So. All of this is totally up to gaijin unless proven otherwise, and it was their choice to make the ECRS slower.
You’d think a primary source would count as “proven otherwise”
point is that MPRF dosent even have 100km range
we are talking about gaijin
they might fix it if they feel like it
Period is how long in seconds it takes the radar to complete one cycle, so scan all the bars whole. So unless there is a bigger difference in scan speeds (here it is quite low), radar that has more bars will take longer to complete the scan, but at the same time it will cover bigger area in elevation per cycle.
MPRF has exactly 150km range.
HPRF has exactly 300km range.
HPRF velocity (not used in any TWS pattern unlike the other two) has exactly 350km range.
Mprf should be 150 km detection, that looks right
the game dosent let you launch at targets that arent in the green zone
I understand: (70/35)*5 = 10 seconds.
It still sweeps left to right at 35 degrees per second.
it just takes 10 seconds to complete a pattern.
That’s either a bug or there’s some other absurd thing I’m missing, but the key point is the actual detection range is overperforming.
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and where are you getting that from
Target designation range in game is 90 km in MPRF and 120 km in HPRF. Beyond those range the radar cannot track targets.
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Your own image.
“guaranteed to detect and capture standard air targets at a range of up to 200 km (against the ground - up to 170 km), and in a narrower viewing sector - up to 350-400 km.”
The “narrower viewing sector” is a 10x10 scan. It should be 200km in every mode the aircraft uses in game.
There is no scenario in which 120x9 can be considered narrow.
Just to make this clear, scan speed of ECRS we got from sources should be 571 degrees/s. Gaijin chose to not belive them, and kept it slower, at ~180 degrees/s.
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and yet you cant launch at a target that is 200km away no matter the mode
*even if we had big enough maps for that
and as i have shown the radar is clearly able to get a weapons grade lock above 160km range
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Sure and I agree you probably should be able to, but that’s not what I’m saying.
you are talking about the grey zone, which is irrelevant for WT
and iam talking about the green zone, which is relevant for WT
It’s relevant for when gaijin adds low observability airframes, where having nearly double the range it should will allow it to brute force stealth (as it’s just a flat modifier). That’s why range is a concern.
Is there anywhere I can find this source btw? I want to have a read through it if possible
i dont have the source but iirc it said that the ECRS scans a certain scan area 8x as fast as the Captor-M
and then the scan speed from ingame was used to come to the 571°/s