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wait none of them have aesa radars on their 4.5th gen fighters ? not even pesa i think israeli f16/15 use pesa iirc
It looks to be that the Tranche 4 was delivered but not with the AESA and will receive it in the future if the translation isn’t messed up?
Yes that is my understanding as of now, it’s not that they couldn’t, but maybe there was budgetary concerns or whatever. But as of now none of them have AESA in-service. They did export Eurofighters with AESA/Captor-E so the capability is clearly there and has been there. They (Europeans) also looked into the pre-cursor AESA radar together with France and explored technologies there. France just got going on it soon after and put them into service.
No, France is the only western country to have used PESA in their fighter aircraft in-service ever iirc. Everyone else either jumped to AESA or are planning to jump to AESA.
the translation is slightly missleading
becasue the article was written in the past tense, before germany got the T4 EFs
so they will have an AESA when they will be deliverd from 2025 to 2030
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Somehow the Su-30SM and Eurofighter can now fire and actively guide the R-77-1/AIM-120s with IRST, provided they obtain lock with IRST first and not radar → IRST.
Yep, this is historically accurate. It was reported like 8 months ago for the EFT. Its good its finally been added. Just wish the IRST was a bit easier to use (needs an interface overhaul) and just need our TWS and GMTI modes for the PIRATE now. As well as the Tpod Cueing to locks
No, it isn’t historically accurate (partly). The Su-30SM can guide it since it contains a laser-rangefinder. The IRST on the Eurofighter can fire at a location with some inaccuracy but cannot actively guide it since it lacks laser-rangefinder.
We know it is an unintended change since you cannot fire the missile if you switch the lock from radar to IRST. We also know it is an unintended change since the developers themselves said they’d model passive ranging, which isn’t done currently.
Well, You’ll need to find a primary source that contradicts Flame’s primary source for AMRAAM and Meteor guided via PIRATE. It already had ranging capiblity before this change. Otherwise how would it provide LSZ information without ranging
Good thing Flame’s report specifically states PIRATE fires at the location of the target and doesn’t guide it anymore.
It has some ranging capability even though this ranging capability isn’t completely accurate, and yes there are primary sources that confirm this from the designers of PIRATE.
In fact, the developers agree with this sentiment:
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Right now when PIRATE fires the AIM-120s in-game currently, PIRATE somehow provides datalink information rather than the AIM-120 simply relying on its own IOG.
@Smin1080p_WT will xbox players be able to buy the top secret community update pack before it ends on september 1st? I would love to be allowed to buy it.
129 yes！
229 no！
Huh?
I prefer 129. By the way, has 132 been put into use yet?
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132 has not been put on any F-15’s
What about the F-16?
The F-16E/F Block 60 has them, and there was a USAF F-16C block 30 testbed with the GE-132
What we truly need is S-300P w/ 5V55K.
Hope they can join the game as soon as possible
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