as a sim player i am still waiting for the simplest thing for the typhoon that is crucial for sim battles can we get the bloody UV tint on the HUD or give every jet a helmet with glass tint in sim its outrageous i am blind ! XDD
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As a player of both RB as well as SIM I wholeheartedly agree, however as this game is about killing eachother I will emphasize that those systems that make such actions possible, not only assists in such should take priority.
This patch was hurried out in such a horrendous manner nothing would make me happier than seeing a big patch with nothing but fixes would make me immeasurably happy.
It seems to me that gaijin has some difficulty modelling advanced systems beyond the capabilities of the 60’s/70’s cold war era.
The advanced systems we have now seems to be so incomplete across nearly all modern platforms if not entirely missing.
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Also, I do wonder if the Eurofighter has some armor holes, as I’ve been the victim of missiles hitting behind me (direct 6) to and below (missile strikes water).
Not damaging the airframe at all (no shrapnel damage) yet knocking out the pilot. I know this is a major issue in ground and if thats an issue with the ground models I don’t see why that possibility would exclude aircraft.
Anyone have the entire Norwegian EFT power point presentation? I’ve found out that the displays shown on this site might be from there, and I’m thinking of maybe making a bug report to add the missing displays.
@Flame2512 do you have any info on PIRATE’s field of view? It is currently 64° x 40°.
I briefly looked into it and was hoping to compare notes…
If I have understood this excerpt correctly below, the IRST has a dual FOV of 25° and 8° in the vertical axis:
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This is from a 1991 paper from Pilkington Thorn Optronics (PTO) which outlines design constraints for the IR detector used for PIRATE in the context of the EFA program at the time:
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According to a later source from PTO, PIRATE indeed has a dual FOV:
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From what I could find, the IR detector has a format of 4/3. Which would mean FOVs of ~33.3° x 25° and ~10.67° x 8°.
Thoughts? You would have a better understanding of the system than me.
Also according to the first paper, the total scan time for the field of search should be 2 seconds:
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What was that about the FOV
It’s not correct. The 140° value comes from a misinterpretation of what “PPI” actually displays. However, the only source outlining what PPI means is the Eurofighter manual. @Flame2512 will hopefully confirm this.
I don’t think it is a misunderstanding
gotcha
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Much appreciated o7
Gaijin, pls?
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It’s like they’ve forgotten the Typhoon exists - its only the best fighter in 3 of the tech trees lmao
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Its buggy and loses lock too easilly
It acts in game like a Radar and not an IRST system.
I have seen jets notch it…not sure how you notch an IR based system but it happens…
No IFF and the ability to lock recon drones is also massively frustrating.
Its detection range is really short and actually finding things with is challenging. I often find myself flying in circles until the RWR ping lines up. Problem with that though is not everyone has a terrible Radar and they detect you first :(
Also happens on the Stormer…
There needs to be a lot of reworks.
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Seems Rafales getting a supercruise buff in the near future, tho still not up to stated performance.
No word on the EFT’s supercruise getting fixed, pretty sure this’ll mean the Rafale will now supercruise better than the Typhoon ingame. Another L for the EFT, another bug fix for the Rafale…
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I prefer proper working radar rather than proper supercruise ability.
Right now EFT’s biggest downside is the Radar Performance, scan rate is so slow it makes me question whether im using 4+th Gen plane or not.
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Preaching to the choir there, the underlying point being more that the Rafale continues to get buffs/fixes while the EFT and other top tier jets continues to get ignored despite the Rafale already being the best jet in-game. Its not even like the EFT’s bugs havent been passed to the devs, they have, the devs just arent acting on any of them…
Its good that the Rafale is getting realistic fixes, but it almost seems to be the only thing getting fixes at this point. (This is hyperbole for those who arent great with figures of speech)
Thats the main problem, its great to see that Rafale is getting more love and love but ignoring EFT’s problems is not the way to do it.
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