Cause this is obviously much more reliable…and on the dev the radar range was the 80km before to the "upgrade of the 100km we’ve had since F15A went live.
and russians(or ex soviet) are quite deep into the belief that the SU-27’s radar(N001) was as good as the original(and possibly PSP) APG-63.
“Aviation in the Lebanon conflict” - Col. V. Dubrov
Even westerners didn’t know the full capability and even the original pre-FET AMP(1978) 63 was superior to a production N001.
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And if you go above the thread you’ll find him claiming NCTR isn’t reliable despite it being the one of reason the F15 could do BVR shots without AWACS.
Its a whole bury your head in the sand thing.
Well
About thrust maybe make another report?
I have some graphs, that tells pit od thrust must be smaller on -220, and highrr maximal thrust. Starting from 1.2(±) mach.(way earlier than in wt)
I already sent them in another thread, i dont remember which, but possibly releated to thrust of F-15C
Also, i have some videos that proves that envelope in wt is wrong
If memory serves, the Russians tried the same thing with R-27ERs, and it was equally crap.
Theoretically, it seems like it should be fairly straight-forward, but there’s not much evidence any of these systems moved on past some early tests, since active radar missiles were already replacing SARH ones.
From what I’ve discovered so far, using NCTR has been a bit problematic. I’m just guessing that it was used on the APG-70 and then on the APG-63V1 and not on the older versions of the -63 ?
( TWS AND RAM was still a thing)
So came around 85’ with TWS.
And its impossible for just apg 70s and v1s to have it as it was one of the reasons F15Cs lead during DS. V1s came later in 90s, only last 43 Cs came with apg70 and for A2A there isnt much difference between 70 and 63. It was also planned for the 63s to have them.
It can’t even lock a target(bomber) at 80km in HPRF LMAO, but until it’s at at 74km(~40 Nautical miles)
@k_stepanovich
Can it at least be able to lock target’s at long range if you are gonna use soviet values, or a good job. The radar is able to enter RAM (MPRF) just under 40 nautical miles and it’s not able to even lock a bomber at 40 N.M in HPRF ingame. Ridiculous
The F15 IRL automatically transfers to MPRF from HPRF at around 30 Nautical Miles, which is done ingame and the only part which he read from the manual. IF the sparrow isn’t selected. It doesn’t go to MEM as you can see, straight from HPRF to MPRF at 35 NM.
What happens with HPRF track is that the lock has never been stable as you can see, it never gives an accurate vector as its just shaking around and only stops once it goes to MPRF
