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The thing flies at a maximum speed of 300-400 km/h and has no stealth properties whatsoever, so you could fly towards the enemy aircraft unnoticed and shoot it with a BVRAAM.With air to air capability TB3 can be a multi-role, long endurance, naval capable, small footprint fighter.
How many TB2 were shot down by enemy fighters that you claim TB3 has no stealth? TB3 is disposable and has no fear of being shot down.The thing flies at a maximum speed of 300-400 km/h and has no stealth properties whatsoever, so you could fly towards the enemy aircraft unnoticed and shoot it with a BVRAAM.
By the time this opportunity arises for some inexplicable reason, the drone has already been shot down.
Also, if an adversary jet engages a TB-3, it will clearly reveal its location. If you engage a TB-3 at a distance of 40-60km, you may wish you had never seen it.
I am sure that at least 4.5+ Gen Fighter with an AESA radar can track a conventional MALE drone (Turboprob) without any problems. In this case TB2/3, Anka S, if this were not the case, then the USA would not have shot down a drone of ours with an F-16 in Syria or Iraq a few weeks ago.Very low speed, almost completely composite construction, almost zero thermal and chemical footprint. Tactical UAVs will never be on a par with fighter jets, but on the other hand, I don't think they are that easily detectable. Also, if an adversary jet engages a TB-3, it will clearly reveal its location. If you engage a TB-3 at a distance of 40-60km, you may wish you had never seen it.
I am sure that at least 4.5+ Gen Fighter with an AESA radar can track a conventional MALE drone (Turboprob) without any problems. In this case TB2/3, Anka S, if this were not the case, then the USA would not have shot down a drone of ours with an F-16 in Syria or Iraq a few weeks ago.
It is completely impossible that a drone of a smaller type (MALE) could take on a fighter jet, you would have to be extremely lucky and fly like Top Gun in low flight through the mountains and with extremely good luck know that a fighter jet will fly by soon to take it out from ambush with a BVRAAM, something like that is totally unrealistic.
I am sure that at least 4.5+ Gen Fighter with an AESA radar can track a conventional MALE drone (Turboprob) without any problems. In this case TB2/3, Anka S, if this were not the case, then the USA would not have shot down a drone of ours with an F-16 in Syria or Iraq a few weeks ago.
It is completely impossible that a drone of a smaller type (MALE) could take on a fighter jet, you would have to be extremely lucky and fly like Top Gun in low flight through the mountains and with extremely good luck know that a fighter jet will fly by soon to take it out from ambush with a BVRAAM, something like that is totally unrealistic.
Tactical UAVs have brought many innovations to the battlefield, but I think they are also a modern interpretation of one of the oldest warfare tactics. One of the most striking tactics in this regard in recent years was the liberation of Karabakh by the glorious Azerbaijani army, where AN-2s flown unmanned in the Karabakh war devastated Russian air defense systems, and as Armenian forces engaged these decoy aircraft, they became the target of other armed UAVs and elements of the Azerbaijani air force.I think it would be possible to build a drone in tactical class that is small and stealthy, but even that would have difficulty achieving WVR opportunity kill. Plus modern fighters have lots of passive sensors. But we don't even know id TB3 can be considered stealthy. It might just catch some older russian fighters off guard
You didn't even know that TB3 is already meant to be equipped with an AESA radar before you assert your argument.I have to laugh , here are people who really think a Tutboprob MALE drone running on crutches with its 300-400 km/h has a chance against a GEN 4.5+ or 5 fighter jet because it can carry BVR missiles.
Apparently people have forgotten the concept of what these drones are for.
Reconnaissance, surveillance over a longer period of time, targeted destruction of a target on the ground as soon as it has been selected as a valuable target. Everything else is pure fantasy and wishful thinking.
With 9 kW total energy, it's likely more a SAR radarYou didn't even know that TB3 is already meant to be equipped with an AESA radar before you assert your argument.
Ok, let's assume that the TB3 has located a Rafaele, a Eurofighter or an F-16 and launched the BVR missile.You didn't even know that TB3 is already meant to be equipped with an AESA radar before you assert your argument.