Though if im not mistaken. CAPTOR-M’s TWS mode has all 3 modes. LPRF, MPRF and HPRF and is meant to swap between them.
I have long suspected the core issue of the CAPTOR-M’s troubles lie in the radar not automatically swapping between the modes as it should be or defaulting to the wrong mode
Granted, it doesnt say that it swaps mode, but that is how I read the changes, but no one has ever corrected me before that that isnt how it works.
I also thought that was a core part of the Automatic mode swapping that they added to radars and such to maintain the lock. I thought that was also applied to TWS so you no longer had to swap TWS modes to maintain a track (at least I think i remember having to do that on the Tornado before that was added anyway) and was rather miffed when they removed automatic ACM mode from the F3 because its “not an all-aspect radar” despite it having that feature IRL.
Tornado F3 then I think swaps automatically between LPRF and HPRF.
At least I assumed some of this applied to TWS modes as well
But if it doesn’t. Then the answer is clear. CAPTOR-M is underperforming even more than I originally thought
That is to be expected, Pulse radars are not affected by notching in real life. But the trade off is that they are far more susceptible to ground clutter than Pulse Doppler radars.
No radar in the game has ever switched between different PRFs during TWS mode. Lots of them should, but Gaijin have only ever added automatic mode switching for STT and ACM modes.
This exactly.
Auto switch only happens when you have a lock (and the IRST issue we had where FOX3 could not be fired before hot fix comes from there).
TWS is just crudely modeled for most modern aircafts, from the gimped captor M to the RBE2 AESA. I understand people complaining about the Captor M currently being complete ASS, but trying to attribute global mis modeling to the Captor only is not the way to go
I have never had any issues prior to the Typhoon where I was pointing my radar directly at something I could visually see, even in narrow scan and it not be detected.
I have also had a number of times where the target was 100% not in the notch and still not detected. (unless something flying basically straight at you is notching)
Notch gates on BV and CAPTOR-M are identical iirc. Also to your other comment on PRF management that only applies in STT in game. No radar is doing PRF management in TWS.
Just flew the EF again after flying american F-15/16/18 for the last month and holy hell… The notch gates don’t seem to be a problem at all but the extreme jumping around of target boxes, showing targets in your radar screen which you can’t select by cycling (even if they’re clearly not ghost targets which still get generated with a really high amount), forgetting target motion vectors the moment a target is lost (box flies into nirvana at an insane speed). It even seems to forget the target vectors sometimes if it has unobstructed view at a target.
The behavior differs extremly from the american radars as these seem to be much more “calm”, not generating as much ghost targets, not forgetting vectors or positions of targets they just scanned (hence the name Goldfish-M), etc. when following targets and getting the motion vectors correct on the first try without forgetting them.
Sometimes the Goldfish-M scans a target for the first time and detects a motion vector with a speed of around Mach 20 pulling your scan area to the border of the screen forcing you to reset it manually and let it scan again in hopes it gets it right this time. This also happens sometimes if a target gets just updated.