AI jamming TWS2 at any range before STT (making it useless/broken)

[Skuva]

Any aircraft with a jammer is currently capable of jamming the TWS2 on the MiG-29S indefinitely, even at extremelly close range.

TWS1 works normally and AI only jamms it when you try to STT at a far enough range. But with TWS2 the AI will jamm even if no STT is atempted, which is unrealistic as it shouldn't be able to differ TWS1 from TWS2.

EDIT: Also, is TWS on Su-27/33 and MiG-29A/S really suposed to be completelly unfuctional if any aircraft in the region is jamming? Whenever there is a jammer turned on inside the radar zone, it will just auto-switch from TWS back to SCAN, regardless of distance. If somehow it is like this irl (weird weakness for such an important function but you never know what the soviets were thinking) and is being simulated, ok, but just in case I'm adding a second track for it.

TWS2_AI.trk

TWS_jam_autoswitch.trk

Edited October 12, 2023 by Skuva
extra info

[GGTharos]

The old processor on those radars cannot handle ECM while being in TWS so yes, it is correct.

[Seaeagle]

On 9/29/2023 at 11:49 PM, Skuva said:

Any aircraft with a jammer is currently capable of jamming the TWS2 on the MiG-29S indefinitely, even at extremelly close range.

TWS1 works normally and AI only jamms it when you try to STT at a far enough range. But with TWS2 the AI will jamm even if no STT is atempted, which is unrealistic as it shouldn't be able to differ TWS1 from TWS2.

EDIT: Also, is TWS on Su-27/33 and MiG-29A/S really suposed to be completelly unfuctional if any aircraft in the region is jamming? Whenever there is a jammer turned on inside the radar zone, it will just auto-switch from TWS back to SCAN, regardless of distance. If somehow it is like this irl (weird weakness for such an important function but you never know what the soviets were thinking) and is being simulated, ok, but just in case I'm adding a second track for it.

 

Yes and no.

TWS is generally more vunerable to ECM, but the real radar has some optional settings for dealing with ECM in TWS instead of just automatically reverting to search mode - this is not simulated  in FC3 though.

It also seems odd if its the TWS-2 mode that is mostly afffected by ECM, since this mode only exists on the MiG-29S and is part of the radar upgrade that was applied to this, for which improved jam resistance was one of the advertised features. The upgrade involved a new more powerful data processor with serveral times more processing power and the TWS-2 mode itself was a newer design(specifically for the employment of the R-77/RVV-AE).