USA has the THAADS
the upgraded F-15E being flown by a war thunder pilot
and im not aware of any IRST pods for the EFT, if it has them it can use them, but the eagle isnt running external ECM pods
turns out we literally do have Britecloud, and it is compatible with the CM dispensors on the F-15E
There was legitimately a dual seeker AIM-7 variant built and tested prior to 1996 - if they thought it was necessary they would have produced them. Now we are focusing instead on AESA seeker and multi-mode guidance + two way datalink instead.
lol
Vs. a Strike Eagle - sorry, my money would definitely be on a Typhoon of similar vintage.
If flown by a War Thunder pilot that’s even easier - he’ll just YOLO headlong into a furball and not bother with any of this fancy EW stuff.
(Latter sentence a bit tongue in cheek but there you go…)
fair enough. strike eagle has gotten some pretty crazy upgrades recently though, especially in Radar, EW & IRST department
lets agree to disagree
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As far as i am aware the Targeting pods that it has can be used as IRST
Isn’t there a difference in a2a capabilities between a dedicated a2a IRST or IRST pod and an a2g targeting pod? Pirate could track more targets no?
I dont know the specifics i just read it here in this or the german topic
I think the difference would be that you can’t set the pod to scan for targets, instead using your radar to scan a target then slave the pod to it.
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Iirc, you CAN, but it won’t be as good in a2a as say, PIRATE, or a Legion pod
Also I don’t think a2g TGP has the software to do multiple a2a tracking at once
No, and it also shouldn’t be able to guide in ammrams like the PIRATE can but it should be able to provide guidance for IR missiles so enemy flares don’t break your radar track at least.
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Does Home-On-Jam home in on the towed decoy? Which is what I would imagine what the main purpose of it would be as it would fool missiles into thinking the jamming is coming from the aircraft, sorry I’m really drunk as it’s New Year’s, happy 2025 everyone!
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Yes, if the decoy is jamming, the missile would probably home onto it if it has home on jam
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I don’t see how that would be 100% effective against modern post-90’s missiles and I haven’t seen anything to suggest it has been effective against anything but simulated 60’s SAM threats.
do you know how effective something like Britecloud would be? seeing as many aircraft in game could get it, Gripens, RAF eurofighters, anything in US service with AN/ALE-47 (F-15E, F-16, F-18, A-10, UH-60, AH-1, AH-64)
Do you have anything to suggest whether or not it is being incorporated in the Eurofighter? If they are switching to it, that would lead me to believe it is better than the current systems. If not, it may be on par or worse than.
Here is a source from Leonardo suggesting F-16, Tornado, and Gripen use it… doesn’t say the EFT.
This study implies the only downside to the towed decoy by comparison is essentially just the number of them that can be carried.
5 paragraphs down
Mentions F-15 and F-18 too
Interesting, I know that a single towed decoy is not going to be as effective as multiple expended active decoys; perhaps even the towed decoy system on the Eurofighter is outdated.
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