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Despite the large impact that the study sample had captured American equipment received from Vietnam and the Middle East, it was based mainly on domestic experience. By the time it was completed for the creation of a complex exploration of the MiG-25R, which included a very sophisticated new generation of aerial cameras, signals intelligence station and side-looking radar. But this complex is designed for action at high altitudes and speeds, which automatically provides a large angle and the ability to capture a sharp increase in the efficiency of side-looking radar due to high speed flight. A Su-24 was to produce the removal of information with extremely low altitudes and "subsonic" (run). Moreover, was tasked to create a fundamentally new reconnaissance systems - laser and thermal.

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ORIGINAL: AndrewJ

Hello,

I've been trying out a scenario that includes some Su-24MRs, with their RDS-BO Shtik side looking radar.

I was really startled when I turned it on and found the range was only 15 nm! Is it really supposed to be that small (on a dedicated reconnaissance aircraft, after all), or is this perhaps a typo that crept into the database?

I hasten to add that I have no actual information about this at all, and a quick Googling has drawn a blank. Hopefully someone with more knowledge and better sources can weigh in.

For what it's worth the older Harpoon database HERE has the range for this system as 80 nm, which is a lot closer to what I would have expected.

Hoping someone can enlighten me!