F-35 vs Russian Air Defence

Austin wrote:Not sure if this is right thread to post , USAF chief threat to Russia and Russian Emb response

Air Force chief defends F-35A against critics, boasting kills at Red Flag

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/02/20/air-force-chief-defends-f-35a-against-complaints-boasting-kills-at-red-flag/

Russia warns US Air Force chief to ‘remember Vietnam’ after he touts F-35

https://www.airforcetimes.com/news/your-air-force/2019/02/25/russia-warns-us-air-force-chief-to-remember-vietnam-after-he-touts-f-35/

Well all of this authenticate garbage about this supposedly new "Trojan Horse" strategy and a role in to be played by the any-day-more-technically-outdated trillion dollar F-35 program (that is in reality in very heavy risk to be deeply curtailed) is the best proof , togheter with the concentric efforts by almost all US related Instututions to create the basis for a new weapon control treaties including the new generation Federation's weapons, that over the ocean the perception of american position in the new strategic environment is darkening up and up.

With the words of ex Commander of Federation's Air Force Air-Space Defense Forces ,Gen. Сергей Хатылев :

“This whole strategy of the Trojan Horse is from a scare series. All this is clearly embellished. Americans are very unprofitable to enter the race with new Russian models of weapons and equipment. Their strategy causes laughter and bewilderment. It speaks of powerlessness. Perhaps this is an information war in which the United States has achieved very great success. The Americans have information war technologies developed two orders of magnitude higher than in Russia.”

"To date, the Voronezh-type over-the horizon station has been put on duty, which will detect a five-kopeck coin at a height of 30 kilometers per thousand kilometers. F-35, using all its capabilities for setting up noise and stealth technology, is a visible object of at least half a square meter in size.”

https://vz.ru/news/2019/2/22/376677.html

The reality of the complete accuracy of the domestic computation of the RCS of US-built fighter aircraft (F-22 Raptor) constructed around the so called "stealth" design, at very different radar wave lenght and angles of irradiation, has been fully and repeatedly validated by operation of our air defense forces in the Syrian theatre (just from that came from the sudden pike of interests for export versions of C-400 division by part of almost any of the nations in that theatre ,also those usually acquiring only US-made products cause the heavy geopolitical pressure exerted by them) has by now completely debunked the phantasious figures that the huge US information struggle apparatus had diffused in the last decade to generate financial and public support for the trillion billion JSF program

Mindstorm wrote:

Well all of this authenticate garbage about this supposedly new "Trojan Horse" strategy and a role in to be played by the any-day-more-technically-outdated trillion dollar F-35 program (that is in reality in very heavy risk to be deeply curtailed) is the best proof , togheter with the concentric efforts by almost all US related Instututions to create the basis for a new weapon control treaties including the new generation Federation's weapons, that over the ocean the perception of american position in the new strategic environment is darkening up and up.

I guess some military and journos look in wrong direction, it is NOT bout F-35. Check Gersimov opinion first.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/6178016

This is all very classy, first threaten Russia with their new shiny F-35 and then smear them with MH17 when they answer that they have some AD in place. So many in the West seem to have defamation and propaganda in their blood, they are nothing but snakes in the grass with their fake equanimity.

arrow wrote:Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


Voronezh is not a over-horizontal radar. This is the LPAR will not detect F-35 because it looks high into space. It has to detect RV.

What are you laughing at? This is an early warning radar, it wont give a fuck whether it is a F-35 or any other kind of aerial target.

In what elevation angle do you think this array is operating, and what radar horizon it would have when placed in Kaliningrad or Crimea for instance?

Arrow wrote:Voronezh is an EW radar but it is not an OTH radar. The OTH radar is the Contener system.

Yes that is what I said. Why do you think it is not going to see aircraft? It has an horizontal range of 6000 km / vertical range 8000 km, everything that comes above radar horizon will be caught. It can see a target the size of a football ball at 8000 km. So a F-35 would need to do exactly the same as 4G fighters to avoid detection, that is to fly below radar horizon... and hope other radars like Container you mention, AWACS etc etc. do not pick it up.

Hole wrote:Isn´t the F-35 supposed to be invisible for radar?

it is! when is not flying of course

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Hole wrote:Isn´t the F-35 supposed to be invisible for radar?

it is!  when is not flying of course

F-35, F-22, and the B-2 have incredible stealth.........for every '1' flight hour they could be potentially detected in the sky, '40' flight hours they're impossible to 'detect' in the sky.........they have maintenance hangar stealth!!!!!!

It would be radar systems like Nebo M, SVU and others that would mostly be used to detect the F-35's. Voronezh can but only at specific altitudes greater than 30km. Below that, they rely on other radar systems.

There is boasting from US on F-35 because they need to sell it. Various professionals to even military officials in other nations with even US itself that scrutinized the F-35 but either they been silenced or fired, along with others being out down about their comments. F-35 isn't a bad jet at all and is a real threat. BUT, it isn't all that it is cracked up to be either. It is VLO. It will be detected but at shorter ranges than other aircrafts would be. Does it mean it can fly within Chinese or Russian territory? Maybe. But it won't get far before being detected by something.

Future for Russia will be satellite based radar systems for detecting everything.

GunshipDemocracy wrote:

Mindstorm wrote:

Well all of this authenticate garbage about this supposedly new "Trojan Horse" strategy and a role in to be played by the any-day-more-technically-outdated trillion dollar F-35 program (that is in reality in very heavy risk to be deeply curtailed) is the best proof , togheter with the concentric efforts by almost all US related Instututions to create the basis for a new weapon control treaties including the new generation Federation's weapons, that over the ocean the perception of american position in the new strategic environment is darkening up and up.

