RWR-related questions

[Aernov]

Is it possible in real aircraft to remove RWR contacts indication from HUD without turning RWR off? Or it is a kind-of compensation for lack of dedicated head-down RWR display? Also, when can we expect remaining RWR modes? At least Offset, please. Radar-rich environments make threat rings unreadable and Limited mode often hides things I still want to see.

[QuiGon]

Not sure about the Harrier, but petty much all modern fighter jets have some kind of priority mode for their RWR, that limits the number of RWR contacts shown to the most dangerous ones.

I would be suprised if the Harrier doesn't have this mode. But then I'm also still puzzled that you can't even turn off RWR indications on the HUD in the Harrier :dunno:

[shagrat]

Not sure about the Harrier, but petty much all modern fighter jets have some kind of priority mode for their RWR, that limits the number of RWR contacts shown to the most dangerous ones.

I would be suprised if the Harrier doesn't have this mode. But then I'm also still puzzled that you can't even display the RWR indications on the HUD in the Harrier :dunno:

You can set priority, that is what he meant by "limit". The Harrier was the first module to implement the "lollypops" on the HUD. He asks for a way to disable (!) the HUD RWR indications without switching the RWR off, completely.

That would be nice by the way as it would declutter the HUD but still have the RWR on and audio cues.

The other question was about "offset" to display a cluster of "lollypops" as separate, more readable symbols... I agree, that should be a standard feature of a modern western RWR.