Interesting, a news article from back then was claiming that it was against R-27s XD
What are the limits on manoeuvring while towing the decoys? Do they remain attached no matter what or will they auto retract/jettison at some point?
full flight envelope
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Sounds like a nightmare to balance for War Thunder in that case lmao
Not necessarily, would basically be 1-2 get out of jail free cards (when used right). after that, you are back to being just as vulnerable as before. No different to APS saving a tank from an ATGM at top tier GRB
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It probably would work against those as well. What GunJob posted is just discussing the testing that was conducted on one occasion in the US.
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No one said that they were bad
One successful test against older SAM’s made in the 60s does not indicate it should have a 100% success rate.
You could do us all a favour by taking your gaslighting elsewhere, thanks.
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Yeah
The laws of physics havent changed since the 60s
A modern PESA or AESA still uses a pulse dopplar waveform which can still easily be jammed.
Modern radars primarily use frequency hopping to defeat jamming, but a sufficiently advanced jammer will detect any changes to the signal and immediately counter the counter.
The main reason why towed radar decoys are becoming much more prevailing is because because of the home on jam from active missiles is the most dangerous threat. You don’t want your 100 million dollar fighter jet to be the primary target, so you drag a giant blinding bullseye some 100 meters behind you instead.
The only way to defeat the jam, is to completely overpower the incoming signal, by chirping, frequency modulation or just burute force.
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I love coming to this thread for the daily dose of Mig_23 waffle, it’s great entertainment
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AESA far harder to jam than PESA or M-scan but sure
rafale spectra is not effective against AESA radars too, same would apply for most DRFM jammers
That’s only due to the speed at which it can perform waveform modulation.
A sufficiently advanced jammer can still counter that.
A sufficiently powerful jammer will still overload an AESA antenna.
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yeah but what jammer can do this? only one i can think of is ALQ-99 on EA-18G that can go toe to toe with AESA radars output wise
ALQ-99 is only dedicated jammer I know of that can counter AESA radars effectively by being advanced (F-35 and to a degree F-22 can do this)
edit: EPAWSS on F-15E and F-15EX can do this too, same with IVEWS on upgraded USAF F-16’s
So your argument TRDs being useless/bad is that the RAF in the 1990s tested them against 1960s SAMs, decided “eh good enough” and employed them and continue to employ them 30 years later on their most advanced fighter aircraft and you reckon that they never bothered to test them vs any SAM system made in the last 60-70 years?
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I made a suggestion for customisable MAWS slaving, as the Typhoon has this I thought people here might want to check it out and leave feedback?
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Great suggestion, definetly needed and defiently LONG overdue
Exactly, before you had to drive all the way to the asylum. Now its just one click away.
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So I finally got around to it (actually I just fixed the camera and was able to run opentrack) and try out Typhoon in AirSB. And oh my god, how ridiculous this ridiculousness is.
It feels like I came to a shootout blindfolded. Tracking empty space, tracking missiles, losing contact in strait flight in clear sky, the inability to pick up a contact with the cursor if at least 2 seconds have passed since the beam passed (as far as I know, selecting a target with the cursor is a normal way to control a real radar), etc.
The way it feels in an airplane, one of whose features is sensor fusion, is just ridiculous. In AirRB you can at least navigate by markers, and in AirSB you are your only sensor - the radar (no, well of course you can look for contacts through the PIRATE thermal imager… Good luck throwing an amraam through it. And good luck with the friend-foe indicator too.) And my god, it’s physically painful.
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Yeah, definetly the greatest weakness of it so far. The general tactic i’ve been employing is ultra defensive play, put myself into positions where I can give the radar time and then engage when optimal to do so. But yeah, its not just Blue Vixen, something is definetly fundementally wrong with the radar
Right, but use of active seekers on missiles as well as multiple seekers, multi-mode seekers, datalinks have all vastly improved.
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