NASAMS - AN/MPQ-64 - wrong radar rotation speed

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Currently AN/MPQ-64 - NASAMS and Claws radar rotates at a speed of 15 RPM (1 rotation every 4 seconds), which is 2 times slower than it should be.

The manufacturer states a rotation speed of 30 RPM, which can be clearly seen in this video:

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZ2aWdpsZIc

And another video with the same truck NASAMS has on dev, also showing a rotation speed of 1 rotation every 2 seconds:

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https://youtu.be/7rn9JyPF8xc?t=30

Manufacturer’s brochures state 30 rpm + back scan as well:

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https://web.archive.org/web/20030311181146/http://www.raytheon.com/products/sentinel/ref_docs/sentinel.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20051201034043/http://www.raytheon.com/products/stellent/groups/public/documents/content/cms01_050669.pdf
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The current rotation speed makes it too difficult to use Aim-9X on CLAWS as it often lacks time to send target location after launch before it dissappears

The rotation speed should be increased from 15 RPM to 30 RPM, which would reduce the target update interval from 2 to 1 second (with back-scan).

Edit:
New report linked below
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ZB6tK00FYYzI

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Yep, made a report about such on the og MPQ-64 along with it’s ESA scanning features.

Gaijin has not done anything about it even though they accepted the reports.

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Gaijin seems to be allergic to ESA scan patterns at the moment. I wonder if their game engine could even handle it if it were accurate. As of now the only once with such search capabilities are forward mounted radars like on the BUK-M3 TELAR and Pantsir, unless I’m mistaken.

Hope to see it added regardless, as vehicles like this and the SPYDER reeeeally need it.

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May we at least finally fix the slow rotation speed? I can’t even imagine how report on this was already accepted during the DEV when CLAWS just came out and then ignored for 6 months. Shouldn’t it have been fixed on the DEV itself, Gaijin?

Its so strange that there is not even a single video or document showing just 15 rpm, how did this even happen that we got what we got?

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