Q-5 has no RWR tone/image?
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Well i started a campaign but have yet to actually fly my first sortie, just looking at the first few sorties been generated and assessing enemy air strength. I’m going to go out on a BARCAP for my first sortie of the campaign which is north west of Kimpo AB. Looking at the OOB i see the enemy only have air forces at an AB to the NE of my BARCAP TGT steerpoints which consist just of pretty crappy Q-5s of the DPRK 20th Attack squadron. I looked up Q-5s in tacref and it has no RWR tone for them an no image which made me think ok so they have no radar. But looking at their info it says they have a ranging radar, RWR and chaff/flare dispenser so shouldnt my RWR pick up their ranging radar?
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Well it depends also which version of the Q-5 you have there since they have a lot of variants of it and not all of them seems to have a radar
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Well it depends also which version of the Q-5 you have there since they have a lot of variants of it and not all of them seems to have a radar
Exactly, most Q-5 dont have radars.
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Ah well it says it has a ranging radar used for its bombsight so i guess my RWR cant pick that up. In the Tacref the only type of Q-5 is the Fantan…but i found it under fighters and it should be under attack.
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Q-5 Fantan is based on the Mig 19 and as such was used by the Chinese in a similar way. The main difference was an internal weapons bay for pair of 250kg bombs and the engine intake moved to the side to accommodate the bomb bay and the new ground ranging radar. Its principle role was CAS but as a fighter it was used under GCI rules and in a fair weather visual role. The Q-5 is also quite old know and I’m not sure any are left in service. China, Myanmar and Sudan being the last users.
None of the Q-5 or export A-5 variants produced had an A-A radar - hence no RWR tone or image as it’s not of interest to you really. In reality you’d hear the Radar from the RWR if you were listening to the raw output and if you were really interested (or an EWO) you might even know what it was from the sound - but as fight pilot with quite enough to do to maintain your SA without being distracted by non-threatening Radar emissions I doubt you’d bother.
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Q-5 Fantan is based on the Mig 19 and as such was used by the Chinese in a similar way. The main difference was an internal weapons bay for pair of 250kg bombs and the engine intake moved to the side to accommodate the bomb bay and the new ground ranging radar. Its principle role was CAS but as a fighter it was used under GCI rules and in a fair weather visual role. The Q-5 is also quite old know and I’m not sure any are left in service. China, Myanmar and Sudan being the last users.
None of the Q-5 or export A-5 variants produced had an A-A radar - hence no RWR tone or image as it’s not of interest to you really. In reality you’d hear the Radar from the RWR if you were listening to the raw output and if you were really interested (or an EWO) you might even know what it was from the sound - but as fight pilot with quite enough to do to maintain your SA without being distracted by non-threatening Radar emissions I doubt you’d bother.
All makes sense, and well i did that BARCAP and at the end if said it was successful and i was 28 seconds early arriving at the first TGT steerpoint. I only shot one amraam, damaging a J-5 (Mig 17) though i’d imagine it would have still gone down and the pilot would have ejected, my wingman shot two amraams one missed and the other destroyed a J-5 (the wingman or lead of the one i shot). There was a 2 ship su-27s to the north of steer 3 which i pursued but they ran away. Air superiority maintained and it said no enemy aircraft violated our airspace in the debrief so pleased with my first campaign sortie, even though it was i guess a tad easy.