New footage has for the first time provided a close look at a sixth generation air superiority fighter being developed by the Shenyang Aircraft Corporation for the
machine guns are old school, they will probably be ditched completely in 6th gen. It’s all about BVR (beyond visual range) missiles now. NATO can’t sell their overpriced hardware without stating that they are real world battle proven. A balloon kill is still a kill right? lol, just like the French Rafales selling point was that it is proven in real world combat. What was that real world combat? Bombing Libya and Syria, countries with very weak air forces and defence.
When the Rafale had its first and only real world aerial engagement with a peer competitor, it happened a few months ago between India and Pakistan. India’s French Rafales vs Pakistan’s Chinese J-10CE. The J-10CE scored 3 Rafale kills from over 200km away with Chinese PL-15 missiles. Funny thing is that Indian intelligence thought China had provided Pakistan with the export variant of the missile, the PL-15E, which has a shorter range of around 150km. China actually sent their own PL-15 version. Indian Rafale pilots thought they were in the safe zone when heading back to their airbase…
machine guns are old school, they will probably be ditched completely in 6th gen. It’s all about BVR (beyond visual range) missiles now. NATO can’t sell their overpriced hardware without stating that they are real world battle proven. A balloon kill is still a kill right? lol, just like the French Rafales selling point was that it is proven in real world combat. What was that real world combat? Bombing Libya and Syria, countries with very weak air forces and defence.
When the Rafale had its first and only real world aerial engagement with a peer competitor, it happened a few months ago between India and Pakistan. India’s French Rafales vs Pakistan’s Chinese J-10CE. The J-10CE scored 3 Rafale kills from over 200km away with Chinese PL-15 missiles. Funny thing is that Indian intelligence thought China had provided Pakistan with the export variant of the missile, the PL-15E, which has a shorter range of around 150km. China actually sent their own PL-15 version. Indian Rafale pilots thought they were in the safe zone when heading back to their airbase…