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Chinese Fighter Sensors Shown

Posted August 17, 2015 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

China's Jiangsu A-Star Aviation Industries Company unveiled new combat aircraft electro-optical systems at a recent "civil-military integration" trade show in Beijing. Two of the systems were said to be used on the J-31 export "stealth" fighter: An electro-optical targeting system that combines forward-looking infrared (FLIR) and IR search and track (IRST) functions, and separate IRST with a faceted, rather than spherical, dome. The latter is reported to detect an F-22 at 110 km (70 mi) and a B-2 at 150 km (90+ mi).

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08/17/2015 12:20 PM

With an unofficial top speed of 2411 km/h , how long would it take an F22 to close on 110 km?

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08/18/2015 7:16 AM

It won't be the F-22 that will be closing in, it will be the AIM-120D missiles tracking at 4,900 km/h that will be the problem long before the F-22 gets near the 110 km mark.

That would be about 1.34 minutes.
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Thank you.

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08/18/2015 9:35 AM

Air combat has long moved away from the days where steely eyed pilots worked to get up on their adversaries six-o'clock with guns blazing.

Everything is beyond visual range now days and long range missiles like the AMRAM make that a possibility.

What's more, it isn't lone fighters against each other anymore, but teams that instantly share targeting and tactical data as a group.

In combat, the only way to see an F-22 would be if you are a friendly.
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