Full Jamming & Radar Tutorial | VTOL VR FA-26b 

Notes & Slew Radar Elaboration: 1. Your radar is broadcasting in a cone that expands as it gets farther away from you, meaning that it can scan a wider altitude range the farther away the signal gets. Moving the cursor with the right thumb stick does not change the altitude range that you scan, though it looks like it. The left thumb stick is what changes the scanning altitude. Moving the cursor around simply changes the altitude values to help you understand the radar cone and the altitudes you can scan at different parts of the cone. 2. AWACS radar and EW radar are also both low band.

To add onto the jamming section: the reason you could maintain a hard lock was that the jamming type was set to noise. This just adds false radar return blips, being the boxes, to simply blind your radar basically. To throw off a hard lock (STT/Single Target Tracking) you need to use DRFM, which will, when targeting the enemy who’s hard locked you, mess with their radar enough to throw off the radar lock. It’s all detailed in the EF-24G’s manual, in the third section.

Sublime, will help tremendously not be overwhelmed when the update hits, thanks. EW is gonna change so much about the game, excited !

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This is gonna be watched so many times in the news few months. This is a super good tutorial, probably the best I've seen for vtol. Keep it up!

To further explain jamming, there are three kinds of radar degredation: noise, or barrage jamming, DRFM, and signature augmentation. Noise jamming is fairly straightforward: it overloads the targetted emitter with false returns, causing the real target to be lost in the noise. It's very useful for jamming multiple radars at once if you can get them all on the same bearing. It can also hide any allies that are in the jamming corridor, delaying lock-on. However, you have to manually set the frequency band of the jammer and your radar is unavailable while jamming. It also gives away your bearing (though not your range) and you're susceptable to missiles fired in home-on-jam mode. Digital Radio Frequency Memory, or DRFM jamming, is more complex than simple noisemaking. It involves digitizing the received radar signal and modifying it to achieve a result. Typically, DRFM jamming does this by copying the radio frequency of the radar pinging you and sending it back to the receiver at a higher power. This creates a loud, but false track that the jammer then "walks" away from your aircraft to break a lock. The advantages of DRFM jamming are that it automatically matches the frequency of the emitting radar, and it can pull single-target tracks (hard locks) off you. The disadvantage of DRFM is that it can only affect one emitter at a time, allowing multiple enemy radars to cross-reference and get your actual location. Finally, there's Signature Augmentation. It operates on many of the same principles as DRFM jamming, but instead of walking the false track away from your ship, it modulates the signature so you instead appear as a different track. The primary use case for this is to have a MALD decoy appear as a larger aircraft, say, an F-26. The advantage here is that signature augmentation can't be tracked by missiles in home-on-jam mode and in PvP lobbies specifically, it can trick enemy players into making decisions based on bad info. The disadvantage is that it doesn't hide your actual position, and in many cases, the decoy radar pulse is a lot stronger than the actual return, which can actually give your position away.

Thanks for this. I was surprised how opaque the new mechanics are in game, so it's nice having it all spelled out.

Great video man! Very informative! Definitely looking forward to the update.

Small corrections: 1) A is for Altitude, not for Angels. That is from BRAA call, Bearing, Range, Altitude, Aspect. 2) The B-scope maximize the separation of targets, but it is still based from the conical scan and does distort the radar scope further the contact is from centerline and closer it is to own plane. It is best to have scanning in default "sector PPI" that give best idea of range, angle and position. Especially if the Sector PPI can be overlaid on Map, when it is very clear what you see and don't see horizontally. 3) Slew mode is about seeing the scan volume values, not the bars value and scanned bars level. As you select scanning volume by selecting how many layers the radar sweeps vertically, you change time it takes to update the radar picture as it is updated only when all bars is scanned. But bars do not inform you what volume you are really scanning. As radar beam is example 4.5 degrees cone, it will scan larger volume at longer distance than at closer distance, as the radar beam will be wider in diameter further it is measured from radar. This is as well what makes radar less accurate at the long range, as well less sensitive. When you select the slew mode, you see the calculated vertical volume for given range, so example at 5 NMI range radar with 4 bars scan only 16-22 kft vertical volume, at same 4 bars at 100 NMI it is covering 2-35 kft vertical volume. The visual information in numbers help to come up for setting, like wingman tells that enemy was flying at 3000 ft and was about 15 NMI from you, that you can adjust your radar vertical angle so that scan is example 1-5 kft at 10 NMI and know that you should detect it. Doing that just with bars value tells nothing about volume. It isn't manual, you just get adjusting radar vertical scan angle to point radar as needed.

