So a 120 can hit a hovering helicopter but not a stalled out Su-27…
I wonder which one has a bigger RCS
it isnt about rcs, its about the velocity, a stalled out target will have 0 velocity and will be filtered out by PD filters along with the ground clutters. helicopters move decently thats why it hits them. if its hovering you cant radar lock it in the first place using PD.
low ahh quality for peak ahh image
Am I tripping or you guys see that too
If only that’s how AIM 120s seekers worked
thats how aim120 works
I will have to find the document.
Works on a similar design to the ARHM head on Patriot which can also shoot down targets with little to no inertia
bassically IOG or base pulse mode (vulnerable to chaff and ground clutter)
A jet not moving as you put it would be dumping chaff directly behind or in Russian cases on top of the aircraft.
The 120 wouldn’t fail to connect.
That might be Aim-120 on the inner pylon, but that might also be ALARM or something similar, its impossible to tell
it will still struggle, until and unless you are providing DL updates to it. its not a a good idea to waste a amraam on a stalling target
I tried having a play in Photoshop, see if I could bring out any additional details, but the data just isnt there. The image is too low ress and there is just too much noise and distortion.
Definetly looks to be something on the inner pylons, but just no way of knowing if its AMRAAM/Meteor or something else like a HARM
Probably
Looks like way more MRAAM/BVRAAMs than the current 6, but quality is so bad we cant tell if its real or what it is exactly…
can it ?
helis are surprisingly hard to lock on hovering heli imo. Seems like the giant blades are just ignored
Fox 3 seekers are a bit more advanced than that. First off, filtering out is usually done to avoid false returns on a scanning radar. The thing is, you don’t just “filter out” a target you are already locked onto. Also, the return given by the notching target is at a different range compared to the ground behind it.
When it comes to chaff, one simple algorithm comparing the vector to the new returns created by a chaff drop would be enough to entirely disregard them, especially in a notch.
Fox3s in the game have a tendency to miss even the mig15s on the test drive at times, which really shouldn’t be the case
That being said, it’s a balancing tool, so it doesn’t bother me that much
Rafale for example does not have to worry at 10km.^^
Typhoon is rcs optimized from the front so in the notch it wouldn’t make that much of a difference
And I wouldn’t want gaijin to make another radar overhaul before they fixed the bugs of the last one
Su30 doesn’t have an aesa radar not even the Indian one, the radar you are talking about was revealed not to long ago so it will probably take some time until it enters service
Yeah, so it makes you slightly harder to detect in the headon giving you a few more seconds to beat the CAPTOR-M into submission and then when you notch you have 320 standard calibre chaff instead 320 micro chaff to notch with.
Well… Chaff should have been fixed a year ago.
Then PESA.
It certainly isnt an M-Scan