not entirely sure thats true honestly
I’m not sure you know the specs of Captor.
It was seen as superior to the PESA Radar on Rafale for the time.
more like anything that isn’t Russian
From Leo 2A7 that should have same level of armor of 122
to CAPTOR M radar
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As a British main only having to deal with one super armoured Leopard is a blessing 😅
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I don’t think an AESA on the Typhoon would make it better than the Rafale, BVR is still not the meta (as every match ends up in mid or close range furballs), so I’d argue that a Rafale with its micas would still be dominant.
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Big thank to lot of whiners that need to keep multipath as free ticket to avoid ARH otherwise they can’t do anything.
To be fair dodging a fox 3 at long range is even easier than using multipath to avoid it, you just need a good defensive circle/turn to make the seeker lose you. This ofc changes the closer you get to the furball, and even in that case, multipath can get bypassed by high aspect launches.
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Just flew 2 sorties in it, died twice, once to a teammate (average blueside player lmao) other time to 6 su 30s pushing me to air field (was like a 3 v 9 it is what it is), got 6 kills. Honestly, no problems with the radar. No ghosting, nothing like that. Worked perfectly fine. Technically only got 1 kill from radar bvr, every other kill was from HMD targeting.
Then of course you had no issues, you hard locked instead of using the TWS.
If you need to hard lock because the TWS is so buggy it’s unusable then clearly something is wrong
Which is fine if they are within those ranges you can lock them with HMD and not depend on the Radar
Saying the Radar is fine because I can use HMD isnt thw full story
i mean its generally good practice to use hmd instead of tws at close range on every radar, even on the rafales
Nah I never had issues in bvr using the radar, albeit I only used narrow scan (didn’t need to use medium or wide scan at all), and then within 20 km, why not use hmd?
Agreed but I would also like to be able to reliably detect and track targets further than 20km away
its been reliable in my experience
I’m not going to lie, the wide scan is horrendous, literally no reason to use it. Medium scan/narrow scan are fine, although I don’t see a reason to use medium scan most of the time other than finding targets. Narrow scan is almost always the way to go.
Narrow scan works.
But in air rb it’s pretty bad. You cant switch between
Targets reliably.
And ground battles they find you first
Yes 1 v 1 Captor M is fine, but in 16 v 16 it’s a liability.
Unless it’s SB and you have no idea where the target is visually
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even in sim using the hmd on the rafale is still more reliable than relying on tws at close ranges. there is not a single radar that dosent suck at tracking targets at close range
Rafale gets HMD IFF something thus far been denied to the typhoon, so you need to TWS to sometimes IFF what it is you can see.
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I cant let this stand its missiing like 40% armor on the front. not gonna start with the other areas
PS thats 40% against KE. CH is another thing its underperforming