Radar Freeze and Store

[Avio]

While there are good Youtube tutorials on radar freezing and storing, for practical use, how does that come in being useful?

For pop-up attacks, I could have used the radar to mark a point while still far away, dive low, and when at IP, pop up again to re-acquire and CUE the TPOD to the mark point for a more refined aiming and designating prior to dropping bomb on it. All without storing the image.

 

[SloppyDog]

Well, I see the opposite. The kind of attack is perfect for a frozen or stored image. You have the time, the angles needed to take a radar map while far away, you do it, freeze and store the image, When you pop-up, you cue the TPOD to the point you want, without having to be offset and take the time to make another patch map.  Since the system knows spatially where the frozen radar image is (in space), it will cue the TPOD to the point you want it to look at. All of this can save a lot of precious time when doing an attack.

And storing radar images (recording them) have the added benefit of doing a BDA, by comparing the before and after of an attack (not very useful in DCS, but I believe it is very sought after in the real world). 

 

[KlarSnow]

If you store the image using the set functionality, the WSO can continue to be in command of the frozen image and refine their designation IE put the cursor on the target and make the designation, while the pilot has the radar sweeping in air to air. So for very short timeline high threat environments this could prove useful to as quickly as possible get the radar sweeping and not wait a few seconds for the WSO to actually make the designation after the map. 
 

otherwise it’s normally used as a comparison, IE old/new or wait no that last map was better than my first one. Think as a flip book, you toggle between the two so you can visually see what’s different. You don’t normally store a map for a significant amount of time. BDA purposes from a SAR map like this are kind of moot regardless. You need higher resolution or a different sensor to really get an idea of effects achieved.

[Avio]

Thanks much for that, will give that a try. Good that the system knows to continuously track the spatial positioning even with the image frozen / stored.

 

[KlarSnow]

The radar underlays the coordinate system at generation of the map, as long as it is frozen or stored that coordinate system exists. 
however if you are INS only (drifting without EGI) that coordinate system will diverge more and more from reality the longer you wait after making the map, so there is a benefit (INS only) to getting the designation done asap.

waiting a couple minutes after the map to make a designation INS only can easily result in significant error even if you have a tight system, so if you aren’t using EGI you probly want to get that designation done ASAP and not wait.

[Avio]

Okay noted on that, thanks.