It was a feature of all TGPs slaving to radar lock, and even TWS soft locks for a while until they changed it for some reason.
I would argue just make it ubiquitous to all top tier smokes, just so that the BS excuse that exists to keep MMW out of the game is finally removed.
that is true, but then what would even be the point of MMW FnF
It won’t lose lock through clouds, allowing targeting with ground radar modes in bad weather, or foliage.
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Lol what is going on here with marketing lie?
Dev responses, indicate they are apparently ignoring / misinterpreting sources because they don’t directly state things, even though they make sense in context and as such supplant said context with their own to refuse reports. Even when additional supporting documentation can be found, even with said restrictions on what is valid supporting material.
Instead of refusing the reports on balance grounds like they reserve the rights to do so. It’s fairly obvious something is being lost in translation somewhere.
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The meme comes from an actual dev response to a bug report with sources from the manufacturer.
Now to be fair, that dev did come back and apologise/clarify for the choice of words. However the sentence has since been added to the hallowed hall of fame that is ‘Gaijin Comedy Phrases’.
It is on-topic, since the whole tagline came about because of the Typhoon and Supercruise.+
+The actual term as recognised by every aviation company, organisation, Air Force, etc.
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And? That’s not a requirement for supercruise, so it is completely irrelevant.
We are discussing the maximum possible supercruise speed.
The devs believe it is mach 1.3 at 9000m, but there is no available source for this.
The only other information we have that we can use allude that the maximum supercruise speed is mach 1.5 but there is no given altitude details and the devs refuse sources with incomplete data.
We have other sources with partial data, which on their own are not enough to satisfy bug report requirements.
I swear theres times where the devs are actually good and actually follow what the actual source’s say, then theres times that makes you think that the devs are bias and ignore actual given source’s and pretend that they do not understand it or that it’s lies/fake and they’ll say stuff like o theres no way it could actually do that even if you have every single source out there that says it can they would still refuse it,
They did the same for challenger 2 TES/OES add-on armour kit and stinger missiles now there doing it to typhoon super cruise. The devs need to realise that they are contradicting sources. Like the developers and the moderators tell us that if we are looking something to get changed we need sources to back it up which is absolutely fair but it’s things like this when you actually do have the sources and information that they completely ignore it are say its fake are give some other bs excuse.
They need to release they can’t do that. When a player makes a bug report and does there research find source’s from books, pictures, brochures e.g the developer’s need to accept that information until any additional information is unclassified in the future which could state otherwise are could confirm what all the sources originally saided at the start. But until then what ever information we currently have the devs should do as it says and give that vehicle are weapon its capability until otherwise !!
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Gaijin:
“Why would you possibly want to able to see or use the cockpit HUD, just use third person view”
Community
“What about in ASB?”
Gaijin:
“What is ASB?”
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Typhoon currently has supercruse. No staff have said that Typhoon cannot supercruse or it’s somehow fake.
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By this article F-22 demonstrates 'supercruise' for first time
Supercruise defined as 1.5+ with full combat load for sustained periods, so EFT doesn’t supercruise
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The article very much reads like a Lockheed Marketing spiel to be honest. I would be wary of taking a single quote from 1999 (amidst a massive PR campaign to keep the program going when many big ticket items were being cut) and treating it as gospel. Especially when every other quote on the subject would disagree.
Supercruise as defined by pretty much every aircraft manufacturer is the ability to sustain flight at supersonic speeds without the use of afterburner. The threshold is clear-cut and Typhoon, Rafale, Gripen Lightning, Concorde all meet that threshold.
I’ll edit to add some sourcing. From the Bundeswehr.
Supersonic speed – without afterburner
The multipurpose combat aircraft is powered by two EJ200 engines produced by the Eurojet consortium. Each engine generates a thrust of about 60,000 N without afterburner. When the afterburner is used in addition, a maximum thrust of more than 90,000 N is generated. Unlike the Tornado, the Eurofighter takes off without afterburner during normal flight operations. This reduces noise pollution at the airfields of the German Air Force. The Eurofighter can accelerate into the supersonic range even without using the afterburner and fly at supersonic speed for an extended period of time. This capability, known as “supercruise,” is currently available to only a few combat aircraft worldwide.
From RUSI.
The distinguishing capabilities of so called ‘4.5 Generation’ fighters such as the Typhoon, Rafale and Gripen include low-observability to radar; the ability to supercruise (fly at supersonic speed without using afterburners); and extreme manoeuvrability at all speeds. The excellent beyond-visual-range (BVR) and within-visual-range air combat capabilities of all three European fighters revolve around supercruising at very high altitude using powerful sensors and long range missiles, as well as being able to sustain high energy levels during extreme manoeuvres in a dogfight.
To argue otherwise is basically trying to move the goalposts ‘after the fact’.
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Sadly that article doesn’t get to be the sole source on defining the definition of supercruse.
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reminds me of yesterdays sad attempt of one guy claiming his definition of sensor fusion is the only one
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Don’t start THAT again, the thread was almost returning to a semblance of sanity without summoning ‘he who shall not named’/
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I don’t see how being held to a higher standard makes it a marketing spiel.
Yes, by the definition of the company that makes the plane, and the people that use it, every plane you listed supercruises, but none except the Concorde (which isn’t even a combat aircraft) can supercruise by USAF standards
Don’t see how it’s moving goalposts after the fact if the article I posted is older than both the ones you did
i have already reported this up here