might be, but it doesnt prove anything about ECRS Mk.2 since ECRS Mk.2 DID NOT EVEN EXIST
Which btw is the exact same reason used for discarding the older Airbus slides on the Mk.1 having 100°
CAESAR is CAPTOR-M with an AESA antenna bolted to the front. ECRS Mk.0 is CAPTOR-M with a repositioner bolted to the front and an AESA antenna bolted to that repositioner. Quite a bit of commonality there isn’t there? Almost as if the production system might include features developed for the prototype.
ECRS Mk.2 is stated to have all the features of Mk.0 with various improvements.
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Also everything a Mk.0 can do was copied to Mk.2 per the Mk.2 broucher;
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and Mk.1 is a Mk.0 with a new antenna bolted to the front, yet that changed things
Oh, also, this is what BAE’s radar simulator shows in terms of ground targets. My question is if the Mk.2 SAR mode is high enough resolution for automatic target recognition. What was developed for CAESAR doesnt matter for this question
How can the MK2 be allowed, but when multiple sources go and say the MK1 have identical or superior capabilities
to the mk1, the FoR is lowered, when a much more simple answer is that the Hendsolt chose to market the max FoR with max range, while Learnardo, Airbus, and BAE have marketed based on the max FoR, and instead the European COMMON Radar system somehow lost 10 degrees? The repositiondf, which we know is 30 degrees, gives a limit of 70 degrees for electronic scanning. Hendsolt worked on the mk1, it is near impossible for them to deliver a esa with 10 degrees less than the previous plate.
And airbus has repeatedly shown the MK1 with the MK0 and MK2 with no mention of FoR differences, something Learnardo and BAE would be marketing if it was true.
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Hensoldt built a +/-60 E-Scan antenna? They might have their own reasons for that, but we don’t have that information. All of this relies on inference, you’re inferring that they’re only covering the full power zone. There isn’t firm language that supports that, @Dontkev-psn has taken the initiative to try and confirm that, but you’re not getting a report forwarded on the basis of you believe Hensoldt means something else.
They are marketing it? All the Leonardo marking is showing a 200° FoR, and by contrast the Hensoldt marketing is 180° FoV. So they do market themselves in distinct ways.
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to add on that, got recently an answer from the BW Press / BAAINBw which had allready some nice informations in it, but nothing which would help us in any regard Yet, additional I send an FOI to the german MoD, another mail went to hensoldt
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Thanks for putting the effort in mate.
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Got an final response from the BW Press Office /BAAINBw, Result: Secret
Zusammenfassung
Regarding your inquiry, I must inform you that the requested information is classified and therefore cannot be shared. I regret that I cannot provide you with a different answer and ask for your understanding.
ECRS radars are now tied for fastest top tier airborne radars in-game (with the newly added ES-05 Raven from the Gripen E, which copy pasted all of the ECRS Mk2’s scan patterns), but remain at less than half the scan speed they should have (244.93°/s vs 560°/s minimum according to sources)
Except it makes literally 0 sense, as the narrow, medium and wide scan patterns are all within E-scan limits. Only the “full” scan would require mechanical motion.
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Sure, but they didn’t give it two speeds in this instance.
Even ECRS Mk1 with the smaller FoR* is leagues ahead of the other AESA and PESA options I see.
*FoR
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Where did you contact the German MoD, is there a link?
So no 560°/s?
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I’ve asked about it.
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actually, might have an Idea for an last try
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Well that’s kinda the question right now, did they average it because of a misunderstanding or did they just decide not to add the full scan speed? It feels weird to average out the values when there’s just no need to at all.
I say “average”, it’s not really an average. 245 between 190 and 560 is unfortunately very much on the lower end of the values they could have picked. An average would be like 380.
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god I cant wait for this radar on live, just did a match on live where the CAPTOR-M was completely failing to locate the last guy, I knew roughly where they were but no matter what I did, radar couldnt find them. So switch to IRST SRC, found them quickly (weren’t notching) and was able to engage and kill them from above.
The number of times CAPTOR-M is just… blind is annoying and thats the bit i cant wait to finally be resolved
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last try it out, lets pray that it works
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