Buddy, you cleared up so much for me, and you didn’t waste my time doing it. Mucho gracias. 🙏 🛩️

wow, thanks, man. I feel a lot more prepared going into 1.8 now because of this video. good job on the video, very good quality.(i know it sounds like I'm being sarcastic but i am being entirely truthful ) :)

Learned a lot here! Great video too!

Absolutely excellent video man. Great pacing and breakdown DS. Anyone else want a B2, B21 or generic flying wing bomber with missions and escorts.

Super hyped about this

When slewing the selector on the radar forwards and back, you arent increasing or decreasing the upper/lower bounds of the radar volume. The display is simply showing you the upper/lower bounds for that section. Since the radar projects outward like a cone, the further away your curspr gets, the larger the cone becomes and subsequently so does the upper/lower bounds.

this was really helpful and informational thank you

Awesome now i understand why I kept getting shot down by SAM sights i was jamming in the mission 3 for the F26 (i was using the wrong bandwidths)

Been waiting for more dcs like radar mechanics for a while and I’m glad it’s being added. The terms your are using like soft lock and hard lock are referred to as single target track (STT) and track while scan (TWS). TWS is what makes the F-45 seem so powerful because you don’t know you’ve been launched on till the missile goes pitbull as a TWS lock does not spike a bandits RWR. The downside to TWS is that the targets position is only updated after it is sweeped so you will see the contact on your radar skipping from pos to pos after each sweep. This doesn’t seem simulated in VTOL tho. The benefit to STT is you have persistent tracking but the target knows it is being locked

Thanks man! I am new to VTOL, and this was very helpful!

Very helpfull, thanks.

Next update: WEATHER AND CLOUDS?!?

You sound like dr garry nolan 😂 Great video 👌🏻

I need to confirm but I'm pretty sure you got a mistake inyour description of the radar altitudes coming off the cursor at the ~3min mark and some mistakes about ranging. In real jets as the cursor moves around those numbers are what altitude can be seen at that range. Think of it this way, the radar beam is a cone of energy that sweeps the sky. Imagine the side profile of that cone, and pick say the 5 mile mark, the cone is smaller, at that range you might only see a fe thousand feet above and bellow your jet. Now look 20 miles out, and you can see 20 thousand feet up or down. The cursor is only telling you what the radar can see at that range, not actually changing the beam shape. Also, range up and down doesnt limit the energy, it just zooms the screen in. As far as I know we can't actually control the energy amount. I beleive this update give some sort of option like that to the F-45.

FINALLY we get TWS (Track While Scan) RADAR mode. Only hard locks was awful. This will also mean that they won't get a lock warning before you fire, though of course they'll get the same radar spike

The B-Scope is a lot different than PPI, B-Scope extends the point of the cone - ie your Radar emitter to the entirety of the bottom of the Radar scope, what that means, you are not seeing the pizza slice view anymore. In this view everything left or right of the middle is the angle offset to that side, and anything that is pointing directly down is coming at you - makes it easier too see which target vectors are intercepting you and which arent pointed at you.

Very helpful

Great video, lots of good information, it would have been nice to see how you go about using your jammer in a bvr fight. As demonstrated at the end, he was jamming you prior to you having a lock, so how was he jamming you? Was it just that he was fast enough to start the jam the moment your radar passively detected him, before you could soft or hardlock? Or is there some other tactic I am failing to understand.

What do all of the readings on radar after locking on a target mean? If A=altitude, what are the others?

Thanks

Did they remove the MODE button (and thus DRFM) from the F/A-26B's jamming pod?

Will AI SAM sites fire in HOJ mode? If so what are some tips for evading? Can missiles launched in HOJ mode be retargeted after launch if the jammer is deactivated?

