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FighterBomber ? Hard to believe tbh.
His argument is also not convincing by saying fighters can take AEW jobs... There just no comparison between small or 1 meter fighter radar vs AEW radar. It's gonna take Multiple fighters and multiple sorties to get the same endurance and coverage as AEW. Such easily worn down VKS very quickly.
To say nothing on low RCS target detection and early warning.
Canning the A-100 without virtually anything comparable or at least A-50 back in serial is kinda technical suicide tbh as things will back to 0. They'll gonna have to redesign the radars and avionics suite if they intend to say, going to "more produced platform" like Tu-214. That will take years.
Only MiG-31 could provide 120 degree AEW and assured if radar was upgraded to AESA.
A salvo from the Russian Grad-M naval MLRS. Rare footage of the 122mm Grad-M naval MLRS firing has been published as part of the Russian Pacific Fleet exercises. The firing training was conducted from the large landing ship Peresvet, Project 775M. The A-215 Grad-M naval 122mm MLRS was created on the basis of the 9K51 Grad land MLRS in 1969 in the USSR. Full specifications of the MLRS are shown on the screen. The MLRS is designed to destroy manpower and equipment on the shore, during the landing of marine troops, to support their actions, and to defend landing ships. The A-215 MLRS can also use 9K51 Grad MLRS rockets. The Grad-M MLRS is equipped with the MS-73 launcher and contains 40 shells, plus ammunition in the ship's magazine. The Grad-M MLRS can hit targets at a distance of up to 20,700 meters, the reload time of the installation is 2 minutes.
nope. Its Su-34M that provide comfort and loitering time for AEW role. not even Israel put top antenna on its newest AEW which is business jet.
Reconnaissance is different role than AEW especially when you put C (Command) on it. You need a dedicated operator for actually contacting and to manage aircraft in your area of operations as well as any other units. You can see Israeli aircraft have multiple operators, and multiple radios (yes for AEW/C role 20 radios is probably a bare minimum) Also multiple sensors you can't just fit into M-400 Reconnaissance pod form.
The radar will arguably taking the largest space inside the pod as unlike ESM, Radars really need the power aperture (yes antenna size + power)
IF Su-34 really put into AEW duty, then it will have to work like Ka-31 where everything its radar sees and controls are downlinked to command. This of course raise question on why not put the radar into UAV instead like Altius ? Freeing the Su-34 to actually doing the strike duty.
I already posted the link about Su-57M that says AI will take over the entire functioning of pilot. and they are already testing it. Two Pilots in Su-34 are enough to take command of an area and delegate responsibilities to ground or air units. We are entering 6G communication technologies so there is no need to command sitting in the air when everything is real time distributed.
now if they want to go beyond Su-34 for AEW function they have Tu-160M2 with even more powerful engines.
To correctly measure technological progress you have to look at smallest unit of the attack line which is Ka-52M. Russia is putting cruise missiles with hundreds of km range on Ka-52M. the most advanced AESA radar in chopper. than there is that 5.5G Su-57M that control other drones with missile ranges comparable to strategic bombers.
do you think this A-100 AEW has radar range to find both ground and air targets for Ka-52M or Su-57M?
@pmc raises a valid point. The Russians could be looking into a distributed, interconnected system of drones, fighters, satellites and ground radars that is enabled by fast communication (5G and starlink already mostly achieve that) and AI taking over a significant portion of the job from would-be operators. The clearest hint to that, IMO, is the newly-developed orbita system. While, in this context, a fully-fledged AEW&C aircraft like the A 100 would still be very useful, the Russians might deem it unworthy of diverting funds from other more critical projects, and are thus opting for this, possibly sufficient, approach instead.
In Russia, state tests of the BT-3F floating armored personnel carrier, created on the basis of the BMP-3F, have begun. Earlier, we did a review of the Arctic version of the BT-3F, a link to the video is in the comments to the video. The BT-3F is designed to transport marines and ground forces units. It can also be used as a mobile command post or ambulance. The BT-3F can be armed with a combat module with a 12.7-mm Kord machine gun, a 40-mm automatic grenade launcher or a launcher of the Kornet-E anti-tank complex. The BT-3F can carry up to 12 fully equipped paratroopers. It can stay on the water for up to 7 hours in waves up to 3 points. The full combat weight of the BT-3F is 18.9 tons. The maximum speed on the road is 70 km / h, on the water - 10 km / h, the cruising range is 600 km.