From what I’ve been reading seems like the ranging capability is greatly exaggerated … It should be only a few kilometers … Essentially for a gun solution for the most part …
Yes OLS should only be limited to 6km at most afaik? Gaijin is just probably too lazy to model that
that goes for every irst (that can range) ingame
I think it’s because it’s supposed to me more integrated with the radar as an FCS package, instead of a one or the other like we get
Well, radar ranging kinda negates the “stealth” advantages
It adds extra lines of code, and that cost productive hours they could use to copy paste the next Leopard 2 in game you know
MB linke the wrong one
there are two that have a nearly identical name
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/dTm9ig0YG7qP
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There is good utility in being able to lock a target in IR, and then wait until you are in effective R-77 range, hit the IRST/Radar swap , and quickly fire an R-77. It gives minimum reaction time to your target. Yet another reason to like the R-77.
It would be less one sided if TGPs could do the same, like they should be able to
BTW, I could be mistaken but I don’t think that IRST ('s laser rangefinder) triggers the laser warning system of the planes that have one …
or more f-16 variants
thats what we need
nope
only the laser on tgps (ingame atleast)
It doesn’t in game
Which is a problem (unrealistic advantage for IRST against modern planes)
tgp also only gives laser warning when you launch/drop something laser guided afaik
(not 100% sure tho)
They used an English “translation” of the manual, not the original manual
Aside from that, this entire argument is serving no purpose but to increase the reply count on the thread further.
It definitely is supposed to. IIRC that is the biggest reason the EF-2000 incorporated a LWS as a response to the Su-27/MiG-29 passive sensors. It’s also why they developed a passive ranging ability for their IRST.
How do you passively range? Imaging?
It does if you turn the Laser on manually.
TBF, those also have their own problem: Active RF MAW
Which K_Stepanovich said he won’t make emit anything for the sake of the gameplay, at least for now since the player can’t disable it …
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Math. Lots of math.