What’s the Deal with ECM?

[DCS FIGHTER PILOT]

Hello all,

 

What is the deal with ECM Jamming in DCS world? Why is it the FC3 aircraft can have their radars “jammed,” while other planes, like the Hornet and Tomcat, appear to be unaffected by a jammer? Is it that their radars are more powerful/newer or is it because jamming is not modeled yet in these planes?

[Fri13]

The DCS currently only performs a noise jammer. There is no complex ECM in the DCS that would make the jamming any worthwhile for anything else than just shorten the range when your jammer is burn through (and again very simple manner).

[AeriaGloria]

Rudel said he got full documentation on the MiG-21 ECM and insinuated it might be worked on!

 

And I have been jammed by Hornets and Tomcats, you just can’t jam them no matter what

[maxTRX]

Rudel said he got full documentation on the MiG-21 ECM and insinuated it might be worked on!

 

And I have been jammed by Hornets and Tomcats, you just can’t jam them no matter what

 

 

Can you expand a little on both sentences?

[backspace340]

And I have been jammed by Hornets and Tomcats, you just can’t jam them no matter what

 

You've not been jammed by a player's Hornet - it doesn't have a working jammer.

[AeriaGloria]

Thanks I was wrong about the Hornet. As for the post about MiG-21 ECM, it’s not much but this was the post I meant https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=4051657&postcount=17

[Stratos]

And this problem only concerns "on board" carried ECM, imagine now all the jamming possibilites of specialized planes jamming entire air groups.

Jamming has been present since the late 60's, and of course is hard to model, but we are getting a totally biased warfare letting jamming out of the equation.

[Hummingbird]

Does the F-14's jammer work?

[QuiGon]

The Hornet and the F-14 are missing the effects for being jammed yet. The Hornet is even missing its own working jammer, while the Tomcat has that already. See here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=247462

 

Edit: According to Heatblur, the Tomcat can already be jammed, but it will only make it harder for the radar to achieve a lock. Apart from this there are no jamming effects simulated yet in the Tomcat and the Hornet unlike the M2000, the MiG-21 and the FC3 aircraft that do show jamming effects on their radar displays when being jammed.

 

Edit2: @Harlikwin: All jamming in DCS does reduce the range of AI SAMs.

Edited October 4, 2019 by QuiGon

[GPatricks]

And then there are the HOJ (Home on Jammer) missile systems to worry about... :smilewink:

[upyr1]

I'd love to see their jamming model improved- I want an EB-66