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Went up against a JF-17 twice BVR

Never saw the first guy - no radar return, died.

 

second guy never saw him until about 20% inside of R-Max, died.

 

is anyone else having issues seeing a JF-17 on radar? 
 

i literally kept driving into them just to see when the stupid radar would give a return and only saw the second guy right when I already got his missile warning. 

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1 hour ago, jwbflyer said:

Went up against a JF-17 twice BVR

Never saw the first guy - no radar return, died.

 

second guy never saw him until about 20% inside of R-Max, died.

 

is anyone else having issues seeing a JF-17 on radar? 
 

i literally kept driving into them just to see when the stupid radar would give a return and only saw the second guy right when I already got his missile warning. 

Cant't really help you if you don't give us trackfiles showing what you're running into. 

Check your scan volume in azimuth and elevation to make sure the target is within the frame. Reduce the azimuth setting to decrease the frame time and get more hits to build trackfiles at long range. And use the correct PRF for the target's aspect. 


I use the radar mutliple times a week and have no problems detecting and tracking fighters at +60nm. 

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I was 40s he was 30s 

 

I had a 40az and 4bar with his alt in heart of the radar elevation

 

i put it on autopilot and just worked the radar to focus on trying to get a return

 

nothing

 

 

 

….and this is specifically only the JF-17

 

i was locking other jets fine 

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19 hours ago, jwbflyer said:

I was 40s he was 30s

I had a 40az and 4bar with his alt in heart of the radar elevation

i put it on autopilot and just worked the radar to focus on trying to get a return

nothing

….and this is specifically only the JF-17

i was locking other jets fine 

I just tried this on our squadron server, JF at about 20K so I went up to 30+K.  No problem locking and holding him (actually 2 of them) at 50+ nm.  Double check your radar altitude and that you're in an appropriate PRF.  Really sounds like either he's notching you (MED PRF can help) or you're not on ideal PRF for distance (HI for longer range, MED for <20 nm)

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Reference the last 20 minutes or so of the file- it’s the last engagement.
 

was able to easily replicate it again tonight, if the JF-17 is lower, then I'll be blind until short range or I sacrifice altitude and dive. This is happening every time I fight a JF-17.

in this scenario once AWACS called him about 40nm, I chose to dive and see if that would change anything- it did, I was able to see him and lock him. Previous engagements i did not dive and the range at which he appeared was shorter. 
 

also don’t know if he was jamming. 

 

 

SDCS_Syria3-20250204-190552.trk - Shortcut.lnk

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6 hours ago, jwbflyer said:

Reference the last 20 minutes or so of the file- it’s the last engagement.
 

was able to easily replicate it again tonight, if the JF-17 is lower, then I'll be blind until short range or I sacrifice altitude and dive. This is happening every time I fight a JF-17.

in this scenario once AWACS called him about 40nm, I chose to dive and see if that would change anything- it did, I was able to see him and lock him. Previous engagements i did not dive and the range at which he appeared was shorter. 
 

also don’t know if he was jamming. 

 

 

SDCS_Syria3-20250204-190552.trk - Shortcut.lnk 1.61 kB · 6 downloads

this file you posted is a shortcut and not the actual .trk

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2 JF-17's 1 at 30 thousand and the other 5 thousand. Both of them the radar starts getting low Pd hits around the same time and eventually become semi-stable trackfiles in that 80-75nm area like the shot i showed before. Same scan volume setting and HPRF as my previous screenshot.

You'd know if he's jamming by looking for a [JA] symbol in the dugout box at the top of the radar page along the bearing line of the target.

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The hornet radar has not had any imposed look-down penalties since the start of the phased radar overhauls, ED said as much in the phase 2 whitepaper that look-down penalties would be reintroduced with phase 3.

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