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    F/A-18C vs. F-16C Radar (BVR)

    in DCS: F/A-18C

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    as I understand the premise of the argument from the wall of text boils down to
    "since it was not built with a specific focus due to doctrine it is worse than one that did"

    but then there is the 15E, which is known to be able to SAR map and go off of that to target stuff (which means its really good with the A/G radar, since neither the hornet nor the viper can do that)

     

    but then according to your argument it should be worse than the viper A/A due to that ?

    I am no RF engineer, but I figured that this stuff is not binary, even linear in tradeoffs, also there is a lot of text but no data, as in, not even guesses as to what params the radars have

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    Can easily detect and lock missiles with radar (also shoot them down)

    in Bugs and Problems

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    I'll hazard a guess and say that if the radar does detect something going stupid speeds or above it will just choose to not display it to a pilot cos why would there be any tactical reason to see a missile that fast and that small on the radar ?

     

    As a sidenote, the "theoretically possible" argument is rather annoying, yes, but that doesn't mean "practical", though its certainly sometimes a good argument to use

    SA FRIEND filter and SA/RDR ATTK EW symbols

    in Bugs and Problems

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    3 hours ago, Hulkbust44 said:


     

     


    I would have a very hard time believing that's not possible. It wouldn't make sense with the technology available. Hell, why wouldn't the aircraft be able to correlate an RWR nails with an offboard trackfile?



    Now again we must remember that DCS basically dosen't model IFF at all. Regardless of what the interrogated aircraft has their IFF set to, they will always return friendly if they are apart of your coalition. That part is wrong.

    Mobius708
     

     

    For the record the hornet can corrolate CIT RWR and offboard tracks, its part of what MSI does.

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    Anti-ship capacity?

    in Wish List

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    militaries test everything under the sun, and the sun itself as a weapon

    saying that "aircraft X has unrealistic stuff therefore my favorite one can have it" is weapons grade whataboutism

     

    even if we were to leave that, how do you know that the software exists to use it ? or what would it look like ? what about its integration with other sensors ?

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    Can the avionics on the F/A-18C give it an advantage in air to air engagements?

    in DCS: F/A-18C

    Posted · Edited by Spectre1-1

    On 5/22/2021 at 10:42 PM, toilet2000 said:

    With proper MSI, the Hornet should indeed be a beast for SA. It's a generally slow aircraft that accelerates slowly but has great nose authority, so the F-16 is generally the winner in a dogfight. As for missile slinging and BVR, don't forget that the Hornet evolved to replace the Tomcat in the fleet defense and AS role, and thus a lot of goodies have been implemented to help it do so, especially MSI.

     

    The F-16 on the other hand was first designed as a cheap fighter-bomber for export (like the F-5A) and evolved into a mainline fighter-bomber/specialized SEAD aircraft afterward. The USAF has several other and better aircraft for the air superiority role, such as the F-15 and the F-22. It's radar (even though it has unrealistic range currently in DCS) is smaller and less capable than the APG-73 of the Hornet, so definitely it most likely is less capable in BVR compared to the Hornet.

    The F-15 is another story though, as the version we have in DCS is both extremely simplified and much, much older. IIRC it's similar to an early 1980's F-15, so non of the fancy sensor fusion and datalink avionics. Therefore the comparison in DCS isn't very relevant.

    I dunno about that, with HOBs fights don't last any longer than the first 90 to 180 degrees of turn

    On 5/23/2021 at 9:58 PM, Bunny Clark said:

    That's a common legend, but not entirely true. The YF-16 was indeed intended as a lightweight purebred dogfighter, but the role changed before the design was even finalized. The F-16 was a purpose-built multirole strike fighter before the first production aircraft came off the assembly line.  

    yes, but a lot of the "pure dogfighter" design choices stuck, making it harder/more limited to adapt to multirole

    Ракеты в DCS

    in DCS World

    Posted · Edited by Spectre1-1

    the problem is that INS and DL don't interact
    so an aiming error early on or introduced by EW/chaff will make the missile go off target, and the plane can't update it with its better radar.

    there is also the issue that you pointed out, people somehow expect to be able to hit a target because "it goes to last known position" like that phrase really means its accurate, if you're luck you will have the DL update cycle happen within 6 seconds, and if the M-link is a 12 second cycle too, that is a 50/50 chance that your missile actually knows where to go relatively accurately.

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