#Mafia 4 ecm update#
I was surprised had also neglected to update its radars. Neither did the Navy ever really use the legacy Hornet as a air superiority platform ( particularly back in the day when they had the F14's), but ECM is integrated into the Hornet anyways.īut you know considering how few F15's there are relative to F16's, sending F16's to support Eagle's AS missions isn't unfathomable.īUt even so, if the F16 has historically been used more for A/G in the USAF, its radar is aged, and its lacking a moving map. Having the ECM built in simplifies stores loading for those kinds of missions. In the counter air role having external pods becomes a performance concern, Because they would need to be mounted on the center-line station for symmetry reasons taking the place of a fuel tank that now has to be mounted on the wings, and then needs to be jettisoned before combat (whereas a center-line tank wouldn't), creating fuel problems. The US F-16s are almost exclusively used as a SEAD/Strike platform in actual combat. The USAF doesn't use the F-16 as an air superiority fighter, while other operators do. Otherwise your going to be at a disadvantage in the EW environment.
In any case way if the mission allows for it, you'd probably want to take the pod with you. That's probably why nations with less diverse air forces that depend on the F-16s versatility a lot more, opted for onboard ECM equipment. Not a very smart way to deploy the aircraft, at least from an offensive counter air standpoint, used defensively its a different story.īut it all comes down to how the jet is used. (the center tank is rated for 9Gs and the drag penalty is acceptable for that kind of combat I'm sure the pods are too) but by having it on 5 you'd end up in a situation in which you'd need to pickle the tanks and risk running out of fuel. It would degrade performance if it was mounted on the wing, because it would produce an asymmetric loading which is a no no for ACM therefore you'd have to put it on 5 in place of a tank, which means wing tanks instead, also a no no for ACM, however the pod on the center station wouldn't really hinder performance. Then again considering that jammers simulated in DCS is the equivalent of pointing a giant flashlight in the direction of the plane locking on to you, I doubt having an ECM pod or ECM in general for an offensive air superiority mission would do you any good. So if what wizard say is true about the degrading performance of mounting a jammer pod for A2A missions, that would mean the majority of the time, the F-16 will fly either with a clean belly or mount a belly tank in order to reduce drag when the fight gets close and personal.
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