Just found info on Mirage-2000's radar from my old bookmarks.
Mirage-2000H's Radar:
RDM (Radar Doppler Multimode) can operate in several air-to-air, air-to-ground, and air-to-sea modes, and is standard fit in export Mirage 2000s. The Fr350 million (£33 million) development has been company funded. The first 50 French Air Force air-defence Mirage 2000s will have RDM, but the remaining 150 will have the RDI interception radar. Although RDI design is frozen, this radar will not enter service until 1986. RDI is French Government funded, and 30 per cent of the work is performed by Electro-nique Serge Dassault (ESD).
In addition to the 200 air-defence Mirage 2000s, the French Air Force expects to buy about 50 deep-penetration 2000Ns. These will carry Aerospatiale ASMP medium-range nuclear-attack missiles, and will have ESD Antelope V terrain-following radars.
RDM performance has been proven by five proto¬types and three pre-production radars—the first flew in January 1980. In air-to-air configuration the pilot selects Doppler or non-Doppler modes according to clutter level. Search patterns are conical "super-search", vertical search, and boresight aiming. The first two use a ±60° search pattern in elevation, and elevation is controlled manually for bore-sight aiming.
Assuming a four-bar search pattern over 120° in azimuth, 90 per cent of 5m2 fighter-aircraft targets will be detected out to 50 n.m. in clear air, according to Thomson-CSF. If a single-bar search pattern is used and azimuthal scan is reduced to 30°, clear-air range extends to 60 n.m. In pulse-Doppler mode, used for looking down into ground clutter, the RDM's range is 20 n.m. with a 120° search pattern.
Thomson-CSF points out that RDM gives an instanta¬neous range readout as soon as a target is detected. A pre-acquisition track-while-scan phase follows target detection, until the target is 35 n.m. away. Lock-on must be achieved 10 n.m. from the target, but track-while-scan is not available at short range or in pulse-Doppler mode.
For air-to-ground operation, RDM provides a ground map 30° to either side of its centreline. The optional Doppler Beam Sharpening (DBS) unit operates on a sector about 25° wide. As well as being used for inertial-navigation update and for ground-target ranging, RDM has a terrain-avoidance mode in which two clearance planes are shown on the head-down display. Thomson-CSF says that RDM will detect a patrol boat at 60 n.m. with a 120° search pattern when used in anti-ship mode.
RDM's coherent travelling-wave-tube transmitter oper¬ates in the X-band. The roll-stabilised inverted-cassegrain antenna has a 655mm diameter and a 3-6° beam-width. The receiver uses digital pulse-compression at long range and constant false-alarm rate digital processing at medium and short ranges. The 245kg weight is distributed among ten line-replaceable units (LRUs), including optional DBS and continuous-wave illuminator units- the latter is for use with the Matra Super 530 air-to-air missile.
Each LRU has its own built-in test equipment, and can be replaced without wire connections or adjustments to the rest of the radar. Thomson quotes 13,000 direct man-hours to produce RDM, leaving out management time.
RDI and RDM installations are interchangeable but they have little in common electronically. RDI uses a higher pulse-repetition frequency for its dedicated interception role. Maximum clear-air range against a head-on fighter target is about 66 n.m., but the RDI's major performance improvement compared with RDM is when looking down. Here, range is between 18 n.m. and 50 n.m., depending on closing speed and degree of clutter.
RDI has taken three years longer to develop than RDM, mainly because of the small space available in the Mirage 2000. This has necessitated the introduction of more hybrid circuits in RDI, but the new, smaller RDI has beer flying since last autumn Thomson now has to validate the tests and get RDI into production.
rdm | french air | air force | 1983 | 0550 | Flight Archive
MiG-29's radar:
MiG-29B has N019EB Sapfir Radar which is the non-warsaw pact export variant of N019 radar(N019 is the full version radar with all the features which equipped the VVS). N019EA is the export variant for warsaw pact countries which bought the MiG-29B. EA lacked 1 mode, while EB also apart from lacking the above mentioned mode, also lacked ECCM features, downgraded processor and datalinking. Of the 80 MiG-29s which the IAF bought, 7 of them are MiG-29UB trainers which has no radar. 63 of them are MiG-29B categorized under Izdeliye 9.12B, which the NATO code-names Fulcrum-A. This variant was procured in 1987 and 1989 and has the N019EB Sapfir Radar. The other 10 MiG-29Bs are categorized under Izdeliye 9.13, which the NATO code-names as Fulcrum-C. This variant was procured in 1994 and has the newer N019ME Topaz radar.(MiG-29S has N019M and the MiG-29SE has the N019ME. N019ME is the slightly downgraded export variant of N019M. The E in the MiG-29SE, Zhuk-ME, N019EA, N019EB and N019ME, denotes Export).
