Oh ok
Currently the only gimaled esa in the game doesn’t have any scans bigger than its electronic scans zone, kinda doubt we’re gonna get scan zones that are bigger than what the electronic portion of the scan can see on all gimbaled esa planes.
(Btw how would it keep track of say something at + 100 degrees and then swivel back to something at say -100 degrees, wouldn’t it be too slow?)
Honestly, if the introduce proper IIR seekers, fixed BOL would likely be the only potential method of non-kinetic missile defeat, since afaik its the only spatially distributed flare out there, and from the papers I’ve read, point flares (even spectral ones) are functionally useless vs IIR.
This leads to an interesting conundrum:
Do they fix BOL to allow players a potential method of IIR defeat that isnt purealy kinematic? If so, will they unrealistically buff jets that dont use it by providing them with spatially distributed flares they dont appear to have irl?
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That’s a choice, there is no reason not to do it for EFT. Each scan pattern has a individual scan time already, its just how it works. There is no singular “scan time” figure to change.
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If they buff bol i honestly think it would be bad for the game, suddenly unless you have ldircm which only one plane will get, you become invisible to ir missiles as you can preflare forever. Honestly would kill off all non nato planes, and would also kill off even nato planes tha dont have an abundance of cms
During normal scan, ECRS swashplate moves slower than it’s max speed, to allow for scanning. When it comes to quickly changing direction, in the official video it is able to turn 90 degree in a blink you miss it speed.
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I haven’t seen this, show???
You can see it at 0:58 (timestamps on mobile when?)
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Append the end of the video link with &t=58
I won’t, as the beginning has some more swashplate movement :)
I didn’t think of it but maybe that’s another reason why they swapped from the 2 axis gimbal - it’s much easier to make 1 motor go very fast.
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Can’t you just long press for right click? At least you can on an ipad
Demo video, not a real video, seems like manufacturer propaganda to me /s
Does nothing for me
IIR seekers if properly implemented would basicly invalidate flares in general barring BOL, and BOL would only have a chance of working under certain specific circumstances, so theyd be a lot worse for the game
Ofc it is
The Bol Nerf was pretty justified in my opinion, since It could create a shield of invincibility making you practically invulnerable to any IR missile
Nah I mean if iir seekreheads are gonna stay implemented the way they currently are on Sam’s, bol being buffed would be pretty annoying, as stuff like eurofighter can already preflare forvever and just render the missiles invalid above like 4km. I don’t think gaijin willl actually model focal plane arrays. From what I understand bol should essentially be a shorter burning large flare, and certain models of bol even create a sort of “cloud”
if they even do, see SLM and co currently
- rafale wins . 1. eft will be better in med-long range BVR , some times even in short range. but rafale will still be decent in wt. if they buff aim120’s maneuverability then the eft may completely rule over the rafale.