First you said that the whole tracking is done by infrared tracking (only) and now you came up with excuses that it's a huge a** rocket. And oh one more thing, having a huge infrared signature has nothing to do with radar detecion. In this case the AN/APG-81 clearly used to track the object.it was tracked because its a huge fucking rocket and huge fucking rockets have huge infrared signatures, billy flynn already gave the range of the radar no need to be upset that i call out BS.....Well at least your not one of the fan boys their believing it can track a air to air missile from 1900kms away
google .01 RCS for 90 kms of that radar, in case you haven't known resolution has dependency on ranges. If you have a hardon for SAR resolution your going to love photonic radars.
Oh yes, not only I'm aware of it, I'm even more aware that comparison like this should take into account the stats for the comparator, in this case the AN/APG-70. Until we know at what range and altitude the 2.6m² resolution is for the AN/APG-70 is taken… safe to say that you can't label the IRBIS as superior.
This is not a matter of kids glove, Russia doesn't have enough stock of precision guided munitions, let alone FOABs.again this is a kids glove approach because FOABS would be used instead if bombs and ukraine's capitol would have been leveled with ballistic missiles instead of Ukraine's military facilities, we only see a tiny fraction of their power being used like what they did in Georgia. thats like me telling you that NATO showed their true power against Serbia.
Look, you can use whatever past metrics like Georgia. That would not save you the fact that Russia is out in Kyiv, Chernihiv, Sumy and now Kharkiv. And that doesn't explain why Russia lost 2000+ MBT and IFV/AFV in only less than 3 months of war.