ROCAF officer reveals that even post upgrade, F-16A/B’s RWR cannot reliably react to PLAAF radar, providing neither accurate threat direction nor “lock on” warning. Is it any surprise that the Rafales got PL-15ed from extreme range now?
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ROCAF officer reveals that even post upgrade, F-16A/B’s RWR cannot reliably react to PLAAF radar, providing neither accurate threat direction nor “lock on” warning. Is it any surprise that the Rafales got PL-15ed from extreme range now?
I don't see how that makes sense, because if one is comparing F-16A/B (even upgraded with V) with Rafale, the Rafale possessed by the IAF almost certainly has more sophisticated RWRs than ROCAF F-16A/Bs.
So the way in which ROCAF F-16A/B RWR reacts to PLAAF radars from other sources shouldn't really have any bearing on the degree of sophistication of Rafale's RWR and its ability to react to PL-15.
In fact I'm not sure what this has to do with Rafale and PL-15 to begin with -- just the acknowledgement that F-16A/B RWR faces challenges with PLAAF radars is already enough.
Putting it another way -- whether Rafale was susceptible to PL-15 utilized by PAF at range, is not merely dependent on RWR sophistication, so it's probably better to avoid linking the two.
If the argument is that PRC radar technology is competitive, then that makes sense but that also has been long accepted even before the IAF-PAF conflict last May.
1. MMC failure caused navigation issues for the aircraft crash. Apparently they ran out of RAM during upgrade from block 20 to current standard so it actually performs worse than it did before upgrade. It can get so bad that basically the number getting displayed is complete garbage. Probably not safe to fly this plane at night.Could anyone give a full translation?
2) Even though the government promised to add anti-collision system they never did it.
3) After flight control software update there is a tendency of the plane to enter intense uncontrollable rolls that led to one serious crash. Government promised investigation but didn’t do jack other than suspend flight.
And there have been sayings that the rebel air force is actually the most diehard anti-SeeSeePee branch of the rebel military.
We do know that control of the skies is paramount. But if that's how they treat their own pilots which are supposed to be doing the heaviest lifting for the rebel military, then what can I say?
Most diehard branch is probably the 1450 internet army.
Now they just need to repeat this for the rest of their air force.