I currently suspect the EFT CAPTOR-M was supposed to be given a much higher scan rate to go along with the 4 sec refresh time, but they just decided not to do so and instead gave it the mediocre piece of tech it has now and increased the refresh time cuz it was easier.
Its also a headscratcher with the Rafale, firstly because they can’t even get the name right (called it the RBE2 AESA instead of the RBE2-AA, can easily find the radar name with a quick google search ffs), and secondly because Ive heard the french mains say its pretty lackluster as well and notably inferior to the Su-34’s PESA radar even after the buff/fix.
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(Granted the french players say the Rafale is basicly the worst jet ever added to the game and that the entire world is conspiring against them to keep them as the worst nation in WT or something insane and overexagerated as usual, so take this with a grain of salt)
While no one ever suspects them, the MICA armed M2K can single handedly dominate lobbies when they go close range, not really a BVR competitor but with MAWs, Advanced RWR, great HMS and an abundance of flares + 8 of the best missiles in the game.
Very easy to underrate mirages (and by extension the rafale) due to their lack of BVR yet they are more than capable within 20km at being dominant
Most of all they should be somewhat consistent. EFT going around with a worse radar than the Su-27SM is absolutely insane. Captor-M should blow everything that is not AESA or PESA out of the water.
I mean I very much believe so, at least it should be better in many aspects compared to the early Russian PESAs of the 80s/90s given the gigantic leaps electronics made.
Thatd make more sense with why the maniacs that made this patch wouldve decided to pick the RBE2-AA instead of the RBE2 armed Rafale as the competitor…
I hope this will remain a meme for a while lol, it’s absolutely hilarious how they responded to the thing… what can you expect though, they also managed to confuse the T-10 manual with the Su-27 one for over a year (that’s the reason the flanker was underperforming all along) and those were documents in their own language.
Dont let the french mains hear you. The MICA is the most unreliable missile there is, and its the single worst missile at top tier. The only way they’ve been able to make them work is due to their vastly superior skills and intellect obviously.
Nation mains in general are unbearable imho, especially those that don’t have a single other top tier tech tree so can’t actually compare the stuff.
I can see their point about unreliability since TVC missiles are quite unstable, but against skilled players there are many situations I prefer the R-77 over the aim210s, so I would likely prefer the MICA even more. If it wasn’t 16v16 anyone with half a brain would not die to 40km amraams.