Hey pilots. So with the AESA or (Late),or whatever it ends up being, us German pilots get one with the PIRATE IRST on it. So how good is that in the ARB? I used to use IRST on the Mig23 and even sometimes on the Mig29 to do long range shenanigans with the R27ET’s but seeing as how I only have AIM9Ms I could just as easily queue them up with the HMD as normal.
Is there any actual benefit to it? Thanks
You know what… if they made this bigger i could get used to it.
That should be a super early prototype or mock-up Meteor.
This is a picture shows the Eurofighter Development Aircraft DA7, that was retired in 2007. I’m pretty sure that was just a fitting test or advertisement photo taken before 2005.
Photos like this exist for many weapons during the 1994-2007 period when a lot of weapons were planned to be integrated/in development/offered for integration and things nowadays just look different
Im hoping we get the square display back. I prefer it a lot and you have info like missile ranging that isnt displayed on the circular one
Its not useless, as many would claim. One on EF’s specifically is a lot better than that of fulcrums and let alone floggers.
Two big use cases I find it really good at are:
And also dont let mig15’s in test drive mislead you, PIRATE has an all-aspect lock range of afterburning targets (which are all targets in ARB) at around 20km easily. So thats not a problem whatsoever.
You know… to think of it we can do literal zero-visibility CAS using brimstones and the AESA GMTI lol
Added:
Eurofighter (AESA) - Should have 200 degree wide scan option + 180° scan for German EF (for now until better source mention 200°) / Internal Report
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Eurofighter (AESA) - CAPTOR-E Electronic scan sector too small
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Eurofighter (AESA) - CAPTOR-E scan speed should be much faster
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Ohh that sounds a lot better than I thought! I’ll definitely mess about with it then. (After 3 months when I finally unlock the new jet).
Edit: I think I’ve got a decent handle on the systems on this thing but perhaps an expert could do a deep dive on the systems and how to get the most of them
I’ll add something here! PIRATE is a 30km HMD mode functionally. Swap to IR HMD, lock target, swap to radar.
I don’t suppose our fancy AMRAAMS can do LOAL can they? Because if so it would be suuuuuper sweet to have Pirate
They could for a few months because of a bug, and would be able to irl, but currently can’t
cheat code is to swap to radar lock, launch, and swap back to IR.
cheat code is to swap to radar lock, launch, and swap back to IR.
That works!? Does it work when firing from TWS?
? PIRATE has no TWS currently
No I mean. What I understand from your earlier posts is:
I am in IRST, I spot a target. Switch to Radar TWS, softlock target, launch, and then switch back to IRST.
But I now simply spot with the radar in TWS, softlock and launch
This shouldnt trigger RWR either untill the AMRAAM gets its own hardlock. So I dont think I understand what you meant before as to the advantage of having PIRATE.
Ah no what i meant before is you find a target with PIRATE, lock with PIRATE, and then with that lock you can quickly swap to radar (giving a fraction of a second lock warning), launch, and swap back to PIRATE
Using PIRATE to find targets over the 63x40 area and then independently tracking them with TWS works just as well (although less useful with the AESA)
So my advantage with PIRATE would be to ONLY trigger their RWR momentarily when launching the AMRAAM? But doesnt the radar still guide it, so STILL triggering the RWR despite us having switched to IRST?
Anyway I am still mega excited for the new systems, especially AESA.
Nope, if you’re in IRST mode that’s it. Radar is off
The single biggest advantage of PIRATE is in ground rb though, where you can sneak up on people and hit them with 9Ms when they have literally no clue.
