Bhai jaan if you had seen his older videos you would have known by now that he used an American ach and put an Indian flag on it. Also we don't use these helmets because most of our military actually is using model 74 which is worse than this. And there is no chance that some random gora will get hands on the new mku/Tata helmets. He was clickbaiting and abduls like you took his words as gospel.
You Indians Never fail to amuse me
Just out of curiosity, what propulsion this missile uses?
I see some evidence of liquid fuel being used here? Or some form or air breathing engine?
Solid fuel
The evidence being the jet plume ? Or specifically the combustion shock rings in the plume ? Or is it the colour or the relative streamlining of the plume ?
Nope.
No, I thought those lines under the wings are air ducts for ducted ram jet .... which is air breathing and burns liquid fuel.
But apparently not?
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No, those are long chord wings with a bit of tapering on the two ends. You can see here the root chord extends quite a long way but the main trapezoidal wings are relatively shorter. This is done to increase lift without having to deal with oversized wings/control surfaces. The Mk2 will apparently feature even shorter wings and perhaps some long chords too.
No. AESA seekers will be used in Astra Mk2 and Akash Mk2.
Uncooled. There is no need for cooling yet.
Nope. Ku-band Pulse doppler radar with a single antenna array. Because its a single antenna and its range is not very high, cooling is unnecessary right now.
Earlier versions had the Agat 9B1103M. Replaced supposedly by an Indian Ku-band seeker
Don't think AESA on Air to air missiles is important.
The missile only needs a narrow Field of view , so that it only has to make small adjustments in the final stages of its flight.
Because very sharp turns consume too much energy .
If the missile has the ability to steer radar beam at say 160* , turning to that angle for hitting the plane will drain so much kinetic energy that the resulting slowdown will make the missile ineffective anyway.
Plus AESA needs lot more computational power than traditional radar.
What you save in a solid state radar antenna, is consumed in a power hungry computer requiring cooling.
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There is more to AESA radars than just beam stearing. AESA radars provide unparalleled frequency hopping capability that no Pulse doppler array can attain. Thus to effectively jam an AESA radar, jammers need to be multi-directional and multi-frequency, which is easier said than done. The missile might not be able to turn back but will be able to maintain lock on for far longer. This will force pilots to use up expendable countermeasures.
True.
Power consumption will increase no doubt but it is more manageable than commonly believed. For example use of MEMS based INS instead of a FOG based INS will reduce power consumption. Use of distributed computing instead of bundled/stacked computing will reduce power consumption and also reduce heat generated. The cooling system is more difficult to manage, as the missile gets longer ranged the FCC along with mid-course correction and other auxiliaries will be "ON" for longer. The seeker will come in to play at the terminal stage. All of this will need cooling.
You are considering it as just a simple radar seeker, it will see some voltage fluctuations, if it's an aircraft it will zoom in and kill it. That's all great for a MS seeker, but an AESA seeker is completely different.
An AESA seeker doesn't just look at voltage fluctuations, but it actually builds a picture. And the picture is very detailed. Each T/R module produces its own picture, since it receives only a part of a signal and all the pictures from all the modules are then combined to create a full picture. There are two advantages to this. One is the image built allows the seeker to choose where it wants to hit. An MS seeker simply zooms into the aircraft, whereas the AESA seeker allows pinpoint targeting. As the missile gets closer, the aircraft's agility can exceed the MS seeker's ability to stay on target. The angle can change very quickly, the seeker won't be able to keep up and the lock will break. But an AESA is electronically scanned, and no amount of agility will allow lock to break with agility alone. So the accuracy of the image is extremely high. The other is chaff will not work, nor will a less sophisticated ECM suite. You can actually say that there's nothing in PAF's inventory today that can prevent a missile from breaking lock through ECM.
In simple terms, you can't avoid it, nor can you jam it. And then you can add all other advantages AESA radars have to the seeker as well, since it's basically a small radar.
It's a Pakistani mentality to feel good when enemy gets better weapons.
Because the war will be more interesting
Because the war will be more interesting
It's a Pakistani mentality to feel good when enemy gets better weapons.
Because the war will be more interesting
That's a good attitude to have.... for us.
The NGARM has a very interesting launch mechanism. The launcher uses two cranked arms to immerse the missile on to the free stream flow of air and away from the boundary flow layer, then the engine of the missile fires. Very cool stuff this. This mechanism can be utilised in AMCA for launching missiles out of the weapon bay, especially if there is any provisions for side bays.