nighthawk2174

I've never really seen any indication in any manuals that they are different in the American jets, F15/F16/F18, in all the manuals I have for these jets I haven't seen it stated that STT can't be done the moment the target is detected. Maybe I'm wrong. @Beamscanner is far more knowledgeable here then I am, is there any reason they should be different in range.

Not just that but i'm sure that you could turn the doppler filters off as well and track purely in range. Something an active monopulse seeker would be really good at given its absurd range resolution. Now as to if the amraam can do this... your guess is as good as mine.

I still see no reason that TWS would have a lower resolution then RWS. TWS is the same waveform as RWS the only difference being the computer builds a trackprofile and updates it over time.

It shouldn't really do this period due to things like range and velocity gating, especially since you had a lock on him for a short time as well.

Isn't stores drag still broken for the F15?

The obvious question is smoke or contrail but if not contrail then yes I was wrong.

Ok but they never saw mass production?

The F-4E at 50% gas and no weapons is at 1.0 T/W and the bis at 50% gas is close to .95 T/W. Although that obviously will be different if we say make it for 5min of AB at SL. This would almost certainly favor the F4 As the emergency burner in the bis really eats gas so you'd need more of it in the bis for this setup. I would agree although it would be more along the lines of early F-15C's as it was introduced the same year, 1976. Although lets keep in mind both aircraft would be in low numbers for a few more years. One factor to consider in the F4's favor though would be jammer pods, and my current understanding is that the saphir series of radars would have rather poor CCM performance. These pods were quite common on the US side but as far as i'm aware jamming equipment was not as common on the soviet side. There is a Russian forum thread that went in depth into this discussion we could just go and pull their conclusions and user made graphs out as they did have quite a few documents regarding performance of all the jets mentioned. Example:

What kind of production numbers did this variant see?

I'm not familar with the 9.15 mig-29 how does it differ from the A/S models we have in game.

It was an issue identified in the past I don't know if its been fixed or if its still an issue. The issue was above 50k feet the atmospheric density was way off and I think the error reduced as you went below that altitude.

I'm not aware of any Russian missiles that are relatively smokeless unless the 77-1 is. Also i'd be shocked if the meteor is smokey.

You have to develop the software, test it, get it qualified by the FAA and various other agencies before even putting it on the jet, then the actual users of the jets will need to test the upgrade, then you need to actually set up the program to ship out the upgrades and install them (providing technical support) all of which costs money, and then you need to support that upgrade and provide fixes and updates over time. Ohhh and you need to pay all of the people involved which considering this is an aerospace venture peoples paychecks are expensive. So I can totally see how the costs would balloon up especially if there are delays or issues that need fixed which seems to be the case as indicated by the article.

По данным HB. Некоторые проблемы связаны с тем, что драг не уменьшается при включенном ракетном двигателе. А для одного или двух вариантов Phoenix был испорчен лофт, что сильно влияет на дальность полета. Я уверен, что это будет исправлено в следующем патче. Отслеживание проблем, степень серьезности которых мне в настоящее время неизвестна, но это будет еще одна проблема, затрагивающая phoenix, хотя это была бы не первая ракета, у которой возникли такие проблемы.

One of the things that ESA's fix. But yeah, although as I understand it were not talking about a massive increase in miss distance, maybe just enough that the warhead going off won't be immediately catastrophic. Also is this really a big problem for monopulse I'm just not seeing it introduce more than single digit percentage increases in miss distance. Especially if the target isn't maneuvering.

Not quite, the monopulse radar on the 120 is also a PD radar, they are not mutually exclusive.

Is motor drag reduction simulated now?

It wouldn't be an issue if proximity fuzzes worked properly which they don't in game right now. We gotta wait for ED to rebuild the system to actually work.

Its not all about wing loading, the variant AIM-9 from the paper can produce substantially more G and for a longer period of time despite having smaller fins. Especially as altitude goes up.

Every other patch it seems the warehouse system gets broken, its up to the mission maker to fix it as far as I'm aware.

Excellent work The features for IR missiles have not been built yet only radar missiles and a few other specialty missiles such as the SCUD and HARM.

I don't think they did. All I've seen is that they said they found some leads that may point in that direction. Not that they actually will do it. I know the post your referring too but, a few pages latter did clarify that it will in fact get a command inertial system where the missile is able to go active on its own iirc it was a pretty unambiguous statement to this.

Yeah... not enough information out there on the C7, a shame but that is the situation with the missile.

Aren't we waiting for HB to decide whether the C should have AMRAAM-like guidance? They've already said it will be changing to have command inertial like the amraam.

As far as i'm aware were just still waiting for the 54 to make it onto the new missile API.