I guess the processors are crappy old 486's or something??

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​@@grimreapers My good old 486 feels offended, or rather would feel that way :) I'm not sure about the actual computing units used in that particular case, but they are most likely some special purpose DSPs (apparently, not based on the thinnest available lithography process). Processing power is one thing, but non-NN based upscaling/enhancement most likely needs more than one radar sweep worth of input to generate enhanced output. Same thing, for example, is true for SAR: by sampling a certain area from different (but known) positions with certain lateral offset you can emulate a radar of much wider physical aperture, but it takes a while for the platform to move through all these positions and take a sweep at each. Radar aperture - just like in case of optics - is responsible for radar image resolution, but since the wavelengths used are much longer than those of visible light, you need a proportionally larger aperture than that of the eye. That is also the reason why only larger geometrical details start making difference at those wavelengths / apertures, but if you up the frequency or use a larger aperture radar (or use aperture synthesis, as mentioned above) - you start making out finer details. Also why geometrical "stealth" isn't working well against older radars: they are simply "blind" to the intricacies of the surface and perceive the whole thing as some uncertain "blob" of roughly that size. You could also say that ELF transmitters "can't see" all the water above a submarine, making radio frequency communications possible, while the high intensity X-rays from a nuclear explosion have a hard time penetrating the surrounding air farther than a few meters around, heating up the said bubble of air, resulting in the fireball. Although yes, X-rays also do penetrate materials and air rather easily on the other hand... Then again, the distances of irradiation are much shorter in that case.

Yeah, radars are cool, because of the ripple that most water have you can actually see oil spills in water from satellite radars, because the oil removes the ripple.

@@torgers10603 That's an interesting bit. I guess the oil flattens the ripple. Didn't occur to me before.

And a F-16/18 pilot youtuber mocks WSOs all the time...

@@jackstheraptor2791 CW Lemoine

Yup, would struggle without game Pause

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cool

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imagine also gets better when target is getting closer to 90 degrees off the nose, there are radar pods now on f15e to look exacly 90 degrees to the side

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Shouldn't that be "slave sensors to SPI" or something like that instead? STP stands for "steerpoint" I think.

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Originally coming from DI Tornado. While DCS is amazing it is also amazing what DI (and other programmers) managed to do with a 66 MHz, 640 KB memory. DI's Tornado had AA radar and a pretty good AG radar. You could set target points on the moving map or AG radar, set autopilot to steer towards it. Front and WSO cockpit. Autopilot which could be commanded to terrain following at different altitudes or barometric altitude. Flying fast with heavy weapon load required a higher terrain following altitude. I recommend to try it (DOS box required) and to not be discouraged by the super low screen resolution.

@@slowhornet4802 Interesting.. Never heard of that ☺️ But yeah, in some ways DCS is cutting edge (graphics, sounds and interface), but on system level it can be very lacking compared to what was done before

@@slowhornet4802 DI's Tornado? Are you sure? Was there a source code leak? Yes, indeed, it was an amazing sim for the time, and I'm missing those ALARMs.

Apparently not a thing IRL

@@Rlaxox irl stands for??

@@slash11985 "In real life"

you need to use open beta version to have it

Neg, Stable always a few weeks behind.

rgr

Not that I know off but happy to be corrected.

You can use GM to set SPI, use the MARK function to set cords, then use GPS guided bombs to drop to two different sites. It's all about the prep, the dropping would be something like, PICKLE, streerpoint up, PICKLE, profit.

Me too, I thought my radar was broken. I cant seem to get to zoom in functionality, if I try to then it changes the range of radar not the area around the SPI.

agree

There are some nasties out there on internets

I could'nt do without pause.

@@grimreapers :( its really hard

Roger. What constitutes better? Clearer I guess?

will go look now

@@grimreapers OMG THX!! does jester use lanturn in multiplayer or just single player?