Recently, Pakistan J-10CE in the simulated air battle with a 9:0 advantage in the "hanging" Qatar "Typhoon" fighter news has been spread, although this matter has not been conclusively confirmed, but through a simple analysis, you can know that J-10CE defeated the Typhoon in the simulated air battle, which is a normal play, because several main performance indicators of the "Typhoon" are not as good as J-10CE.
The following is a comparative analysis of radar, missiles, stealth performance, and systems, which are factors related to air victory.
First, look at the radar first. Qatar's "Typhoon" fighter jets are equipped with the "Catcher E" active phased array radar with 1,100 T R components, while the J-10C active phased array radar has 1,400 T R components, with a maximum detection range of more than 200 kilometers against fighter targets. Although the antenna of the Typhoon "Catcher E" radar can be rotated with a motor drive, which can reach a large detection angle, in terms of the number of T r value pieces, the radar detection range of the J-10C is more than that of the "Typhoon".
It should also be noted that the "Catcher E" radar bought by Qatar is a relatively early MK0 batch, compared with the MK1 batch used by Europe, the MK0 batch of "Catcher E" will only replace the active phased array antenna, and the background processing system is almost unchanged, which is equivalent to just upgrading an antenna to the original ECR90 radar. But it's important to know that active phased array radars far surpass mechanical scanning radars in terms of detection range, number of tracked targets, scanning speed, etc., which means that there are many more signals and data to process than the latter. Therefore, the result of the failure to upgrade the Qatari "Catcher E" radar processing system is that the advantages of its active phased array antenna are basically not brought into play, which makes the Qatari "Typhoon" in a very passive situation in the process of over-the-horizon air combat with the J-10CE.
Second, look at the missiles. The Typhoon is equipped with the "Meteor" air-to-air missile, and the main air combat ** of the J-10CE is the PL15E long-range air-to-air missile. The "Meteor" is a medium-range air-to-air missile jointly developed by Europe. Development began as early as 1997. It was not installed until 2016, that is to say, under the mutual bargaining of many countries, it took nearly 20 years for the "Meteor" to come out, so that the original advanced technology is no longer advanced.
The biggest highlight of the "Meteor" is the use of a solid-fuel ramjet engine, which is different from the liquid fuel used in the ramjet engine of anti-ship missiles such as YJ-12 and "BrahMos", the ramjet engine of the "Meteor" uses a pre-loaded granular solid fuel, which is a high-energy oxygen-poor propellant containing boron, and this solid-fuel ramjet engine not only overcomes the shortcomings of the large volume of the liquid-fuel ramjet engine, but also solves the shortcomings of the short working time of the solid rocket engine.
However, people are not as good as heaven, technology is constantly developing, entering the new century, the double-pulse design makes the solid rocket engine glow with new vitality, to a large extent to solve the problem of its short working time. The PL15 with a dual-pulse engine design reached a range of 200 km, which already exceeded the maximum range of 150 km for the "Meteor". And PL15 does not have the air intake of the "Meteor", the "Meteor" adopts a double lower side of the dual air intake, which not only brings resistance, but also prone to the problem of poor air intake when maneuvering at high angles of attack, and the Eagle Strike 12 design 4 air intakes are designed to solve this problem. Therefore, although the maneuvering overload of the "Meteor" is claimed to be able to reach 8-9G, the actual maneuverability, especially the high angle of attack, is not as good as the PL15, in addition, also because of the poor air intake, it is difficult for the "Meteor" to use a high-throw trajectory to extend the range, therefore, its actual range is not as good as the PL15E, that is, the actual performance of the "Meteor" is not even as good as the export version of the PL15.
The third is stealth performance. This is more intuitive, J-10CE uses DSI air intake, the bulge of DSI air intake effectively shields the engine blades, coupled with the S-shaped design of the air intake channel, the ** effect of J-10CE air intake is still good. In addition, the radar antenna of the J-10CE is set at an angle, and a fixed edge strip is also designed in front of the canard wing to block the canard shaft, which shows that the best capability of the J-10CE has reached a very high level. On the other hand, in the typhoon, the two air intakes opened in the hole, the protruding surface layer partition, and the canard wing without ** treatment are all strong reflection sources.
It can be seen that the Qatari Typhoon fighter has a big gap with the Pakistani J-10CE in terms of radar, missiles, and stealth performance. Due to the small diameter of the nose, the Rafale is inferior to the J-10CE in terms of radar detection range, and the range of the Mika missile is not as good as that of the "Meteor", and the * ability is not much stronger than the Typhoon, although the Rafale's electronic warfare capabilities are very strong, as for the Gripen, the advantage of the J-10 is even more obvious, Thailand's 4:0 record is enough to prove, therefore, the gap between the Eurofighter and China has been formed.