Not being able to be Tracked doesn’t mean that when illuminated chaff wouldn’t have any impact, it would just be much less severe than it is, since it’s injecting the reflected energy from the seeker off to one side, and so would slightly bias the guidance a conical scan seeker such as the Echo Sparrows.
What would actually make chaff entirely redundant would be if range gates & return edge biasing were actually modeled for missiles that should have them.
Also the way around that would be to actually implement ECM (both podded and integrated) and proper off-board Decoys.
As it seems like ITEP was canceled due to the planned FARA airframe falling though.
Though it had been deployed on two test SH-60s. It’s likely to be held in reserve for a potential Interim AH-64F configuration should the Army be interested in future.
Don’t think there’s need for that. F15GE has better kill ratio than the Rafale in both RB and SB and tad worse WR in RB and much better WR in SB. US surely doesn’t need saving. Removing Irondoming would make F16CM much more viable as well, so the US is doing quite well.
Forgot about this topic completely, but where did you get that static from?
Well at least US is not the worst air nation anymore thanks to Chinese missile nerf
Ah, I must be looking at over all state then, considering how much iron dome meta has changed top tier in past few months, i am not that surprised. I guess US would do good until next gen IR/ARH missile are added
