We all know Gaijin likes to add controversial vehicles. Since UK is getting more commonwealth vehicles in the future it isnt that far fetched to think UK will get that MiG 21.
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If you don’t know for sure, don’t act like you do.
When did I say its coming in the next update. I said it will certainly come at one point.
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And you don’t know that for sure.
Why would I know that for sure. I’m not a gaijin employee. It’s not that hard to speculate something based on previous events.
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This
Well you are overreacting here.
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Whatever helps you sleeps at night.
I’m not arguing with you
Okay.
There is no need to expect AESA, even Russian 4 gen+ aircraft does not have AESA
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that is really just a budget thing tbh
if you’re able to make PESA then AESA is also easy to make, it’ll just cost you exponentially more
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A fun video i came across recently, which can give a rough idea of mechanical vs AESA :
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If you want to picture PESA, just take the video on the right and imagine one beam instead of multiple beams
PD sweeps left-right-left-right and repeat, and you can change the vertical angle, but slowly.
PESA is electronically steered, so it can point 1 beam in any direction needed at a high rate.
AESA is basically a super PESA, because the radar is divided in multiple transmitter/receiver modules, which can work independently. Therefore, you can have multiple beams looking in multiple directions simultaneously. Of course, the more modules are assigned to 1 direction, the longer the range is, so if you want to look in multiple directions at the same time you may lose a bit of range (pure speculation on my part : i assume it’s automatically managed by the radar’s software). Modern radars have between 800 to 1800 independent modules usually
RBE2 AESA of rafale for instance :
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Modern radars can also “jump” in frequency, meaning they can randomly chose the frequency they want to emit in, making them harder to jam, and more difficult for RWR to identify, since it can be seen as “random noise”
The way the steering is done without moving the plate itself is by delaying the beam transmission across the antennae, like in this schema (PESA in this case) :
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So the advantages of PESA are :
- larger volume of detection (you can see it as a cone instead of a slice)
- much higher refresh rate
And AESA brings :
- multiple beam capability, making it more reliable at tracking very fast objects (especially useful for ships needing to track supersonic/hypersonic threats)
- the ability to emit on multiple frequencies simultaneously
Disadvantage of AESA / PESA :
- the more off boresight the target is the lower the range is, since an PESA/AESA dish is fixed, the beam has to be generated with an angle relative to the dish, unlike PD where the entire dish turns. If this angle becomes important, the beam loses in range
I think one of the radar on EFT deals with this by going back the old ways : AESA dish on rotating mechanism, like good old PDs, easy but smart (personnally i would have went with a cone shaped AESA, but i’m no radar engieneer, there must be a good reason why it hasn’t be done yet)
Fascinating subject really, and those are just the basics
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Basically yes. in a PESA, all the transmitter antennae are connected to the same “transmitter/receiver module” (TRM), while in an AESA, each antenna gets its own module. That means you have to be able to produce high quality micro-electronics for all those TRMs to fit.
Oh what could have been…
https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1149373013737865246/1223575626145988698/image.png?ex=661a5a9a&is=6607e59a&hm=1a5599b0478c484c4368b97ee1d2fe60de71f6771c4869551b99f9e9b96d3669&=&format=webp&quality=lossless
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True but then you get the mob that thinks talking about C&P is off topic.
Which is always against the people who don’t care about C&P
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Hmm. Its april fools in like 2 days and gaijin havent disclosed much information regarding the topic, I guess it may be linked with the next event(by rewarding decals and other decorations around the theme of the april fools content, or maybe the vehicle skin as well).
Anyways, we dont have ideas about the next event tank too. Any guesses? Again, I would say something American or Swedish but we cant be too sure.
Ironically, April Fools events are more closely guarded secrets than major update contents.
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I can see why. April fools(or other events) were sometimes used to test new mechanics that might affect the game for longer, take an example, last year we got a second round of “spike open beta” and followed in with the QN506 and then other vehicles like freccia KF41 and recently vilkas.
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I hope its testing a new mechanic instead of just another boring grind event