@InterFleet I know you as a very attentive and responsive staff member. Could you please give a comment on my research. I don’t want to waste my time writing all this text as a bug report if it is useless.
Can you confirm that the angles of view and zoom of thermal imaging scopes/night sights use these parameters from day sights, if any (any helicopter/airplane/tank). The closest example is Mercury on Su-25T and Su-39, I checked personally: angles and zoom are the same with and without it.
Similarly, I would like your comment about determining the quality of thermal imager by the screen in the cockpit (if it is known, otherwise other parameters are taken) . Can you check with the developer? This information was told to me by @MiG_23M, referring to the fact that he was informed about it by the developer
It hasn’t been clear whether or not they are going off information about the thermals or the screen, however for bug reports on tank thermals they have used screen resolution as the determining factor.
I second that, it is insanely idiotic that the USSR does not have a single aircraft with thermal imaging, let alone infrared munitions with screen viewing.
Other nations have had this for a very long time.
@_David_Bowie Maybe you can give a comment? As far as I remember, you were the one who talked about what principles apply to determining the zoom of helicopter sights.
Will you be able to suggest the information that I asked above and make your comment on this topic, please
Thanks, sir. Can you also comment on the choice of quality of thermal imaging cameras. Is the quality of the cockpit display really an advantage if it is known?
In that case, he should move the report to acknowledged status to confirm that he agrees with the arguments and there are enough of them, but the developers just don’t want to
TrickZZter Gave me an answer on the Russian forum, I used a translator to send it here. Move is Khod because of translator’s mistake (in Russian Khod=Move).
So the developers opinion - they don’t want to add thermal imager for su-39 and su-25t. Apparently the ussr should not be able to fly at all in half of the matches when the weather is bad.
Thank you. My biggest disappointment is that when I called the Sukhoi OKB museum to come to them I was refused, saying that they only accept special guests. It’s as if they don’t care about ordinary people at all.
I asked for mail to ask a question, but even that was refused. They basically don’t care about their history.
This is one of the best and most thorough posts I’ve seen on a niche topic on this forum. I would love to see this added to the outstanding and interesting Su-39. Have there been any more developments with this? Thanks for your efforts either way!
