Aka, not possible with the current IRST system which the code is copied from the Russian OEPS on the Su27 and Mig-29 which are only capable of search with no ranging and stt with ranging using a laser rangefinder.
Rather annoyingly, gaijin doesn’t model the laser rangefinder whatsoever and it functions off of… magic seemingly (unfortunately completely invalidating the LWR on the FGR.4)
@Gunjob I am wondering, while looking trough the EF Reports I just noticed that no one did an report/Suggestion for the Towed Decoy of the EF, would such an report be forwarded as Suggestion or would it be just labelled as not an bug reffering to Smins comment back then to something with not planned?
Edit: I just looked at the comment,
Smin never said not planned, he was just referring to the Patch back then
A suggestion report isn’t required for TRD. Devs are well aware of it. Simply it’s a technical limiting factor at the moment with the physics of a towed object and it’s behavioural properties in the air.
Not needed but, would be an Report for it still be welcome or like HOSBO allready on an Internal list?
I wonder, what is allready reported Internally, since they are still some reports untouched for stuff like GBU-24 / 32 and Taurus KEPD-350
Alvis did tests showing with BVR loadout. His conclusion was that the Rafale is closer to F-16C than the Eurofighter or F-15E. Not sure how you came to a different conclusion.
210 - 152 is 58 seconds, and 152 - 93 is 59 seconds.
226 - 132 is 94 seconds, and 132 - 82 is 50 seconds.
F-15E is identical to the 9 minutes of AB spreadsheet except the 1.95 isn’t posted, and that’s 225 seconds, identical to Typhoon until you realize that mach 1.5 is a difference of 15 seconds in Typhoon’s favor.
It wouldn’t be worse cause the flight performance as a whole didn’t change. High-speed thrust did, and AOA limitations, which don’t impact these results:
Going fast is great until you need to turn…
Typhoon now cant turn making going fast a hazard as you need to be slow enough to turn or you cannot defend against missiles or dogfight.
A supersonic cube performs better by a factor of four. Not sure how exactly that’s the best performance, and the “same” sustained performance as before.
Going beyond the sustained turn rates now results in significantly greater losses of speed which appears to be due to the engines losing 60-80% of afterburner thrust near the critical angle of attack.
It’s not a gradual reduction either, it’s a cliff edge where you can go from pulling 9g at mach 0.95 and maintain your current airspeed with no issue. But if pull a little bit harder and reachgo 10g your speed will drop like a rock.
The issue then cascades and is irrecoverable untill you flatten out your turn and fly in a straight line again for several seconds to regain your speed.
Overall, I would say that turning performance on par with the mirage 2000 now.