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EA-37B should be comparable to EA-18G #5098

Open FIM43-Redeye opened 2 months ago

FIM43-Redeye commented 2 months ago

DB Selector

DB3K

Affected DBID(s)

Aircraft 4883, Sensors 5982, 5983, 5984

Summary of Changes

The EA-37B is an exceptionally modern aircraft that may be equipped with cognitive EW (I'd be surprised if it wasn't). Its sensors in the DB have markedly worse performance and older generations than the EA-18G, and in fact appear to just be a copy-paste from the EC-130. I would assume that the EA-37B would actually be more capable than the EA-18G even with a full load of five ALQ-XXX pods. The airframe is larger and can likely generate more electrical power, plus those massive conformal antennae.

This is more of a 'what feels right' kind of request. The EA-37B just feels very obsolete when it's basically just an EC-130 but slightly faster. The IRLS and IR camera are probably fine.

Sources

https://theaviationist.com/2024/08/28/first-ea-37b-compass-call-delivered/ Various sources in #1859 as well.

Luigi-II commented 1 month ago

I sincerely ask DB manager to take this (and related) ticket seriously, EA-37B will be a critical EW platform, which will be important for many hot-spot scenarios in the future. At the very least, it shouldn't be mounted with sensors that use 1980s technology. This is absolutely unreasonable.