i think it is a buff tho
on the devserver it only managed to detect missiles out to 5.5km for me
Something else interesting is that the Eurofighter’s RCS reduction report stated the Eurofighter should have an RCS of less than 1m^2 while carrying 6 missiles.
Say they give the Eurofighter an RCS of 0.5m^2. It could carry 6 missiles with an RCS of 0.045 each, which comes out to be about 0.27, add that to the Eurofighter’s 0.5m^2 and then the Eurofighter still has an RCS of less than 1 with 6 missiles.
From the pure raw numbers only, it is the same. Its possible maybe that the change makes it more consistent in picking up missiles further away at around 9km or so, I don’t know.
thats brobably because it dosent take the pylons into account
Of course it did, the report says the Eurofighter was carrying the missiles and that must include the pylons.
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i dont mean the bug report i mean gaijin
i mean they also dont do proper drag for pylons
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Its a huge buff in consistency rather than range, threats are picked up much quicker and way more consistently.
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Have you tested at what ranges it picks up missiles now and how reliably? I was pretty excited to get the time to impact for missiles on the display (should also show on HMD, tho im not sure if thats coming with this update?) but heard the MAWS was pretty horrifically bad according to dev server testing, and even 9.5km is not exactly a ton of warning for a missile travelling at over M2.0.
Granted, the radar and other VR exclusive bugs are likely going to keep me away from the EFT again this update…
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Only against the test drive ADATS, which it detected at all possible launch ranges. Before it was pretty hit or miss.
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Also at all angles? Or only MAW angles?
I think the range change is just to be able to better read it, from testing me and another guy did with the 20km range it still detected at just under 10km, the new range translates to a little over 20km for 1rcs, which it was before too.
Only problem was that if doing turns the maw couldn’t tell the missile was going for you, i’m not sure this got fixed. This isn’t because the maws cant see the missile in a turn, it’s because suddenly the missile isn’t going straight for you and is filtered out.
Only MAW otherwise how do you expect it to detect things haha.
Is it possible to connect missiles picked up on radar to the MAWS for like a super front aspect MAWS or are we not there yet?
Speaking of, any idea why gaijin give the EFT’s MAWS the current elevation blindspots? I understand there are elevation blindspots for it irl (iirc stated to be quite small), but in gaijins current model, each sensor provides ±60° in azimuth, but only ±45° in elevation, which leaves a rather substantial blindspot above and below the aircraft.
Id assume thatd be part of the sensor fusion theyve begun to implement, tho doubt hats been implemented in-game yet.
Couple that with how horrifically bad the radar is ingame in the firat placw and the chance of it picking up a missile coming at you in the first place are basicly nil unless you are activelly looking directly at the launch aircraft with your radar when it happens…
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The only thing i wish for is RWR cueing.
Wouldnt have to rely on gaijins horrific implementation of CAPTOR-M, what a beautiful thing that would be 🥲
If there is evidence for better coverage a report can be submitted for sure.
With the Power of Sensor Fusion)))))
RWR Notices Missile, MAW cant confirm because Blind spot
So chaff gets triggered via RWR ))))))
(Anyway, cant wait to update my list for the EF reports :) )
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We don’t have RWR slaving as of yet, so when we do sure, but not yet.