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.
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ECM should only be added if they’re going to also add home-on-jam modes for the missiles that have them
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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.
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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.
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Su-57 flies with 360 degree AESA. If my memory serves me right, it has 4-6 radars.
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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.
I am betting ECM will be added if/when ARMs and the new static SAMs in the files are added to the game myself. It would definitely be the best time to introduce it.
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I could be wrong but wasbt it like 180 degree fov or 90 degree each way off centreline?
Like the SMT but with PESA.
Yes. But ±120deg
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Agreed
This is perfect the AESA/Aim-120 passive radar mode. Could launch on the SU-57 and it would never know until its too late that its own plane gave it away. It has the RCS of an F18 anyways so an easy target.
This would make the game an entirely different adventure with NATO HMDS being able to show the Awacs data directly in line of sight. AWACS radar can read, and track both air and ground units. AWACS can also datalink with Aim-120s, Aim-260s, Aim-174Bs, AGM-88s, Really all post 1990s AGM and AAMs. The launch aircraft doesn’t even need to stick around or get involved.
But we should start with aircraft in game that already had AESA, Passive Mode, and System Fusion.
Don’t make me laugh dude, no one can know the RCS of the Su-57
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None of these aircraft in-game have AESA radars, nor should they receive them as it would be WILDLY ahistorical.
The AN/APG-68 family as a whole, the AN/APG-63v1, and the AN/APG-65 are NOT AESAs.
The first applicable AESAs of these aircraft are the AN/APG-80 or AN/APG-83 (40/42++, 50/52+, 60, 70/72) for the F-16, the AN/APG-63v3 for the F-15, or the AN/APG-79.
Can you tell me what aircraft in-game have these radars listed? Why do you think they “should” have them now, if the variants in-game were never fielded with them? How is what they have currently “wrong”?
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You must be dyslexic. The F-15C in-game has an AN/APG-63v1.
Almost no F-15Cs in service field the AN/APG-63v2, as it is a WILDLY unreliable system. It cost $15M per unit and was only given to a dozen ANG platforms, coming out to less than 8% of the operationally capable F-15C fleet.
Then you have the APG-63v3… This was first put into F-15s a year after the model we have in-game.
Yes, those are also heavily upgraded variants. Those being upgraded are already gen 4.5 fighters, and possess a myriad of upgrades that put it to the standards of a Viper. The radar itself is not a standalone upgrade that you can cherry pick, if you wish to have an upgraded F-16 (as said before, 40/42++ or 50/52+) then you can put it in suggestions. I’d love to see my 42++s in game.
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Yes, because that’s what the F-15C MSIP-II was given.
The F-15Cs equipped with the APG-63v2 were part of a bombardment group, and only 1 singular squadron of 5 were given it in the group… That also translates to every other ANG base and even active aircraft, with that 1 singular squadron being the only F-15s to ever operate the AN/APG-63v2.
Our F-15C in-game is from Oregon, not Alaska. It was from an entirely different ANG wing, which purely operated the base 2005 spec MSIP-II model. Seeing as it isn’t modelled after an Alaska ANG aircraft, nor does it have the possibility of receiving an AN/APG-63v3, I don’t see how any option of it receiving an AESA is viable or even needed.
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Incorrect.
Also incorrect.
The F-15C ingame is modeled with JHMCS, ehich means it is a mid 2000s aircraft. The APG-63v2 was the first operational AESA, equipping an entire squadron of F-15Cs by the end of 2000. It not being equipped with one ingame is a balance choice, as that is also a valid configuration.
The specific tail number they chose to base the skin on does not matter, and if it did, would not be in ANG service until well after it had recieved the 63v3 radar.