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nighthawk2174

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Something that is really really strange to me and a few others is that in the upcoming TWS mode you manually have to designate between track and system files. Yet in every F16 manual out there (that i've seen), this is automatically done and the distinction is not made rather they are just called system track files. It just seems weird that something that was already heavily automated in earlier blocks would just stop being automated?


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Keeping in mind this is description of APG-66v2 while DCS module is APG-68v5. It may or may not be the case that the two radars share this feature in common. There are five kinds of targets in TWS of increasing priority: search, tank, system, cursor, and bugged.Search is contacts similar to RWS, upgrades to tank track if correlation successful.

  • Search type are contacts with history and radial velocity tics and are upgraded to tank if subsequent scans produce a correlated track.
  • Tank type are tracks, filled squares and act like SAM tracks. These cannot be cursor or bug directly.
  • System type are tracks, hollow squares and act like non-bugged TTS track. They are result of manual or automatic promotion from tank-type. This can be manual on an individual basis, automatic by TMS right (>1s) without any tracks higher tank type, automatic by empty display receiving its first tank type and TMS right short having been pressed to arm this automatic elevation or manual by TMS right short elevating all tank to system after the previous armed elevation of first tank. TMS right steps through system tracks.
  • Cursor type is a system track with promoted importance by snapping the FCR cursor to it. Azimuth/bar is reduced (50 wide, 3 bar) to support this.
  • Bugged typeis the highest priority track and the singular target of interest (TOI) for missile launch and status display. Scan volume is reduced with bug the same as with cursor type. System or higher are bugged by designating (TMS up) on them or stepping the bug to them (TMS right).

Tracks are demoted typically with several TMS aft presses. Transitioning to and from TWS with various target states is done smartly. E.g. SAM transitions to TWS with bug retained. TTS's secondary target is introduced as a system track and the next in priority for bug stepping.

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