UV MAWS suck specifically because they do not have post burnout detection. they also offer no use aside from pre-burnout missile detection.
thats why you’d use that on a helicopter or other aircraft that are mainly concerned about MANPADS(
look at AN/AAR-47, 54, 57, and 60 for example).
On a BVR capable fighter jet its much better to use RF or IR based.
you use them when you can because they’re cheaper.
but a forward looking UV MAWS on a supersonic BVR fighter jet does absolutely nothing
especially in war thunder
IIR missiles can be flared (tail chase, 500ish meters, volumetric flares like the MJU-52/B used on the Typhoon’s BOL), or shot down as I mentioned.
I still also dont see the advantage of the LRF because it doesnt tell you if a missile was launched.
Lastly, the 7.5km you mentioned are made up anyways, we dont know its true range. The best I have seen is the napkin math of the German Wikipedia, putting it at 20ish km based on the size of the rear MAWS antenna and the Norwegian Eurofighter presentation showing the EuroDASS’ screen having an instrumented range of 40nm (74km)
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It does tell you if you are being targeted and from where. And given rhat the Rafale (and maybe F-14B?) is the only 4th gen aircraft with a laser designator built in, you know that there likely may be a missile launch.
In lieu of hard data, Gaijin is likely to put it at 7.5km, seeing that is the current implementation for aircraft MAWS.
Source?
I read in a book on the Eurofighter that the german versions don’t have the towed decoy of the DASS equipped. Can anyone confirm this please? Couldn’t find anything on the Internet.
they have it equipped.
this is early T1 stuff
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Thank you :)
The idea is blocking the seeker with the flares in such a way that, when the missile emerges again, the plane is no longer in its FoV
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that pdf link is dead
Works for me
works on archive.org but tti-ecm.org has some ssl issues so it doesnt open anymore.
the linked website here does but thats not where the pdf is stored
so when yall think eurofighter would come
December
I’m guessing this winter.
December counter: 3
1 or 2 updates from now.
depends on how gaijin wants to progress with this; i’d expect an update with “less powerful” airframes but the same or better missiles first…
1 or 3, you mean.
Seeing how germany is supposed to get an sub tree apparently i would say the typhoons are coming later