FalcoGer Posted October 29, 2021 Posted October 29, 2021 Why has it taken so long for the military to develop a color CCD to put into their aircraft? In DCS all we get is grayscale images. The F18C uses modern flat, LCD screens, yet they have limited color support. What is it with military to be both 10 years ahead of everyone else but then stuck in the 1950s at the same time?
Kilo Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 Mostly because of limited usefulness. Color cameras tend to have inferior clarity compared to a single-color camera of the same resolution while, if you try to make one with the same clarity, it would get much bigger. Here's a video explaining why space probes still use B&W cameras to this day. Surprisingly, they have more or less the same requirements as military ones. Все буде добре
Seaeagle Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 17 hours ago, FalcoGer said: The F18C uses modern flat, LCD screens, yet they have limited color support. The F-18C doesn't use LCD displays - DDIs and the MPCD are all CRT and only the latter is full color. The exception is the AMPCD, which is LCD, but this only came about as a backfit in 2004.
FalcoGer Posted October 30, 2021 Author Posted October 30, 2021 wait, they're actual tubes? Just proves my point. they're stuck in the 50s...
Kilo Posted October 30, 2021 Posted October 30, 2021 Industrial and military stuff are prime examples of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". I mean, they could have replaced the two DDIs with color LCDs, too, but why would they? The only advantage I could think of is being able to move the map to one of them, or adding some color symbology. Maybe clearing a little space behind the screens. None of those feel worth the engineering to actually fit the new screens there. Все буде добре
Seaeagle Posted October 31, 2021 Posted October 31, 2021 20 hours ago, FalcoGer said: wait, they're actual tubes? Yes. But I can understand your suprise as the "newer" ones(from Lot 12 and up) IIRC use flat screen technology - i.e. still CRT, but without the curvature of the display, that you normally associate with CRT. 20 hours ago, FalcoGer said: Just proves my point. they're stuck in the 50s... Well more like the 90'ies :)
Seaeagle Posted October 31, 2021 Posted October 31, 2021 18 hours ago, Kilo said: Industrial and military stuff are prime examples of "If it ain't broke, don't fix it". Yeah I think there is a lot of truth to that. 18 hours ago, Kilo said: I mean, they could have replaced the two DDIs with color LCDs, too, but why would they? The only advantage I could think of is being able to move the map to one of them, or adding some color symbology. The map can be displayed on the above mentioned DDIs(introduced with the NightAttack cockpit), but only in monochrome representation. They are "tri-color" and can display symbology in green, yellow and red, but raster image is monochrome.
Kilo Posted October 31, 2021 Posted October 31, 2021 It's been a while since I took a look at the F-18, but didn't the SA page only display datalink information and waypoints when selected on one of the DDIs? Все буде добре
Seaeagle Posted November 1, 2021 Posted November 1, 2021 5 hours ago, Kilo said: It's been a while since I took a look at the F-18, but didn't the SA page only display datalink information and waypoints when selected on one of the DDIs? In DCS you mean?. According to the NATOPS, there should be an actual monochrome map display available for the DDIs.
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