I guess some military and journos look in wrong direction, it is NOT bout F-35.  Check Gersimov opinion first.

https://tass.ru/armiya-i-opk/6178016

It is the right direction Gun

The so called new strategy - Trojan Horse" (that as already said has the real aim to save F-35 program providing to it a supposed as phantasious role in a conflict against a technologically peer/superior opponent) foresee the co-action attack of a soft-power component (fifth-column internal uprising) contemporaneously with a deep penetration military air group (with an hypothetical strong density of F-35 and UAVs) with data collection and dissemination roles, to allow stand-off attack means to capitalize for potential holes in the defensive network found by the previously cited F-35/UAV Group.

Now as well said by Gen. Сергей Хатылев this supposed new strategy would cause strong laughter's attacks among military operatives and serious, competent, political figures in any nation worldwide, but here we talk of the US and therefore similar Hollywoodish trash will a have a good chance to gain support and money from the typical ignorant but US-exceptionalism-afflicted Congress member.

Arrow wrote:Laughing Laughing Laughing Laughing


Voronezh is not a over-horizontal radar. This is the LPAR will not detect F-35 because it looks high into space. It has to detect RV.
Voronezh is an EW radar but it is not an OTH radar. The OTH radar is the Contener system.

Oh my......

I've talked several times of this subject in pasted years but it appear that something just return under the huge noise generated by the powerful PR machine of the exceptionally-ignorant/incompetent over-ocean nation.

"Воронеж" aerospace control radars has primary anti-ballistic roles, but has also entirely supplanted and enormously expanded and improved the previous OTH Soviet network (that was incidentally also the first at world with a huge technological lead in comparison with any competitor of the time); in particular today strategic control and follow of potentially dangerous aerodynamics targets (literally at several thousands km of distance and often with a serial target number provided at theirs very take-off) including UAVs, aircraft and above all cruise missiles of various kind is completed just by the network of those radars.


https://iz.ru/news/703064
https://vpk-news.ru/articles/8509

I think that some western operatives would fall in true depression observing the surveillance screen of a working Воронеж............

@Mindstorm:

Great! How would this radar detect low-flying targets beyond radar horizon? Is it capable of direct and OTH operation simultaneously?

OTH radars from what I read use HF frequency (3-30 Mhz), whereas Voronezh-VP is VHF. Maybe there is something very sophisticated going on in those radars, the designers received a prize for their work on them. Time to research a bit, imagine a VHF radar on a ship with OTH capability...

EDIT:

These radars seem to be multiband, maybe they operate in VHF/UHF but also in lower frequencies in case of need, the size of the array does not seem to be a problem.

According to Putin, the new plant is able to look "beyond the horizon" and can identify even the most inconspicuous target, in fractions of a second to detect missile launches of various types for hundreds and even thousands of kilometers from the Russian border.
http://ria.ru/defense_safety/20130606/941867488.html

kvs wrote:All of these early warning "radars" look over the horizon by design.  They bounce their signal off the ionosphere and the surface.   This way they outgoing signal
can follow the curvature of the Earth for thousands of kilometers.   The reflected signal does the same thing, bouncing between the surface and the ionosphere.

With modern computer resources, it makes sense to design such "radars" with a set of frequency bands and doing "tomography" on the backscatter.  
In the 1950s and 1960s it was just the analog return signal that they could use.   That is why there was a preference for a few frequencies.  

I thought this effect required very long wavelengths to operate. But maybe modern processing can take advantage of both high and low band components of the return and get the same effect as an OTH-B?? When you say "tomography", you refer professing all the frequencies received right? Otherwise I cannot make sense of the term.

User "SOC" was arguing in the Voronezh thread some years ago that this radar could not be a OTH-B (backscatter) radar but maybe OTH-SW (surface wave) radar that could be made smaller but had nevertheless the disadvantage of having shadow zones caused by mountains...

Regarding the "Trojan Horse" strategy, I can understand such radar stations are critical for the defence of Russia (or rather make it impossible for NATO to mount an air campaign that is not going to be crushed from the onset) and it would be ideal for them to be crippled from inside of the country in the first place. How realistic it is getting this done is a different story though...

Hole wrote:One radar alone is not the Problem (for NATO), it is the network of new radars that Russia has deployed in the last years:
Woronesch, Conteyner, Resonanz, Podsolnukh, Nebo-M, Podlyot, Kasta-2 and so on.
Some are mobile, others not.
Some are used against high-flying objects (ballistic missiles, satellites)
Some are used against low-flying objects (cruise missiles)
Together they are very hard to overcome.

Of course, but these ones are more or less the backbone of that network and create the long range, all-around big picture where other radars can focus or overlap. Its loss would be very relevant, even when Russia has other assets, comparably more than any other country probably, to compensate in case they are supressed. Long range, high performance EW radars are necessarily few, not mobile and quite valuable for any country.

Hole wrote:Woronesh could be mobile. On a ship.

Wtf is woronesh? If you want to say the name, at least put a bit of effort into the spelling.

miketheterrible wrote:

Hole wrote:Woronesh could be mobile. On a ship.

Wtf is woronesh? If you want to say the name, at least put a bit of effort into the spelling.

He's German, so a lot of times they replace the 'V' letter with the 'W' letter. He's talking about Voronezh.