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Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: joek on October 30, 2001, 02:53:00 pm

What exactly does an AWACS do? (Both in FS2, and what an AWACS can possibly do (jam comms? etc))?

Joe.

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Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: Alikchi on October 30, 2001, 03:29:00 pm

Can see through nebulas (range of expanded sensor range determined by a SEXP). Can jam comms, I think. Mostly used as an early-warning system.

Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: Zander on October 30, 2001, 03:31:00 pm

they jam enemy com going out of the system (calling reinforcements, ect).  

Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: Carl on October 30, 2001, 04:06:00 pm

they can make good renders.

Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: jonskowitz on October 30, 2001, 06:35:00 pm

A real life AWACS (Airborne Warning And Command System) such as the E-2C and the E-3 are detection and control units.  They are used to detect hostile craft and generate intercept data for combat craft.  I personally do not have any knowledge of EW capability that such craft posses (probably has some really slick ECCM gear though).  

Title: quick (and stupid) question...
Post by: Setekh on November 03, 2001, 04:19:00 am

 

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Originally posted by Carl:
they can make good renders.

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