{"id":194006,"date":"2008-11-01T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/when-the-f-15-would-be-better-than-the-f-22\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T16:55:00","slug":"when-the-f-15-would-be-better-than-the-f-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/when-the-f-15-would-be-better-than-the-f-22\/","title":{"rendered":"When the F-15 Would be Better Than the F-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF is looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defenseindustrydaily.com\/f-15s-looking-for-the-aesa-edge-04044\/\">replacing all the mechanically scanned radars with electronically scanned AESA radars<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A dirty little secret is that this would make the F-15 <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">superior<\/span> to the F-22 in some of the missions that it is most touted in, particularly cruise missile interception, because of basic physics.<\/p>\n<p>The F-15 has a larger space in the nose for a radar, so the aperture, and hence resolution and range, woudl be greater.<\/p>\n<p>Picture pr0n below:<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img225.imageshack.us\/img225\/9413\/elecanapg63lgqi0.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img225.imageshack.us\/img225\/5250\/elecanapg63v2lggc7.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img225.imageshack.us\/img225\/6355\/elecanapg63v3labeledlgxw5.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img225.imageshack.us\/img225\/5527\/elecanapg63v3lgih3.jpg\" width=\"500\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img225.imageshack.us\/img225\/8784\/ordaim120amraamlaunchf1zj6.jpg\" ;width=\" 500=\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USAF is looking at replacing all the mechanically scanned radars with electronically scanned AESA radars. A dirty little secret is that this would make the F-15 superior to the F-22 in some of the missions that it is most touted in, particularly cruise missile interception, because of basic physics. The F-15 has a larger &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-194006","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\/194006"}],"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=194006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194006\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}