Yeah, its wierd. if there is some Licensing issue then I dont get why they havent just slapped GBU-48s on everything in the meantime
Is there any way to actually reach this or is the number just for show?
Probably not, not until we start getting things like EGBU-24s and co at least. even then… im not sure
With the weapons in game prolly not. Once we have heavier missiles like meteor and cruise missiles maybe? Dunno to how much that’d actually add up.
actual AWACS status i love this radar so much
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Since I haven’t been involved in this discussion since the dev server began, my thoughts may echo what I’ve said before.
The radar, as expected, is magnificent. This seems to be the first time since the Phantoms that a British ТТ radar outperforms others, rather than catches up. Counterattacks are almost elementary, as the target isn’t lost during the defense and is always tracked (though even when the target is in notch, the radar still loses it. I think it should detect targets moving perpendicular to the radar beams at the mid-range pulse rate, but I could be wrong. And the radar can’t yet change its frequency while operating), meaning there’s no need to search for it again during a counterattack.
So, counterattack.
But it doesn’t work at all. At altitudes above 20,000 feet, the Typhoon doesn’t turn at all. It just lifts its nose and… That’s it. Turns at the speed of a Tornado.
But you have to turn for a counterattack because the AIM-120 is a really, really poor missile. They don’t want to turn, they don’t go anywhere. My personal opinion is that the air resistance of all the missiles is incredibly crooked, as if their stabilizers are positioned perpendicular to the airflow, not along it.
The Rafale can sharply turn out of notch and point its nose at the target. But why would it do that if its missiles will turn on their own? It can easily attack from notch, and its missiles will still find the target. By the way, yes, throwing off the MIСA lock is quite a quest. But breaking away from the AIM-120 lock is elementary.
It’s a shame that СAMMs aren’t attached to aircraft; they would have resulted in a MIСA-ER equivalent, since the snail doesn’t want to introduce advanced heat-seeking missiles yet. It seems to me that the ASRAAM/СAMM platform is very successful for an attack at 15-20 km at 90 degrees to the side.
P.S. Since we have either Typhoon T3 or T4, can we “shake” the snail about Stryker 2?
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Striker 1 isn’t even fully functional yet…
Gripen E: not so fast!
at best the same gimbals with a smaller radar dish resulting in less range than the ECRS
the range difference would probably matter IRL but not in WT airquake maps
yeh but uh the gripen E is gonna be a brick man
At the very least, displaying RWR threats on the helmet-mounted system is a nice touch. And it can be implemented relatively easily, using the same mechanics that display allies on the Stryker 1.
iirc striker 1 also does this lol, gaijin just hasn’t implemented it.
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The main advantages of Striker II would be:
- Much larger FoV, could be useful for displaying all the information from the new radar
- Colourised display, again, could come in handy for filtering inforamtion, like if we get multimode radar modes, ground vehicles could be displayed in a different colour
- AR stuff. like display SAM threats (like a danger zone), not sure if the Striker 1 can already do this though
- Technically… if im not mistaken, Striker II would be the only HMD in game that worked at the same time as NVGs. Even on the F35 I think they have to pick and chose.
- They could also reduce the engine noise when in cockpit for a Striker II equipped aircraft, could be interesting.
Everything else, isnt really something that they could realisitcally model. Like the fact its lighter or has 3D audio.
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Regarding the Stryker 1, I’ve never seen this feature, only on the Stryker 2. Although, it’s not surprising, since finding an image of the Stryker 1 indicator is, to put it mildly, a difficult task.
Interestingly that picture does show an AESA only FoV of ±70° with around half maximum range and ±80° with around a quarter (or one eight) of the maximum range for the fixed antenna without the repositioner (the red area in the graph).
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That just says typical escan radar in red and not typhoons which is the blue
Radar in videos I have seen looks incredible! I do hope it makes it to the live server in the same state!
Yes, but doesn’t change the fact that AESAs can work with a ±70° or even ±80° FoV even though the range at these angles is halved or just a fraction of their usual range because of the smaller exposed antenna area. I think they should implement the FoVs of AESA radars not as fixed angles but more as gradients with the maximum range at 0° which is constant until around ±60° and then looses range rapidly until ±80°.