i think engaging using a friendly’s sensors is enough for war thunder lol
there is some information i have with displays from the secret Projects Forums called Eurofighter typhoon Avionics
Problem i don’t know if they are classified or not so yeah
Bug fixes have definetly made it equal to Blue Vixen (at least in test flight) , but I would still be surprised if Blue Vixen got 0 upgrades. In the absence of data, I do think they should just give it like 10-20° / sec higher scan rate to Blue Vixen
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All they need to do is give it a little bit of a buff/tweak, and fix whatever is going on with the lock boxes floating off, to put it within reach of capability of the monster of a radar that the F-15E has, and it would make it a more balanced 14.0
Personally I couldn’t care less if it wasn’t entirely real life accurate because let’s be honest that isn’t gonna happen with the classified material - but from a gameplay balance decision, the Captor needs to be better
The F-15C/F-16C is probably a better BVR platform right now at a lower BR
Its wierd. I’ve never had an issue with Blue Vixen on the FA2, but CAPTOR-M just feels… wierd and I cant put my finger on it. It just… doesnt see targets. I feel like im trying to BVR, in SIM using only ACM because the radar in TWS is as blind as a bat.
With more and more AESA radars likely being added soon, I was hoping that CAPTOR-M would be able to compete as I was imagining it would have a scan rate like that of the Foxhunter. But at the moment… No… We are going to be so stupidly outclassed that we will need CAPTOR-E before the end of the year.
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Yeah, all you have to do is take the typhoon into a test flight and try and target the two Mig 15s at the same time - the lock boxes are drifting all over the place, and sometimes it cant see them at all even at less than 10km
It’s like the Mig 15s are spamming chaff, the radar’s TWS processing (or however it’s coded) is just extremely dim witted and lazy
Careful, we might end up gstting a CAPTOR-E thats just a copy paste of the current CAPTOR-M, but with ±100° gimbal limits and the devs justifying it cuz “its an evolution of the CAPTOR-M and the only info we have are the gimbal limits”
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“US Radars can’t gimball like this so we think this is a marketing lie”
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Oh i dont think theyve ever brought up US stuff to compare, its always “Russian X cant Y so we dont believe Z nations can either, must be a marketing lie”
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Might??? It will be like that. Only additional feature will be tall scan and targets being kept outside of sweep but scanning that area will take like 20 seconds…
Wont it be only plane capable of doing that btw?? I cant think of any other jet able to do this.
Maybe something chinese?
only Eurofighter and Gripen E, they even use the same gimbal afaik
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That is a line that I hope never fades with time. The mask occasionally slips and we get comedy gold.
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The locks sliding all over the place seems to be a common thing across all radars right now. It’s just aggravated on the Captor due to the slow refresh rate.
I took some footage of the Typhoon, Sea Harrier II, and the Tornado just now and it’s present on all of them, you just feel it less on the Foxhunter since it’s scan rate is so much higher. They’re not identical tests I admit but all 3 clearly show the behavior, even on the narrower/faster scan patterns.
Typhoon
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Yeah, even if we can’t get exact figures, it has no business getting outclassed by the F-15s radar in any way. If anything, F-15Es radar should struggle to match Captor
I think most aren’t even demanding it be the best radar in the game (even thought I imagine with supporting documentation it would be…) but just simply on par with its competition, because right, it’s a sad excuse of a radar for an aircraft that is the highest BR and one that should excel at BVR
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I was just thinking about this, but, though there is a good argument for modelling it basicly like a blue vixen with more range atm, it doesnt satisfy a rather critical claim for CAPTOR-M, namely its “ESA-like capabilities”
At the moment its in no way comparable to any of the ESA radars we have in-game, and probably worse than a few if not many of the other contemporary mechanical radars currently in-game
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Why the hell does it even have 9L as a research option when you get 9M stock?
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