I don’t know about CAPTOR-E being the best radar in the game.
By all accounts CAPTOR-M should have been the best PESA radar in the game but the snail simply said: “Njet, manufakturor is lyink” and made it completely unusable for the first 6 months.
But I havent tested it on DEV so I hope it will be. I seem to remember though that the AESA on the Rafale was purppsefuly left in an underperforming state untill the rest of the techtrees got AESA.
So who knows what the snail comes up with
Was there any other fix in the dev Update except the new Max Altitude of 21km?
Su-30SM is better than Eurofighter exactly because of HOBS missiles. You can work around mediocre FM. I won’t say no to 2 more AMRAAMs but they are definitely not gonna make it close to the Rafale by simple fact that notching AMRAAM is waaay easier than notching MICA. And if both you and Rafale are in a META stalemate, aka both in a notch and both using HMD - Rafale will still have advantage. Even Su-30 with R-77-1 will have better chance of taking you down than you with AIM-120.
R77-1 and AMRAAM have the exact same seeker though
yes, but R-77-1 has much better acceleration and pulls way harder. This makes your reaction window significantly smaller than with 120A or C. And MICA accelerates even harder and pulls even more on top of having slightly better seeker
Would definitely like to mention though as an add on to this, more missiles is DEFINITELY a positive and I thank gaijin for exploring this option. Though I do think it would’ve been better to add them on the inner wing pylon as we haven’t actually seen either option explored on the aircraft in service.
My overarching point though was that the quality of MICA as a missile and the lack of a HOBS missile for AIM-120 users is the primary issue with balance here imo.
I’d never have called it mid, it’s always been good. A HOBS missile is very much desired now though.
Just the fact that MICA’s vastly outclass everything else by a huge margin.
But more missiles simply IS better yes, for the EF. I would have also liked them to use the inner wing pylons sinca that, at least, has been shown on drawings despite it never having been seen IRL.
Captor m is not an ESA radar it’s a normal mechanical radar like an apg 66 or n010 for example
Regardless it should have been thr best M scan radar in thr game, and it definitely wasnt at launch and still isnt today
Doesn’t seem like it will properly demonstrate where the target actually is in relation to you if they’re off to the side or slightly to the rear.
A target that’s actually 90 degrees to your left or right could show up in the frontal sector of the radar screen.
I’m confused, why are the edges black? Can it not lock on a target if it goes there like the mig-21 radar?
No esa update on areas in black
That’s ridiculous imo, if the pesa of the su-35/su30mk can do it in the 2000s then surely an aesa made a decade later could do it.
I’m sure gunjob or flame are writing up a bug report for that
its harder to visualize in B-Scope sure, but the LSZ is easier to read in B-Scope.
I don’t think that black box is currently doing or meaning anything, the ESA updates work outside or inside the green area, I suspect its just not working properly with the 200° area.
Is it not just because to scan the outer areas it has to move the swash plate? Thats why its not being scanned
How would any esa radar scan outside of its fov? We’re not talking about scanning outside of scan patterns.
Yeah but it would move the plate to update the target tracked no?
Like say you first make the plate move to the right, detect and track the target, then move it to the middle to scan. Wouldn’t it move the plate every so often to update the scan on that first tracked target?
Damn, now the interface is working, its possible to actually judge the radar and its awesome. No fighting or waiting for it to lock, it just… does…
Cant wait for it to be buffed even more :P