Are head on only PD radars historical? (F-14)

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I find it reasonable to have a radar that you can adjust it’s mode to “head on” to better detect the approaching targets.

But radars like the F-14’s AN/AWG-9 being head on just does not make sense. It was an extremely powerful radar, with high capabilities, so much so that it could serve as an AWACS.

and an airborne track-while-scan mode with the ability to track up to 24 airborne targets, display 18 of them on the cockpit displays, and launch against 6 of them at the same time

We can see that the F-14A had digitalized avionics, having a microprocessor. I don’t think the AWG-9 had digital processor (I could be wrong) but with the power and tracking ability, it would be stupid to believe that the radar processed Doppler effect barely better than F-4J in game (1960s radar)

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Next we have the Tornado ADV. A modern-ish plane made in the mid 1980s with an digital RWR…Yes, another head on only radar.

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Which means their systems could find enemy bombers far away, not for any other reason.

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https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/yOGAUfUVvoqC

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just wait for F-14D with MPRF

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Not just bombers.

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Head-on is another name in game for HPRF, F-14’s in game have a HPRF/LPRF radar so they get PD Head-on and SRC.

AI.24 Fox Hunter, again another HPRF/LPRF radar. The digital RWR has nothing to do with the radar in the nose.

It having a digital processor doesn’t change the waveforms available to it.

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Literally same era

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