You are not telling me anything I didn’t know. In fact if you paid attention to what is said earlier you would know I mentioned weight and drag having detrimental effects on aircraft performance, read my previous post and understand the context of the arguments. Here is what I said before:
“So any aircraft will suffer kinetic performances if weight and drag is increased: the only problem is people like you don’t take into account:
1. Fuel load
2. Pylons
3. Weapons load”
No offense but I’m blunt and I could tell you don’t know what you are talking about. I have worked with engineers that worked on fluid dynamics. Do you ever wonder why the bulbous bow on a ship is so large and round yet why it adds efficiency? Why a submarine is so rounded, why certain missiles are bulbous? Why airliners are so round up front?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulbous_bow
“A bulbous bow is a protruding bulb at the bow of a ship just below the waterline.
The bulb modifies the way the water flows around the hull, reducing drag and thus increasing speed, range, fuel efficiency, and stability.”
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That’s interesting considering some Russian radars of similar size to western counterparts have more TR modules. The SAP-518 is specifically designed to be a large jammer with higher performance. You are forgetting how Russian jamming and disabled American electric warfare aircraft and GPS signals around the world. Syria opened people’s perceptions about Russian electric warfare capabilities, they are much better then what believed. In fact even Westerners now acknowledge Russia is one of the best in electronic warfare capabilities and
countries are now choosing Russian jammers over western jammer:
Your opinion how jammers look, their shape and size doesn’t change the fact that Russia is consider one of the world leaders in electric warfare and jamming. There is a reason India is either replacing its Israeli jammers with Russian or at the least testing Russian jammers to help develop similar Indian equivalents.
https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/06/26/the-russian-edge-in-electronic-warfare/amp/
Remarkably, it is Russia that presents some of the stiffest competition, with increasing agreement among experts in the field that
Russia has taken a huge, and somewhat unexpected, leap forward in its EW capabilities.[II] Although the U.S. continues to possess military superiority in conventional weapons, Moscow now possesses a critical asymmetrical advantage that seeks to bridge this gap
Some more interesting article:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/america-getting-outclassed-by-russian-electronic-warfare-22380
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/amp/ncna1091101
Nonsense. Russia also has smaller jammers too.
The SAP-518 is specifically designed to be a heavy jammer that when coupled with the SAP-14 is designed to be a dedicated electric warfare platform similar to the Growler.
Look at how large these western jammers are:
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Don’t confuse a specifically designed heavy purpose jammer to less capable light weight jammer. Magic....it’s a Russian jammer that is much, smaller, thinner and sleeker then the SAP-518:
MSP-418K:
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And here is a Belarusian jammer called the Talisman, by your logic Belarus now has better and more advanced jammers then most western countries:
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Are you joking? Did you see how large that DRDO jammer is? Do you think it’s that much, if any smaller then the SAP-518? It looks like it’s a good 8 feet long and maybe a foot or more in diameter. That Indian jammer is roughly similar to size to the SAP-518 if not larger, it may be lighter but not more capable.
The point is, Russia has much smaller jammers then the SAP-518, and the United States has jammers much larger then the SAP-518. You are comparing apples to oranges.
