Only later Rafales use AESA AFAIK which brings them Brimstone equivs (AAM-HAMMER) so I think only PESA’s for the Rafales if they come.
The aircraft in-game have the correct radars, these aircraft started off with mechanical arrays and later got Electronically scanned arrays, F-15’s got them ~2008 iirc, F-18 isnt here yet, F-16C got it same sorta time as F-15 i think.
But the F-2 is loosely an F-16 derivative.
Perhaps that is what I was thinking. I just recall that the first Rafale had a crappy AESA, maybe its PESA that im thinking of
The F15C II MSIP is listed as an APG-63V2 thats an AESA radar (but it has APG-63V1 instead of what it should have). It has the wrong RADAR.
Also the US Air Force is installing the AN/APG-83 SABR on 608 of its F-16C/D Block 40/42 and F-16C/D 50/52 fighters.
They started off with PESA, it had good ECM, but more limited range than Typhoons M-Scan or F-18 is implied from the Swiss Trial.
But yeah AESA is pretty much just better iirc.
Passive mode would be huge. ECM would also be nice, because we could defeat RADAR missiles head on with the correct AESA radars. Not to mention with the HMDS we should be getting real time target data in the helmet and System Fusion for a better overall picture.
This would help sim battles tremendously avoid IFF incidents. You know right away. No guessing.
Which by the way, modern tanks do have. It shouldn’t be guess work. We had IFF Plates in the armored vehicles 30+ years ago during the 91 Gulf War. Hell we had IFF patches to better assist our air support 20 years ago in the early days of Iraq. Plus cats eyes on our helmets.
Yeah, it’s what they’re suggesting. Ngl I’m 50/50 on whether or not it will be added myself
This wouldn’t surprise me at all…
down the line there should definitely be a variant of the F-15 and F-16 based on 2010’s service, with their AESA radars, AIM-120C/D and AIM-9X. I can only see that being new vehicles to grind though and not a change to the currently in game F-15C and F-16C since those new weapons would make it a totally different beast
We already have the variant. The F15C MSIP II was AESA equipped, but in game has a different PD RADAR.
The F-15C had an entire squadron of AESAs before the F-2 even had a production aircraft
I might be wrong but didn’t they equip like 3 squadrons with the V2(?) radar and then go back and equip every aircraft with V1(?) radars later on, as in 2008.
Plus there’s no need to make the best aircraft in-game any better right now.
They went on to equip them with the V3 actually and it was in 2006 that they moved them up to the V3.
1 full squadron, 18 jets, based in Alaska.
ECM should only be added if they’re going to also add home-on-jam modes for the missiles that have them
No. It needs AESA and it needs to carry 22 AMRAAMS and also the secret laser from Ace Combat 4. Also the R-27ER needs to be removed from the game.
Bigger maps (way bigger maps) with one AWACS for each team (even as a target mission from time to time) and data-link would improve the sim gameplay so much.
Su-57 flies with 360 degree AESA. If my memory serves me right, it has 4-6 radars.
ik, besides the Su-57, do other Russian gen4 have AESA?
No. The Su-35S has a PESA with a 240-degree field of view
MiG-35 allegedly does or was a testbed for one anyhow.
Agreed, maps and overall gameplay need some major TLC before we start adding even more modern stuff than what we already got.