Indian Military Aviation News and Discussion

[Arun_S]

[quote name='sai_k' date='05 January 2010 - 06:30 AM' timestamp='1262652765' post='103329']

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It has a Radar Cross Section (RCS) of just 0.5 square metre

I hope this RCS is without external weapons load.. and RCS of Raptor is never revealed yet, and is much lower than 0.5 sq mtr. and I am not sure at what distance these measures were applied by the author.[/quote]



RCS is always far field measurement (which is easy for microwave frequency band) but also at a distance when RF perspective view is largely unchanged and below radar's spatial resolution (~ few hundred meters), thus one does not need to measure further out at 2 km , 10 km or 50 km.

If pakfa can bring these core engine saturn technologies to India, its a shot in the arm for restructuring GTRE.

But why buy it one more time, we already paid for it in the second MKi deal. Pls see my previous post.

I am sure some of this pakfa money can be diverted to augment Kaveri++ to be on par with the best other engines for FGFA and further on to MCA.

Also pls see my previous post.