[NON-ISSUE] Radar cone / Fighter radar

[Dimitris]

ORIGINAL: Dragunov
The hit chance against AS-4 missiles is always 85%, even when the Phoenix is launched from maxium range. The hit chance against Shipwreck missiles is also 85% but the F-14 radar cannot track them at long ranges.

We are looking into this. The fundamental problem is that the nominal PoKs assume a large cooperative target (e.g. B-52 / B747 non-manouvering) and while we have a good range of modifiers for mannaed aircraft, there are no similar modifiers when engaging missiles. We are looking at a combination of quick-fix and longer-term upgrade.

[Dimitris]

ORIGINAL: AlmightyTallest
It would be neat if the simulation could be setup to give the individual weapon system, in this case the AIM-54C a better chaff rejection modifier to simulate ECCM built into that version, or something of that nature.

IIRC we do this already, the AIM-54C+ ECCM/Sealed has a 10-year tech edge on the original AIM-54A and this is taken into account on calculations vs chaff, jamming etc. (You can see some of that on the weapon endgame messages),

[AlmightyTallest]

Thanks for that info Sunburn, that's pretty neat to have all those factors already figured in.

I didn't know we had the AIM-54C+ version available, when I did my tests, I only found F-14 loadouts with the standard AIM-54C.

Is it possible to model the aspect of the aircraft at the moment it's engaged by the missile? What I mean is will the missile factor in that a large bomber is cruising along at 400mph when the bomber detects the missile and turns to go into the notch to evade and dumping chaff, versus the same bomber that's already going mach 2 and trying to do the same thing?

The second scenario obviously presents a harder target to intercept, and in some cases a smaller, faster aircraft might go outside the seeker limits of the missile and evade in some cases.

[Dimitris]

You'll see a variation of this in one of the near-future releases, first applied to engaging missile contacts.

[AlmightyTallest]

Sounds great Sunburn.

So this what you guys do on your break?? [:D]