It probably wasn’t ordered because it was APG-63v2 or prototype J/APG-1 equivalent or worse
Yes Rafale F3R was far overkill.
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Exactly.
CAPTOR-E and Raven havent been added yet meanwhile the Rafale is steamrolling every match with its AESA.
Though they did say EVERYONE is getting AESA sooner rather than later. So hopefully that will change soon
hope we get them by dec update.
Yeah, fingers crossed.
Especially as CAPTOR-M still bugs out all the time.
Of course, but it’s a consortium, it’s already a miracle for EFT compared to Tornado project. By the price itself EFT was far more pricier than Rafale, and again IMO it’s due to being consortium it’s hard to agree on something, that’s also explained why EFT is more late than other Eurocanards like Gripen and Rafale respectively.
On the bright side, Rafale would be also the first victim when most AESA have arrived in War Thunder. Since Rafale here now serves as the model example how an AESA Fighter Jet modelled in War Thunder.
It doesn’t look bright ngl
Still beats out how they model M-Scan radars
Captor M might currently be a disappointing radar as modeled in game, but on the other side there are a few very infuriating bugs when it comes to ESA radars. The main one being that ESA radars in TWS will instantly pick up missiles fired by enemies head on to you (which also happen to M radar), but will also just forget the plane behind the missile (specific to ESA with the extremely quick refresh rate on TWS targets), meaning that it will need to TWS+ the target again, which for the rafale takes quite some time because of the time it needs to scan its full pattern (unless it’s in the smallest of pattern)
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The new radar targeting might help with that, as you have another method for instantly picking what you want to target.
As you said, this is no different to M-Scans and even just cycling to target the thing I actually want to fire at in the CAPTOR-M is infuriating. Especially when the radar keeps jumping to a contact I dont care about and I have to re-scan the target I actually want. At least with teh AESA actually having its P-Track modeled, the contact you may actually want can still be targetted without having to re-scan it.
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We’ve AESA RBE2 in-game.
Zaslon on Mig-31 no(?)
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Yes that’s what i was stating, my sentence was maybe a bit confusing :
We have a RBE2 AESA in game that kind of behaves like a RBE2 PESA
And some other PESA in the US for B-1 and B-52
Ah really? didn’t know that
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Do any EFTs even officially have AESA?
Yes.
Kuwait, Qatar and Germany all have Typhoons in operational service with CAPTOR-E. Have done so for a few years now
Britain has test aircraft with CAPTOR-E installed (they waited for the Mk2 and so a little behind the curve) but that is more than enough for Gaijin
No, they quite literally didnt wanna use a first generation AESA vs an end-generation M-scan radar, that was explicitly stated.
First gen tech tends to have a lot of issues that need to be worked out, improved, etc… while end-generation systems often tend to outperform the first gen of a new tech. Its what often makes switching to a new type of tech difficult at first, as what the new tech has is unrealized potential, and what the old tech has is reliable fully explored capabilities. Its not like they were slacking either, the EFT consortium did continue working on an AESA as primary radar, its slow integration is most likely simply due to the circumstances of the global situation for Europe since the EFT’s introduction.
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Source for the German one?