Complete Guide To Aircraft Radar (2024)

Covers search radar, helmet mounted targeting, dipole radar, radar gunsights/rangefinders, ground targeting radar, tracking radar, pulse doppler radar, track while scan, anti-shipping radar, infrared search and track, moving target indicator, look down, and pulse doppler velocity modes.

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Introduction 00:00
Reading Stat Cards 00:57
Radar Scopes 4:06
Radar Bands 8:11
Dipole Radar 09:09
Radar Range Finder 10:42
Standard Radar 11:58
Scan Angles 12:27
Radar Locks 15:06
Cyclic Targeting 16:12
Manual Target Cueing 17:14
ACM (Air Combat Maneuvering) 18:09
HMS (Helmet Mounted Sight) 19:23
Locked Target Info 20:22
Datalinks 22:48
Multimode Radar 24:02
PD (Pulse Doppler) 24:21
PD HDN (Pulse Doppler Headon) 25:20
PDV (Pulse Doppler Velocity) 26:03
MTI (Moving Target Indication) 26:56
TWS (Track While Scan) 28:14
RAM (Raid Assessment Mode) 29:20
MEM (Memory Track) 30:16
GTM (Ground Targeting Mode) 31:07
Anti-Ship 31:43
IRST (Infrared Search & Track) 32:17
EEGS (Enhanced Envelope Gun Sight) 33:37
AUT (Automatic Mode Switching) 34:21
LD (Analog Look Down) 35:34

[TimsVariety]

Guide to Radar Warning Receivers :

Guide to air to air missiles:

[Tanks.With.Teeth.Malloy]

The fact you still don't have an in game decal is criminal. You are my go-to for anything in air WT.

[enterchannelname]

wake up guys, new tim's variety just dropped

[Skynet_]

God I feel so bad for Tim. The Sisyphean task of making guides only for Gaijin to change everything is real. You deserve much love for your hard work!

[notcatana]

from someone that just hit 10.7 this is amazing i didnt even know how to use radars and damn i learned a lot

[farmcat]

When Tim's Variety says I'm gonna show you everything he means EVERYTHING this is why his channel is the best for information with great explinations on what you need to know.👍 this man puts a lot of work into these videos giving this info to all of us.

[MajorBlackadder]

Dear Tim, thank you for your work and your in depth guides, they really help out a lot! Watching this video while trying the explained stuff in the game helps understanding the different mechanics so much 😄
You are by far my favourite CC when it comes to mechanics, techniques and also reviews.

edit: And that you still don't have a decal ingame is indeed criminal!

[Basicallybaltic]

Just got the F-4E and this video saved me from thinking the Aim-7Es are useless

[valrond]

Damn, this is more complicated that some radars in DCS. Thanks for the guide.

[torpy]

20:15 you can also alternatively just press your LOCK RADAR/IRST TARGET keybind when radar is off while looking at a target to quick boot the HMS mode on.
That is if your Plane has an HMS, if it doesn't it will try to quick boot into ACM mode.

[cu_number]

the amount that this was helpful is genuinely undescribably large. I watched this after kind of knowing what to do with radars then went into a test flight and did somethings knowing more and literally said 'oh my gosh I cant believe I haven't known this before this is literally so good' .Big thanks dude your always helpful.

[hambourje]

I've bought myself the F4S for grinding the US tech tree and i've had troubles with the radar, it basically worked half the time and i've already changed some controls before watching this video, now i understand that i didn't change enough radar controls because there are more useful radar modes for each situation i get in. Thank you very much this should be labeled public service, i can't wait to try it all out

[uxxo]

When I think about it, I've learnt so much from you over the last few years that I not just want to thank you, but also buy you a drink.
Cheers mate o7

[SkunkdMonk]

Tim, I am coming back to this video after a few months to thank you for it. I went from barely being able to survive engagements, let alone get kills with radar missiles, to be able to get a kill or two (i still suck but I suck way less.) almost every match and this video has a lot to do with it. This video is an invaluable resource and you are a true hero for making it.

[enterchannelname]

Thanks for the great guide. I especially appreciate the screenshots of the precise name of the control as it appears in game, so I can search it in settings and find out exactly which button I have bound - there are a lot of keybinds in this game and it gets confusing fast.

Gaijin should really put all of this information on the wiki for each plane or each radar, and even if they won't bother to do an in-depth explanation of the feature, they could at least tell us exactly which radars have which features, because so much of the information isn't even shown on the stat card. Yes, knowing your aircraft through experience in game is important, but that doesn't mean that there should be secret information that's just not displayed anywhere by Gaijin

[oyuncu_mayonez]

Start of the video: It is just a game. It can't be that complicated .

End of the video: I underestimate it 💀

[BunnyDahlia]

Thanks for another amazing, comprehensive guide. Hopefully this one doesn't go out of date within a week like the others...

[pomelo]

Was left wondering with RAM for quite a while, thanks for the guide

[WRDMN]

0:50 Thank you very much, whenever I play top tier I have your old guide open in case I have any questions and it helps a lot that you have the video segmented with all the radars to solve the doubt about a specific radar quickly. Now I will have this video open in a Google tab as the most updated.

[minelo]

I absolutely adore your content! Ever since I found your channel, you have been my go-to for extra war thunder knowledge. Hope to see many more of your videos over the next years!