As I said in isolated skirmishes sure having an AESA with no command and control/support assets absolutely. But in combat now it’s the EAWACS airframes that are providing DL and targets.
In the likely INDOPACIFIC theatre Aircraft/land based Radars and Surface fleets will provide DL
Yes and with drones you can use a F-35 or J-20 AESA as an additional EAWACS airframe.
I’ve never played aesa or pesa radars but the M-Scan on the typhoon is still ok, i’m at a disadvantage against aesa/pesa in some situations tho, which sucks but i make it work.
The best advantage AESA/PESA has in game in my opinion is the VERY High Elevation Scan it offers (30 degrees for Rafale, for comparison EF has 8 max), which make it so no plane can surprise you from above or even below, yeah updated tws contacts every milliseconds are also nice, but the EF should have a discount version of that(every 2 sec).
I’ve never had an issue before TWS+ or with a radar other than CAPTOR-M in the British TT. But the Captor-M simply doesn’t work and since TWS+ I’ve had issues with otherwise good radars like Blue Vixen. Something needs to be overhauled next major update
“to balance the yamato, we have given it 60 second reload and massive shell dispersal, it is also limited on armour so that smaller calibre ships can pen it’s armour”