Yeah I’ve seen it, will be interesting to see what they actually put on them.
As far as I’m concerned this comes from the defence review. And the defence review like all of them is a load of propagandist nonsense that means nothing until we start seeing capabilities delivered aka until the weapon actually materialises in our hands.
I suspect this may have also been motivated by the UKs simulations showing that if the carriers were left alone with just their air wing and no escorts the loss rates would be 100%. Says about as much about the air wing as it does the carriers. Given the UK only has 8 escorts ready at any one time that’s not an unbelievable situation to find ourselves in.
It’s all a bit pathetic really. IMO we should’ve gone full EMALS with self defence missiles given we paid our share for the programme. And then made a wing of either all F35C or some sort of naval used Typhoon (or maybe KF21 EX) to bulk up numbers. But that was unaffordable with the then current budget. All that shows is the budget needed to be higher….
Found an absolute doozy of a 1 pixel weak spot that allows any vic with over 100 mm of pen and enough aphe filler to one shot the conqueror frontally. Only found out about it cus of course someone managed to send a round through the thing. I have already made a bug report on it as volumetric alone should stop the round, but gaijin is gaijin so…
Sorry for diving into the past, but is the barheight the search height or is the elevationLimits the search height? The radar wont capture the high IL-28 in the test flight, so I thought the radar might have the wrong elevation right now…
Because, as an example, the SANTAL with its DR-VC-1A radar have an elevationLimits of 90 and a barheight of 15, but is able to locate vehicles at any height
It does definitely not have 45 degree elevation on the search radar. I couldnt pick up a F-5E at 4250 meters altitude at a range of 8700 meters. To locate the F-5E at that altitude and distance it would require the radar to have at least 30 degree elevation.
