Yeah… Probably, pretty clear the devs forgot the Typhoon existed this major
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Su-30 has a PESA and CAPTOR-M is not “closer to PESA Radars in function than mechanical radars”
PESA radars have much faster beam steering (Stated to be 400 microseconds for Bars) than mechanical ones, even CAPTOR-M …
“Priority track” is not such ground breaking feature either … Even APG-66V2 had it IRL …
It sort of is
It’s a PESA radar + Mechanical repositioner
Sort of like CAPTOR-E (Which is AESA + Mechanical repositioner)
Captor M has some of the fastest actuator speeds for positioning the antenna. It was literally designed with the mindset it would be superior to early PESA radars like the one found on the Rafale we don’t have in game and that Su-30 1980s Radar.
People are keen to shoot down Captor based on it’s in game performance.
The “mindset” doesn’t really matter here
It’s still much slower than PESA
IIRC CAPTOR-M can do 10 degrees in 30 milliseconds
Compare that with the stated 400 microseconds (To steer the beam anywhere within electronic steering limit) of Bars; And Bars likely isn’t the fastest PESA out there.
In what way is it superior to n011m other than elevation limits?
they messed up the EF HUD
and this MFD:
Its not a phased array of course it is slower. Was that the question here?
No Captor if modelled correctly would be slower but it would not be as slow as we have in game. Pilots could also chose areas they want to scan which we cant do and yes priority track and being able to store multiple tracks and switch back to them.
As it stands Captor is one of the worst Mech Radars in game.
Scan speed is important but so is data processing, which Radar would you expect to process data faster the Soviet era PESA derived from the MiG 31 ZASLON or the Western designed Captor?
Captor is crap in game and it shouldn’t be as bad as it is, give me Foxhunter off the Tornado every day of the week.
The zero level of effort for Typhoon is genuinely baffling. Make it good Gaijin and then German, Italians and UK players can’t complain about it.
Just checked. Aim-9Ms still havent been fixed yet either
Weirdly enough if you are above a target I have had 7km lock…
behind or in front aspect it’s like 3km
Might be considered “rear-aspect” enough for the extended lock range
Wasn’t the backend of the Captor-M used for the first block of F-35s?
I recall something like that but cannot be sure.
I think it was just that the same manufacturer had their products (components) in the F-35 and CAPTOR-M no?
Could be the case
The Captor-M Radar - Defense Archives
Found this on Captor M outlines a lot of the capabilities development and which nation made what.
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i am beginning to wonder if the people in this thread actually know what the word “worst” means tbh