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6982

I remember reading about an improver radar for a development of the Rapier, Rapier 2000 i think it was called

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6983

I wouldn’t trust that. IIRC there is a line of code in Starstreak which basically says “when the darts separate ignore everything that has happened before and set their speed to Mach 3.5”

Also IIRC when I tested them in game their time to target matched exactly with IRL down to a tiny fraction of a second.

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6984

Okay, didnt know that first bit, so fair.

But with the LMMs… If they hit mach 1.2 on release (if they ever get added on either the Wildcat or Stormer) I will be impressed.

6985

they’ll hit Mach 1.5 when the Wildcat is moving at top speed (its top speed is a tad under mach 0.3)

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6986

Should be 1350m/s i think which is somehow even worse…

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6987

Gaijin nerfed Starstreak’s flight speed ages ago and never reverted it. Recent updates also messed up its trajectory, making it really inconsistent.
The nerf probably happened right when the AH Mk1 first dropped. At launch, Starstreak easily destroyed Russian AA such as Pantsir nonstop, ruining Russian air defense performance metrics. The missile is mediocre now, yet Gaijin still won’t restore its original speed.

6988

You’re welcome to try testing it in battle again, but when I tested it in March (there’s not been any FM changes to the missile since then) the flight speed was Mach 3.47 at sea level and the time to target was literally perfect (as in accurate to the millisecond):

6989

I’ll test it in battle. The missile flight path is what affects the experience most.

6990

New turret, new sight, new search radar, ability to use Blindfire.

6991

An interesting feature of the Rapier FSC radar is that it is able to automatically detect when a suspected ARM is approaching and shut off.

6992

Yeah, but im kind of interested how it does it. How it diffrentiates ARM from other things.

6993

Only place ive found it mentioned is in its wikiepedia article, but under the FSB upgrade. Of course there are no sources for it from there. It would make sense fore the same feature being present for theFSC, as its building further on the FSB and the Blindfire.

But Janes land based air defence indeed attributes it to the Dagger radar, which is part of the Rapier 2000 (FSC) system.

6994

My guess is that it detects ARMs based on their size and velocity.

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6995

Strange way of doing it, having it instantly hit mach 3.5 as soon as it gets released from the booster, although the stat card not showing correct data is typical gaijin lol.

6996

Perhaps it utilises a variety of bands it can switch to reactively, observing the incoming missile until it stops tracking.

Or just switches off whenever a munition is detected too close to react to. If you cannot deal with said threat the best thing you can do is reduce the number of threats that it could be.

Dont hang me if any of this is idiotic, im not versed in radars (Looks at the euro fighter thread).

6997

The Rapier FSC search radar has an integrated “guard radar”. Basically there is a secondary antenna scanning an area above the radar, and if it detects anything which looks like it might be an ARM on terminal approach it automatically shuts down all the emissions until after the calculated impact time of the ARM; that was known as Reactive Shut Off (RSO). The radar radar also featured Procedural Shut Off (PSO), where it would automatically shut off for a set amount of time, at a set interval, to try and interrupt the guidance of any ARMs, which were on their way.

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6998

Interesting! Is it integrated inside the dome on the Dagger?

6999

3 launchers, a tracking unit

7000

Shameless self promotion but I figure this is in the interest of most people engaging in this thread

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7001

oh are we self promoting?

Buckle up boys (just the UK relevant ones)

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