I have asked the question I understand the OLS-35 has illumination capabilities, but per Rosoboronexport its LRF only on SU-30MK2. But naturally it could have been swapped for a newer unit between that brochure publication and now.
Makes me even wonder more if this is Universal across the board among OLS/OEPS IRST and is just not written anywhere.
Anyways thank you
From what I can tell from the RosoboronExport catalogue, SU-30MK2 has only a LRF.
There is the 52Sh IRST module that can do illumination but the export catalogue also lists that as SU-35 only. Which makes sense as the whole system OLS-35 also lists that capability.
Gets slightly more complex as well.
So SU-30MKM and SU-30MKI are LRF only
So it seems after a certain point they started to include illuminators, but aircraft with the OLS-30 do not have that capability and it needs the IRST module swapped for a 52Sh after which the system can do it. But if the whole system (OLS-30) is then renamed to a subvariant when the 52Sh is included I don’t know.
But if SU-30MK2V is a development of SU-30MKK it might have retained the illumination capabilities.
This is sounding like another case of export aircraft getting better stuff because customers are willing to pay for it (ie Algerian Su-34)
Thanks for the insight Gunjob, was really informative. Now I put on my copium hat for 30SM to get it.
No worries mate, I didn’t expect it to be such a minefield.
Just to be extra, this is a pic from Su-35S’s MFD capturing a F-22A being track by OLS-35 in Syria, should it be implement for other in-game IRST with this capability as something like current Su-25SM targeting system but with much lower zoom level and worse clarity since IRST is essentially a IR Camera?
