They share alot of symbology from the few photos we have on FRS. FA2 obviously gained a huge number of new features to account for the radar and new weapons system. But alot of the basic stuff should be the same.
Pretty common, you’ll notice some carry over from the Tornado HUD to the Typhoon one.
Yeah I’ve noticed the standard flight display is actually identical between the two.
Was the ballistics computer upgraded on FA.2?
Blue Vixen was apparently very good for accurate bombing. So one would assume the FRS.1 lacked a bit in the accuracy department.
Any sources confirming Rocket symbology for either the FRS1 or FA2?
It had it once, but the 2" RP was out of service by the time of this manual, so this is all that is left.
Okay, i’ll report no Rocket symbology as well.
Combined report for FRS1/FA2? or one for each?
Yes probably was fairly primitive being based on a helicopter radar.
You can’t report it without the symbology to hand, we don’t know what it looked like so it cannot be modelled.
Ah, damn, cant be based just off the bomb or gun CCIP? or the CCIP in the GR3
You’d assume so but as we don’t know we can’t just assume. If I ever find it I’ll report it.
Okaydokie, thank you.
Thankfully rockets are rarely of use in Sim.
and it still has rocket CCIP for GRB
Frs.1 doesn’t even have the ability to carry sneb and the rp rockets are pretty bad anyway
iirc. that was an FAA thing or something. Just the Royal navy used the RP rockets and the RAF used SNEB or something
It was due to the radar
The royal navy feared the ships radar would set of the snebs fuse
Blue Vixen RADAR changes in the latest datamine. I’m not really clued up on how RADARs work ingame so I can’t say what this will change
Damn they doubled everything
Was play with the Shar again on the Dev and I was reminded on how fast the scanning speeds are, so I wanted to ask. How advanced was the Blue Fox? I know it doesn’t have PD, MTI, high range or missile guidance but was it really as good as some say?
To get the FRS1 approved, the RN had to massively undersell it, to the point of self-deprication. But they also made it on the cheap as much as possible, so the Blue Fox is a modified Seaspray radar fitted onto the Lynx. So it wasnt ever meant to be world beating, but was designed to operate under conditions that proved handy for the FRS1.
But even within the Shars you had 2 very different opinions on them.
NAS 800 onboard HMS Hermes didnt properly calibrate them and largely the pilots considered the radar very poor.
NAS 801 onboard HMS invincible did have them properly calibrated and advocates like Sharkey Ward praised the radar fairly highly, managing to exceed its design specifications
But it was very limited and onyl really designed for high alt intercepts
Actually, thats an idea.
@Gunjob Could Seaspray docs be used to get the Blue Fox more scan modes? (looking at the 5° mode) (if docs can be found and it shows that it has more scan modes)
Why not have had a radar capable of guiding something like the Skyflash and and PD but still keeping it cheap?
