Your point is that the Mk.2 is better in everything but it isn’t. It starts with EW capabilites which get added to the Mk.1 later. The Mk.2 splits EW and radar operation between different transceiver modules (it has more overall but less for each). Meaning it currently looses radar capability to gain EW capabilites. Therefor it’s inferior to the Mk.1 in pure radar operations as the GaAs modules are way less capable in radar operation than in EW.
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How does it lose air capability comapred to the mk1 when the mk1 is also getting a EW mode so what the mk1 is going to perform even worse when in EW
Your whole argument is it has more modules for EW but they are worse there for the normal modes are worse
But then say the mk1 with less modules some how can do EW and normal modes but just does the EW worse
And how do you know that it will perform worse then mk1 in normal modes
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It’d be funny if it turns out the mk2 uses GaAs for radar operation and GaN only for jamming
GaAs is way less capable in radar applications than GaN as GaN has ten times the power output of GaAs and is better coolable (better thermal conduction). At the same time it has a better signal-to-noise-ratio but requires a more complicated circuit design to work around the worse linearity over the operating temperature range. So being able to do EW over GaN is more effective than via GaAs (that’s why every modern EW suite like AREXIS uses GaN transceivers) as they can output more power, the agility is much higher and modern circuit design is able to compensate the shortcomings of GaN (it’s just expensive).
My theory in that regard is that they wanted to play it safe for the Mk.2 as GaN wasn’t as “ripe” as it is today. Or they just wanted to save money as GaN is much more expensive and the circuit design more complex if you want to achieve according signal quality.
I think it will perform worse in normal radar modes as the signal power of GaAs is only one tenth of GaN. If the Mk.2 has less GaN transceivers it means that it has less antenna gain than the Mk.1 while the GaAs modules cannot compensate for that because of their poor output power and worse sensitivity. Signal-Quality is of no real use in standard radar applications as long as the generated frequency band is narrow enough.
He clearly wrote, that the two Radars have a different setup between the modules. The Information he gets is from the linked sources.
The MK2 will be better in EW but worse in normal radar modes. Complete Radar with all will be ready before 2031.
The MK1 will be better in normal radar modes but worse in EW. EW will be ready soon, normal radar modes useage is ready to use.
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It’s even possible that they integrated GaAs and GaN into a single T/R module while GaAs is the preamp, which generates the signal, and GaN being the power-amplifier stage used to amplify the generated signal. But such an integration takes more place per transceiver so the statement “more transceivers” doesn’t fit that approach and it’s even more complex and costly as you need double the semi-conductors and a way more sophisticated circuit to implement this.
Delivered 2028 with IOC 2030
Thats misleading wording. Testing of that thing started like 5 months ago and scheduled development time is roundabout 5 years. Its planned to adopt it in 5 years, means in my logic its not even fully developed. While the German one is currently roilling out and and will be further developed and and improved in a similar time frame.
Its just Gajin who decided to give Germany what they currently have and IT+GB what the might get in 5 years. Other games handle it differently, likely whould give all nations what the currently have in service, rather than handing out candy from the future. Fairness would mean all get what they planned towards the end of this decade or all get their current tech.
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It think i read that they’re separate modules, it was an article tho so it might not be accurate.
Either way there won’t be any difference in EW capabilities in WT, there is literally nothing publicly available about them that would shape WT integration in any way.
I doubt they’ll even model radar EW and just go with modeling integrated and external EW pods.
Even if there are differences in radar ranges we have no numbers, so again just useless speculation for WT.
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Delivery of the mk2 is 2028 with IOC of 2030
Mk2 was first flown on a Eurofighter more then a year ago not a few months
If they ever model EW at all… I have my doubts about that, as that would require some serious effort on their side…
Inb4 EW is literally LDIRCM but for ARH
The only simple things I could imagine would be things like “(S)ARH lock drift” (so you or the missile have to relock) and relaxing of the notch-angle while chaffing when EW-pods or -suite are installed on the plane. And “ground-bounce” as a replacement for the general multi-pathing currently. Anything else would be complex.
Surely with EW we’ll get towed decoys too
If missiles had home on jam that would make TRD more relevant
Thank you sir. The skin will be compatible with both German eurofighters, and can be compatible for other nations by making small changes to the file name. Also how does the marketplace skins work?
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They select winner skins and they become marketplace IIRC, but I don’t remember if you have to enter a competition for it to be selected, or if they just pick them from wt live.
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Thanks. Also is dev server down right now?
Yes dev is closed.
Probably update drop this week :)
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The only statement we have is that both GaN and GaAs technology is used in the antenna, is a pretty broad statement.
For all we know that statement could just mean that there are a few GaAs based components used in a few places where GaN doesn’t offer a meaningful improvement, but costs more. It is not at all clear that the radar uses a mix of some entirely GaN based TRMs and some entirely GaAs based TRMs.
It seems that everyone is jumping to the conclusion that some amount of entirely GaAs based TRMs are used without any meaningful evidence to back up that assertion.
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