Tancrede Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Hello, Just a small question about radar systems in DCS world. Are they really working/radiating or else, doing there job of detecting aircrafs and missiles or are they only there for esthetic considerations? Thanks for your answers, Tancrede 1
NoCarrier Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 Another thing that search radars do is share target data with air defense vehicles in the same group. A whole bunch of my multiplayer Warthog-flying friends got spanked by SA-9s and SA-13s one time after I added a Dog Ear radar to the vehicle group. They thought they were safe in the dead of night at 12,000 feet with only the DE search radar symbol on their RWR. The search radar and AD vehicles do need to be in the same group, though; data is not shared among different groups as far as I can tell.
Fishbreath Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 No they work. For example if you fly a Russian jet, Su33/27 or MiG29 with a friendly ground radar your datalink/MFD will be supplied with the detected aircraft from that radar. Kill the radar and this data will not be available. This is just a example of the radars working. I haven't been able to make that work in the mission editor since I bought FC3 (on September 20th). The ground-based radars neither light up my RWR nor put contacts on the HDD. Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
RagnarDa Posted October 3, 2013 Posted October 3, 2013 A while back I made a script that launches AI fighters against any enemy plane detected by the radars. A bit complicated to setup but there are instructions included: http://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=1845129&postcount=10 DCS AJS37 HACKERMAN There will always be bugs. If everything is a priority nothing is.
Fishbreath Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 What radars are you using? I'm a bit rusty with both fc3 and the editor, but I've never had an issue. Tells us what you are doing.... Here's the first post I wrote about it in the FC3 forum. I didn't get any answers there, though. Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
Tancrede Posted October 4, 2013 Author Posted October 4, 2013 I haven't been able to make that work in the mission editor since I bought FC3 (on September 20th). The ground-based radars neither light up my RWR nor put contacts on the HDD. First, thanks for your answers. Il think I had the same kind of problem when using the mission editor. I had set up a US ground-base air surveillance radar on the top of a hill, near an airbase, and I was the Russian opponent with an KA-50. I never was quite sure that the radar worked and gave data to their own air defense systems as it seems that they were very passive or taken by surprise by the on-going attack.
Fishbreath Posted October 4, 2013 Posted October 4, 2013 Here is my very quick test... Placed a single EWR 1L13 radar and it relaid the data to my MFD as expected. Showing a series of enemy contact while my radar was off. Works... Weird—I couldn't get it to show anything with multiple tries. I don't see any RWR noise on your screenshot, either, and I feel like that's probably an oversight? Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
Robin_Hood Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 AFAIK, the SPO (RWR) has never shown friendly EWRs. I would guess it's not a bug then. Fishbreath, you may post a mission file that doesn't work see if MadTommy or someone has it working on the same mission. Maybe even both the mission file and the track showing it doesn't work would be nice :) 2nd French Fighter Squadron
Fishbreath Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Sure, I'll grab a track and upload the mission file tomorrow. Who knows—maybe the last patch will have fixed it for me. Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
Fishbreath Posted October 5, 2013 Posted October 5, 2013 Here's a mission and a track (the end of the track is me messing around with the Su-27; the interesting stuff is in the first few minutes).Russian Datalink Testing.mizno-radar-contacts.trk Black Shark, Harrier, and Hornet pilot Many Words - Serial Fiction | Ka-50 Employment Guide | Ka-50 Avionics Cheat Sheet | Multiplayer Shooting Range Mission
Ironhand Posted October 6, 2013 Posted October 6, 2013 (edited) Here's a mission and a track (the end of the track is me messing around with the Su-27; the interesting stuff is in the first few minutes). Didn't have time to watch the track but I took a look at your mission. Evidently the EWRs are prima donnas who will only share what they know, if you put them first. Make them the first unit of the group and all is well. Put them elsewhere and they clam up. Or, at least, that seems to be the issue. See the attached file. The EWR is first on the list. If I put the BUK first, the data link disappears. EDIT: It's been a very long day (head slap). I should have just taken your Sborka, instead of deleting the ground units and adding new ones, and swapped it for one of the EWRs and given the mission back to you. But, anyway, if you do that, the data link works. Rich Edited October 6, 2013 by Ironhand 1 YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCU1...CR6IZ7crfdZxDg _____ Win 11 Pro x64, Asrock Z790 Steel Legend MoBo, Intel i7-13700K, MSI RKT 4070 Super 12GB, Corsair Dominator DDR5 RAM 32GB.
Tucano_uy Posted October 7, 2013 Posted October 7, 2013 Don't confuse the radar units that you can add in the mission editor with the radar antennas (surveillance and PAR) that populate DCS:World's aerodromes. The first ones work and emit and the second ones are just decorative, no emissions or anything.
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