I’ve been playing with the Su-39, and found out the radar pod is basically useless. The only place it would find use as it is would be in air battles, but the Su-39 do well only at ground strike.
It just keeps losing track of it’s target, even if is a hard lock. The TWS is even worse and the ground detection modes are awful.
If it wasn’t so shitty it could be compensate the lack of a thermal imager pod.
Irl it was shitty as this? Was there other options for it?
Its one of the very few aircraft in game with an semblence of A2G radar. Most have them completely and totally ommitted.
It does appear they are working on them, with aircraft like the F-15E, Su-34 and maybe RMV? (cant recall that last one) getting better working A2G radars.
But I do think there is a limit to what such radars can actually do.
Seems like Su-24M got update for it Orion search radar too on DEV. It now can search and lock (with targeting pod) air targets as well as ground targets (same here - pressing radar lock will put TGT mark and track)