Radar cover and tactical data sharing

[Drakkhen]

Some weird problems I had with radars:

 

On a mission without AWACS on your side, even with a forest of EWRs, there's no way to get a vector.

 

When you take control of a german MiG29, while an allied russian Mainstay covering the country. You can't see targets on the MiG's MFD (ok, let's say it's normal) but when you ask AWACS for vector to inbound crafts or airbase direction, there's just no answer (some problem when flying a GAI group in fact). For playable countries with no own AWACS, there's no way to find enemy crafts without turning radar on, too bad for the german 29.

 

Maybe the air-control should be independent of AWACS and EWR while relying on their presence... there could be one per playing country able to share with allied ones.

 

Now you make a GAI group, AWACS are not sufficient to activate it when an enemy flight is detected, it seems you NEED an EWR.

 

When you put an EWR on a GAI mission, the GAI group is generated as soon as there are flying enemy crafts. They are detected without any altitude or EWR range consideration.

 

Regarding range, AWACS seem to have one for tactical displaying but not for vectoring.

 

Maybe harder to correct: EWRs detect through relief <= RWR flashes even when flying VLA.

[golfsierra2]

Re: Radar cover and tactical data sharing

 

Some weird problems I had with radars:

 

On a mission without AWACS on your side, even with a forest of EWRs, there's no way to get a vector.

 

When you take control of a german MiG29, while an allied russian Mainstay covering the country. You can't see targets on the MiG's MFD (ok, let's say it's normal) but when you ask AWACS for vector to inbound crafts or airbase direction, there's just no answer (some problem when flying a GAI group in fact). For playable countries with no own AWACS, there's no way to find enemy crafts without turning radar on, too bad for the german 29.

 

Maybe the air-control should be independent of AWACS and EWR while relying on their presence... there could be one per playing country able to share with allied ones.

 

Like in real world, German MiG29 were not equipped with any datalink, so even if a AWACS or A-50 was around, no "Timber" picture was available. If one AWACS is around, you should get at least an answer by by the GCI-crew of the AWACS (bearing, range, altituide, vector, speed, formation size, ID), but it wasn't implemented in LOMAC 1.00 to 1.02.

 

BTW: Germany has no MiG29 anymore, the last few were transfered to Poland in August 2004. See http://www.fabulousfulcrums.de/index_e.html for details.