The A-10C and RMV arent fighter aircrafts, which is why I excluded them.
Initially, we had assumed the reason the F-16C didnt get SADL (the exact name of the system in use by the A-10C ) was because it was a fighter, so itd be too strong if it got it, gaijins official reason being “there is no tactical datalink ingame” (which is a blatant and outright lie) but following the introduction of HMD IFF to the Rafale, that theory goes out the window and is replaced by either gaijin devs having absolutely no idea what theyre even modelling, or having a hard-on for france and wanting to give them an advantage, both of which are pretty valid theories at this point imo.
and if they state it as only a feature that comes with the Striker II then I would like to know why we dont get Striker II.
Rafale shouldnt even have HMD right? or something as that was a later version and certainly shouldnt have 8x MICA. F-15A shouldnt have HMD at all and maybe also no flares. etc etc
I dont think its unreasonable for them to fit Striker II on the current airframes
The Typhoon doesnt use scorpion, so it shouldnt have it, but if the devs are gonna give TDL overlays to one nations fighter jet, they should give it to all nations that use TDL.
The F-15A we have in the game is from 1985. If it would have been one of the first iterations, it would have fought MIG-21’s :))
AIM-9L’s, AIM-7’s, no flares
Yeah the French Rafale F3R never used an HMD, it was first added to the F4.1 standard. It, along with the 8 missile load are both F4.1 standard features in french service. They were added because “they were tested” (the exact same reason gaijin used to deny PIRATE on the german EFT)
The Rafale we have ingame is simply an F4.1 (2023) standard they are naming F3R so they can add an F4.1 later on with Meteor missiles. They skipped every single Rafale standard and went straight for the latest in service one.
Yes it just combines the known data from various sensors on the display so as not to confuse the pilot. The sensors do not use each other or speak to each other with a few exceptions such as radar slaving to the IR sensor or looking in the direction of found emissions.
Rafale has more than one set of onboard systems to find and determine which aircraft around it are friendly or enemy including for non cooperative targets.
If you think the A-10C should lose datalink that is fine but the Rafale would still have the capability because it has those systems and doesn’t rely solely on datalink like A-10C.
in term of hypocrite noone can beat gaijin and that why it this happen
sure 14.0 supposed to have HMD due to test or something but same rule isn’t applied to German
have it would be nice but well it really not that useful in game anyway. (unless it can TWS and shoot fox3 then)
Yeah but like I said, gaijin doesnt actually care about facts, they have an idea of how they want the world to be and they use WT to pretend that vision is reality.
Thats why they just shot down multiple bug reports on western radars HPRF range being too large because “russian sources cant be used to bug report western equipment” but they had used russian sources to nerf them all in the first place.
Hes pointing out that Rafale having the best HMD ingame despite not having one in this standard in french service irl, but the EFT not getting Striker II (its best irl HMD) is a double standard.
That being said, like I already stated, the EFT doesnt need Striker II to display friendly targets. It can already do so with the radar ingame, and we already know the EFT amalgamates all sensor data and displays tracks of those amalgamations, so it should have HMD IFF with the radar off just like the Rafale, but doesnt.
also doesnt need some fancy pants sensors that “only the rafale has” or whatever, its just datalink tracks.
like on the 15, 16, 18, Gripen, you name it.
F-16 and F-18 also have similar systems to Rafale which uses a set of electronically scanned arrays to perform both standard interrogation and non-cooperative interrogation of nearby aircraft and targets. Combined with IR sensors it can be used on the Rafale to indicate if aircraft surrounding the Rafale are friendly (within 100nm if conditions are good and aircraft is emitting a response).
Then feel free to report it because the standard for Gaijin is whether or not the aircraft had tested the HMD, and it was a standard established long before EFT/Rafale came into the game, with the Gripen and M2K.
