Yeah I don’t know what they have been doing but every update the plane targeting pods are getting worse at getting locks on vehicles, both air and ground. Can’t get a solid kick on tanks beyond like 8-10km as of now which is pretty stupid
I recommend u to not look to closely at the tiger hap then
can the captor e look down 100 degrees or side to side only
why wouldnt it be able to
the swashpalte is rotating
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yeah but that also applies to other rotating radars like irbis but that still has only ±60 elevation even though it could rotate its dish up/downards.
ECRS is ±100° in all directions.
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whats the Mausser BK27 source you used, might it have anything about the ammo used for efts?
I mean, 5kg is well below the margin of error devs have when considering aircrafts weight, there was no chance it’d go through
I don’t think that’s what was meant by the 5kg. The aircraft in game is 11220kg, and they were saying that the component-by-component mass is 10995 which is 5kg off of the commonly stated 11000.
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Instead of using datamine, use the localhost, it shows you the empty weight along with a bunch of other real time details.
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IIRC there is actually a brochure somewhere that lists the mass as 10995 kg.
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Dont make reports based on the actual values we use in game…
I don’t understand what datamining has to do with the process?
Well, in case of the weight specifically, it seem that the weight that devs use and the weight shown in the datamined isn’t actually the same, for example, the rafale weight decrease was stated at around 9400kg in the report but the datamine gave a significantly different y value iirc
Has the Rafale really only 9.400 kg empty weight in game? The official Dassault Website only says 10 tons class as “overall empty weight”. Another site says 10.300 kg empty weight for the Rafale B with the Rafale M being another 300 kg heavier (10.600 kg), so is the Rafale in game nearly a ton too light???
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It was reported according to a crash report of F3R rafales from the French entity responsible for making crash reports :
Initially, bug reports were made for a weight of the plane of 9650kg approximately, but as you say most sources are very unprecise, saying « 10 ton class ». On the other hand that report is specifically on the Rafale C F3R and gives precise values . Funnily enough, it was known that Rafale M was approximately 1 ton heavier than the C, so even without the big report above the rafale was still to heavy in game at above 9800kg.
Anyway, this is not really related to the EFT, so if you want to discuss this more :
It is quite interesting in comparison to the EF. They’re really similar in size:
Length: 15,96 m (EF) vs. 15,27 m (Rafale)
Width: 10,95 m (EF) vs. 10,80 m (Rafale)
Height: 5,28 m (EF) vs. 5,34 m (Rafale)
Wing surface: 50,00 m² (EF) vs. 45,70 m² (Rafale)
The most interesting part is the portion of fiber composite material:
82% (70% carbon, 12% glas) (EF) vs. 30% (Rafale)
Where is all this weight of the EF coming from if it’s nearly 2 tons heavier than the Rafale (11,220 kg vs 9,481 kg)? It’s either the modules integrated into the EF are that much heavier, the Rafale is way too light or the EF weight is stated way too heavy. Something doesn’t add up here in my opinion
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The rafale B and M share the exact same dimensions as the C and are an entire ton heavier. You also can’t really compare the rafale to the EFT that way since they use completely different composites.
For example, the EFT uses bigger, heavier engines. It also needs leads to added weight for the structure to support those engines. Plus, as you said, the EFT is also bigger than the rafale in all 3 dimensions, so the weight/scale ratio increases at the cube of the size difference.
Overall, both planes still retain a similar TWR at low fuel (with the. EFT being ever so slightly better, so the weight difference doesn’t really seem crazy
Edit : and that 30% composite for the rafale is 99% wrong as far as I can tell btw. I don’t have any numbers in mind, but I’m quite certain there’s an error here
Edit 2 : it seems you are comparing the rapetitiln of composite per weight for the rafale (30% of carbon composite), to the equivalent surface of composite of the EFT (82%). If you want better comparaison the rafale has 75% of its surfaces made of carbon composite, which makes the comparaison drastically different
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