Its interesting that it didnt receive a thermal pod, I can see that they might have wanted to off-set some of the potential strength from the Vikhrs but at 11.3, it does probably need one
Though a model has been datamined
Kingtiez shared that image in another thread
So might just be a work in progress and it will be added in the future once finished.
Note that Khod is the exact form of container that is in the game, and the one in the files is just the Mercury
The Mercury has the wrong shape now.
I don’t think Vihr’s, especially in their current state are a huge strength of the plane. They are awkward to point and have limited damage. Their maneuverability has been degraded many times over.
I see many carrying 2 Kh-29s, 3 Kh-25s and only 8 Vihr(and often not taking them at all).
My experience, too, is that a big missile is better than a small one, since you almost never get to fly that long to realize 16.
Pardon me, there’s a mistake in the photo, too. In fact, it’s different. I looked at the Russian drawings and books.
This is true. Though with how buggy TIALD pods are and some rumoured artificial range capping, its probably best they arent rushing it at the moment, you’d get to enjoy it without quite as many bugs when it arrives.
I also want to complain about Mercury. It’s disgusting, you can’t see anything in it.
Compare it to what it looks like in the DSC
That’s all targetting pods in general. TIALD is a little better, but no where near as good as it should be. Was a debate in the Harrier forum thread I believe about what optic it has and what the quality should be like. I cant be bothered to go search for it, but I think the conclusion was that the TIALD pod has somewhere between 1/3-1/2 less resolution it should have. Especially in thermal
One thing about Thermals / Electro Optical systems as a whole is that its not obvious (or apparently entirely consistent) to which standard Gaijin are actually using to model things or if they are going to be revised or are being otherwise limited for performance reasons.
e.g.
Which systems employ contrast stretching and if it should be modeled mechanically
This of course is obviously difficult / intensive to model as it can’t just be provided by a greyscale overlay
Systems that have a mismatch between the sensor, on-board display, and the Aspect ratio the screen WT is running on, and the interplay between them.
How to convert the resolution of scanning type sensors as they don’t tend to have discrete pixels additionally digital zoom appears to be completely neglected, so performance can be hard to appropriately benchmark / account for.
Intresting, Thank you, though, being a video game, you’d think it would be easy to fake
Not to do it convincingly let alone in real time and that is only a small part of things, considering that to do IIR properly you would need to render the scene a number of times sequentially per frame(which itself needs to be completed multiple times a second to maintain the frame rate) in order to reconstruct it, and have a a good idea of how emissivity of specific materials (and the visual medium’s bandpass), and their effective temperature in the scene which requires some degree of thermodynamic processes to be implemented, let alone the effects of the sun (or other point sources) on the scene. and to what degree these could be implemented into the Dagor engine itself without massive effort.
Sure a whole lot could be handwaved / generalized but the issue remains that without going to some specific lengths its always going to be an approximation that is inaccurate in some areas, which further leads to issues though some would be much more easily fixed than others.
Very true. Thanks again
+1, I’m all for it receiving Khod/Kinzhal.
Also here are some more sources
https://www.aviaport.ru/directory/aviation/su39/
Thanks, I’ll add the names of the source books later today.
In the Russian-speaking forum, 90% of those surveyed were in favor of introducing a thermal container.
I think it is the dual container that is needed so that the airplane has interesting ground radar mechanics.
Added books to the list of sources.
Thank @Smoak741 for help.
+1 would definitely like to see this in game
Yes, that would be a very interesting double-name container.
This is the time to add the USSR first pod with thermal imaging where other nations have already had theirs for some time.
Later on it will be the advanced Russian aircraft that will have more advanced thermal pod container and we will probably see them in a long very long time.
From me +1
Up, We need more feedback.
This is the only option for the USSR to get a thermal imager before the Su-30.
The Thermal Kh-25 would be a nice addition
Some say there was no prototype built, but I disagree.
However, we do have an S-25LD that is still not in play, although it is not OP and may have laser or TV guidance
