true the Rafale is a bit better than the EF but not by much.
the Rafales RCS is said to be about 0,5m²
wheres he EF is beween 0,5 and 1m²
and about the intakes yes they are boxy wich is not the best for stealth but its the same S duct that the Rafale uses
i mean here thats the radar cross section of it and no its not a secret doc
and about active stealth same applies for the EF it also has Radar Jammers or Cross Eye
Not correct. The actual rcs is understood to be about 0.01m^2 frontally. The question asked was basically, what aircraft would bring stealth mechanics into the game, the answer is Rafale.
i want a source for that
We already have one, you just can’t detect it
You’ll have to wait until the Rafale is added and a report is made ;)
sry i f-ed up the numbers i was going by memory
Rafale 0,05m²
EF 0,05-0,1m²
about the serration look at the RCS scatter from the EF the Canards dont show up at all
and another thing for the air intakes its angled from below on the EF not straight was able to see one irl u cant look into it like that
This comparison cannot make sense. The Rafale has numerous stealth features that is not even available to the Eurofighter.
The leading edge of the canards do show up for the Eurofighter and presumably this is for the best case scenario, head-on.
The point is that the air intakes is visible from the front if the enemy aircraft is at a lower alt compared to the Eurofighter looking directly up into it’s engines. This is not the same for the Rafale.
This would also be the case for the Rafale as both leading edges are Titanium.
Its not from a headon but from slightly below u can see the teststand in the pic.
i dont disagree with that as the Rafale is a doublle S duct and the EF only single S
For like TRUE stealth it would most likely be the F-117. Any other modern stealth fighter is probably (and hopefully) far off in the future as almost all capabilities they have aren’t implemented game mechanics yet so it would be basically pointless before then.
What i personally think is more likely to come first is the addition of Electronic Warfare and thus also Stealth by radar jamming and fake target generation. This would be easier to implement as its basically one or two mechanics and then just add it to the planes that have it internally and design the EW-pods for those planes that carried/carries them.
Where did you get the 0.05-0.1m^2 from? This document shows Eurofighter has an rcs of 1.5m^2
Given that Flanker here has a radar range of 120km for a target with an RCS of 10, the Flanker would detect Eurofighter in look-up at 75km giving it an rcs of 1.5m^2. Reduced look-down is not modeled in-game so it is ignored.
The given equation is 1.5^.25*120000/10^.25
We have more recent documents now which show the RCS of Eurofighter to be ≤1.0 m2 when carrying four AMRAAMs and two ASRAAMs.
That document is either referring to a eurofighter with more ordnance/external tanks. Or more likely simply dates from a time when there was more uncertainty about RCS / Radar performance.
f117 would be the first one
Itll probably be the F117A as an event vehicle to test the stealth mechanic, although it wont be that usefull, and will be useless in air rb, it only carries 2 LGB’s internally and dosnt carry flares, so it wont be seen by radar, but if an IR missiles locks, your dead, its also not very fast
its not “basically no A2A”, its none, it cannot carry missiles and dosnt carry countermeasures
didn’t It have exhaust cooling or something? just discovered that the f-117 is an attack aircraft not a fighter
It couldve, im not 100% sure
Well yea, and it wouldnt be a very good attacker in game due to the low bomb count
it was meant to do precision bombing as it supposedly has a butt load of sensors and tracking systems
and it is a subsonic aircraft
Someone claimed before on the forums it could have 2x Aim-9 (I didnt believe the source, but im also not familiar enough with the aircraft to dispute it either)
Wont be modeled. Harrier should be able to hide its exhaust and defeat any IR missile by just positioning the wing between the seeker and the exhaust:
But in game, good luck defeating any IR Missile with a dozen flares