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)
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.
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.
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…
