Snail mine drama?
yes that one
Yes
Lol, the main discussion thread is being actively purged regarding this.
Doesn’t it detect them as “small”? Or at leats I thought it did (using the Rafale on my side)
well EF and Su-30SM detect chaff as missiles
but it used to be “small”
someone should probably go and test it
ah maybe it changed at some point. I haven’t played a whole lot of WT recently. Especially high BR (ground and Air), since they balance is completely whack
Seems like chaff and flares would be far too small or slow for a MAW system to treat them like threats, probably gaijin snail code problems or oversights
NCTR on the radar not the MAWS
Oh whoops and then I guess I shouldn’t be surprised the radar is picking it up
I dont think the issue is necessarily that its being detected. But that its being reported as a “missile”, not “small” or even maybe as “Chaff” or even just no NCTR at all
Yeah it’s definitely not supposed to be registered as a missile
Yeah… we can add it to the list of things Gaijin seamingly has no interest in actually fixing
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If the radar could tell us that, then the chaff would not be doing its job, as you could just filter it out
Which, it probably should be doing if in any PD mode.
Though my logic is that surely modern radars can just detect that the contact isnt moving and just go “hmm… this radar contact is just static… must be chaff”
In a PD mode the radar will not even consider chaff, which it does already
Only in a notch will the PD filter turn off and then Chaff will work
Though is that really a thing IRL or just a War Thunder thing. Id be surprised if modern radars, especially brand new AESAs were that susceptible and couldnt tell the difference between something real and chaff.
that probably just comes in the form of a tightened notch gate mostly
iirc the effectiveness of notching, even without chaff, in game is massively overstated, especially for modern radars anyway
Isn’t the world of aviation funny.
We start off with guns.
Then salvos of air-to-air dumb rockets.
Then guns when the issues of lobbing unguided rockets en masse at moving targets become clear.
Then missiles.
Then guns again when the missiles don’t behave.
Then missiles again once they sort of start to actually work.
Then guns when drones begin to make their debut and the economics of spaffing a multi-million pound AAM into a cheap drone makes no sense.
Now we’re back to flinging air-to-air rockets.*
I’m telling you - it’ll be swing-wings and double-deltas back in vogue next!
(Jests aside - I appreciate APKWS is far more complex than chucking a load of mighty-mouse rockets at something and hoping one hits).
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