İn your first post you only said:”Glad you joined us” which basically says you just welcomed me, after that you edited your first post and added new context.
İ mean at least be honest and accept the fact that you made a mistake once buddy, its not that hard.
if anything, it’s still better to have a RBE2 PESA than a RDY. Basically more reliable and a much higher refresh rate (and maybe more scan angles too, but idk about that).
Range on that is a bit limited however, but that’s why RBE2 AESA (2013) exists
scan angles on all fixed phased arrays suck. You get maybe ±60°, but more likely is ±45° before transmission power, and thus range, drastically falls off (scan loss its called). Mechanical radars can somewhat easily get ±70°
PESA wouldnt have great advantages in that regard either. Yes they can change direction instantly, but dwell time puts a hard limit on how fast they can move while still detecting anything. The time to scan a given volume isnt really that much smaller than a MSA, though they could do fancier scan patterns.
Biggest advantage of a PESA will probably be track revisits during TWS.
Guiding more than one SARH towards more than one separate target at a given time is one big advantage. Most Russian PESA equipped planes can do 2-4x SARH guidance at one particular moment. MiG-31 could do 4x R-33… MiG-29SMT should be able to do 2x R-27ER…
This isn’t true for PESA currently modeled in-game is it? Pantsir scans the volume of air much quicker than anything else I’ve seen with its PESA radar.
Another interesting thing about the RBE2 PESA radar is its ability to lock onto 4 different targets in ACM modes. Would probably be something that PESAs in general would be able to do over the MSA ones.
so much faith in gaijin, I like how you fantasize. Most likely it will be mistreated, like the Mirage 2000D1, to date they don’t load stupid bombs above 250kg, in reality yes. It doesn’t even load the mediocre 400kg samp or 1000lbs unguided bomb. It translates that you don’t even throw down a base in RB, and would it be the top French attacker? The same logic will be the Rafale. If you are really interested in the French tech tree, start asking for adequate weapons layouts, not Rafales or other aircraft. There’s so much to do
Its dependent on how fast and how many pulses you can integrate back. More N samples collected, the higher the probability to detect a target. Radars that advertise ‘stealth target detection’ slow down the beam scan rate to increase the time on target for the higher Pd. Higher/faster processing allows you to shorten the integration time after collecting N pulses and using them optimally.
A pulse going and coming will take 2ms for 300km. But a single pulse is not enough, you need quite alot of them for a good SNR and a sufficient amount of listening TIME for the doppler resolution(condition of FFT) and rate of it(FFT condition).
Mechanical antennas can move much faster but they don’t due to the stuff above. Same way can be said regarding electronic beam steering.
Look at the footage from the mig 31 shooting down a target over ukraine. https://youtu.be/ZxAGVMTtQb0?si=WJslrQqBzvG1RFN1 you can see the scanning rate on the ±45° VS screen. It’s not instantly scanning the the entire sky.