Big thank to lot of whiners that need to keep multipath as free ticket to avoid ARH otherwise they can’t do anything.
To be fair dodging a fox 3 at long range is even easier than using multipath to avoid it, you just need a good defensive circle/turn to make the seeker lose you. This ofc changes the closer you get to the furball, and even in that case, multipath can get bypassed by high aspect launches.
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Just flew 2 sorties in it, died twice, once to a teammate (average blueside player lmao) other time to 6 su 30s pushing me to air field (was like a 3 v 9 it is what it is), got 6 kills. Honestly, no problems with the radar. No ghosting, nothing like that. Worked perfectly fine. Technically only got 1 kill from radar bvr, every other kill was from HMD targeting.
Then of course you had no issues, you hard locked instead of using the TWS.
If you need to hard lock because the TWS is so buggy it’s unusable then clearly something is wrong
Which is fine if they are within those ranges you can lock them with HMD and not depend on the Radar
Saying the Radar is fine because I can use HMD isnt thw full story
i mean its generally good practice to use hmd instead of tws at close range on every radar, even on the rafales
Nah I never had issues in bvr using the radar, albeit I only used narrow scan (didn’t need to use medium or wide scan at all), and then within 20 km, why not use hmd?
Agreed but I would also like to be able to reliably detect and track targets further than 20km away
its been reliable in my experience
I’m not going to lie, the wide scan is horrendous, literally no reason to use it. Medium scan/narrow scan are fine, although I don’t see a reason to use medium scan most of the time other than finding targets. Narrow scan is almost always the way to go.
Narrow scan works.
But in air rb it’s pretty bad. You cant switch between
Targets reliably.
And ground battles they find you first
Yes 1 v 1 Captor M is fine, but in 16 v 16 it’s a liability.
Unless it’s SB and you have no idea where the target is visually
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even in sim using the hmd on the rafale is still more reliable than relying on tws at close ranges. there is not a single radar that dosent suck at tracking targets at close range
Rafale gets HMD IFF something thus far been denied to the typhoon, so you need to TWS to sometimes IFF what it is you can see.
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I cant let this stand its missiing like 40% armor on the front. not gonna start with the other areas
PS thats 40% against KE. CH is another thing its underperforming
Well that’s some pretty damning evidence that says they used Blue Vixen as a base. I have no idea how they managed to make it worse than the radar it was based on.
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wait till you find out every fm in the game is based on the p51d5
but what is that based on?
Why wouldn’t they? Real life CAPTOR-M was based on Blue Vixen.
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The mechanical steering of the CAPTOR-E would give it the ability to maintain lock / view of the target while staying in the notch (though not as good as Su-35’s 60 + 60 = 120 deg steering):
Rafale’s RBE2 is limited to 70 deg for comparison.
It will also carry more missiles than Rafale.
The main advantage of Rafale will be the IR MICA and IR MICA NG, though the effectiveness of those remains to be seen, given most of the planes that they face will have MAW.