Hate the Gripen Radar you always forced to hard lock everything and the R-Darter is a nightmare in TWS mode.
Couldnt detect a helicopter hovering in ground battles yesterday…
Never been my experience, which scan pattern are you using? Typically longer shots I use the narrow scan for more frequent updates.
Yes typically a stationary or nearly stationary helicopter has very little doppler return. There are other things that can improve that, like the blades spinning but thats not modelled in game right now iirc.
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That is wrong as the rotor blades create a pretty strong doppler return the moment they move in direction to the plane (from and to) with nearly supersonic speeds. Exception to that are blades made from fiber reinforced plastics which are mostly transparent to radar waves.
Additionally if visible the turbine blades of the engine create a very strong return and this can also and is being used for NCTI. From the sides the tail rotor creates a similar effect.
Edit: Meh, should learn to read xD
So there should be made an implementation for rotors and visible turbines to create a strong doppler return.
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I don’t remember the Gripen radar being this bad.
Did anyone bug report CAPTOR-M?
Yeah, like Gunjob, never really had any major issues with the blue vixen. Had a game the other day with 4 AMRAAM fired and 4 kills scored including a very low flying Heli in a GRB match. Just sometimes needs a little nursing.
Reports are in as far as I am aware. Suspected cause at the moment is that the ins tracking time is half what it should be
There’s also the issue of HMS PD switching to HMS IR for some reason.
I use Narrow field if I know there are things there I use wide scan to find those F-15s and Su-34s…But they find me faster.
In general, it looks quite strange. As a radar for a top aircraft, a very limited (due to physical limitations) radar from 13.0 is used
Is it worse or similar to the Gripen (need to get home and have a play around with it)?
The radar?
Currently worse due to bugs
Bugger.
I might loiter around in the Gripen for a while until the fixes drop. No way I want to stock-grind if the radar is on the blink. (Literally or otherwise.)
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So far its like copy paste, i think even max range of TWS track… funny considering its 1250W radar. Same scan patterns.
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As it has bombs…I’d just crack on with the stock grind for it, but based upon my experience on the dev server, it’s perfectly usable still, just resets if the target is off to one side of the radar
Honestly expected this result, I think I will grind the mavericks on my Ra’am and put the game down until the devs finish the model and avionics, besides Tisy isn’t going to raid itself
Typhoon MAWS is currently +/-45 degrees in the vertical, is that correct? with the LWS and RWR getting full spherical coverage it seems a little odd
Just Gaijin things
Yes that is correct even if it should be ±60° vertical (360° horizontal) as the MAWS uses Ka-Band AESA PD-Radar antennas which can steer the beam ±60° if nessecary with reduced range. One antenna in each wing root (possible CW type) and one under the rudder above the engine nozzles.
The PIMAWS (IR based MAWS) on the other hand should only be able to scan ±52,5° vertical (360° horizontal) six times per second.
Edit: The MAWS actually should do ±60° in elevation (vertical) as the three antennas have to scan ±60° in azimut (horiontal) too to ensure 360° observation, otherwise there would be three blindspots 30° each.
The RWR on the other hand has full spherical 360° observation without blindspots.
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Is it really though? My last information about the CAPTOR-M is that it should reach double the pulse power of the AN/APG-65 which has 4,5 kW pulse power. So the CAPTOR-M should be at ~9kW pulse power at minimum.
CAPTOR-E as an AESA is at 9,31 kW all availible information put together for that one, which is interesting as early AESAs were nowhere near as powerful as PESA radars with central tubes for signal amplification but are now overpowering them.