Add NCTR information above radar display

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Recently radar NCTR (non-cooperative target recognition) has been added to the game.

NCTR is quite useful, and allows you to know if what you have locked is what you intended (e.g. Player or AI aircraft or enemy missile).

Currently the NCTR information is only shown on the target lock box:

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While having the information in the target box/marker useful (when locking targets with ACM or HMD in RB for example), it would be a lot more convenient to have the information on the radar display as well, when locking targets in BVR / from search modes.

Since you are already looking at the radar display when selecting and locking targets, so it would be more convenient if you could see what you are locking, without looking away from the radar display.

Plus the 3rd person view target box is not available in SB and some planes don’t show the information on the HUD or the radar MFD in the cockpit; Which means you can’t actually use the NCTR in SB.

And there seems to be enough room at the top to add the NCTR information:

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Would you like to see this in the game?

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Absolutely agree. The NCTR info could use a compact naming format—similar to what’s used on the RWR—to keep things clean and legible. Long names like “Eurofighter Typhoon” would force the text to shrink too much, which we definitely want to avoid for visibility’s sake.

Additionally, I think to differentiate between friendly aircraft and enemy, friendly aircraft info should be shown with an asterisk either before or after the aircraft name/type. Enemy aircraft would appear without such asterisk. I would try to explain it with an example here but forum formatting makes it a struggle lol

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