Yes Drop tanks can indeed be made stealthy, u just have to alter the paint, material and shape.Maybe carrying on seperate pylons, but enclosed in stealthy pod/s?.. Doubtful.
This bird is practically clean config. Can tanks be made stealthy too?
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Whoa! Can you find that please?.. I searched on the forum thread but no joy.
You also need to drop them with whole pylon. As done for f22. Which makes it very costly.
Stealth and aerodynamics don't go hand in hand; in most cases they act inversely with respect to each other. You may achieve stealth in frontal aspect but it may lead to increase in drag due to higher surface area.
These things should be updated on Tejas's official site. I dont think the LCA team is not doing a great job when it comes to marketing..
Right I guess it's of the ioc version?plus I had seen that the itr and str mentioned is 30 degrees 18 degrees respectively is that true?
Yes those are true and were demonstrated at Bahrain air show.
STR is less than 18......15-16, as per all available sources...
On paper... Even IOC Tejas consistently completes 360 full loops in 20 seconds (lowest is 18 sec). That makes STR 18°/sec!.. Interesting I am yet to find any YouTube video at least square it takes any longer than 21 seconds. Have you?..
No bro...in every airshow video available, it definitely takes 24-25 secs for 360.....
But do remember that all these 360 turns at 18 or more degrees are airshow perfomances for all the fighters.....but for real scenarios......well we can't just say......there are too many variables....but for now we can satisfy ourselves with this, i think....
thebetacoefficient.blogspot.com
Is that so?.. Show me some examples.
This article is very old. And that 15-16 ° str is for restricted performance envelope at ioc.
Yes, i was wrong. It was the LSPs that broke the barrier. Which is probably why the Lima Langkawi display was kinda meh. (What?.. It was!)
They are still opening the envelope and whatever information is available is less than actual capability.
Oh come on guys, I don't want to get into any squabbles with you all, but they are talking about the mk 1 and its not an old article its just 1 year old and its relevant for all variants of mk1....remember, one of the ASQR requirements that tejas didn't achieve was 18 deg STR....and that's the rate mk 2 is expected to achieve.....
It's ok . I know what I know. You believe what you know. No big deal either way .
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