Nighter Fighter Radar In Il-2 (hypothetical)

[Motherbrain]

I have two ideas of how this could be functionally implemented in Il-2 Great Battles.

 

 

The first would be a "cheat" method, where in the sim, even with icons and such disabled, a player flying a plane with a radar set installed can see icons for aircraft in a cone directly ahead of his aircraft. They would only be grey icons, they wouldn't indicate whether they are hostile or not, they would simply show him the position of other aircraft in a cone-like area ahead of him, and for a much greater distance than icons normally appear at. This advantage would be counterbalanced by the fact basically only the Bf110 or similar heavy fighters could have this installed.

 

 

The second and more realistic method would be to allow the player to access the radar scope the same way he would operate a turret. This would work best with another player manning the radar set while communicating to his pilot via Teamspeak3 or Discord. For single player, you could have an AI crewman give you radio call outs for a potential target, giving you the bearing, distance, etc. Learning to operate the radar set would be a similar challenge to operating the bombsights.

 

Now obviously programming and simulating a realistic radar would be difficult and it's probably not going to happen. Which is why If you really wanted something like this I'd opt for the first "cheat" method. 

 

 

[ITAF_Rani]

After Bodenplatte....maybe if devs will develop a scenario like Berlin1945.

In this contest could be nice have:

 

Same allied heavy bomber ex B17,B24

Mosquito

Bf 110 with radar

Me 109 G10

Ta152

 

Edited April 26, 2019 by ITAF_Rani