Yeah but good luck getting a single kill, you cant fly high and low down your Radar is crap and the Rafale with MICA murders you. You try and hang back and your team is dead or they have won.
Also when the stock IR missile is Aim9M don’t make me unlock a pylon and give me an inferior missile
I hate bombs but that could be the answer
5 games in it Radar is tragic TWS and ACM mode are total crap. Cant reliably shoot 120s or Aim9M
Pretty disappointed
Need some help with useable Radar settings at the merge you are just dead
I tended to just stick with the team, but stuck at the back, just going for the odd distracted target where I could. Took a few matches to get the Flare/Chaff mod and the MAWS (which adds the BOL) after that, its just slow and steady. I went for a few mods before the booster, but the difference that mod makes is rather insane actually (imo, maybe too much of a difference).
Once I got bombs unlocked, I just switched to side-skirt base bombing in Sim till I got a few more mods unlocked and felt more comfortable in the aircraft (its actually got an amazing HUD for bombing in Sim :D )
Aim-9L mod actually isnt too bad, because you can keep the 2x Aim-9M on the wings and then run up to 4 Aim-9Ls alongside them. So its better than nothing on those pylons. If you run bombs, then Id just run 5x Mk13s and 2x Aim-9Ls for the base kill.
For the TWS, you have the patient with it, switch to the narrow scan when you want to fire at something, not ideal in ARB though. As for ACM, I actually just use the HMD mode, seems to work quite well I found.
Why should the rear antenna do 180°? If the two at the front do 120° each, thats all the rear antenna has to do as well
And with “wide beam” I assume you mean a beam thats covering the entire 60° at once, right? Since you seem to think its no ESA, and I think we can all agree its no mech scan…
Do even you realize how much power is required to detect a small object at usable distance if your beam is this wide? Its measured in the tens of megawatts
It being an ESA is all that makes sense for the application, and AESA is simply more likely because its already used for the jammers, and GEC-Marconi / BAE showed off GaA modules in the 35GHz area that could very well fit this employment
Just turn around and fly away. 0% sarcasm. Realy works
Air RB at top tier is too hectic for a Radar to be this unreliable, especially when your IR missiles depend on the Radar too.
I know more missiles is good, just frustrates me the module unlock mindset.
I like the HMD but wished it would work like ACM mode and what I point at is auto locked.
I know until they get close, MICAS are my bane right now
I really hope they can get something like the IRL voice warnings - the angry posh english lady is pretty damn hilarious
Currently I’m finding the only way to make it work is you fly around F-5E style, using the HMD for locks
The smallest TWS mode can work on a target say 10-15km if theyre up high, use your high speed to pull up and yeet the aim-120 at them, and hope they dont notice
I suppose I didn’t believe the Radar could be this bad, losing track at 5km etc and then locking and not allowing you to change target. It’s a challenge
Look at where they’re placed
Read the sources I linked
Can voice warnings be one thing that isnt historically accurate and you just add a load of alternative options that the player can chose (one of which being a historically accurate version of course)
I really just want an angry scottish guy screaming at me for the voice warning :P
What would the realistic voice alerts be, do we have a British version of Betty?
I think so. At the moment it just uses the US one as a placeholder. I have no idea what the historically accurate version sounds like though
That doesn’t match my experience at all. The narrow TWS scan is perfectly capable of tracking targets 70km out when you’re at altitude. I’ve gotten at least a dozen kills on targets 30km’s away which the radar has tracked the whole way in, even when they were maneuvering and chaffing.
The other modes are junk, and it’s prone to having other issues that makes its a pain in the arse to use but the narrow TWS mode is functional and can be used for BVR.
Issue is the merge and “ghost returns” You are stuck with a Radar that wants to lock things in TWS that aren’t there
I have the narrow scan search mode fail on me about 10-20% of the time. Its really wierd. Doesnt in either the SHar or the Gripen. But sometimes it just looses the target with the narrow scan.
So even in that mode, something is definetly not quite right with the Blue Vixen in the Typhoon at the moment
If it performed as a copy paste of the Gripen it would be useable.
Also is Pirate supposed to be stabilised?
Yeah, that is what has me most confused of late. Its one thing that its Blue Vixen placeholder till CAPTOR-M is ready (called that months ago btw) but they’ve somehow made it worse than the radar its should be a C&P of.
