China's J- 10 and the United States' F-f 16, who is more powerful in air combat?

There are many articles about online 10 and F- 16, and there are various viewpoints, but the sensory analysis is not very comprehensive, which leads to the lack of credibility of the conclusions. 歼 10 is better than F- 16. What's so good about it? Poor, what's the difference? Lack of theoretical basis, this paper will further discuss the outcome of the two.

Among the F- 16 series, the most advanced ultimate F- 16 is the F- 16E/F "Desert Falcon" exported to the United Arab Emirates. Compared with 50 batches of F- 16C/D models standardized by the US Air Force, at least 70% of the structure of this aircraft has been changed. The performance is extremely advanced. J- 10 winning F- 16A/B is not a skill. Only by surpassing F- 16E/F can a raptor be said to be better than a falcon.

First of all, as two advanced multi-functional medium-sized fighters, it should be an important task to compete for regional air superiority, and it is also an important link to distinguish fighter performance. If you want to gain an advantage in fierce air combat, you must have excellent maneuverability and powerful electronic equipment.

When the thrust of the engine is not much different from the takeoff weight, the aerodynamic layout often has a great influence on the maneuverability of the aircraft. Like F 16, J 10 also adopts wing-body fusion design, belly air intake and advanced four-degree fly-by-wire control system to relax instability. The difference is that J 10 adopts a tightly coupled canard layout, and the full-motion canard is equipped with a large swept 52-degree delta wing. Compared with F 16E/F, it adopts a wide-sided strip before and after. In terms of conventional maneuverability, the thrust-to-weight ratio of J-/KOOC-0/0 air combat is slightly lower than that of F-/KOOC-0/6A (the latter is about/KOOC-0/./KOOC-0/5) and better than that of F-/KOOC-0/6E/F (although the engine thrust increases by 30% and the takeoff weight increases by 50%) J- 10 is undoubtedly more dominant, and only in the subsonic region of low altitude, both sides have their own advantages: due to the duck layout of J- 10, the induced resistance is larger and the thrust-to-weight ratio is slightly smaller, so the accelerated estimation is among them. In addition, in the transonic section where air combat occurs most frequently, the large delta wing with low aspect ratio has the advantage of moving from subsonic to supersonic with small center of gravity, so the acceleration performance of J-10 in this section is particularly excellent, which will bring more chances for J-10 in air combat.

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Although the aerodynamic shape of F- 16E/F is not dominant, it is inseparable from its powerful electronic equipment that can beat French gusts and European typhoons in the bidding for advanced fighters in Saudi Arabia. At this point, J- 10 has no advantage.

The F- 16e/F "nose is equipped with the most advanced and powerful fire control radar in the F- 16 family-An /APG-80 advanced agile beam active phased array radar. This is also a new equipment used on the fourth generation light fighter F-35, which is under study. Its detection range is twice that of An /APG-68(V)9 SAR installed on F- 16I, and the detection range with RCS=3 exceeds 150 km. APG-80 radar has advanced air-to-ground and ground-to-ground working modes and can continuously search. It has the imaging ability of high-definition synthetic aperture radar. The resolution to the ground is 0.6 1m, and it can detect small cruise missiles and stealth aircraft 90km away. The reliability of the radar is twice that of the traditional mechanical scanning radar. Compared with the JSF radar used by F- 16E/F, the radar used by J- 10 has always been controversial on the Internet. Considering comprehensively, the most likely one is the domestic 1473 radar made by Nanjing14 Institute. It is said that the passive phased array radar is developed on the basis of Chuk-M. It can track 15 targets at the same time and attack the four targets with the greatest threat. The phased array radar developed by 14 and equipped on 170 ship and air police 2000 shows its strength in developing advanced radar.

As for the helmet sight 歼 10 is a helmet sight developed by Luoyang Institute of Optoelectronic Technology, and its horizontal field of view has reached 120 degrees. Compared with JHMCS, it has a slight gap in automation and function, and should have little influence on the results of close combat.

Compared with An /APG-80 of F- 16E/F, 1473 has a gap in detecting small targets and high-resolution ground detection, but it is equivalent to An /APG-80 in detecting targets with RCS=3, so it can be considered that J- 10 is not better than F-650 in air situational awareness. No less than AIM- 120C and AIM-9X's R-77+R-73E combined with J- 10' s high altitude, high speed and high maneuverability make J- 10 have advantages in over-the-horizon and close combat.

Of course, the F- 16E/F integrated with IFTS will perform better under the condition of strong electronic interference.

If it's only air combat, then I may prefer to drive J- 10, but if I want to carry out the ground attack mission, I may choose F- 16E/F, because it has the most advanced ultra-low altitude penetration technology except the whole set of advanced guided ammunition, and only the United States has it.

60 batches of F- 16 have programmable data converters (DTC). It can store the digital landform database.

F- 16E/F has two terrain tracking modes when flying at low altitude. One is the database terrain tracking mode, which uses the terrain elevation database to ensure the height from the ground. The other is radar terrain tracking mode, which uses APF-80 radar to keep the distance from the ground. Pilots can choose any mode, the height can be selected between 30 meters and 300 meters (the height of the tree top), and they can use manual driving or automatic driving. Using the database terrain tracking mode, F- 16E/F can make violent maneuvers even at ultra-low altitude, attack targets more effectively and get rid of anti-aircraft fire. Combined with JASSM /JDAM Precision Guided Bomb /JSOW Precision Guided Ammunition /AGM- 142 Precision Attack Bomb /AGM- 130 Precision Guided Missile. Hamm counter

In the use of information technology, Americans are obsessed and stay ahead. F- 16E/F adopts "Integrated Core Processor" (ICP) to complete the signal/data processing of all sensors and equipment including radar and electronic warfare system. The bandwidth of optical fiber transmission network is 1000 times that of 1553B data bus. Due to the application of advanced digital technology, F- 16E/F teaches J- 10 to be more advanced in cabin automation, with less work intensity and faster response speed. In combat, it will greatly make up the gap between its maneuverability and J- 10.

The F- 16E/F combined with JSF technology is undoubtedly a powerful medium-sized fighter. Even compared with strong winds and gusts, it is not inferior at all, but it does not have supersonic cruise, super maneuverability and stealth ability, which makes it difficult to have a real overwhelming advantage in the face of J- 10 with redundant fly-by-wire control system and excellent aerodynamic layout, even if the electronic equipment is advanced. As a new fighter, J- 10 has great improvement potential. With the successful development of stealth technology, new AESA radar, TVC control of thrust vectoring nozzle and large thrust turbofan engine in China, our J- 10 will leave this 30-year-old Falcon far behind.