Radar system - Ground Objects

[Basher11]

What is the difference in functions between RadarSearchRange and RadarTrackRange? Which one is the real threat? And what does RadarMinimumRange do? I am just a bit confused.

[+Spectre_USA]

It would seem somewhats elementary, but here goes;

 

RadarSearchRange is how far out the radar reaches while just probing the sky, looking for reflections.

 

RadarTrackRange is how close an object that reflects the energy is before it can track, or illuminate a target for a missile shot.

 

RadarMinimumRange is where neither of the above can happen with reliability, due to the object being too close.

 

Howzat?

[Basher11]

Perfectly understood except RadarMinimumRange. Sort of unclear about it.

 

About the [Weapon System] section, if MinPitch=0.0, does it mean missile can be fired at 0 elevation? What are YawLimit, MinYaw and MaxYaw?

[+Spectre_USA]

Have you tried the knowledge base area?

 

I knew the 1st few off the top, and have decent guesses about your latest, but I am pretty sure most of the INI stuff is listed therein...

[Basher11]

Have you tried the knowledge base area?

 

I knew the 1st few off the top, and have decent guesses about your latest, but I am pretty sure most of the INI stuff is listed therein...

Okay I'll have a chat over there.

[+Spectre_USA]

Chat?

 

Not so much. It is a carefully categorized area, like a library, with many, many, pearls of wisdom from our generous modders and experimenters.

 

Really a rich resource of interesting stuff.

 

A good place to sit back with a beverage and peruse for an hour or three...

[+SkippyBing]

In the real world radar minimum range is down to a number of factors, however the main one is that most radars can't talk and listen at the same time. Basically the receiver is very sensitive as it's listening for a very faint signal and the transmitter is putting out a very loud one so it'd tend to overpower the receiver and damage it. Although the transmitter is transmitting for a very short period of time the signal is going out at the speed of light so the signal goes a long way in this time, this is the minimum radar range.

Different radars have different minimum detection ranges, for instance a long range air search radar has a large one as it's putting lots of energy into the air to try and get a return off a small contact at long range. A shipborne nav radar will have quite a small one as it doesn't need to illuminate anything more than about 20 miles away and even then it'll have a large cross section. Radar band comes into this as well but to some extent that's governed by what you're trying to do anyway.