You are trying to use it as a search mode, it’s not a search mode as RWS or TWS. It’s supposed to aid SA DURING(I’m Emphasizing during) STT. You are misguided, its not supposed to replace RWS or STT, but aid the limitations of STT and RWS.
TWS has no place as it wasn’t even a thing on the F15 when RAM was used, no point in bringing it out. It provided better SA thus replaced it.
You can’t. Why? Because RWS doesn’t generate trackfiles unlike TWS. On RWS you just get the information on range and azimuth.
Same way you loose SA of flanking targets when you go STT on a target ahead. But you don’t loose SA of targets in its vecinity as you can go to RAM.
It’s fine for me. Sometimes my TWS tracks random stuff which is really annoying. I use manual target selection instead of cycle selection. But when I try to track in the TWS, it will track a completely different target. It can even be a missile that’s briefly detected and the tws lock will remember that missile lock for a brief moment. Also, sometimes the acm just goes for someone with a lot less PD than the enemy I’m trying to track with a lot more doppler.
But I feel it’s better compared to the JAS39C SA and F16C. But to be fair, I do feel minor differences. Maybe the JAS39C’s TWS is a little weaker, but I don’t mind.
The tws issue is gate brackets outright jumping onto something else even on the opposite side of scan? If yeah, same issue in sims. For some reason it loves to do that even if firmly tracking. But its not like it cant be dealt with. Its just annoying af.
Yeah i got the f15c it’s like it’s slightly better than the f16c, which is strange since the MSIP 2 radar is pretty powerful if i’m not mistaken.
But even so idc that much because i’m loving the eagle, ingame it’s by far my favorite plane now. I thought the stock grind would be bad but by turning off the radar and bombing i was able to get amraams considerably fast.
I wouldn’t say that. F-15J is based on an F-15C, so it is unlikely it wouldn’t have had PSP radar.
It also later received upgrades for wiring and fuselage hardpoints to make it AMRAAM compatible, but without known radar change. I doubt it would’ve received those if it was limited to basic F-15A like APG-63 radar.
