Currently, there is no such feature.
Additionally, there is an “Direct Active” mode in AIM-54.
Seems based on my colleagues post above that you might have gotten your conclusions somewhat wrong.
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Would it be possible to elaborate on this?
Also for Community Bug Reporting System
How did you know that it lists the maximum thrust?
Does they have documents that
I guess he means the mode if you opened up ACM switch/cover.
If you opened up, AIM-54s will be active immediately when you launched it.
Of course, if the distance to the target is too far, the missile will fly in a straight and never track target.
Although I do have some materials, I have requested additional materials from the library, as previously mentioned by @MiG_23M. I hope to receive a positive response soon.
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So should I make another report on the AIM-54 being SARH+IOG+DL+ARH or has that already been reported internally?
There is burnout test data for the Mk.47 and Mk.60 motors.
As we know, thrust increases when a rocket motor burns at high temperatures, and this data was obtained from burnout tests conducted under extreme conditions (-54°C and 71°C).
For the Mk.47 motor, the average thrust at 71°C was 14,995 N, and the maximum thrust was 17,779 N. In other words, the 17,792 N figure from the 1984 Weapons File cannot be applied to the Mk.47 motor. The Mk.47 motor can only achieve that figure under extreme temperatures.
For the Mk.60 motor, the average thrust at 71°C was 18,118 N, and the maximum thrust was 21,467 N.
The only possibility worth considering is that the 1984 Weapons File used values for the Mk.60 motor, but this is also unlikely. The most probable explanation is that the figure is incorrect.
No, since the conclusion is incorrect, there is no need to write any report. This feature is identical to DataLink.
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It should still give RWR launch warning as game simplifies PD guidance as CW
There is no reason for that warning to be triggered, it is not CW Illumination or PD Illumination.
Maybe, maybe not. ARI 18241/1 was capable of detecting both the AN/DSQ-26 ARH seeker;
And the AWG-9 and its missile guidance updates;
Comes from the 1987 declassified Tornado F.3 tactics manual.
In ARI 18241/1, it is highly likely that the missile can be detected in a way different from what the user claimed.
Basically, the AIM-54’s seeker receives the reflected waves in the AWG-9’s TWS mode. Since this is identical to standard TWS mode, CW/PD Illumination detection cannot be enabled.
However, since there is a continuous data link between them, it is possible to detect these signals and identify missile guidance updates.
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So then why does TWS have a different AIM-54 max range to PD-STT?
There is some difference somewhere, since there is no range exception for firing on a single target from TWS (which I would think could be tactically useful in some situations).
I’d assume that it can detect the change in duty cycle, since the antenna keeps scanning and periodically updating contacts sequentially, so if one was to add more it detects the change in the PRF.
As an aside has it been established if the F-14 uses PD-ILL or a CWI for Radar missiles?
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How is this different to PD guidance though? Doesn’t PD guidance just use the radar in the HPRF mode for guidance updates?
Problem regarding the AWG-9’s processing unit.
In the game?
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Not particularly.
The F-14 starts off with the AIM-7E
But ends with the AIM-7M/P which utilize Monopulse Seekers (different waveform) and so require PD-ILL so it needs to have changed at some point, or started with it in the first place, I just don’t know when. also none of the available cross sections mention a dedicated illuminator or show a Co-axial waveguide, as found on the F-4’s radar which supports the use of CW-FM guidance used by Conical scan Sparrows and the AIM-7F.
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AWG-9 uses a CW illuminator.
Also, based on what I know, there is a switch for PD illumination on the RIO seat.
It is incorrect to assume that the AIM-7M cannot be guided using a CW illuminator. ROKAF F-4E are using the AIM-7M, and those aircraft have not had any radar modifications.
Monopulse does not have to mean different waveform. Seems that AIM-7M retained both PD and CW illumination capability as AIM-7F.
Do we know which antenna it uses to transmit the CW / PD waveform then, since the FoV in Game is likely wrong if it borrows from the F-4’s data for the +/- 7 degrees (HPBW) value. (And would this be possible to reflect properly in game since it is limited by the Radar’s mode, or otherwise optional)
The Dipoles are obviously for the IFF system(APX-76) which is in the L-band, so very inefficient an X band signals, and the slotted array has a very large FoV, so wouldn’t be optimal, either.
Which one(11?) the Aspect knob (element 9) is for setting up Sparrows for boresight / EO ( F-4’s AAA-4 / ASX-1 TISEO or ALR-23 / ASX-1 / AAS-42 for the F-14) guidance without a (radar) lock on. It’s possible that the AIM-54 has something similar, or it otherwise feeds into the settings for the gates for the active seeker as well.
So then what was the issue for the -7P? it’s not like the F-14 lacks a datalink channel.
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There is not necessarily requiring the CW illuminator to be mounted with the radar. In the case of the F-16A, the CW illuminator is located in a completely different place.
Button 11, functions as follows:
The missile options (MSL OPTIONS) switch is located on the armament control indicator (figure 16-9). It is a three-position switch that is used to select the radar track configuration of the selected missile. The SP PD position is used only with the AIM-7F missiles. This position causes the selected missile to operate in the pulse-doppler mode. The NORM position is used with the AIM-7 and AIM-54 missiles. This position causes the weapon control system to direct the selected missile radar system to operate in the continuous wave (CW) mode. When an AIM-54 missile is selected for launch, the missile is instructed to operate in the semiactive guidance mode. The PH ACT position is used only with AIM-54 missiles. This position causes the weapon control system to switch from semiactive guidance to active guidance and command the AIM-54 missile radar system to operate in a short-range mode.
I don’t know, but what is certain is that the F-14 cannot use the data link of the AIM-7P. On the F-14A/B/D, the AIM-7P uses the same mode as the AIM-7MH.
The ADF mod for the F-16A & -B added the Null Antenna for CWI compatibility. So works similarly to the F-15 with the Flood Antenna.
The F-14 lacks anything similar.
What is this claim based on? it’s not like the AIM-7 doesn’t already use a datalink to generate the relative closing velocity for deriving doppler computations.
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