i have no clue what the arguement is, i dont care enough to pay attention either. i just want the Rafale to be cool and competitive
Your actual proof that 8 mica missile on the rafale F3 isn’t possible? cause all I heard so far was personal opinions
Jet launching it is high and fast, the Gripen is dramatically slower and has lower thrust than any of the other top tier aircraft. And now French player have 8 MICAs they are more liberal with them.
Feel free to enlighten me if I’m wrong, but there’s already a platform that can carry 8 far better BVR missiles. So complaining about the BVR capacity is a bit silly, when they’re amongst the worst BVR missiles.
Also I’d note you’re focusing on Gripen (which is underperforming and could have been updated with the E this update for Sweden), but the Typhoon is the nearest competitor and is distinctly more capable in BVR than Rafale. I’m personally having significantly fewer issues with BVR using Typhoon than Rafale, or any other BVR platform I’ve used. But I would also highlight, I primarily play ground attack, so my stats in almost all a2a platforms suffer.
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My bad, of course not
It’s just that there are few flares in the pod because they are deployed based on SPECTRA sensor input
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I made my point higher up, the Rafale is already great and it is receiving daily buffs.
It does everything great the 2000 series did but even better. It now dominates at medium and close range.
Jets like the Gripen cannot compete and the Typhoon in UK and Italian trees Radar has multiple personality conditions.
Gripen was never going to compete until they add the E which is the comparable variant to the other eurodeltas. The UK Gripen would never compete. It shouldn’t even be armed with the ARHs it received. So far, EFT’s radar has not presented me with issues as others are claiming. Be this my circumstance, or not, I won’t say the issues aren’t present.
I’d fucking hope so, without missiles like ASRAAM or MICA IR equivalents being present.
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Point is, this generation of planes has undoubtedly awesome performance in the air, but the catch is supposed to be the Electronic Warfare suite each one wields.
I understand that it seems we are asking a lot for the rafale, but so should everyone else for their favorite aircraft/vehicle. Every vehicle should get the chance to shine in the game, with respect to in-game balance of course.
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They are green if you change the camo
You know that one module can’t have a directional beam? That’s the point of a phased array. Only a few elements of the array can form a directional beam.
Does CBR, which receives such reports, even understand how radar works? If not, then why does it receive such reports?
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Perhaps you’re right, regardless, the radar should be capable of tracking multiple targets irrespective of the direction of the search area which is the point of the report. Do you have a suggestion to better edit the report?
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That’s not how AESAs work. The single antenna don’t provide enough power output by themselves to track targets. For that you need multiple pointed at the target. Not even the radar mounted on the E-7 can track that many at once.
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Your report cannot be improved. The number of simultaneously tracked targets does not depend on the number of phased array elements. CBR should have written this.
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Why is the low altitude top speed of rafale so slow? Is the resistance too high？
What is multiple? 4? 8? 10? Even if we go with 10, that still would mean 80 different targets could be tracked since the Rafale’s AESA has over 800 modules. We don’t have any number of games where the number of enemy targets goes past 16, hence the suggestion to remove the limitation from the radar.
Even the F-35s AN/APG-81, which has double the amout of T/R modules (1676), doesnt form more than maybe 8 or so beams according to this video
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That is a PESA gif, sections of the AESA can direct multiple separate waveforms in different directions.
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There are a lot more than that in Sim battles. While yes, we don’t know how many, just not putting a cap at all doesn’t make sense. Putting it at smth like 4 would, seeing as the F-35 apparently only has 8 beams according to @BagelIsMyWaifu, with double the antenna
Only two are required to steer but depending on placement - whether it wants to go up and down will dictate which TR modules are being used to steer. Look at the front of the radar and count the TR modules. How many individual ones have a complete circle around them, separated from the rest? That would be your best solution.
It seems it has a bunch of hexagonal shaped clumps with a single center antenna, approximately 119.x number of these. It could likely track and steer up to at least 100 targets.
100x 7 = 700 + 138 additional TR modules loose.
Yes, but not for one module. Nothing changes. The number of beams is very limited, because a certain radiation power is needed to obtain the required range and a certain grid width is needed to obtain the required target tracking accuracy by angle.
Two modules are unlikely to be enough.