Well, the most advanced mechanical “radar” isn’t really worth being called “radar”; the goldfish is more fitting.
What about cost and production number? 🤔
the radar is fine, it is by far the best mec scan radar in the game
Its not though, just straight up isn’t.
Id be hard pressed to even consider it an upgrade over Blue Vixen in the FA2/Gripens (and tempted to even go as far to consider it a downgrade to the Blue Vixen) and the Foxhunter in the Tornado ADVs completely destroys it.
Pretty much the only M-Scan radars it is better than at the moment are the soviet M-Scan radars and thats not difficult to do
3 Likes
I would say f-15 or f-16 radar has better tws patterns and thus a better radar
it has been perfectly fine for me
I’ve barely touched the Typhoon because im having to spend 90% of my time just getting radar to perform basic tasks such as detect the thing my nose is pointing at and that I can visually see. let alone find the contacts I cannot see with the mk2 eyeball. I have to spend more time with my head in the cockpit than out.
Between the Tornado F3, Sea Harrier FA2/Gripen C and the Typhoon. I consider the Typhoon as the worst radar of those 3/4 aircraft by no small margin. I’ve even had less issues detecting aircraft with the Blue Fox radar in the Sea Harrier FRS1 than the Typhoon.
Even upon the standards of “normal” m-scan radars its a complete buggy mess that needs to be deleted and remade from scratch. But its not a “normal” M-Scan radar and its missing most of features like GMTI and Priority track.
2 Likes
if you think the eurofighter has a buggy unusable radar i think the thing attached to the front of the f18 might actually give you an aneurysm
Since the last major update and the introduction of TWS+, anything and everythign with TWS+ seems to have had issues, I’ve even noticed a decline in the performance of the Foxhunter and Blue Vixen which have been fairly solid radars for all of 2024, but the Typhoons radar has never functioned properly and in fact was 10x worse on release than it is now.
as of the current patch it seems pretty good honestly, its yet to give me a single instance like whatever this is so it gets a pass from me Watch fascinating | Streamable
Only issue it still has is that it just loses track at closer ranges because it can’t update fast enough, and if they added the priority track it would be a decent radar.
In SB it’s not felt as much because you have a lot of range and time to figure out where the enemy is, in GRB you pretty much have to get Eye Implants.
Looks to me like its just tracking missiles.
if they were then one of them would have set my rwr off which none did even well after the clip ends
I find in ASB the biggest issue is that it takes multiple scan passes to detect anything. If you can get something on the radar scope, then its fine and usable with babysitting, but quite often just wont detect anything
Unless none of them were targetting you and you were outside the FoV of the seeker. which to me it looked like you were. Would need to see the clip again in sensor view
I’m gonna be honest if it’s close enough that i cant wriggle the radar on it i can usually see it with the eyes, if it’s above and can’t see it to get the track i continuously elevate and depress the radar and usually it will show up as a single stationary contact(no time for the second pass), and i just insta lock it, then check it on NCTR.
Very rarely will i get a target on radar that’s not already looking at me(or my direction) anyway, so i learned to look for them more efficiently.
Also if you can, play against Full America team in SB, it’s easier because they have a roughly equivalent radar(and all their planes are worse).
with how gaijin models rwr and radars you dont need to actually be target by the missile for it to set your rwr off as just being near it will do it due to side and rear lobes
you can see this in these clips where my rwr briefly goes off due to being close enough to a missile despite not being tracked in either
I’ve had it too many times where I had to go on the full defensive because my radar never found whatever was locking me, no matter what I try. I’ve even had it a few times not find the dot or contrail I can see with my own eyes without taking 5+ seconds of radar beating.
Also, I play the FGR4, so im against Su-30SMs and Rafales most of the time. Im at a total and complete radar disadvantage.
The second clip shows you clearly being targetted by a missile and the first you got a single beep
This is a fairly typical day in the Typhoon
I could not make heads or tails of what was going on to my left when taking off