Question about the RWR.
Is it rigidly fixed relative to the aircraft or gyrostabilized relative to the ground?
It looks very strange when a target illuminates me from the left, from a great height, I pitch the aircraft to the left, for a turn and then the same contact appears on my right, because it is in the right half-plane of the aircraft, despite the fact that from the point of view of the terrain - it is still on the left.
Is there a standard weight / fuel amount RAF uses for the eurofighter tests when stating various performance parameters of the jet? Kinda like 13000kg clean is usually used on the MiG-29A when no other mass is indicated
The design requirements for Eurofighter gave the conditions for time to altitude / speed testing as 4,300 kg fuel + 4 x AMRAAM + 2 x ASRAAM so I matched that as close as possible.
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Oh ok if they straight up gave the fuel amount then it’s perfectly fine
Still default… ¯\_( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)_/¯
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btw, what periodic countermeasure release patterns do u use?
Do you leave RWR sensitivity on max? or do you turn it down. Getting quite major input overload in top tier sim including missile launches that arent even at me and wondering if its worth setting it a little lower
Gunjob testing the new Saudi premium :P
Using the long acm mode…man of culture
Errm series 4, interval 0.10. Should be visible whenever I pull the map up.
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You can turn down RWR sensitivity?
Yeah, in the air battle settings.
Only recently noticed it, so probably new but no idea when it was added
No idea how best to use it and what impact 0% has vs 100%
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does this mean we gonna see missile seeker fov in the hmd?
They are insane on the Typhoon, not sure what you are smoking.
smells like it
the .nut file. kinky naming scheme wth
Engine thrust at static and 0.75 mach sea level matches within reasonable percentage the known documentation so this checks out. Too bad it has F-16 sydrome being able to out-maneuver thrust vectoring sukhois.
I do think the performance above mach and at altitude is maybe overperforming in STR, underperforming at low alts and lower speeds in spite of the thrust being correct. Don’t really know the reasoning for this. I suppose the L/D ratios and stuff need adjusted by AoA or whatever.
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I have no idea, but I really hope so. Had a moment earlier tonight where I had a 50/50 chance my Aim-9M was locked onto the right target (was fairly certain, but you never know) and I didnt have time to faf with IRST and I didnt want to alert the guy with a radar lock.
Mach .9 is not the optimal climb profile and is something RAF will adhere to due to noise regulations. The current plane in-game can meet the under 2:30 second benchmark by about 6 seconds if the climbing profile is adjusted to a higher speed.
However this doesn’t change the fact that on lower fuel states it shatters all world records from 9000m to 15000m…and it doesn’t do it by small margins either. The current live flight model can reach 15,000m in 84 seconds if the fuel load is optimized; this is 46 seconds faster than the 1998 P-42 world record of 128 seconds.
The whole entire flight model is a mess. It has been documented that the Eurofighter has an angle of attack limit that is around 24-25 degrees and that the one are where the plane does not excel at is slow speed fighting; in-game the damping limit for AoA is set to around 30 degrees and the manual limit allows the plane to do backflips in-place.
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I did not see @Fireball_2020 's report on sustained turn rate until now;
https://community.gaijin.net/p/warthunder/i/i2HoH7KckE4v?comment=rOFXMJFJnTospEl3NBnsgX6m
The idea is that the EAP (which has by far a superior wing and canard design from an energy-maneuverability standpoint) can do 20 deg/s so the Eurofighter must also? Is that the case?
Are there hard written requirements for 20 deg/s peak sustained turn rate? Is there a dedicated source for that?
As far as I can tell, the comparison draws from “The EAP could do it, so should the Eurofighter” or “EAP did it, so it must have been a requirement”. That mindset is flawed.
@Gunjob In an effort to reduce the weight of the aircraft the usual 1.5x safety buffer for G limits was reduced. The current load limit is erroneous.
Primary Source (fixed link)
@BBCRF Eurofighter wings are not nearly as strong as claimed.
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Slowly but surely getting the hang of the Typhoon in sim. Finding the key change I need to make is to embrace flying high, not fear it. In something like a Tornado F3. Climbing was a sure-fire way to get killed. But now… in the Typhoon, its the key to success.
But man, in addition to the radar improvements, I really want them to allow you to control the elevation of your radar whilst keeping relative control. Being able to angle the radar down would be really helpful, but I also want to be able to point my nose at a target and not have to worry about where my radar is looking.