Major Update "Firebirds" - Rumor Round-Up & Discussion (Part 2)

or both

I just want a good CAS jet for top tier Japan, the AJ is mid and ……well…… fake lol. Either an early F-2 to replace the AJ or some kind of subtree.

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could be both OP modern prototypes with fictional functions at 10.0

If it’s KV-7, I hope it’s 4.0…

Basically, turretless KV-1 ZiS-5.

The 45mm guns would be hardly useful hahahah, but it would be cool to spawn along with KV-1E and T-34E STZ.

I don’t think it should be higher than 4.0 because, being turretless, it is unable to angle, which is what makes the later KVs so strong.

what they do to the turret?

where’d they StuG it?

Dreams come true is probably the KV-7 U-13 with the double barrel cannons.
The premium is probably a Object 140, 430 or any number of other Objects, I hope for the 277.

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I read that AESA normally acts like PESA anyway with one beam most of the time as splitting into multiple beams reduces overall power and thereby range. So for what it’s worth, if that’s true, then it’s not really wrong that it’s modeled that way. Plus I can see AESA also staying that way because in-game locking multiple targets through their UI is going to be painful and confusing (which is why TWS in 3rd person view already only shows one target even though the radar screen sees multiple).

AESA can scan with fewer beams to reduce some of the limitations of Phased array antennas yes

but its useful scanning…angle?(I dont know the english terminology too well) is still lower than on any given Parabolic reflector radar

it’s range is not eaqual at any angle of the scanning beam due to a loss in power proportional to the angle of the fully vectored beam and beyond 60° the beam becomes unusable (this I doubt will be sucessfully added to the game)

and now if you scan with lets say 30 beams on the same array wach is proportionally less strong than if you used only one beam instead

but then again I do not know which radar’s actually have such modes and even less do I know in which mode the Range of the radar is calculated in

the main problem with AESA is that since its current high tech (not really but it’s the cool new thing for aviation) there is a lot of salestalk and half truths, half secrets that surround it

Are they re-editing the teaser to exclude certain subtrees from a certain TT … that’s why the teaser’s late?

its not late

this is the first week of blogs it wasn’t gonna come today

next week is the earliest plausible teaser week

I’ll take your word for it, I don’t know radar well enough.

Re: AESA vs. PESA, as far as I understand AESA is basically (in theory) harder to jam because it can focus so many beams on different wavelengths, whereas in terms of speed, PESA is basically as good as AESA for most situations, albeit it easier (in theory) to jam.

Really hoping SEA comes to China. Been playing China a lot lately, and I’m not saying it’s stale, but having more than some top-tier PLA tanks and having an F-15 would be fun. Lol.

Glad you agree.

Correct

Not really? There have definitely been trailers that come on the first week of blogs before

KV-7 (u-31) and some object vehicle, some people were floating 704 as it but god only knows, could be what was cannibalized to make t-90 i think 187 or 188 but thats also highly unlikely as we just got a premium for that bracket.

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Simple explanation
PESA mas many antennas, but one transmitter, so it can produce only one beam at once, and can adjust it, but it is still only one beam.
AESA has multiple transmiter reciver module, so it can create many at once, and it can adjust them freely.

Would you lot say the F-117 is unreasonable addition ?

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the reason AESA can be harder to Jam is because the behaviour of the Beams can be adjusted with the frequency and you have the option to use multiple beams

this completely negates jammers that “fake” another radar return somewhere below or above the actual aircraft because the fake return will be at diffrent positions on diffrent frequencies

there are more modern jamming techniquies that will still Jam an AESA radar, and in a way even the old techniques will “jam” the AESA radar as it now has to use ´multiple weaker beams to detect the target if it was previously using only one beam

well it is a yes and no as it will depend entirely on br in ground

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So… In game they’ll make it so that AESA can only do one beam at the same time so that its not unfair on the soviets and then say its a game limitation :P