Извините ещё раз за английски, но если я по пусски может быть не ясно.

In the MiG-29 flight manual, it says that to lock the target, the pilot must press and hold the button for some seconds.

In Lock On, the lock is instantaneous. However, the maximum lock distance of the Russian radar is shorter, than the maximum detection distance.

What is correct? Are these simply two different expressions of the one same phenomenon?

I can't find it in a MiG-29 flight manual, that the lock distance is shorter than the detection distance. I don't understand why it should be like that. In the lock regime, the radar sends much more radio energy to the target, so it should not be more difficult to see the target. Real pilots of F-15 aircraft say that the lock range and detection range are practically equal. Why would it be very different in the Russian radar?

That is, when does the "some seconds" for locking the target begin - at the edge of the of the detection range, when the pilot starts holding the button? Or, after the pilot has already been holding the button a long time, when the distance to the target has been reduced to the shorter "lock" distance, only at that moment, "some seconds" begins to count?

Надеюсь что всё понятно.. :o

Спасибо!

-SK