Depends on their speed and alt and range and all that. IIR should be able to pick up a target although I would be skeptical of it picking up a fast target that has low heat signature.
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That may be worth asking a Mod or Smin why its missing / making a report, as the Type 81 (C) TA Radar just got ESA TWS;
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So the Type 81 radar constantly updates targets in a 55 degree cone?
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Its been bug reported, as per the comment I was replying to:
@Gunjob mind taking a look?
Unless you meant I should make a seperate report that specifies its missing the ESA functions entirely in-game? Cuz though its correct to say the update rate is too high rn, its kind of missing the crux of the issue, which is that its supposed to be an AESA radar, but is currently modelled as a pure mech scan radar…
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Does it work in the 360 mode, or only in the front zone scan?
i can give you good answer because im not an expert on this but it has pov of 0.25 should lock on after DL give it information and guide it all way via radar"
this should really give SLM an edge 40g is all you need to hit anything great report werecat888
I don’t know whether it currently works at all or not, it may still be WIP on SAM Radars.
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It only scans a 110 deg arc centered on the radars current direction. Should work in both modes though.
Its not something you select in-game, its basically a background process. Its why so few people seem to understand how to properly use the Rafales radar for example, because unless you know what its doing and how it works, there’s literally no real visual indicators its doing anything.
To explain the Type 81’s, what its doing is scanning 28 2.5deg bars that are 110deg wide, centered on the current radars centerpoint, and it does it every 0.04sec. Everything it passes over in that scan that already has a trackfile has their trackfile updated.
This is why the update rate and lock stability is incredibly high on ESA’s in-game, and its why it can continue to track targets that have left the current scan zone (the scan zone being what you see/define, its the area where you can pick up new targets).
Its basically gaijins form of the radar assigning individual beams to update multiple targets simultaneously.
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asked smin if its still coming ir if it needs to be reported
I know how it works, and that is precisely why I don’t think it works in the 360.
If it does, that would mean the radar can update things behind it.
I mentioned i got 185mm because I modeled the missile from the picture so that’s what I had to use to stay consistent and I had to mention it cause it was slightly different from the 180mm that’s circulating in the forum.
I frequently use pixel measuring to measure APFSDS and I know finding diameters accurately is always a challenge due to their small size. I never said it is exactly 185mm.
Then you came anouncing the diameter is 177.8mm and providing two low resolution renders as evidence.
After working in engineering/product development space I gurantee you marketing renders are often slightly different from the actual product (this can also happen with marketing props but it’s more rare).
The pictures are low resolution. In the first picture the diameter is about 43pixels so the measuring accuracy is 2.3% and in the second one it is about 20pixels so the accuracy is only 5%. For reference the difference between 185 and 177.8 is 4%.
You also said you used a length of 3450mm. First, there are no reliable sources for the length. Second, in the first picture you literally can’t see where the missile ends so you can’t accurately use its length. Third if you use your second picture and the well documented length of 2940mm for the normal iris-t you get a length of roughly 3370mm for the slm, so your post is already inconsistent with itself.
Also, what does ~7inch mean exactly? 185mm is less than 7.3 inches. In my opinion 7.3 is ~7. The point is you felt the need to sloppily correct something but ended up contributing nothing.
And no I didn’t “include the launch rails”, lol.
No it wouldnt, cuz the fastTWS zone is only ±55deg wide, centered on the radars current direction. So while the radar spins, the fastTWS mode will continue to update the targets that are within that ±55deg wide zone
So i was busy today and really didnt have time to catch up with second dev server and all the changes.
Is SLM better now?
I really want to buy the easy eight pack but im not spending a dime on this game if the SLM keeps performing as it did during the first devserver
It is alot better now
Still underperforming but it will now reach higher speeds and distance
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Theres a writte source that says 180mm and 3400mm.
Fingers crossed it only gets better then.
Gotta check on Spyder status then.
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Much better against Planes, worse against munitions (caused by too agressive Loft, may become even better against planes with optimized lofting).
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My guess is that the logic is programmed during the launch and depending on the type of target and distance, the aerodynamic cap is jettisoned at the most optimal time to preserve aerodynamics, but like Mythic said, there could be more than one scenario.