Especially against R-77s, which should have the worst RCS of any of the ARHs available.
This should be pretty helpful for effeciency, but most interested to see if Priority Track is planned for this update as well as any improvements for the radar actually detecting things
It’s not listed as fixed on the report site, while the MAW bugs are, so i’m not too sure.
On the other hand, we do have this “TWS+” which may involve provisions for priority track.
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Yeah, given the fact the TWS in medium mode cant keep track of the mig-15s doing a lazy turn in test flight, the EFTs radar has got a LOOOOOONG way to go yet
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Currently fixed ones
If i’m being entirely honest, it’s worse than in live right now, which suggests they tried to do something. On live it can (somewhat) track the 15s in testflight, but in dev it simply fails. It drifts off target for seemingly no reason and loses tracks on straight flying threats.
Yeah, was thinking the same, this feels a LOT worse than on live.
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Just played a game in Air RB live and an F-15 was detected by the RWR but the Radar couldn’t find it he was 8km away directly in front of me.
Seeing Dev footage…They haven’t even tried.
Su-30SM will have the Typhoon on toast if it continues to be blind
Positives are we know they’ve tried to do something and there’s a clear differentiation between modern and older radars now, which means we can have high hopes (in severe moderation) that it may be fixed before live.
I expected a working Radar by now its been over 2 months.
we go on the dev and see they have changed the scan pattern and the Radar is still struggling to track.
We aren’t asking for something new and revolutionary here.
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Most likely they got a “number twist” on the RCS part of the MAW which is currently set to 1.0 m² for the 20 km range. Should be 0.1 m² instead and 11 km for 0.01 m² targets like MANPADS.
With the current settings it detects enemy Air-to-Air missiles only at ridiculously short ranges of a few kilometers and MANPADs at even less.
Those numbers are literally just one guy’s estimates off of Wikipedia. They won’t cut it with Gaijin.
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Yeah but even then there’s still something wrong, either missiles have rcs modeled wrong or the sensor itself is modelled wrong, 1.0 m² at 20km is still 0.01 m² at a little over 7km.
Could be wrong here now but wouldn’t the MAW have to use unrealistically low frequencies (for the given antenna size), like S- to X-Band to have that bad of a resultion at the given distance?
True, so something other fishy is going on currently…
There literally ain’t any information from what i saw, maybe this image could be a source if we consider every ring to be 25km, that missile is being tracked at 25km+. Also there should be evidence that the maws should be able to track planes or else how could the iris-t do a 180 to kill enemy planes and missiles, which apparently was stated in a presentation.
MAW tracking planes was already mentioned to the devs which they shot down as it would be extremly OP to have an all around AESA in game which would be able to track all fighter size targets (and FFI them) at up to 44 km in real time while also being able to lock onto and fire missiles at them.
OP until Russia and the US catch up and then it will be a “new feature”
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Yeah but if they model it being detected by RWR that can detect both MMW and LPI emitters (which this MAW apparently is) maybe that wouldn’t be so op after all.
That missile indication is likely coming from the RWR.
Take your pick:
- Pilot designating target by HMD
- Targeting an RWR contact
- Target location provided by data-link
Also note that an ASRAAM fired from an F-18 did a 180° over-the-shoulder kill (and the F-18 does not have a MAWS).
As far as I know there is no credible evidence that the MAWS is used to detect aircraft. That’s the sort of feature which would be a major selling point so you would have expected to see it advertised if it could be used for that. The ability for the MAWS to detect aircraft is also not mentioned in any of these documents:
- The Eurofighter design requirements
- The Praetorian DASS Brochure
- The AMIDS MAWS Brochure
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Yeah you’re probably right, hope they maybe at least fix the range so it won’t be useless and kept turned off because it’ll just be a debuff.