Has the MAWS been fixed to stop detecting teammate flares yet?
OFS coloring has been fixed
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No. The detection range of DDM NG for missiles should also be increased to 27km (according to the most pessimistic sources lol).
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That sucks, hope they get their act together about it.
Until than I’ll keep spamming flares on takeoff for the MAWS check
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For fun, here is a (very compressed) image taken by a basic assembly of the same infrared detector used in DDM NG. The mountain in the background is Mount Fuji located ~100km away and the weather conditions weren’t actually clear skies that day:
The image provided by DDM NG is expected to be better.
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Don’t you know? It’s clearly impossible to see a several thousand ° missile from 7km away!
Well, Eurofighter MAWS got fixed this update. So I guess we’ll wait and see if the devs fix the Rafale’s MAWS anytime soon. I never actually play air battles (still haven’t bothered to grind the Rafale lol) so I don’t know how effective it would, but I’d imagine a 27km detection range would be rather funny.
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It got fixed as in it’s even worse now, and it still sees flares, and can barely see AA missiles at 3.5km, SAM at 8km, which is still hilariously bad.
Are there any reliable performance figures for it, though? And now that it’s modelled as a radar MAWS, there’s also the issue of it emitting a radar signature: Community Bug Reporting System , which now will be able to detected by planes such as the Rafale which recently got K-band included in its RWR.
There is literally no information about it, only estimates (which would still make it 5x better), only information out there was probably available only privately/to journalists as some articles state that it should have the ability to detect planes, do NCTR and IFF as auxiliary functions, idk where from.
Also states that “the possible detection of emissions or the attack of anti-radar missiles is not a problem , given the millimeter frequency and LPI mode”, which rafale could probably still detect but at that close range the MAWS could possibly see the rafale too, idk.
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The MAW should have Active Radar Cancelation if i remember right.
And shouldnt the Rafale have that aswell? I thought i read about it.
I believe eventually they’ll get rid of multipath completely, multipath is already not really reliable. Plus, this change to the MICA-EM’s seeker notch will help ensure that the Meteor’s seeker (which is based on the MICA EM’s seeker) also gets a very small notch sector, if not smaller than the MICA EM’s already small notch sector. Buffs to the MICAs will mean buffs to Meteors and MICA NGs.
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Multipath as a mechanic would be cool to model varying with every missiles that were actually effected by it, of course the more modern missiles wouldn’t be effected by multipath.
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Is MICA range getting fixed now that the next shortest range missile, R-77, is getting an R-77-1 variant? MICA is now the shortest range Fox 3, isn’t it?
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MICA is now the shortest ranged fox 3 among all 14.0 aircrafts. It is definitely the goal to fix the MICA’s range and the report exists for it.
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The R-77-1 and Su-30SM are gonna be interesting balance-wise. Radar should be top 3 in-game on release from what I can tell and the R-77-1 will both be the longest ranged fox-3 and the second best WVR fox-3, and the Su-30SM gets up to 12 of them, which could make it a problem balance-wise, but at the moment with the Rafale being so dominant, and the fact the Su-30SM’s flight performance is somewhat subpar, it might still be somewhat balanced. I’m curious to see the state of top tier air when the patch finally drops.
I would think fixing the MICA should realistically be rather low on their priority list though with how strong the Rafale currently is and will remain post-update, so Im pretty surprised they’re buffing its already.
They changed the beamwidth of the antenna, not the notch width.
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This should help with the Chaff rejection. If you recall, in the past there was a bug where all FOX 3s got smaller beamwidth and were unchaffable under 10 km. People will have to turn to notch and chaff much earlier.
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Then how do you contend with the fact that Stepanovich stated AIM-54 should have a lower notch width and now the beam-width was reduced?
It’s a real one, MICA IR joined the game’s files since the same times MICA EM joined the game, it’s in the files since some times now, but not to be seen soon in game.
It’s just that it’s easy to model, just have to change the seeker visual of the EM, then they are ready with our variant of IR missile when thoses gonna join the game in the future.
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