assuming no new gen IR missiles, the EX wouldnt be too bad, cant say the same about F-22. if anything can out EW the rafale, its growlers (ofc), the F-22, and the F-35 (also ofc)
Thats a dubious claim with how horrid the CAPTOR-M radar is in-game despite gaijins insistence on it being “correct”
On one hand it’s obvious that there is a lack of consistency here, it’s also not fair to pin it all on poor Smin, he has had to deal with mobs of angry players from pretty much every section of the community and i don’t blame him for some of the lack of discrepancy in statements made
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Im not pinning it on smin, I hope he gets that, this is very clearly gaijins fault, but smin is the only one I can talk to, and smin is the one providing gaijins ruling on these aircrafts.
I know this is not “smins statement” he does not decide what planes get what why, but gaijin is VERY blatantly providing preferential treatment to the french here. As I stated, they are actually using the EXACT justification used to deny the German EFT’s IRST to give the French Rafale an HMD and additional MICA’s.
Fair enough then
again… its 99% caused by widespread bug with repeating bars.
Instead of about 3-3,5 sec refresh, you get about 8.
If they fix this bug, it will be really good given volume of scan in 3-3,5 seconds.
Evem then, the same bug affects all other radars, fixing the bug would just make the other radars proportionally better than they are now as well.
CAPTOR-M would go from being barely useable garbage to a usable radar while stuff like the RBE2-AA on the Rafale would become tantamount to an omnicient gods eye.
The addition of an AESA radar when everyone else but the russians are running old M-scan radars was idiotic in the first place. There was no reason to add the second newest french fighter jet (F3R) with an AESA when there were PESA Rafales that couldve been added, and said F3R is now effecfively an F4.1 standard, making it a jet from ~2023-2024 iirc?
well f*ck us i guess then :D
You mean the Swiss evaluation during which the EFT was still limited to just LGBUs wheras Rafale had already been integrated with AASM? (it was a T2 B8 jet if I remember correctly). Nowdays I’d wager a Eurofighter is better equipped for Omnirole than the Rafale, with SPEAR 3, Brimstones, LGBUs, and the Cruise Missiles.
while being on par in air superiority(win for high alt for EFT and low to mid for rafale) — especially with the addition of the Meteor missile.
Why would Rafale win mid/low?
Would it though? Iirc, EF, Harrier and Gripens get largest volume. If they fix it, refresh time wont be an issue and you will get pretty big scan area unlike other radars. F-15 gets 2bar in same azimuth for example. And thats ONLY thing that can rival EF up high.
I mean the Thales RDY is already one of the best Radars in game and has been for a good while now, only really topped by the Strike eagle radar and the new 4.5 radars are taking it’s crown once fixed
Oh bro good luck even trying to get any no classified sources on Raptor for the game. That thing is going to be a mess.
They should have just not added the F-15I all together (and to be honest not even the F-15E as well). No one asked for it and it completely fucked top tier air RB balance
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It doesnt really act like aesa, the scan is still slow compared to pesa or M-scan of foxhunter.
It has insane ammount of bars so completing it takes a lot of time. Then it will act as it acts now as once you get track on it, it will keep it no matter the refresh rate.
It will only allow it to find and establish targets faster, then nothing changes. But captor-m? Everything changes. From one of the worst radars, to one of the best, certainly best M-scan on top tier (if there wont be ghosts ofc).
The strike eagles felt out of place to begin with, they should’ve come next year
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Should’ve been F-18C tbh, then AESA strike eagle this update
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Yep, along with the Su-34. Completely unnecessary and dumb additions, completely skipping over the late 80s early 90s aircraft
No, Rafale blows them out of the water in scan volume with a 70x31° TWS mode that also scans SUBSTANTIALLY faster.
The Su-34 also has a 60x20° mode that also scans much faster
The typhoon’s 60x11° above average for older planes/radars, but it also scans slower than stuff like F-15/16.
Yeah no… its TWS is 1 bar. That thing is next to useless.
overcome simply with a bit of gimbal manipulation, it is a far more consistent feeling radar when it comes to target detection and retention than other comparable radars on light fighters