it should be as long player not playing SB mode.
I forgot to bring this up, but heres a neat topic that would help all american players at top tier. In the 80’s, the US began putting directional warheads and “smart” fuzes in their AAM’s. The 2 earliest examples of it (as far as I can find) are the AIM-54C and AIM-7M.
I dont do bug reports anymore, but I do have some info regarding directional warheads, since I was digging into it while looking into the AIM-54C. The general gist of it though (for earlier variants) is they eject their fragments in the desired direction around 20-30% higher velocities than normal warheads, giving them more range. It also lets the designers use less HE filler and more metal/pregramented media to increase lethality with the same warhead volume, which is why the AIM-54C has less TNT filler than the AIM-54A in-game.
But gaijin doesnt model directional warheads. Im not even sure theyy know they exist, and if we told them theyd probs tell us it was some filthy western propaganda or something despite me literally having pictures of the blast:
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Yo I had no idea those existed. That is super cool thanks for sharing, hope it gets implemented.
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Just linking this from the F-15J thread but:
Anyone know what this means?
AN/APG-63 : Designation Lock Tws :
- Bar Height : 2.5 → 2
- Bars Count : 2 → 3
From datamine: https://www.reddit.com/r/Warthunder/comments/194sh14/datamine_233061_233064/
To my layman eyes, it looks like effort being made on TWS?
Number of bars in a scan. And how thick they are.
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Oh so, just the regular radar sweep, unrelated to actual TWS function?
Well its the number of bars and their size in the TWS mode.
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Oh, but so far AN/APG-63 on live doesn’t have TWS mode, so is this a case of just code being worked on in the files, presumably before TWS is brought to live? Or am I extrapolating too much off that datamine?
Could be an unused mode they decided it didn’t have? I don’t know myself.
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I see, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.
Thank you for the information!
3 bars isn’t even an option. 2, 4 or 6, not 3.
Everything on the F-15 eagle radar has been pulled out of someone’s ass. I wonder has deep it is that not even stuff from the -34 is enough proof to change parameters
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I’m not knowledgeable on stuff like this but if they are working on this for the TWS mode, then I’m at least happy knowing we’ll probably see TWS soon. It is my most anticipated feature as a JP main as we’ve not had access to that radar mode yet due to our limited aircraft selection.
What I would give for them to give it all of its ACM modes
The change is for that little box that you briefly get when trying to lock a target you spotted on the radar screen by pressing the “Lock Radar/IRST on target” (the radar searches that area of the sky to find and lock itself onto the target).
The change also has nothing to do with TWS, it is just a small typo in the datamine post.
Spoiler
Here is the change visually:
- The 2.5° and 2° come from the
barHeightparameter, which describes the distance between the bar centers - The 3° comes from the
angleHalfSenseparameter (usually at the top of the file in the transceivers section), which describes the beam width of the radar - The 10° comes from the
widthparameter multiplied by 2 (might be wrong on this one, could be just 5°), which describes the length of each bar from the center of the bar (so half of its length) - Lastly, the number of bars comes from the
barsCountparameter
And still wrong
the acquisition search pattern is 6° az and 2 bar(3.5° with 2.5° BW)
Its just random shit that shows up in the ass
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AFAIK, almost all radars use box scans that are the height of the tallest scan mode or even higher, because the game does not fully support locking targets on the bars they were detected at, so the lock box is just positioned by azimuth and not elevation. Only some TWS aircraft have shorter lock boxes (F-14B for ex). With those you can’t even trigger the lock box with target cycling off if the radar cursor is not on target.
Ah that’s a shame. Was really hoping they were finally working on the F-15 radar again (well maybe they are and this is the first of many changes to come).
The F-15 A could find fighter targets at about 60 nm, it took a while, at 40 nm the targets were found almost instantly. As players already know, the original APG-63 radar could not attack and track another target at the same time.
80nm, not 60nm, in HPRF with high %Pd.
At 30nm-40 in MPRF for same RCS target as the radar switched automatically to MPRF from HPRF at these ranges during track
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Can F-15 get BOL?