Incomprehensibly huge nuclear ball vs. jet engines isn’t close
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6 Jet engines next to each other!
this is at range effectively a Big bright ball for an IRST
did you really think this wasn’t exaggerated?
F-35 is american. They’d be fighting alongside each other. It’s different era’s of technology being upgraded.
How much further up are you talking? The only search results I can see from the last couple of days are just you claiming 190 mile detection range without sources.
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You asked what other plane does that, and i answered it.
I think I posted it on the F-14D suggestion thread.
Edit: @Flame My bad. I said 200 in the original.
Pilot statements? Do you have any actual documents that proves IRST range? That’s not the f-14d manul
Seems like there was some improvements over the years
Thanks.
Though your video does seem to counteract this claim
Referring to the tanker at 190 miles range he claims “APG-71 isn’t going to find it at that range”, and that “[the radar operator] couldn’t get a lock until like 100 miles”.
Meanwhile CAPTOR-M can track an airliner (remember that the US’s main tanker aircraft are converted airliners) at over 200 nautical miles range. Not bad for a radar that is less than 1/3 the weight of the AWG-9 / APG-71.
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I would like to make it clear, I think Europe needs to step it up and I’m not impressed with their equipment whatsoever.
Accidentally deleted my older response.
TLDR: Yes, the Captor-M has more range on tanker sized aircraft, but the F-14D can use DL to double it’s range to more than double the EFT’s range. And the guy was talking about another aircraft, not the RIO when he said he couldn’t get a lock at 100 miles. He said the IRST slewed it to the APG-71 at 190 miles. EFT and Captor-M aren’t bad IMO.
the EF has also DL that is a non argument
Not the same. EFT uses DL from other sources paint a picture on it’s display.
The F-14D links up only with another F-14D to natively increase it’s range to 740km. It’s not being sent information, it’s making the information. Huge difference.
is that other F-14 perchance 300km infront of the othere one?
Nope.
so where is it?
for all i know the other f-14 might as well be right next to the target
Are you trying to lead me on with hypotheticals because you don’t understand or?? I can explain again if you need me too.
So… how does that work? If we have two F-14s trying to detect a target that neither radar can actually detect, how does the DL display that target? With what information?
That’s how the mig-31 was used. It doesnt add more range tò the radar , It makes the coverage wider.
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not really you cant magically double you radar range through DL like he claims
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