So there are no aesa radars?

I'll take it for ECM, but...the radar change is a flat nerf that would only apply to the T-55. Every other aircraft is advanced enough to have phased array setups. Also, NOT a fan of jamming only working forward. Great video, though. Well arranged.

F26 radar jamming not working - I've been playing the VTOL and trying to use the Jammer while selecting ground AAA & SAMS - I can select the targets on ARAD but unable to use the Jammer ( cannot select the TGP, GPS, ARAD, nor select the BAND. Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this issue?

You sure "soft lock" isnt TWS mode lock? Track While Scan like in DCS

I was using the EF-24G Mischief and opened the jammer and the multiple boxes were grayed out and not available to do anything with. Does anyone know a fix for this?

when I went to the jamming screen, it showed I didn't have any jammers but I don't know where to equip them.

This was really helpful, thanks. Do you think you could another tutorial with the EF-24G? I know the process is similar but it's different enough for it to still be confusing. Many thanks if you do.

You only covered NOISE mode, what about DRFM and SAS?

when Is the update arriving? also is that like a public beta or just for the higher ups? If it is public how do I access it.

If AIM-120s can be fired from soft lock, what is the function of hard-locking? Is that solely for AIM-7s now?

You know what might be nice, a thigh notepad. Just so as to help remember some of this jamming/radar stuff.

What do you do when youre being jammed? Do you just fight through it or is there some sort of countermeasure?

thanks for these radar tips. i was confused why i couldn't get radar contacts belov or above me . the radar antenna elevation feature is a good news because it was too easy to sweep the area. i noticed AIM-7 misses enemy easily if you don't use 15 degree scan and STT withing 5 miles. also the enemy radar icon is retarded depending on scan width Edit: Jamming bands was comprehensive. i love the fact that ef24 is capable of disprupting the comms

Is the radar scanning up down to the plane or is it just the altitudes

How do I equip a jammer?

If I fired a radar guided misisle with only a soft lock would that worsen the accuracy? also is this update already out?

4 days ago, before update happend?

Aren't dish sites high band?

what are the different jamming modes?

Hey Darkstar, Maybe a steep ask - but... can you revisit this with the EF? I'm having a bitch of at time just trying to figure out how to turn on the jammers.

Which hardpoints does the jamming pod go on?

Is there a way to have the jammers automatically select a target and jam it?

Your description of slow mode isn’t exactly correct. When you move the cursor around the screen, it’s not actually changing anything it’s displaying the maximum and minimum altitude at that distance from your aircraft that you can detect contacts when you use the left stick in order to slew up and down you’re actually moving the radar scan assembly up and down. Essentially the use of this mode would be to get a higher hit rate on a target, but without having to switch to a smaller, scan angle, essentially instead of processing the four vertical scan rows, you are eliminating that and only doing a single horizontal scan with a certain radar elevation

So, uh. How to you jam aircraft? You showed how to jam Ground targets but how to you jam aircraft?

how do the jammer rocket work that i dont understand

Im not autistic enough to read the manual, so Im waiting for either a full comprehensive guide on the EF-24, or a video from Operator Drewski

Isnt this a bit op for pvp? I mean you just jam the radar of the other player and shoot at him while he cant even get a lock

YOOO NEW F15 RADAR LETS GOOOOOOOOOO

I wish i could play this game. I always watch people, but I can’t because I’m on oculus.

jamming in vtol before gta 6💀

This is not nearly as complicated its seemed to be

do you think a 13 year old can play this game?

Don't say 'angels', no air-to-air comms on Earth in any military force says 'angels'. I know what the brevity manual says, that weird af brevity manual I see floating around is not the reference document for airborne telephony and is the reason why VTOL VR players have this subculture of incorrect phraseology (sometimes it bleeds into DCS too). The published FLIP in your respective country's defence force is the source document for this type of thing. In my country it's "[number] thousand" not "angels [number]", and in the USA its "thousand" too. It's the same for all civilian aviation around the world except for countries that say altitude in metres. Sorry for the rant, but in a video that's otherwise informative and knowledgeable, saying 'angels' nearly turned me away from the video.