The laws of thermodynamics state otherwise, it is essential for being able to view or detect objects that are not blazingly hot.
Essentially, the temperature of an IR sensor itself must be below the target temperature, or it won’t be able to detect anything as it will be just detecting itself.
For an imaging sensor, you would start to get fuzzy interference and not be able to see any background.
Of you want your imaging sensor to be able to provide a lot of detail of the surrounding landscape, such as that of the ASSM hammer or Storm Shadow, the sensor must be actively cooled.
Then, as the device is being used it will increase in temperature, the more powerful the sensor, the more heat it generates, so the cooling power must be proportional to the size and power consumption as well as how long it is being to be used for.
Not to mention that high resolution 3rd generation thermals require cooling.
Thats cool, I never heard about that before. Why does it need cooling? Is the tech so advanced that it generates heat while operating (like a gaming computer) or something? Genuinely curious.
pretty sure its not exactly how it works, its meant to detect EM waves (IR) essentially not heat. due to blackbody radiations, the heat of the object emits these IR waves.
however still yes, cooling is required for better contrast and detection for a IIR seeker, afaik IR itself, the early aim9b and aim4 missiles had cooled seekers
the only thing I can think of as being “fake” recently was the F-16AJ and people were demanding that be removed as well. since then I dont think a single “fake” tank or plane has been added and I agree both the F-16AJ and the KH-38MT should be removed (if we really wanna get into it they should remove either the radar or the IRST on the Yak-141 as well)
I was just pointing at the fact how Gaijin knowingly will add fake things for the sake of it. They also remove those only when proper replacement come around.
So yeah, Gaijin has little reason to remove it at the moment.
certainly a double standard with some players, want OP things kept as are (XM800T) or fake things kept in game (R2Y2) despite not fitting in with a real vehicle only rule because they do well in them or they are OP or both (Ho-Ri and KH38MT).
thats not true at all lmao, they add things like that when there is truly no option (F-16AJ) the KH-38MT out classes every other A2G weapon if everyone else had a missile equally as strong then I would say sure its fine but they dont. realistically the KH-29 is more of the counterpart to the AGM-65 the US equal at least would be something like SLAM-ER (not asking for it but thats the closest thing I can think of)
miss the part where I said the closest thing I could think of? realistically the KH-38s shouldnt have even been added to the game in the first place with still to this day zero counters from other countries
Do you have any example aside the kh-38mt where they have “defaulted” to the best possible quality of thermal displays? Because as far as I can remember I don’t really remember other sights that are as good, and that are coming from obscure vehicles ( for example 2S38 is a test vehicle, but there’s information about it if I am not wrong).
Perhaps we should take the lack of response to the fake weapon as acceptance that these things are now the new standard and re-open allll the bug reports etc that were denied due to “lack of evidence”.