The F4D comes with an Areo 13F Fire control radar. It’s explicitly stated on the FCR wikipedia page that FCR was used for “simple gun and rocket laying systems”
The F4D also uses the APQ-50 radar, which AN/APQ-120 - Wikipedia states “AN/APQ-50 FCR also provides information on automatic firing of rockets.”
Why is Gajin removing the F4D’s fire control radar? Did a dev lose a match due to an F4D dominating the airspace (which btw it does that VERY well so I can understand the frustration).
doesn’t seem like there’s any bug reports on it seems odd they would remove it.
They did the same thing with the F-84F, removing its guns CCIP for no reason, so I’m not really surprised at all.
are you up to make a bug report on it ?
also removed B-57B gun CCIP
Their reasoning is that since the F-100 used the same gunsight and doesn’t have CCIP that the F-84F also shouldn’t have CCIP. It’s a complete twisting of the truth, as the F-84F gets access to ranging radar which would automatically adjust the sight for long range target, which the F-100 did not get.
Either way I don’t care enough to argue for CCIP on garbage guns to be readded. It’s not worth the effort of making a bug report that will likely be ignored anyways.
Do you know if the B-57 would have any systems for CCIP use? A quick look at the wiki shows no fire control radar or ranging radar.
I really hope som1 at Gajin realizes the Russian bug report was a complete load of shit, or maybe they accepted it because they knew that basically no1 would go through the effort of fact checking it.
Wouldn’t that be for an aerial intercept role though? Similar to Starfire/Scorpion/Sabre Dog
Yes, but even that isn’t modelled ingame.
But might be what that line means. Because of the “automatic firing of rockets” which was a feature in the various rocket-armed interceptors (you fly the plane, when at the right time the rockets are fired automatically and the FCS intructs you to pull out).
Further down on the AN/APQ-109: “Other significant additions included air-to-ground ranging, ground beacon identification and display capabilities.” And THIS sounds like CCIP.
You have to keep in mind that even a much later plane like the F-8 still had a retractable tray with rockets and the associated FCS automation.
That does sound very nice, sadly Gajin just has some strange hatred for American ballistic computers.
Perhaps one day we’ll have more rocket-armed interceptors and at least a lead indicator for them.