30° angled up, this allows the radar to deflect incoming radar emissions up and off into space. Its a stealth/RCS reduction feature. ECRS employs this as the radar is always at 30° angle off bore. Fixed plates are often mounted at 30° but not always usually down to the room in the nose.
Top of my head;
Probably a few more out there to.
yeah but in game purposes it would really limit its stealth capability because if you want your missile to actually get a kill instead of being easily chaffed/notched you need that tws lock and 70 degrees just wont cut it you would have to close the gap and risk getting shot by r37ms and r77ms pl15s meteors and so on and when they do track the f22 they can simply get in notch use 120 each side and stay there damn its shame f22 cant be that goated sniper as much with this limitation its has everything but gimbal limit
woah so 30 + 60 equal 90? if that’s so it would way better than 60 flat
True to a point, if stealth is effective you would be able to launch much further out long before the other aircraft would have a track to return fire. The idea then is the missile has gone pitbull before you need to do much of anything defensive.
Yeah that’s exactly right however due to the fixed plate you do lose a non trivial amount of coverage in look-down.
The radar can look-up just as well as ECRS (note the scan zone at 100° above the Super Hornet);
However in look-down;
Hasn’t yet materialized as far as I know. I don’t know if it was completely canned but with the new 6th Gens over the horizon I’d be unsurprised to find it was cancelled completely.
Someone was playing Nuclear Escalation…
yeh i notes that f18e if you turn sideways you can notch a missile while guiding your own but you will feel dizzy a bit lol 😂 feel like im in Eurofighter
ahah Its the main game mode to me, few rough edges still but I typically have fun, and its been very fun trying to see what weapons work and what doesn’t.
That’s fair
I’ve been using it to grind out my MiG-29M, since ASM stuff is really easy.
(Plus a lot of the NE players aren’t that good)
I was trying out suppressing the ship with AARGM-ER while firing ASM’s at it. funny enough its hard because the AARGM-ER is very quick so the timings get interesting.
I haven’t tried the Super Hornet a lot, and when I did I prefered the PoBIT or F-15E (Since I love using JSOWs).
But doing ASM stuff with the Super Bug maybe fun.
Its a very fun jet. Got a decent avionics kit and enough stand off weapons that you don’t suffer too much from the lack of MAWS, just gotta watch that RWR and look for the smoke trails from the GBAD systems to get an idea which is actually targeting you and which ones you’re just in the illumination cone for.
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usa fumble f22 like this man so much potential just to let it go this fast
The main issue for me is just… The speed…
It’s the same reason I don’t like the MiG-35 that much outside of duels.
Usually in NE I go high and fast to avoid the SAMs, And the Super Hornet isn’t really the fastest.
yeh but 12 aim120d that can actually pull and with cherry 🍒 on top 2 aim9m you are set for life wish f18 was just a teed bit faster but it is what it is ayh
Yeah but the speed is a hard pass from me sadly.
Yeah its pretty stark jumping in the Super Hornet after cruising around in the Eurofighter haha. I can get the Super Hornet up to about mach 1.3~ which is enough for some good AMRAAM/AARGM-ER shots. But the F-15GE isn’t something I wanna be fighting in BVR with the Hornet for sure haha.
I wouldn’t worry about it too much, the if/when F-22 shows up it will be very good I don’t doubt that. The flight performance alone is in its own category.
