hold up wait a minute F14B radars heavly nerfed and that thing can hit targets a 100 miles
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I’ve had the Typhoon’s radar pointed at something I could visually see and nothing, not a blip on the radar screen. I cant imagine how many targets i’ve never know were even there because the radar never found the target. (in ARB you can avoid some the issues because you dont need the radar to find targets, and can just hard lock everything using the HMD, not an option in ASB)
There is something fundementally broken with the radar, and is widely considered inferior to its predecessor the Blue Vixen currently, which just makes no sense, at worst they should be equal. They are not even close.
And thats just basic mechanical scan radars, not including all the missing functionality like Priority track, which makes its into a psuedo AESA-like radar in what it can do.
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Same with f14s it’s rough
I’d guess 12.7, as a slightly weaker Gripen A by the sounds of it. But yeah, would make a good premium for that BR, Should make a proper suggestion for it
no not saying your wrong except i believe the f14B radars a bit stronger for mechanical radars at least
nicknamed the flying microwave for when it flys over electronics it cause massive jams
An ESA radar, IRST and more ground strike weapons might not be in their eyes enough to justify a new variant, they might unfortunately skip it. I sure hope not.
They also might have their own Sekrit Documents for centerline PL-12s demonstrated on the J-10C
Or if you want a real conspiracy theory we might see the PL-12A along with the AIM-120C-5 and friends
Ive had a similar issue with the N001VEP where often times especially in TWS it just refuses to lock anything I assume its the abysmal scan rate but man that coupled with the R-77 makes it imo one of the worst 13.7
Nah, I doubt it. Sure, probably good when it was new, but I seriously doubt it would even come close to the performance of the CAPTOR-M.
Blue Vixen, the CAPTOR-Ms predecessor was considered on-par with AN/APG-73 despite being smaller. So Blue Vixen was/is a better radar than the AN/AWG-9
I would I’m just lazy lmao
Sometimes i’ve thought that, and is the excuse I usually come to in something like the FA2. But in the Typhoon. I had this:
In the replay, it looks like the radar spotted it, but in game, it saw nothing until I switched TWS modes. Scan beam definetly passed over the target multiple times
blue vixen and AWG-9 are 2 different classes of radar. AWG-9 with a skilled operator would beat blue vixen. APG-71 would probably give CAPTOR-M some competition
Yeah the Russian radar is bad because well it actually is a pretty bad radar irl and iirc it is missing features but the EF is just bugged.
I would still confidently put my money on a 1990/2000s radar being better than one designed and built in the 1960s.
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Yeah, hopefully the scan bar bug fix will help a bit there.
But yeah, from a few people who’ve commented on both their experiences in the Su-27 and Typhoon. They prefer the Su-27s radar because its bad but fairly accurate. Typhoons radar is bad and just makes them mad
do you have specs on that gaijins basing i could figure out i have tomcat manual
F14A and B have same radar so im gonna base it off the A manual
well APG-71 is from 80’s and very powerful, so it should be able to compete with early CAPTOR-M
I don’t know if I missed an episode or if the decal is just new but could it be a first teaser of J15??
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I mean I would still take a EF because the R-77 coupled with a terrible radar is just so sad. I wish we had something like the MiG-29M (with a fixed flight model bc for some reason the MiG-29s flight models are still terrible) where you can carry a decent amount of missiles including the R-77 on an aircraft with a good radar it would probably be 13.7
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Nothing solid, just know that Blue Vixen is considered on-par to superior to the AN/APG-73 found in the F-18C.
based upon messing about with the F-14A IRIAF. I prefer the Foxhunter and Blue Vixen over it massively