RCS ships's calculation

[JorgeB2]

Hi. There's any way to know the RCS signature of the DCS ships for C802AG? Maybe the size of the ship in the sea radar? I saw at least two diferent returns, one bigger and one smaller.

I know there' a list with the recomended size of some ships but I use many sea mods and can't find a calculation for them.

Thanks.

 

[razo+r]

The RCS of a ship would be defined in the ship.lua file of the ship. If the RCS is not defined, like some ship mods, then I don't see how you can calculate the RCS (unless the game somehow uses model size and bases the RCS on that)

[JorgeB2]

1 hour ago, razo+r said:

The RCS of a ship would be defined in the ship.lua file of the ship. If the RCS is not defined, like some ship mods, then I don't see how you can calculate the RCS (unless the game somehow uses model size and bases the RCS on that)

Thanks. I made some tests just now... Seems that all boats that appear like a small line in the sea radar can be tracked in SML RCS, mods included.

All of them that present a long line in the screen radar must be marked like large. Don't know how MED RCS ships are represented in sea radar.

Aside, I saw that very small ships like patrol boats or Ossa for example are tracked, but the missiles passed throught or over the target without explode.

That are only my impresions after a few tests in all class of ships.

[Dr_Pavelheer]

ship rcs and 802ak target size setting.pdfCheck out this PDF, I'm not the author and I don't remember where I got it from but it lists correct target size settings for various ships

Edited September 21, 2022 by Dr_Pavelheer

[uboats]

There’s config section in 802 lua telling the range of each RCS category.