So you dont even know how real tws works. What we have ingame is meme. Irl you can literally designate tws tracks from 1to X and then start launching. No plane in world allows you to launch everything at once. Mechanical tws works same as aesa, its just not constantly updated, otherwise it works the same.
Blame gaijin for adding scuffed TWS where you cant predesignate tracks.
You’re right on that one. I’m not that versed into how real radar works in detail. However a full working AESA would be undeniably a game changer. Can’t we just be happy with having the best radar in the game as of right now, again ?
Until rafale and mica are not what they should be no.
Yes it would but i dont believe gaijin can even do it to this level anytime soon.
For finding targets, you still need some sweep and dwell time otherwise the radar won’t see anything.
You’ll have to wait for a long time. MICA IR aren’t even on the table as of now considering how insane they would be. Meteor even less. That missile have a NEZ of 60km IRL. AESA will probably be formally introduced with the japanese F-2, and most nations ingame don’t even have a PESA in their top tier fighter yet.
A buff I’d like to see on the Rafale would be the ability to fire MICA EM from the IRST. That would be kind of crazy strong in Sim however.
I guess it was not clear that i implied mica em and not adding any other missiles as long as the game doesn’t introduce better missiles as those currently in game.
Same for the F15E and F15C honestly. And Russian radars are even worse, the radar of the SMT can take up to 15 seconds to first see a target and then update with their direction. It’s honestly one of the most painful thing about russian radar right now.
Rafale is refreshing significantly faster than those, and is significantly better at tracking with a wider angle of scanning.
Because people want to play real planes, the plane we have in game does not exist in real life, we are playing a fake aircraft made up in the mind of some dev
Thats not what i meamt. Even aesa has to sweep to find stuff with directed beam.
On top of that, there is massive bug in wt more than doubling refresh speeds of radars.
It takes eternity on rafale to scan 70*30. You can literally sneak under it with how long it takes.
Like the F16AJ ? Like the double pylon Su-27SM ? Like the Mig29 flight model ? Like the entire F16 family flight model ? Like the EFT’s radar ?
We have so many example at this point that Gaijin is just doing whatever they want, I’d think you guys would be used to it at this point. XD
Right, it has 14 vertical bars of scanning I think in the current live version of it. It takes a while to do a full sweep (IIRC full period is 7 seconds), but it’s still excellent at keeping track once it sees a plane. And this is the only plane with a 31° sweep at the moment which is itself an advantage. Grinding with the Mirage yesterday I was going crazy at the 3° vertical angle of the TWS since it’s so easy to sneak under it.
I think the 70x16° right now is the best pattern outside of the early game with Rafale. I’ve yet to play it in Sim tho ! My opinion might change after that.
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Not entirely thrilled about the countermeasure change. Large caliber was preferable over what we ended up with. As well as not outside the realms of reality given the particular system and its function, from my brief reading. Could have at least given us a modification to choose.
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Unlikely to change, initial opinion for sim seems to be that its cracked. I might even go so far as to say its likely the best air to air plane in sim period, tho I do not have the plane and have yet to play sim against it, just conjecture from what ive heard from others and what the plane has as tools.
The only real problem i could see in sim at this point is that its rather poor at objective gameplay in a multirole capacity.
The issues with the low flare count and only 6 micas have both been resolved as well which were the literal only “problems” id heard raised about it, and even then they were considered minor due to how good the MICA is and how dominant the Rafale as a package is in WVR.
i’ve finished a SIM literally now.
yes the 70x16 is the best pattern right now
From what ive seen on reddit vast majority of people are happy with 8 micas and its not like gaijin made up 8 missile loadout so its not inaccurate and theres still an option to take 6 micas
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Did I say I supported any of gaijins actions on those aircraft? I don’t. They are fake and made up by gaijin, I don’t want that.
I last looked at that a day ago, so I will have to update my data later. The 8 MICAs are entirely fake, unless the Rafale in game cannot fire the missiles and is missing a vast portion of its avionics it does not represent any Rafale to ever exist, so is thus fake.
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Indian F3 would like to disagree.
Dassaults Rafale would like to disagree.
F4 Rafale would like to disagree.
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Here
The Rafale we have in game never existed
Its literally what dassault built… they have plane with 8 AA missiles. They proposed it to AdA but AdA never bought it.
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