That is debatable. For example “pulse compression” is even designed to work with its signal being “quieter” than the noise and uses a matched filter to get its signal back. That’s why it’s also called “silent radar”, because you can’t really detect the signal without knowing its structure as long as the pulse isn’t stronger than the environmental noise. It’s even used for civilian boat applications (not for LPI but better detection/signal-to-noise-ratio). Only downside is that the electronics and software are much more complex and therefore expensive.
DSSS (Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum), which is used in military communications (and even GPS, WiFi, DECT, etc.), uses a similar principle by spreading a narrow band signal over a wide band.
Noise spectrum and signal before filter
Noise spectrum and signal after filter
Jamming is the most effective if you can jam a narrow band with high energy while the jammend device can’t evade to other frequencies. If you want to jam a wider band you have to roughly put in the factor more energy the band is wider (if you jammend 1 MHz with 1 kW, you need 4 kW to jam 4 MHz bandwidth to keep the same jamming strength up). Pulse compression works by “stretching” the signal from narrow band to a wider band (e.g. 1 MHz to 32 MHz) while keeping the same overall energy and using filters to decompress the return signal.
F/A-18A radar (so TWS+ capability being cutoff?) had absolutely no issues finding and tracking Tu-95, though STT was bit unstable, constantly altering speed and direction.
Any launched non datalink Sparrows were flying as if lacking radar return, self detonating 20s later.
Mig-29 radar couldn’t find nor track B-52, but could grab IRST lock, then by switching to radar, which immediately entered memory mode you could launch R-27ER. Then by alternating IRST and radar you could update missile IOG via datalink, in steps. Likely good enough guidance against bomber sized target.
For “pulse compression” you can find a really good write-up here. Altough that’s for weather radars, the principle is the same for any other type of radar which uses “pulse compression”, even though the used frequency-ranges differ.
Gaijin is going to have to improve how radars work with EW if that’s added to the game though a simple version can be done and has. Though it would be interesting if weather messed with your radar a little like real life but people would not like that as it would seem like RNG.
Ya as some air tactics kind of demand you go into clouds to escape a attacker. (more or less a if all else fails kind of tactic you got nothing to lose) Though it is dangerous people have gotten kind of lost in them and crashed. Interestingly air to air heat seekers are reduced in range from what I have experienced inside of a cloud so its kind of already there but I wonder if its even possible without nuking the server. Gaijin might need to invest in hardware to make it work let alone the bandwidth.
I think we need to also address something critical here.
Remember in early Nuclear Thunder where OSAs were being a pain in the ass? A lot of these anti-airs have certain delays on how long it takes to lock a target. OSA is about 20-40 seconds.
This also applies to aircraft carrying munitions. Everything is currently too
instantenous and fast paced for all nations. I think this should be the 1st step before we start trying to increase effeciency of any nation. Like the BUK M3 should take 4-6 seconds to lock a target it’s tracking on it’s radar.
Paramters like this would greatly shake up the dynamic and address some issues
The A-6E SWIP can carry the HARM, not the A-6E TRAM we have in-game. It was temporarily added to the current in-game A-6E during the April Fools event, but it never carried it in real life and didn’t have the avionics upgrades the SWIP (Systems/Weapon Improvement Program) has.
Never take the AI overview as facts, always fact check
