They do not need to dog fight to win. I dunno about the gripen but an F35 pilot can see through the plane to launch missiles. No much need for a fancy circus dance.

https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/e...ing%20a%20plane.

Tech has advanced. It is like this video. Forget the fancy moves. The sensors (from a system and not just the plane) and weapon will do the rest.



This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 10 2023, 08:31 PM

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/p...8102268940.html

No one says anything about needing to dogfight to win.
I'm saying F22, GCAP are designed to win dogfight if it ever happened and pilots are still trained to dogfight.

Saying dogfighting is obsolete despite jet are still designed to do so while pilot are trained to do so is what you get when you listen to YouTube expert I say


As for the F35. Its always been designed as the low in the high low mix's.

Nope. Stealth design is the enemies of aerodynamic and thus to emphasize stealth the jet won't be agile. The B2 & it successor is designed purely to emphasise Stealth at the expense of agility. The F22 however is designed to be agile. So it's not just a happy coincidence as you want to sell it.


While The F22 shouldn't be force into a situation where it must dogfight to survive. The fact is even if the enemies trapped the F22 & force it to dogfight. It would still win that dogfight. That's what total dominance is. No matter what you try or throw at it the F22 would still get on top.


The F35 & grippen are the honda city of jet. Its build to give the best bang for the buck. And as expected of a honda city some features aren't included to get to the price point decided earlier. The F22 like GCAP are the McLaren. Its doesn't have to be 'economical' all it need to do is dominate.

F-35 vs Gripen more like BMW vs Perodua. More than double the horsepower, everything inside substantially more advanced. Not many people realise but the computing power and software capabilities are substantially more advanced than even the F-22 for a simple reason, date of manufacture. This especially with the latest TR upgrade. The closest in that respect ironically is the F-15EX.

You can be both stealthy and manouvreable; that is the F-22

Manouevrability is important in BVR combat as well. But nobody is going to take an F-22 dogfighting. If an F-22 is dogfighting, it has failed; it's got into a situation where its expensive advantages are negated

The point which you fail to grasp is that just because it CAN do something, doesn't mean that it WANTS to do that thing, or is designed TO do that thing

Ultimately, the F35 will see first and shoot first and win it; near and far. And that is what matters.

If that amounts to your idea of a "dogfight^".

And it will be the primary interceptor and fighter of many countries.

Not too hard to see where the Sings will go with their already 4.5 gen F15Sgs during the latters MLU in future.

It won't be a f35 but it'll still be an improvement.

2 RAAF 5th Gen F35s took out 6 4.5 Gen F15Sg.


https://theaviationgeekclub.com/two-raaf-f-...Fwww.google.com

"The military found that picking candidates based on their skills and experience alone resulted in fewer promotions granted to minorities, not more."

haha wtf?

Rare insight or admission of the gap between US made 5th gen aircraft versus a supposedly stealthy 4.5+ gen or even 5th Gen Chinese jet.

And this is a close encounter..WVR aka in your face.

Chinese J20 - China's answer to the F22:




This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 13 2023, 01:04 PM

Singapore Readying to Launch new satellite

Singapore Readying to Launch Israeli-Manufactured satellite (typo in article - should be satellite instead of UAV)

The DS-SAR was acquired in 2018, meaning that its development process lasted about five years

Ami Rojkes Dombe | 9/07/2023 Contact author


Singapore acquired the radar in 2018, meaning that it took five years to develop until launch, as reported by space.org.sg. This is the average development timeline for aerial industry satellites.

The website mentions that when the satellite's acquisition was announced in 2018, Singapore’s Minister of Trade and Industry, S. Iswaran, said that it will serve both governmental and commercial purposes and support the imaging requirements of Singapore – including maritime security and oil leak detection.

The SAR payload is developed by Elta, an aerospace industry subsidiary. It employs the same technology used in the Israeli Ministry of Defense’s SAR satellites.

https://www.israeldefense.co.il/en/node/58815

https://nextspaceflight.com/launches/details/7201

https://www.space.org.sg/ds-sar-satellite-a...st-electronics/
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This is the 3rd surveillance-related satellite launched by Sg in less than a year with the earlier one being NeuSAR and DS-EO:

https://www.dso.org.sg/media-centre/media-release/1606

https://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/ds-eo.htm

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Recent satellite launches:

https://tnp.straitstimes.com/news/singapore...ster-monitoring

+ the DS-SAR above so 4 satellite in total recently with 3 in conjunction with SG Government agencies i.e. Defence Science and Technology Agency and Defence Science Organisation.

This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 13 2023, 07:36 PM

Mach Loop 4K- various aircrafts - beautiful:

Even before this incident where F35s trounced or beat the latest Chinese stealth fighter i.e. J20 in a real-life encounter, a Chinese study had concluded that Chinese advanced 4.5th to 5th Gen fighters were no match for the F35.

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/art...ampaign=3217545



This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 16 2023, 03:22 PM

Haha wtf

Guess who else is ini Mali?

Source:

https://www.janes.com/defence-news/news-det...e-spear-missile

Note >290km range is without booster rocket part and it is for low or terrain hugging or sea skimming profile mode. Blue Spear=Sea Serpent=Gabriel 5 has range of between 200km to 400km depending on flight profile.



Source - Israel Defence Industries or IAI:

https://www.navalnews.com/event-news/dsei-2...i-ship-missile/

The missile is jointly made by Israel and Singapore for long range maritime and deep inland attacks. So far, the ship and land launched versions have been revealed. Singapore will replace its Harpoon missile with the Blue Spear missile.

This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 24 2023, 11:28 AM

Supersonic slamming missile (from ballistic missile design) with range of about 300km for stand off precision strikes against hardened or soft targets on land and sea with warhead of 150kg (larger than NSM).

Built for Israels F15s, F16s and F35s and/or a few other countries which we do know - not open source except for perhaps India.

Now the UK is also keen.



Note: 1) Attack angel of up to 90 degrees for pin point precision strikes against hardened targets on land e.g. bunkers or ships at sea.
2) Capable of swarming time on target attacks from various angles


This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 25 2023, 02:36 PM

Seriously? No one vetted the English.

This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 25 2023, 05:48 PM

Redback wins!

This post has been edited by Mai189: Jul 27 2023, 07:26 PM