N019EB has a detection range of 70km(79.5km for 5m2 target), and track range of 60(68.2km for 5m2 target) for 3m2 target in look up and can only engage 1 target at a time. N019ME had a detection range of 80km for a 3m2 target in look up(91km for 5m2 target) and can engage 2 targets at a time. The MiG-29B which locked on to 2 PAF F-16s during kargil had the Topaz radar.
MiG-29B (Soviet Union/Russia) - N019 Sapfir
MiG-29B (Poland etc..) - N019EA Sapfir
MiG-29B (India etc..) - N019EB Sapfir
MiG-29B (India, Bangladesh) - N019ME Topaz
MiG-29SE (Peru) - N019ME Topaz
MiG-29S (Russia) - N019M Topaz
MiG-29K (India) - Zhuk ME
MiG-29M/M2 (Syria) - Zhuk ME
MiG-29SMT/UPG (India) - Zhuk ME
MiG-29K (Russia) - Zhuk M
To sum it up...
BVR:
Mirage-2000H
RDM for 5m2 Target:
Max Detection range: 111.12km(60nm)
Max track range: ?
Max Lockon Range: 64.82km(35nm)
Assured lockon range: 18.52km(10nm)
Max targets tracked: ?
Max targets engaged: ?
Missiles:
Matra Super 530
Type: Semi-Active
Max Range: 37km
MiG-29B Izdeliye 9.12B
N019EB for 5m2 target
Max Detection range: 79.5km
Max track: 68.2
Max Lockon Range: ?
Max targets tracked: ?
Max targets engaged: 1
MiG-29B Izdeliye 9.13
N019M for 5m2 target
Max Detection range: 91km
Max track: ?
Max Lockon Range: ?
Max targets tracked: ?
Max targets engaged: 2
Missiles:
R-27R
Type: Semi-Active
Max Range: 80km
Close combat:
Sustained Turn rate and Instantaneous Turn rate, advantage MiG-29
Thrust to weight ratio, advantage MiG-29
MiG-29B has Helmet Mounted Sight. Mirage-2000H doesn't.
2× 30 mm Cannon with 125 rounds each for Mirage-2000H, & 1 X 30mm Cannon with 150 rounds for MiG-29B
R-73E with range 20km for MiG-29B and R.550 Magic with range of 15km for the Mirage-2000H
A point to note: The Range of RDM was taken from a press release while the ranges of N019EB and N019M is taken from the manual which got leaked. Manuals are more reliable than marketing press release or brochures.
After Upgrades...
MiG-29UPG
Zhuk-ME for 5m2 target
Max Detection range: 120km
Max track: ?
Max Lockon Range: ?
Max targets tracked: 10
Max targets engaged: 4
Zhuk-ME which is in the latest MiG-29K and MiG-29M/M2 can engage 4 targets at a time, and has a detection range of 120km for a 5m2 target in look up. So that's an advantage of 30km when compared with Topaz and 40km when compared with Sapfir.
Mirage-2000UPG
All the figures above are official figures except the RDY-2 figures. Can someone confirm these numbers below?
RDY-2 Radar for 5m2 target
Max Detection range: 105km
Max track: 80 km
Max Lockon Range: ?
Max targets tracked: 8
Max targets engaged: 4
Either the unofficial figures for RDY-2 radar are wrong or the press release for RDM is wrong. RDY-2 only has less than 4km advantage over RDM? Not to mention, the F-16 Block 52's radar too only has a 105km detection range against a 5m2 target. Getting 111km back in 1983 is unbelievable. Most probably RDM data is misreported. 111km/60nm most probably is the max range, and not for 5m2 target.
