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Yes. Astra Mk2 will be using SFDR.

Nope. Astra Mk2 will be 160+ kms

It does appear that way.......

It doesn't matter that it's a Russia designed plane! The end user is India - that France is normally willing to sell such advanced weaponry! As I said earlier, India is fully capable of doing structural/electrical integration on Su-30MKI without involving the Russians.

So, you agree that the missile can be integrated on a different plane without revealing the encryption system (the fear you were alluding to earlier).

That's what I was saying!! My question was rhetorical. If it's a black box, then why is it a problem! The integration could be done by HAL, Russians don't even need to access the black box! The frequency of communication is also not such an issue. The enemy aircraft carrying an EW suite for...

It's not just the mid-course data-link that's an issue. The links will be seeded with different keys anyways. Otherwise they cannot sell it to any third country. Imagine if Qatar and Egypt were to go war with their Rafales....is it reasonable to assume that Qatar's Rafales will be able to take...

The issue has never been couched as being difficult at all...it's all to do with the willingness to do it and the price quoted to do it!

Technically, of course yes! But it involves a lot more than just building a 'rail'! And then of course Thales (supplier of the radar on Rafale & France) has to agree to the integration!!!

Do read specs on the Magic R550 - it has no provision to slave its seeker to the aircraft's fire control system!! It's onboard thermal seeker locks on by itself (to a visible target) and then indicates the lock! (I am tired of arguing about weirdly simple stuff)

'Fire control system' :) It's more like a wire running into the cockpit for release/firing! There's no on-board computer/radar to compute a 'firing solution' that involves target parameters being passed onto the missile. It's more of pointing the plane (consequently the missile also) towards the...

Dude! Those are short-range heat-seeking missiles that don't need any targeting cues from onboard radar! I should have guessed from your obsession with 'rails' that you think of only 'mechanical compatibility'. Modern missiles (especially long range ones like Astra) need 'software compatibility'...

I take that you're in full agreement with what I posted. That still leaves my side-question: What's happening to the hundreds of millions $$ worth ASRAAM missiles (not Mica as I incorrectly said previously) that were integrated on Jaguar few years back....now that ELM2052 is fitted on Jaguars...

Couldn't disagree more. French have solidly refused to integrate their avionics with anything Russian! They even turned down a multi-billion offer from India to integrate Meteor on ~300 Su-30MKIs..

Once again...just mounting a compatible rail doesn't solve the problem! Thales' radars (on both Mirages and Rafales) are still incompatible with both Russian Agat seekers and desi seekers onboard Astra missiles!!

Even if a rail is developed, Mirage2K & Rafale will still remain incompatible with Astra as their radars are not mated. As far as Jaguar is concerned, it's got Mica missiles - pretty good to last till it retires. That actually brings up a question in my mind - Are the Mica missiles being mated...

There's a difference between 'development trials' and 'development phase'! 'User trials' falls under the 'development phase'. Once 'User trials' are completed satisfactorily, the 'development phase' or the 'project' per-se comes to a 'Close'! LSPs are ordered for 'user trials' , they are also a...

This was the user trial. Development trail concluded about a year back after which IAF placed an order of 50 missiles to conduct user trials.

Whenever Astra (seeker) is integrated with the radar on Teas it will become available for that platform - even retro fitted on old aircraft! It appears that they tested with indigenous seekers too, but it's not clear if Astra with indigenous seekers is the one that's cleared for production...

You must be another bitch of ersakthivel ganging up on me!! Digging up a 5 month old post to start a fight with false insinuations, stalking & trolling someone on multiple threads even when being ignored are all hallmarks of ersakthivel!! Did your parents not teach you the meaning of 'started'...