Except you’d lose the ability to update half your targets, you wouldn’t be able to pick up targets as quickly and you certainly wouldn’t be able to track 16 targets at once
How to fix:
Play SB mainly Afghanistan)))))
I wish they would bring the map into 2025
(Still 130x130 maps)
you do know the pesa of the su-30sm has the fastest scan speed in the game right
scan speed doesnt matter with esa radars
if you are luck enough to find anything that isnt denmark these days, that is
Brilliant, don’t remember the su30 radar being in a rafale though
Thats why I specially Search for Afghanistan, the Eurofighter can there realy show its power :)
That’s because the game doesn’t model them properly, in real life the difference between PESA and AESA is literally night and day for situational awareness and ability to defend yourself
Yet still much better than CAPTOR-M, which is the main complaint from a certain group - ignoring J/APG-2, N011M and uh, things.
That may be true, but you can’t compare IRL with current state of the game - literally night and day.
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everyone does but only few are lucky enough to find it
And have I said anything of the sort? No, that’s not even remotely what I was getting at, I was suggesting it’d make more logical sense, and be easier if they just limited it to PESA and Mechanical until a time when AESA can be implemented correctly
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Well then there shouldn’t be a problem of swapping the RBE2-AA with the RBE2 surely?
that’s not the rafale we have in game though
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Lets not start twisting things like that, it wont end well.
I will say after trying the hornet via the Aussie 18A, CAPTOR feels like a dream on the M-scan side of things. Only outperformed by ESA and still not by a huge margin (thanks to CAPTOR having more range, and the IRST making up for the difference close in.) it can suck to have the small scan zones due to TWS being somewhat abysmal. I’d prefer to be able to monitor a larger area of airspace or several smaller areas (cough priority track).
Still missing many, many features it should have but I imagine those will come as ESA radars also get them. Unfortunately the consequence of g4++ jets is they’re packed with so many fancy new features that the devs have to then practically develop a new radar from the ground up.
you see it would also lose the HMD and the 2 extra missiles
so it is an issue yk
That clearly hasn’t been a problem so far, we have an F3R with HMD
An interesting discussion to have is that all the other airborne AESA’s (AL/M-2052 and JAPG-2) in-game are modelled much more like the Russian PESA’s in terms of scan zone coverage than the RBE2-AA, which is really weird imo.
Its almost like the Rafale is the only jet to “have” an AESA in-game…
The discrepancy was even larger before the Rafale fanboys accidentally got the RBE2-AA nerfed by halving their full scan mode into being a sidegrade of their “wide” scan because they didnt understand how ESA’s work in-game lmao
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This wouldn’t matter unfortunately since MICAs are already regularly launched at shorter ranges where the missile automatically picks up the target (20km or less)
Current AESA radar has worse radar range performance than that of the Mirage 2000-5F due to a bug atm.
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Can’t speak for EL/M-2052, J/APG-2 however is still subject for more research (+ open reports), we’ve not been able to get sufficient material for it yet - from a player perspective.
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