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It’s not specifically owned by Germany. It’s owned by NETMA who test and procure for all nations within the eurofighter consortium for there needs and wants. It’s just happened to be the aircraft that was supplied by the consortium was one from the luftwaffe. It’s a test and development aircraft for everyone within the consortium. Hence why British and Italian pilots also test with it.
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Mk.1 isn’t inferior per se tho. It’s just mire focused on conventional radar operations like instead of EW. Mk.2 is a radar made for EW, and will likely sacrifice some normal capabilities for it (otherwise I don’t see the point in using combined GaAs and GaN, I doubt their trying to he cheap)
Less cheap, more fast. MK1 is less capable overall and thus was ready a few years sooner. Germany was eager to get the ball rolling on P4E asap
Yeah, because we decided to forgo EW capabilities. It’ll be worse in that regard sure, but better in others. Not one of them is worse than the other objectivly, it depends on what you want more. So calling one inferior is just wrong
Care to go into details? Just saying “Mk.1 = bad, Mk.2 = better” doesn’t really argue in your favor…
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Never said MK1 was bad. But it is a less capable overall radar as it lacks the ability to do A2A/A2G at the same time as EW.
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So? The Mk.2 is less capable when doing stuff like (I)SAR and other standard radar stuff. So no, the Mk.1 isn’t overall less capable, it just doesn’t try to do everything at the same time, missing out on some capabilites. The Mk.2 is a “jack of all trades but master of none”, while the Mk.1 tries to do one thing really good.
Cause of this: AFAIK the Mk.2 split its transceiver count between GaN and GaAs modules. GaN used for high power radar applications, GaAs for signal quality dependent EW. The Mk.1 has only GaN transceivers. In consequence the Mk.2 has less GaN transceivers which limits its capabilites when used as standard radar (not bad in any way, but worse than the Mk.1) but is able to do EW stuff with higher signal qualities, even though with less power. GaN has up to ten times the power of GaAs and a better Signal-to-noise ratio.
The Mk.1 will be able to do EW stuff too after the next stage of its developement as it’s mostly (not completly) a question of software. Maybe not reaching the signal quality of GaAs modules (except they compensated the worse linearity of GaN with an accoring circuit design, which is very possible) but with much more output power.
Calling both these radars Mk.1 and Mk.2 is really unfitting and misleading after all. They’re variants of the base Mk.0 radar at best, while the Mk.1 is closer to the Mk.0 and the Mk.2 to the ES-05 Raven.
They should have called them something like CAPTOR-H (Hensoldt) and CAPTOR-L (Leonardo) instead of Mk.1 and Mk.2 in my opinion.
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That is not true and it comes around so much i think people are trying to spread misinformation.
Like where did that notion even come from?
Interview with Monica Perez Technical Director of Indra, main partner with Hensoldt on the Mk1 says:
So no it doesn’t need to stop doing A2G or A2A in order to perform EW functions.
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That’s it baby. Thanks
I hope it can get an offical skin, so nice.
@Smin1080p_WT since we wont see many skins for the new EFs, could we have an chance on getting some via the Marketplace/Skinchests?
I think the chest skins should straight up be purchasable for GE hate that you gotta gamble for them. Especially on console we have no other option it’s just constant gamble
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I know, I am an PlayStation player myself
Hey, i’ve been reading a bit about radar and the difference between GaN and GaAs. I stumbled upon this article https://rfbeam.ch/understanding-detection-range-of-radar-sensors/ stating that narrower antennas have a smaller FoV than large ones.
So i was wondering because of GaN smaller size compared to GaAs (at same power) and the MK.1 being (supposedly) full GaN compared to the MK.0/2 which are at least partially GaAs, if that might explain the difference in FoV?
Please mind that im a complete noob when it comes to radars and just a thought that came up
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Aw man I forgot this was a thing for consoles. That sucks
wtf?
nobody claims that the mk1 will be inferior…
When the mk2 will be in rollout phase the mk1 will have its full capabillity, also mentions multiple times from hensoldt
dont spread alternative facts, i told you in the other thread, listen and read carefully…
Mk1 will be
Mk2 is able to jam while scan which was taken from the Bright added project for the Gr4
That is the major step up of the mk1 to the mk2
To have the mk1 have the same capabilities would require the whole dish to replaced with a newer one
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Gaijin always makes these crappy washed camos, in reality they should be hiring you!
I hope this one gets on as a marketplace skin, it looks really good 👍
Though quick question, do you know if the skin will be interchangeable with other Typhoons? Some vehicles that have same or similar models are interchangeable, but I don’t know about the Typhoons or the ones coming next update
The size of the used semi-conductor doesn’t really have anything to do with what you described as it only affects the design of the electric circuitry. It depends on the used antenna of the transceiver module (and in part how the module is designed to be slimmer/smaller). So you can build smaller transceivers with smaller antennas with GaN but you don’t have to. It depends solely on the implementation and what you want to achieve.
I would even assume the Mk.2 uses the smaller transceivers as it, on one hand, has more transceivers overall and, on the other hand, a mix of GaN and GaAs with different properties. So if you don’t want to halve the radars capabilites you would have to use smaller transceivers but more of them.
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