STT is not a true STT as the radar screen will still update with TWS info from IRST and the radar screen will still be updated with threats identified from RWR/DASS as well as the Link-16 datalink.
This is obviously a game limitation.
I have not seen ACQ modes featured on in service aircraft… I cannot say if these are still present on the tranche 2+
What I do know is that the pilot will use VTAS controlls the majority of the time.
I don’t have a list of the direct voice inputs the pilot can use, but as of tranche 1 this was reported to include 26 critical functions.
My understanding is that most of the radar controls and functions are completed using this system in conjunction with the HMS.
Fox-2 is for IR-missiles, so No?
You don’t need a radar lock to fire an IR-missile.
Or when a teammate accidently shoots you, you also don’t get radar warnings.
Or they could also lock you with IRST which doesn’t give you a warning either.
I apologize, but before I answer I would like to clarify something. The game limitation implies that you cannot track target in a hard lock and detect new targets at same time?
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That’s why I’m asking - we already have aircraft that can lock onto a target and continue to operate in search mode. These are aircraft with separate search radar and track radar. For example, the A32, MiG-19 or Javelin. If I understood correctly what you wanted to convey, then similar mechanics can be used on the Typhoon
The game limitation is that only one sensor can be used for detection or tracking at a time, resulting in only a single source of information being active at any point.
The Typhoons computer processes and combines data from multiple sources and displays it in a concise way to the pilot.
The so called “sensor fusion” that others have been discussing here and on the Rafael topic are essentially what it is but that term is more of a marketing buzzword that has been adopted for how the front systemend is presented to the user.
The back end processes however are unique for each application and are specifically tuned for each unique sub system that contributes to it.
The search and track radar on the Javelin, and A32 is a single sensor that has been specifically programmed to function that way.
Stuff like Pantsir for example use seperate search and track radars and are in different bands, which is why most jets can ID the search radar but not the track radar. So clearly multiple sensors can be used in conjunction, its just not done on jets.
Search radar only at work
Search and track radar at work (track is the line in the middle)
Track radar tracking, search still searching
Video of it
So, yea, some kind of sensor fusion should be possible. The problem here might be IRST and Radar code, but i dunno. One radar is doing only one thing, while the other is doing only the other thing, so that might also be a thing.
Since the Eurofighter is capable of using the radar and IRST at the same time IRL, should the auto-tracking from radar to IRST, where the radar turns off, still exist?
Radar is still not great it has improved, but nowhere near where we perceive it to be. If it was British only programme I could accept some cost cutting measures.
Wing rip, when you are low and fast your wings rip far too frequently. With the control system in Typhoon there is no way the aircraft would give the pilot the necessary G to destroy the airframe.
We need a system modelled to replicate this in game.
Yeah I’ve just played a couple of games, before the latest patch I was running a 3 to 1 KD - Literally not had an amraam kill in 4 games, the radar feels worse lmao
Hard to tell. There are no free documents saying if it should switch like that or no. Both sensors work at the same time, so maybe? I guess in real plane it will make no difference, as sensors are fused, so it will change nothing pilot side.
Amraams feel like they have had a massive nerf low down.
They dominate at high altitudes when launched from a fast jet
Down low they really suffer and are easily defeated
R-77 and MICA EM are far stronger in the low altitude >10km engagements
