Hi folks,
I’ve been working on weaseling and getting the most out of the ECM pods. As you may know, with the new ECM implementation, it pays to not have all programs running if not needed, as they all have to share the same power supply. Thus, if you can select the right program for the threat you’re facing, you can get 100% of your ECM power against that threat. If you have all the programs running, that threat is only getting 20% of the pods potetial power. (Based on a single program theat - not all are…).
So, to improve my ECM performance, I’ve been pulling all the data from the BMS-Threat Guide and organizing it into a structured dataset that I can sort and organize as needed.
One of the products that came out of that was this cheat sheet. It’s meant as a quick, in-flight reference for when a radar threat pops up on the RWR. It specifies which ECM programs correspond to the bands used by all the systems that display that RWR symbol (Warsaw Pact SAM radar threats only so far…).
I also provides some key radar performance characteristics you might want to know at that moment in time.
Note: The characteristics are not based on a particular radar system that has an RWR symbol of (x). I drew from all the possible systems that correspond to that symbol and extracted the worst case (for you) in each listed attribute for all the possible systems, assuming that the only threat information you have is the RWR sybol that popped up.
As such, this is not meant as a tool for mission planning, where more information about exact threat systems in the theater might allow better ECM program choices and assessments of threat capabilities.
Also, this does not address actual missiles, just search and fire control radars. It’s meant for use BEFORE you’ve been shot at.
Feel free to copy the image and print/save/add to knee board,etc. as you wish.
All credits to the BMS team for the actual data. This is just an re-organized selection of their work for easy reference when a threat pops up your RWR.
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