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.
Yeah. Pretty nice model.
Aren’t the defense systems integrated within the DASS? The MAWS should respond to threats with a passive homing head, those that the RWR does not see. In theory, even if the MAWS does not see a threat on its own, information about it should be transmitted from the RWR
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Yep correct. So the MAWS should react to everything ARH full spherical. To SARH it can’t as the missile itself is passive, same as IR and has to detect them with its own active radar (360° x 120°) or its passive infrared sensors (360° x 105°).
how much fuel do you guys bring?
wait the typhoon has 2 types of maws? both ir and radar maws?
It does not have a thermal MAWS (at least I don’t know of one). It has a Doppler-based MAWS. One sensor in the rear hemisphere above the engines and one in each wing root. I have not seen any thermal sensors anywhere.The point is that IR threats can only be detected by the MAW system’s Doppler radar, while a radio missile can also be detected by the RWR. It’s just that in Typhoon they work directly with each other, and not as two separate systems.
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Nope. IR MAWS (PIMAWS) was in development for some time, but that didnt go anywhere