Rafale should have been 15.3 since it came out, it’s just now there is even less of an excuse to keep br compressed now that they are adding the AESA E2Ks
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AESA EFT and Rafale can be at a same BR together, but absolutely shouldn’t be at the same BR as the Su-30 and F-15C GE.
(J-10C is a bit of a wildcard still)
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Im real curious about how it turns out. J-10A in-game flies a bit less well than the EFT, and has a VASTLY superior radar and missiles, particularly for the current WT meta.
J-10C gets superior performance (possible chance it’ll be better than the EFT, dubious itll be better than Rafale tho, cuz favouritism) but the radar is a fixed plate angled AESA, which MIGHT make it somewhat of a downgrade in-game over the current radar (due to significantly inferior off-bore capabilities).
I would be shocked if anything dethroned gaijins favourite jet though, particularly since the french mains eill be out in full force when the update forum section opens, crying about how they “need” more buffs cuz the Rafale is “obsolete” (again, as usual)
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Well, ±70 is enough.
Only if they’ll delete HOBS limits for PL-15.
EF having only 6 ARHM stops it from being a true competitor.
New Radar will be great and maybe Brimstone 2 or SPEAR but in Air RB having 6 average 120B/Cs and having average IR missiles it is a struggle
Safe to say the Captor E will be the best radar in game?
At least from looking at the chart @MythicPi made I would guess so.
Eh i feel like if we get an actual proper radar combined with the Typhoons performance we might get a situation where every ARHM is just a quality shot compared to the missile buses which would give every plane a more unique identity
Prepare to be disappointed
I think it’s fine to down EF(Captor M) to 14.0; at best, it’s on par with the F-15E.
Eh I’d rather it go the other way with better planes going up in br instead of pushing it down (also I’m assuming you meant to say Captor-M since it’s the mech radar)
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Should be with available sources, but gaijij has a way of just calling sources lies when they dont like what the source says, so its in the gods hands at the end of the day.
IF gaijin goes with the bare minimum from the sources, the CAPTOR-E should be a touch over 4.5x faster scanning than the RBE2-AA and APG-63(v)3, the current best radars in-game, but have ±100° (±90° for the german one) gimbal limits vs ±70° of the other AESA’s. Last is just the question of the scan zones.
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Well ECRS Mk2 anyway, shame the Mk1 is only +/-90° compared to the +/-100° of the Mk2. (not that +/-90° is bad)
Mk0 also gets ±100°, as does the ES-05 Raven. Hensoldt just shot us in thr foot and theres nothing we can do about it.
It genuinly makes no sense for the Mk1 to be ±90°, since they use many of the same components, so my theory is still that thats just the “full power” zone, but gaijins gonna choose the lowest number possible when they have the option, just like they did with the IRIS-T nerf.
ES-05 is basically a rebranded Mk2 haha, as for Mk0 yeah has the same repositioner but with the old CAPTOR-M backend so non of the combined A2A, A2G and E-war functions.
They have a different repositioner to the Leonardo efforts.
Even the IFF system for Raven/ECRS Mk2 lists +/-100°;
Get those reports ready, here it comes
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Clear marketing lie V2 after exactly a year?
I sure hope that the new Eurofighters get the AMK modification.
The repositioner itself doesnt really matter so much as the angle of the antenna does. ±90° implies either the radar is tilted 10° less (which would be very odd) or the beam isnt being pushed to the same limits as on the other ECRS’ (also very odd)
Btw, do we actually have a source stating the ECRS mk0/2 being ±100°? I know we have the pic of the extra lower range zones being beyond 90°, but the PDF for the ECRS mk2 doesnt have any specific numbers?
With some luck, gaijin will take pity on the german players and give them the same FoR based on the same logic I mentionned 🥲 (they wont, the TT is dead and has been for a long time. Not worth playing for anyone only interested in air battles)