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

It’s banned to have any squadron vehicles in this country.

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No? Not in the sense that it would be OP. It wouldn’t be particularly good, but so long as it’s not a premium or tech tree, that won’t make it unreasonable.

It can only be considered unreasonable in the sense that it would be essentially an American PO-2 without a rear gunner and guided bombs. Like, it could be added, but it would be shit.

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Sources differ about its range (10, 12, 15 km), most Russian sources I’ve seen tell about 10 km even for AKM.
Btw there is some confusion on the list about variants (either leakers or devs mistake), last update it listed AK for Romania, while they only had AKM in service, now USSR, Germany and Romania all have AKM listed, although iirc Germany only had AK irl.

How many CMs does the F-15I get compared to the F-15E?

Perhaps the F-15E will be no different than what we already have, but the F-15I will have 360 rounds.

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the main thing that would make the 15E stand out is if it’s labeled a Strike Jet

Which would be devastating in GRB.

yes because the steering of the equivalent of what is a direct beam on a Parabloic mirror antenna on a Phased array radar works by sending off radio waves on diffrent antennas at a diffrent time relative to each other which results in them cancleing each other out partially and that in return makes the effective Beam go another direction than the real beam’s went, the more aggressive the change in direction is the more energy you lose in the effective beam

enjoy my Paint skills (none)

Red: Emitted wave
Green: changed wave
Blue: Beam direction
Thick Black: antenna
Thin black: range “shape”

I found another graphic for how Phased arrays work

grafik

I found a better graphic to show the range cone

grafik

And unnecessary fearmongering.

The technology itself is well understood but the exact capabilities are muddied in sales talk and thereby up to Gaijin to use for balancing.

I hope Gaijin just thrusts AESA into the game just to show people that it’s not some omnipotent end-game solution that obsoletes every other non-AESA carrier.

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doesn’t the ASRAD already have it

exactly, AESA isn’t exactly super technology and while its certainly gamechanging it’s definetly not unbeatable and by no means Overpowered, its just diffrent

I must remind you that the base technology of phased arrays was around since the introduction of Radar, infact the first Radars were ALL what we now call PESA radar, just with less advanced control circuits behind it

an early example of a PESA radar is FuMG 41/42 Mammut

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ASRAD-R has an AESA radar, yes, but its modelled like a PESA radar in that is has only one beam

Probably will be. The whole point of the variant is to be an F-15 with strike capabilities. Don’t see how that would make ground RB tremble though, ground only goes up to 12.0, you can avoid it easy by simply not using aircraft over 12.0 br.

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Im personally wondering if we will really notice any meaningful difference, at least over the good radars already in game.

The engines 100% make up for the extra weight, when CFTs are removed.

with the Current implementation it’ll be a faster PD radar with maybe a bit clearer view

if they correctly implement the range based on angle then the early ones may even be worse than PD radars of the same time for any targets that arent right infront of you

without the introduction of ECM to the game even Multi beam AESA can be implemented without meaningful diffrences to gameplay because sure these radars are harder to Chaff and you can’t notch them easily but current top Air combat is already at a point where you’ll be off better if you shoot your missile first and go hiding behind mountains after

the New missiles that inevitably come with more modern radars will be the most important point to worry about imo

You got a picture of the best jet in England right there!

that’s and odd Typhoon

Ground goes up to 12.0
without a BR increase Air is 12.7 in GRB
Meaning the F-15E would be 12.7

But the real scary part is that as a strike jet it’s spawn cost is independent of the F-16Cs meaning you can spawn both in without incurring a spawn cost increase on the other.

Is it okay without a walking stick? Im sure the Typhoon would be happy to carry its bags for it