iff on radar screen

[Dave317]

Is the hornet capable of displaying iff on the radar screen like the mirage can? This appears to be quite an advantage to the mirage pilots in mp as they don't have to lock up everyone to find out friend or foe.

 

Obviously i know the module is wip and just wondered if the real aircraft can do it.

[backspace340]

It CAN do it, but nothing it has compares to the Mirage's ability to do it while still scanning at full scanning volume (i.e. 6 bar, 140deg).

 

With LTWS (which we're getting by the end of August) you can IFF any target in RWS mode by putting your TDC over a brick and waiting for it to build a track file. You can also soft-lock two targets (a primary L&S and secondary DT2), which will also build track files and IFF them. So in total you'd be able to see the IFF status of three targets at a time - the two you've designated and the one under the TDC.

 

With TWS (which we've had no ETA on yet), the radar will automatically display trackfiles and IFF the top 8 targets it automatically prioritises - this is probably the closest we can get to the way the IFF displays in the F-15/SU-27/Mirage - but it comes at a cost as it reduces the scanning volume down (I think to 4 bar & 40 degs, or 2 bar 80 degs, or 6 bar 20 degs).

 

Further along we'll have stuff like data link which I think might allow us to see the trackfiles built by AWACS/other Hornets, but I'm not sure whether that gives us extra info on top of the above limits in RWS or TWS. We will get a Situation Awareness page which blends the HSI with sensor info from your radar and datalink, so you can see what aircraft are around you and whether they're friendly or not without having to point your radar at them and should be a real boon to the Hornet's situational awareness.

 

At some point we should also get RWR contacts displayed at the top of the Radar Attack screen, which would crudely allow you to line-up bricks with RWR contacts and do a rough IFF yourself (assuming that the different sides have a separation of airframes).

 

As far as I can tell, the F-15's ability to IFF automatically while looking at a full volume RWS scan is fiction - I think in practice it should be more like the Mirage where you click a button to IFF judging by the old F-15 manual on page 100 here. I'm not 100% sure if I'm missing something for the Hornet (the above is based on how it works in another simulation of the APG-73) - it does seem weird that the Mirage and F-15 can IFF everything it can see in RWS at the push of a button while the Hornet can only do a few manually.

Edited August 3, 2018 by backspace340

[Oceandar]

Off topic question : Is the Mirage IFF realistic ?

[MustangSally]

Off topic question : Is the Mirage IFF realistic ?

 

Ask in the Mirage thread!

[Oceandar]

Ask in the Mirage thread!

Its actually not really that OT since the TS compared to Mirage IFF