Comments by "LRRPFco52" (@LRRPFco52) on "Found And Explained"
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@amanuelasele7799 So you’re saying the Chinese economy is doing well, their scientists are finally innovating solutions on their own (not stealing breakthroughs from their time in US and European universities), registering patents and publishing papers in scientific journals, and this is causing US politicians (many of whom are bought by China) to panic?
Do you mind sharing with me where you get your information from?
I track internal reports from observers in China outside of the corporate media, and their assessments are quite different about the Chinese economy.
I also track PLAAF mishaps and things are not looking good for their engine performance in terms of reliability and safety. They’re basically where the US was with after burning turbofan development in the late 1960s-1970s with regard to engine failures, and that’s with the benefit of FADEC technology that was developed in the US in the 1980s-1990s installed on their unreliable/unsafe turbofan engines.
Look at mishap rates for the J-10, J-11, Su-27SK, etc. Excrement performance. They are very guarded about anything in this space for the J-20, so we are to believe that it has suffered no mishaps. Russians have lost at least 2 Su-57s, one to a fire and the first production sample to a crash, and openly reported those mishaps.
So far, if we believe China’s reporting, the J-20 is the epitome of 5th Gen aviation, the Mighty Dragon! It’s propaganda written for small children’s minds, and coming from an American, that’s saying a lot.
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@jetli740 The US airspace sectors innovate solutions to very real problems. When DoD needs something, they don’t ask the intelligence services to go to another country to bribe their officials or steal the tech, because the tech doesn’t exist. The US creates it from scratch.
China is opposite of that. Every single aspect of Chinese fighters, missiles, ships, vehicles, uniforms, and equipment are copied from Western or foreign designs. This dates back to the Type 56 technology sharing with the Soviets, where Russia wanted to ease tension between China and Russia, then China took everything and knocked it off with mass-produced copies.
Same with J-20 and J-35. When you copy, you’re several steps behind the curve and subject to monkey-wrenching. This is especially true in electronics.
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@extraacct478 Static, fixed RCS values are the things of a more amateur discussion of course, and can’t be corrected fully in the open. Senior sources have used physical representations before as references, without compromising any recorded values and spike locations. Things like small birds, golf balls, marbles, etc. have been mentioned.
In practical terms, it’s ok to say that you won’t bee seen on any airborne threat Radar or ground-based Radar network until it’s far too late in the BVR or weapons separation timelines for A2A and A2S.
F-22 test pilots have stated that they can orient the F-22 to cause a spike return as they offset, then turn back hot onto an airborne threat and disappear from their Radar as a tactic.
It was also revealed that the F-117A went through 3 different generations of RAM, so VLO technologies don’t remain static even within a particular production design, even after it has been produced. I would not be surprised if the combat-coded F-22As have a new generation of RAM techniques applied to them, but this is speculation. It’s one of the most time-consuming aspects of the Raptor fleet maintenance, while not much of a contributing factor to MMHPFH on the F-35A.
JSF uses much better VLO technologies that have hands-free maintainability/durability incorporated into the structures, rather than having to be applied all the time.
F-35A MMHPFH are 3.5-4.5hrs, which is stunning. On the F-16 fleet, we have seen 11-14hrs, not including ancillary combat systems like the FLIR, ECM, and HTS pods.
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@dianapennepacker6854 The problem we faced even with F-22 production dispersed across most of the States was that traitors in DoD and the WH were able to kill it before we could put 200 in Europe, 200 in the Pacific, with 350 in the States.
With F-35, production is dispersed across 48 US States, UK, Canada, Australia, Japan, Italy, Norway, etc.
It's traitor-proof for production at least, and the foreign partners rely on it for their regional security.
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