{"id":191815,"date":"2009-06-21T17:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-21T22:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/21\/russia-looking-at-aesa-on-mig-35\/"},"modified":"2009-06-21T17:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-21T22:08:00","slug":"russia-looking-at-aesa-on-mig-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/06\/21\/russia-looking-at-aesa-on-mig-35\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Looking at AESA on MiG-35"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img44.imageshack.us\/img44\/5388\/aw062220092512l5453915.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img44.imageshack.us\/img44\/4660\/aw062220092511l5465974.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" width=\"400\" \/>This is not a development, as Russia, or more exactly the USSR, is the only nation to have fielded a combat fighter in squadron service with a phased array radar, the MiG-31 Foxhound.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that much of this development is being driven by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-06-22&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/06\/22\/AW_06_22_2009_p50-147204.xml\">Indian medium fighter competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The installation appears to be a bit tight (top pic) in the demonstration, though there may be more changes to shrink the &#8220;back end&#8221; of the radar and increase the aperture size in the production model.<\/p>\n<p>The ground mapping imagery (bottom pic) does appear to indicate a very significant improvement in air to surface capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is not a development, as Russia, or more exactly the USSR, is the only nation to have fielded a combat fighter in squadron service with a phased array radar, the MiG-31 Foxhound. It appears that much of this development is being driven by the Indian medium fighter competition. The installation appears to be a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1007,1008,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aviation","category-defense-procurement","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191815"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}