Installing radars to aircraft

[Odin]

I want to equip my search planes and night bombers with some radars, but when i use the editor they didn´t show up in the game...can someone tell me?

Has anyone seen the effects of these equipment?

Thank you![:D]

[Hipper]

I've been told that the system does not model the effects of surface search Radar on aircraft in the game

though there are some in the database, I have added planes with the sps 6 radar but it
never seems to have any effect in the small scale tests I ran

I suspect having crews at 80+ experience will model the effects of radar better than adding radars to planes.

cheers

[Arkady]

what's type of radar did you use ?

there are surface and aircraft radards

for aircraft you must use airfcraft radars, there are already some Allies units equiped with them and I test adding of radar to some aircrafts, they show up in the game

did you specify number and location of device too ?

don't know if they function properly though

Arkady

[Odin]

I want to use a surface radar on my Catalinas....i dont want them to search for planes.

I changed also the first use date and how many in pool of this radar...nothing happened.[&:]

[Hipper]

I added an SPS-6 radar from some late war us aircraft to a swordfish, can't remember if it showed up on the aircraft

no obvious effect anyway

I think airborne radars have an effect on the chance of night fighters making interceptions

cheers

[mikemike]

Hi,

something I found just now: (haven´t seen it in the Editor Manual or in other Editor threads) if you change/add/delete devices on aircraft types, you also have to reload the aircraft in every air group it´s operated by, otherwise the changes to that aircraft will not show up in that air group. This one drove me to distraction, with bombers not bombing, changes not showing in the aircraft data display of the air group etc.

Thinks: does this also work in reverse? can you give a particular air group its very own aircraft configuration (kind of private field mods)? what does that do to replacements?

[michaelm75au]

The same condition applies to ships (Class) and LCU (TOE).
Changing devices on a Class or TOE does not automatically update all units using that Class/TOE. You still need to go through and click on the Class/TOE to refresh the device list.
This does mean that you could "personalise" a ship or LCU, but only to a minor degree because it will still be related to the underlying Class/TOE for upgrade/replacements.

Michael

[mikemike]

ORIGINAL: michaelm

The same condition applies to ships (Class) and LCU (TOE).
Changing devices on a Class or TOE does not automatically update all units using that Class/TOE. You still need to go through and click on the Class/TOE to refresh the device list.
This does mean that you could "personalise" a ship or LCU, but only to a minor degree because it will still be related to the underlying Class/TOE for upgrade/replacements.

Michael

Thanks, Michael. I noticed that about ships, too. Makes good sense for ships, only way to model damaged weapons on an individual ship. Useful for individual units of all descriptions, but is a wart if you want to modify one of the more numerous types (e.g. all Fletcher DD, all Japanese Base Units, all Air Units flying Zeros or Hellcats), especially as there is no filter in the unit selection panel, you have to look at every single unit if it uses the type you want to modify. This ought to be more automated. There is a new thread called "Editor suggestion" just next door with a useful proposal by Damian Thorn. He certainly gets my vote for it.