatively slightly lesser than solid rocket motor based AAMs only when it's intercepting targets at very long ranges(plus 200kms). For within 100kms shot, it's very fast, lethal and remains powered throughout, thus very hard to evade.
For fighter targets. For slow and large HVAs it's over 300kms max range.
Yes, it's not stealth. But it has very high level of sensor fusion and can pin-point locate its targets without actively searching for them just based on their emissions. Now add something like Meteor and it'll blow other non-stealthy targets 200kms away. Against J-20, it'll use its IRST and MICA-IR combo to fight.
Didn't I make it clear that ramjets have slower acceleration at the beginning than conventional rocket engines, Less maneuverability within 0-50KM than a conventional rocket engine, which is a heavy problem in the age of stealth air combat. The Meteor missile also has a much larger RCS than other missiles because of its two intakes. China developed a ramjet but gave it up
Does sensor fusion here refer to integrated avionics architecture? This seems to be the standard configuration of the 4.5 generation fighter,Even generally believed that avionics relatively backward Su 35 also have，and does not explain the problem, stealth fighters in addition to radar stealth, but also focus on infrared stealth, There is currently no publicly available information on IRST used by Rafale fighters
Meteor is just not only a ramjet. It has solid rocket fuel booster mode too. In fact, in the initial firing mode, as long as solid rocket booster motor is ignited and burning, it's as fast and maneuverable as any conventional solid rocket fuel based AAM.
Anything that breathes oxygen has a thermal temperature. And anything that has thermal temperature can be caught on LWIR. Modern QWIP based IRST sensors can even look through VLWIR/FIR(very long wavelength infra red/far infra red) that is above 14 microns. Nothing is going to escape them.
ThanksOur maritime ISR capability is still under planning stages. Some of it has been built into the Dornier aircraft, but the main capability will be taken up after the AWACS program.
The IN has 3 programs, 1 is an indigenous DRDO design based on the Dornier, the 2nd and 3rd are imported. The 2nd one is on a medium-sized aircraft and the 3rd is the P-8I. So, short, medium and long range.
The MRMRA is yet to be cleared.
Medium-range Maritime Reconnaissance Aircraft
India is vulnerable when one views it through its maritime domain of a coastline of 7,516 km, touching nine states and four union territorieswww.spsnavalforces.com
It may be indigenised, but I don't know yet.
He also candidly admitted that we're lacking in ISR vs the Chinese. What are things we can do to overcome this problem as per you? More satellites, aerostars etc.??
What about series of passive acoustic radars all across LAC to listen to any Chinese VLO intrusion? Will that work?
