Oh…
And people dare to complain about sm2.
well azimuth coverage is really important
It’s not that the Captor is lacking in that regard, 100 degrees to each side is already impressive (except german which gets 90), that makes it already better of 99% of other ESA radars.
Only downside is that the Eurofighter can’t take advantage of such limits like an SM2 can, because of its missiles.
Yall should thank God that the Dassault engineers didn’t put a gimballed AESA on their Rafales, because that thing would be straight up untouchable in game if it had one.
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i just love how in game the gimbal radars are as powerfull as fixed ones like the j-10c lol, worse cooling = same performance, would be stupid not to put one on a plane if you ask gaijing
This is why US and China use fixed AESA.
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because they clearly dont know what they are doing
They should think about war thunder when deciding these things tbh
agree
new RWR? or has this been the same one as .20
yes it was just copy paste of the j10c one as far as i checked might change
only if you use the 200° scan zone
the search zone where the mechanical gimbal has to move
soooooo funny
Doesn’t it also update targets while pointing in the entire opposite direction?
yes it does
Thought I heard that before, but Raven and Irbis don’t iirc
It’s also because a fixed plate AESA is
1.) more reliable. Elimination of maintenance on the gimbal is a massive cost and availability boost.
2.) datalink means it doesn’t matter if it’s gimballed or not, your jet is never fighting alone so your wingman can be sitting in the backfield and guiding your missile while you go into missile avoidance.
3.) fixed plate is superior for minimizing RCS
4.) there are more ways to cue a missile that radar alone.
5.) if you really need more radar coverage, add a SLR array
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raven does as well
irbis dosent
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