Radar is 70 year old tech. The only way to improve it is to increase the gain against background noise and try to program computer algorithms to notice small patterns against the noise. Modern stealth aircraft are getting better at being sneaky at it, it’s not useless at all. SAAB has never attempted to produce a…

It flies, that’s nice. Doesn’t make it a competitor to the F-35 in any way. It’s basically a model airplane at this point.

The harrier uses it to “viff” (and of course take off vertically), the X-31 used it in lieu of a rudder, the Su-30/35/MiG-35 use it whenever they feel like it for any reason they choose.

AIM-9X?

I assumed this was a Jerry post at first

There was nothing small about the F-15 STOL/MTD, except its takeoff roll.

This is just a demonstrator. The operational version, whatever that is going to look like, won’t be in service for at least a decade. And that is being optimistic.

He said “women at Jezebel are nutjobs,” and he’s 100% correct. That site is the internet’s leading source of batshittery.

To all my Jezebel fans out there, I am signing out now because it’s getting late over here, but I do expect to see at least 30 angry notifications by tomorrow morning.

As you can see from the influx of the commenters from Jezebel, most of the people from there cannot discuss things reasonably and politely, as witnesses many times before.

Or is going to sell their stealth fighter to US allies who are able to buy the F-35.

That's exactly what every electrical engineer working at every radar company in on the planet is working on right now.

Late 2020's, not in 2020

But he’s not calling women nutjobs, just the nutjobs who read Jezebel.

Allow me to explain:

Um...I don’t think China is quite there yet with the quality control.

To anyone wondering why that thing is so small: IT IS A TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATOR. It is no meant to see combat, ever. They will use it to test various concepts and use the findings to build a proper fighter. It’s in the same vein as those guys:

Ok boys, here is the deal. This is technology demonstrator. It is NOT a viable platform for an actual combat aircraft.

Elon won't spend 10 minutes on defense equipment.

Will there be an Evo version?