That clearly hasn’t been a problem so far, we have an F3R with HMD
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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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Functionally irrelevant to the current map sizes. Less actual range might actually make the radar less capable of holding its lock, granted with the current state of BVR combat, range is an objectively worthless metric to judge in-game airborne radars by beyond ~60km.
Atm its scan zones are copy pasted from the Su-34’s V004, my point being regardless of research, gaijin appears to have made the executive decision to model the RBE2-AA as uniquely capable, and nobody else is allowed to come even remotely close.
If gaijins modelling of scan zones is just based on an educated guess, they should have placed the EL/M-2052 and JAPG-2 scan zones somewhere between the V004 and RBE2-AA at least.
Yeah I don’t disagree with that.
What I never really got is why AESA wasn’t just modelled how the pantsir track radar is? Scan across the entire scan area really quickly and have the rapid update while PESA can have the slower scan but the fast update.
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Literally bar for bar how AESA should work;
The answer, lack of time I’d assume
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something funny i noticed is that ESA radars on jets without an IRST have faster scanning ACM modes than jets with an ESA radar and an IRST
can you name one other than bars, for i think bars/ and definitely irbis we have acm data on them for time and scan zone. irbis both bars zones
Weird, never looked at ACM modes since I thought they were all pretty similar in-game tbh.
To be honest I don’t understand the problem with the current CAPTOR-M. It feels really good and doesn’t have ghosting issue that made it so unusable back when it first came out. I do understand the requests from the community when it comes to adding the features that this radar is still lacking, but we’ve come a long way from the radar we had in our Typhoons at first.
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just go into a test drive and look at the ACM scan speed of the F-2 and then of the Rafale
it is hilarious
I think the biggest problem seems to be a lack of consistency for no real reason, some times it works and detects targets fine, then it might just completely not update a target occasionally or god forbid they fire a missile
Mostly just because of TWS+ being so abysmal that we were forced to have our scan zones cut down to make it useable (and 140deg scan is still practically blind). The radar performs okay (and better than all other M-scan, as it should be) but is limited by missing features and the base game functionality of TWS just being terrible.
Also for some ungodly reason it will prioritise missiles which it can detect 40km+ out, so the moment the first missile vollies come out you’re blind as the 20 target TWS gets jammed.
Ye, compared to when it launched its day and night, but somtimes it still has issues locking targets in HMD mode, my record was 12 trys to lock the target whuch was 6km out, and slighty above me
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Then you’ll switch to PIRATE and detect a target that’s definitely NOT within 19km
I just gave up and use IRST to lock (30km HMD !!!) and then swap to radar after it instantly acquires because IRST is far better. I feel bad for the German EFs who can’t do that.
imagine having an IRST
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