yeah I noticed that a bit later
my only issues now is im still unsure on its duty cycle, and how that efficiency changes at higher output power
it also isnt taking into consideration losses from the processing systems
I will also say the only reason I got involved in this conversation is because someone was saying it had higher peak power than AN/APG-77 with no evidence
We cant say for sure, there arent usually public values for their modern radars as they did before like irbis. Irbis is said to be 20kw peak so irbis should be on par
I wouldnt expect byelka to be far off either, both sides
I understand that, but I disagree
it is a smaller radar, and its mounting limits room for power supply and cooling due to the amount of other power hungry systems mounted in the nose along with its own mounting being canted making it take up more space by itself
it is also on a plane with similar power generation capabilities, but a lot more high draw systems
so to me, it would make sense if the primary radar had a lower peak power
Agreed its smaller, but things generally tends to evolve forwards not backwards.
Cooling should be much easier than irbis since its a fixed array and not on a gimbal (fyi byelka was earlier thought to be a swashplate but they couldnt get a good cooling system for it, it was still a bad idea anyways)
I am not saying byelka should be better than irbis, but somewhere near to it
And for narrow beam long range modes they dont necessarily have to dedicate power towards the other arrays, power management is also a thing, al41 also output quite a decent amount of power
true
but again there is less space it
remember there are also the separate side facing antennas in the same general area that both draw significant power and need cooling
They should give the pilot model that last one
They should give this
The visor looks like a shiny bra lmao
I mean they use ZSH-7 helmet so I think it should still have this as a model not really a new one cuz it’s not really in use
I think a new heads up display would be nice also for the Su-75 if Gaijin seems that one valid.
It implies that the antenna consumes 11 KW of electrical power. That will not be converted into radiated power at anything close to 100% efficiency.