[LATER IN EARLY ACCESS] Confused on active ECM XMIT function.

[DmitriKozlowsky]

So does it work, does it not work? How is it supposed to be used against HQ-17? Cause with HQ-17 , I neither hear it, see it, or have any MAWS indication, EW is in AUTO or Semiauto (S/A), Mode 1 program is 1 flare/2 chaff X 8, Prog 5 is default.

Mig-21 R13M1, though they look like AIM-9P, are actually radar guided variant of AA-2 Atol ? I also don't get MAWS or launch warning, though EW does show Mig-21 radar. Thankfully I can launch 1st either AIM-120 or 9M/X, on Fishbed.

 

ECM mode is XMIT, dispenser is ON, Master Arm ON. EW is Auto or S/A .

 

I don't really see how Hornet C without working active ECM can survive in Gen2 SAM environment in DCS. SA-15, and SA-19 have no escape zones. Unless SEAD gets them, countermeasures and maneuvering dont work. More precisely, I am unable to maneuver in a way that evades those threats. Against S-300, only terrain masks work. At altitude they nearly always connect. Beaming, treetopping (flying between forest groves), don't work. A diving S-300 has its own small terminal guidance radar.

 

BTW: Does EMCON button auto silences everything? Cause my radar is still emitting. I can radio transmit.

[Bunny Clark]

ECM on the Hornet does not work at all right now. The ECM knob has no function.

 

Semi-Auto and Auto dispenser modes do not work either. Only Manual and Bypass are implemented.

[Swift.]

The ECM SPJ in hornet doesn't work yet.

 

You mentioned MAWS but hornet has no MAWS, only an RWR.

 

The auto and semi auto dispense modes don't work in hornet (last I checked).

 

As to how you can survive without an ECM, as you said: terrain masking and counter measures (once you have them working by using manual or bypass), lots of things can be kinetmatically defeated as well by dragging the missile.

[dundun92]

Also even with ECM, it does not mean you can just trespass as close as you want to SAMs and nothing happens, even with DCS's simplified ECM modeling.

[Harlikwin]

Good thing that ecm doesnt work. ED needs to have a policy where in order to release ECM radars being effected by ECM needs to be implemented as well. (MP players do care alot about this)