Panavia Tornado (UK versions) - Technical data and discussion

So unless im totally confused it will have coverage something like this?

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One pod gives full 360° azimuth coverage IIRC, but otherwise yes

So Azimuth would be the top view changing from a semi circle to a full circle minus what is blocked by the airframe?

Terms blindspot should mostly be in the forward hemisphere from above. It should have full coverage below, left, right, front and back. With it having coverage for the back from above as it it has a upward facing sensor mounted on the tail end of the terma pod

Though I might be looking at wrong terma pod

Doesn’t seem to be warning from even a third the region your diagram suggets it ought to.

The top image would be a full circle. I very much doubt Gaijin model the airframe blocking the sensors.

So there isnt really any reason to take 2 Pods if that is the case then?

The receivers are also at 0 and 180 degrees

Not unless you want more flares

If you want pure flares then yeah but otherwise

2x TERMA with a mix of flares and chaff = 240 flares and 240 chaff
1x TERMA with full flares + 1x BOZ = 268 Flares (with 28 LCM) and 600 large chaff

I guess its down to whether or not the airframe does block the sensor

Hopefully it gets the bol pods to but gaijin

That would be awesome. I do think it needs them and sets it up perfectly in the future if they ever fix BOL. But I can see there being an issue with 3x Flare/Chaff counts to select unless its bundled with the TERMA or they disable being able to select BOZ count

I’d assume they’d just add another selector. Wouldn’t exactly be hard from an implementation standpoint, unless they’ve some spectacularly bad software engineers.

You never know with bug thunder. Remember the first time they tried to introduce assymetrical CM counts, the Phimat pod caused CTDs.

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My account would be put on hold again if I was remotely honest about how I feel on the competency of their software engineers.

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TERMA’s CMs are small/normal calibre while BOZ’s are large calibre, right?

Yeah, normal for TERMA, Large for BOZ

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[DEV] PGM family of missiles range underperforming
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/ctFsg9SOlivp

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I’ve reported the TERMA MAWS coverage being incorrect (it should offer full coverage below the aircraft): Community Bug Reporting System

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I was thinking that, was surprised by the size of the blindspot below, above makes sense, but not below