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It is fairly easy to make a modern radar whichever size you can fit in the nose cone. Modern PESA or AESA radars are made in elements and you can add or remove those as you see fit. Of course the larger the area the better the capabilities of the radar.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

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(47000/71)/343 is almost M2

manqiangrexue said:

you don't design the nosecone of a jet, especially not a top-end 5th gen fighter, to be the size of whatever your existing radar happens to be.

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Quite often you do. F-14 as the simplest example.

Max Demian said:

Oh Jura. ..


This made made me spill my morning coffee.

The only reason why everybody takes these statements seriously is precisely because of the threat of military violence upon the people of Taiwan.

Now what they could really use is a few THAADs.

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China would probably pull an Israel in the THAAD battery soon as it lands on Taiwan.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

There is no such thing in existence. With the sole exception of a concept tank from Jordan that never entered production.

Taiwan has 400+ M60A3TT. They also have about 400 M48 Tanks. The M60 can be upgraded. M48 cannot.
They also have a fair 8x8 APC/IFV vehicle

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They should be able to build one, or at least do a HIFV conversion. You don't need an Abrams to fight amphibious forces.

Gloire_bb said:

M60 with unmanned turret and upgraded mobility will be a new tank, with costs of a new tank, but still with an old hull. Furthermore, placing cockerill/striker turret won't make an Armata out of it.

There are much more reasonable options with Taiwanese current fleet of m60s, and they already pursue them. As i told before, they are not in Turkish situation, where pooring much more money into already expensive M60T fleet is simply the best path availible.(yes, better than their leopards)

70+t is weight for city fighting/COIN setup. In cities, this weight won't be a problem.Otherwise, Abrams isn't as heavy. Both will be limited, and i honestly think what Patton will be limited much more severely.

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The Abrams, even without the COIN set up, is still to heavy ( mid 60 tons at least) to drive around tropical, irrigated farmland).

Skywatcher said:

China would probably pull an Israel in the THAAD battery soon as it lands on Taiwan.

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I can see how they would be rather upset about a radar that can observe the airspace over Chengdu from Taichung.

Edit: apparently they have an ABMD UHF radar in Hsinchu with comparable range. Should've went to see that instead of the science park ...

Gloire_bb said:

Quite often you do. F-14 as the simplest example.

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Do tell me more. I am unaware of this. What aircraft did they rip the F-14 radar off of and size the F-14 head around? I'm curious about that.

Stealth aircraft have everything calculated perfectly from angle to size. I find it hard to believe that any stealth aircraft would have its radar aperture limited by what size radars are currently available rather than tailor-size a radar to fit whatever nose circumference was determined to be optimum for stealth with the rest of the aircraft.

Skywatcher said:

The Abrams, even without the COIN set up, is still to heavy ( mid 60 tons at least) to drive around tropical, irrigated farmland).

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Need photos of typical landing beaches and flatplains of Taiwan.
I am not ready to outright call it too heavy.

On the other hand, incredible mobility and protection disparity between two vehicles will count.

manqiangrexue said:

Do tell me more. I am unaware of this. What aircraft did they rip the F-14 radar off of and size the F-14 head around? I'm curious about that.

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It isn't exactly "rip", but its FCS:missile combination actually predated the bird by full decade.
In its final form, AN/AWG-9+AIM-54 it was originally developed for F-111B.
"volumous" nose of the F-14, by far the largest in its generation, was forced by this radar.
Basically, the whole bird was the smallest possible interceptor with this radar.

Gloire_bb said:

It isn't exactly "rip", but its FCS:missile combination actually predated the bird by full decade.
In its final form, AN/AWG-9+AIM-54 it was originally developed for F-111B.
"volumous" nose of the F-14, by far the largest in its generation, was forced by this radar.
Basically, the whole bird was the smallest possible interceptor with this radar.

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I see that F-14 is a large aircraft and so was the F-111 but it doesn't show me that the F-14 was designed that way because they didn't want to scale the radar to the F-14 so they'd rather scale the F-14 to the radar. I assume that just like the Flanker and J-20, both were heavy air superiority fighters so by that, their size was not very different. Just from the observation, I would think that the F-14 was originally intended to be a big heavy fighter so it was a good fit for the F-111 radar. Is there a source that says that it was the radar that forced the F-14 to be big?

I'm not trying to give you a hard time; it's just that it's hard for me to believe that someone would rather scale an entire jet around an existing radar size just to avoid scaling a radar up or down a bit to match the rest of the jet.