Su-30MKI to go stealthy
Created by Larkins Dsouza on July 8th, 2009 2 Comments »
After the F-15 Silent eagle it’s time for Su-30MKI to disappear out of the radar. There have been reports that Russia’s UAC (United Aircraft Corporation) and India’s HAL (Hindustan Aeronautics Limited) are developing the new Su-30MKI.
By 2014, UAC together with HAL will begin upgrading the first 100 IAF Su-30MKIs by modifying their airframes to make them stealthy, converting the existing ‘Bars’ into an active phased-array radar, enhancing the situational awareness by incorporating active electronically scanned transmit/receive arrays on the aircraft’s wings and pumping up the defensive-aids suite by installing a combined radar/laser warning system and a missile approach warning system.
Please note that this article was edited because our reporter misinformed us on this news. Thanks to Dr. Pamela A. Menges founder of ARSI Space for helping us.
With all due respect Force India publishes a lot of junk by its reporter Prasun Sengupta.
The smart skin is pointless as far as the MKI is concerned with todays Tech, putting in enough Tx/rx modules to get a decent operational radar range, all over the wing will compromise the aerodynamics and lead to a huge weight increase.
As president of Aerospace Research Systems, Inc. and the lead scientist on this technology, I was appalled at the string of incorrect statements and misinformation in this article. This was brought to my attention by several sources and it is disconcerting that such information is considered
in anyway valid. In no publication or website have we published that out technology is being used by any air force. And by the way the ANM referred to is a nonphotonic quantum computer, not a smart skin. Smart skins have been used for nearly 30 years. This is a truly sad bit of work on the part of a web site that presents itself as an aviation information site.