unpowered
Until the moment they introduce the turbojet-powered “SPICE 250 ER” with 300 km range which has the same size.
And aren’t the Brimstones currently really underperforming because of their wrong flight profile (“direct” instead of “loft”)?
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Given the SPICE will be thrown at around mach 1 they will maintain most of that speed to target when thrown at game combat ranges, its not that much slower than the 450m/s of Brimestones when thrown from typical grb ranges.
And considerably less than the mach 2 limt kh38mts yeeted into the stratosphere by the Russian CAS planes.
The position most of the people that frequent the brimestone conversation had was limit them to 6 for balans sake, but thats been thrown straight out the window with the gripen getting so many smart FnF munitions.
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Doesn’t seem that way, from all i’ve heard it’s radar is cooked currently and doesn’t want to cooperate with the missiles
spice 250 have more range than brimstone by a pretty big margin
Well considering I won a BVR duel against an SM2 with my CAPTOR-F 2000 Watt microwave vs his super turbo fantasy performance PESA radar.
So that radar MUST be bugged since it has every single advantage in the BVR (or WVR too).
Anyone saying SPICE bombs are bad is either:
A. Bad themselves
B. Have no idea what they’re talking about
C. Have never used SPICE/glide bombs
D. All of the above
you know that the Irbis is underperforming in range?
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It’s overperforming for its current scan regions. 400km is only achievable in a 10x10 degree scan. Your own screenshot says this is for a “narrow viewing sector”. 200km otherwise.
It also scans impossibly fast (but gaijin doesn’t accept reports based on calculations lol)
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“I do not believe that is accurate.”
“In fact that just seems like clear marketing lies to me anyway.”
Sorry, that seems to be the accepted, immediate, response as soon as someone brings up sources on radar performance
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Could be spaded vs stock, helps a lot when it comes to defending.
But also every chance he was just a bad player. Had a rafale earlier just fly in a perfectly straight line whilst I hard locked them and then splashed them with a Aim-120C5
Can anyone check if I am looking at this correctly?
Somehow both the PESA Irbis, and the friggin’ garbage CAPTOR-M seem to sweep a 30° S I G N I F I C A N T L Y faster than CAPTOR-E?
N035 (Irbis-E) on TWS Medium pattern
"radarTwsMedium": {
"type": "pyramide",
"azimuthLimits": [
-120.0,
120.0
],
"elevationLimits": [
-60.0,
60.0
],
"rollStabLimit": 180.0,
"pitchStabLimit": 60.0,
"period": 1.531038,
"width": 30.0,
"barHeight": 1.667,
"barsCount": 5,
"rowMajor": true,
"preciseMinor": true,
"tws": true
},
ECSR Mk1 (CAPTOR-E) on TWS Medium pattern
"twsMedium": {
"type": "pyramide",
"azimuthLimits": [
-90.0,
90.0
],
"elevationLimits": [
-90.0,
90.0
],
"rollStabLimit": 180.0,
"pitchStabLimit": 90.0,
"period": 3.9,
"width": 30.0,
"barHeight": 2.5,
"barsCount": 12,
"rowMajor": true,
"preciseMinor": true,
"tws": true
},
CAPTOR-M on TWS Wide
"twsWide": {
"type": "pyramide",
"azimuthLimits": [
-70.0,
70.0
],
"elevationLimits": [
-60.0,
60.0
],
"rollStabLimit": 180.0,
"pitchStabLimit": 60.0,
"period": 1.7,
"width": 30.0,
"barHeight": 2.1,
"barsCount": 2,
"rowMajor": true,
"preciseMinor": true,
"tws": true
},
Might be the bar count. ECRS has a lot more.
how is it impossibly fast?
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Bar count and elevation limits. ECRS is scanning a significantly larger area
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The scan rate as it stands is nearly identical (they both sit in the 190~195 range)
how do the bars work? how is the actual scan speed derived from that?
I have no idea, I could never get my head round the bars and stuff
I like flanker chan as much as any other guy, but you cannot take his calculations as fact. his calculations change over time. just look at his rcs sims for example