That’s amazing…most advanced mech Radar in the world cant see a slowly turning MiG 15…
The estimated range of the AMIDS-MAW, judged by antenna sizes and most likely used frequency (94 GHz), is 20 km for 0,1 m² not 1 m² (11 km for 0,01 m² MANPADS). So it’s either an error or they didn’t want to make the MAW as good as it’s said to be.
Different question:
Is the “elevationWidth” of 90° (±45°) correct? Couldn’t find anything about that ad-hoc, but to my knowledge most AESA radars (the AMIDS-MAW of the EF is AESA) have an electronical beam steering width of ±60°. The antennas already cover ±60° in azimuth (otherwise you couldn’t reach a 360° coverage with just three antennas around the plane in the horizontal plane) so it doesn’t make sense to me why they are limited to ±45° in elevation while having ±60° in azimuth.
Idk but the AMIDS is said to have blind spots, about AMIDS trackers:
“They automatically locate and follow tracks, offering almost total protection, with the exception of a narrow cone in the upper/lower sectors”
What are the new controls?
Yeah that’s correct. Currently 360° azimuth coverage and 180° elevation. So a 90° blindspot above and below the plane (which I wouldn’t exactly call a “narrow cone”). But as the antennas have ±60° azimuth, I don’t quite understand why they should only have ±45° elevation coverage. Changing elevation to ±60° too would reduce the blindspots above and below to 60° instead of 90°.
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These
Quick ad hoc MWS test against radar and IR threats.
Threat 1: R-77-1, launch 82km, detected by RWR and not by MWS. evaded at ~4km
Threat 2: R-73, launch 6km, not detected. evaded at ~3.5km
Threat 3: R-73, launch 4km, detected by MWS at 3.5km, evaded at 2.5km
Threat 4: R-77-1, launch 4.5km, detected by RWR, and by MWS at 3.5km. Not evaded.
It is HUGELY underperforming by the looks of things. 3.5km is also a seriously concerning value, as this is not nearly enough time to evade any AAM. SAMs (e.g ADATS in test drive) seem to be detected at a more reasonable distance (7-8km?) but still far too low.
In dogfight tests against Su-30SM I also had erroneous warnings while the enemy was flaring… which doesn’t quite line up with the “Radar MAW”. Confirmed that they were not using any chaff for the entire engagement.
Anything on radar fix?
They’ve done… something? It doesn’t seem to have changed much though and may be worse in places for now. I’ve also taken a quick look at the datamines and there seems to be a GTM section, a surfacesearch section and a surfacetrack section so it seems we might be getting something.
Scan pattern got fixed
Now its:
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4
1,2,3,4
Before it was
1,2,3,4
4,3,2,1
1,2,3,4
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Especially against R-77s, which should have the worst RCS of any of the ARHs available.
This should be pretty helpful for effeciency, but most interested to see if Priority Track is planned for this update as well as any improvements for the radar actually detecting things
It’s not listed as fixed on the report site, while the MAW bugs are, so i’m not too sure.
On the other hand, we do have this “TWS+” which may involve provisions for priority track.
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Yeah, given the fact the TWS in medium mode cant keep track of the mig-15s doing a lazy turn in test flight, the EFTs radar has got a LOOOOOONG way to go yet
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Currently fixed ones
If i’m being entirely honest, it’s worse than in live right now, which suggests they tried to do something. On live it can (somewhat) track the 15s in testflight, but in dev it simply fails. It drifts off target for seemingly no reason and loses tracks on straight flying threats.
Yeah, was thinking the same, this feels a LOT worse than on live.
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Just played a game in Air RB live and an F-15 was detected by the RWR but the Radar couldn’t find it he was 8km away directly in front of me.
Seeing Dev footage…They haven’t even tried.
Su-30SM will have the Typhoon on toast if it continues to be blind
Positives are we know they’ve tried to do something and there’s a clear differentiation between modern and older radars now, which means we can have high hopes (in severe moderation) that it may be fixed before live.
I expected a working Radar by now its been over 2 months.
we go on the dev and see they have changed the scan pattern and the Radar is still struggling to track.
We aren’t asking for something new and revolutionary here.
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