E-2D Hawkeye CEC antenna

[Tom P]

Not sure exactly where this belongs
The hawkeye has a CEC (Cooperative Engagement Capability) antenna which is capable of providing targeting info and some other cool features. Will this ever be implemented or are we just going to get bra calls forever?

[Silver_Dragon]

The CEC antenna on the E-2D has only atrezzo. ED by now has no claim nothing about CEC capability on E-2, others aircrafts and other ships on DCS, surely by the limited data available to simulate your funtionality.

[Dragon1-1]

Actually, the datalink does work, so BRAA calls aren't the only way to get SA using the E-2. We may be missing some features of CEC, but at least the Tomcat can link up and get tracks from one, I think the Hornet can do that, too.

[Northstar98]

The CEC functionality is only really relevant for the AIM-120D and SM-6 - neither of which we have yet (though the Arleigh Burkes depicted in DCS are new enough to receive the latter).

And given that we still don't have CEC functionality for the Mk 23 Walleye II ERDL, the AGM-84E SLAM or the AGM-84H SLAM-ER (despite it being announced for the former).

Another thing is that the E-2D is currently defined with the AN/APS-138 radar (which belongs to the E-2C Hawkeye Group 0, the version appropriate to the Forrestal). The E-2D should have the AN/APY-9.

Unfortunately, said AN/APS-138 only has a range in DCS of 330 km (~180 nmi), the real thing has an instrumented range of 463 km (or 250 nmi) and the APY-9, 350 nmi (or ~650 km).