Highly suspect AI radar performance.

So, I recently played the 4th mission in the Ultimate Argument campaign. Great campaign by the way :thumbup: On the way home from striking the targets it appears that a pair of F-16C's appeared some distance behind me and were then engaged by a pair of friendly Su-27's.

I was about 40-50Km away from the two enemy F-16's when they locked me up. OK, I don't necessarily have an issue with that. Knowing that there was no way that the F-16's could launch on me at that range I accelerated to military thrust and turned on my sorbtsiya ECM pods. No problem.

As I made my approach to Mozdok I turned on the autopilot to watch the A-A fight in progress. To my surprise, as I was descending through 2000m and was therefore masked by terrain (the mountains along the border) from the air battle that was also happening at 1000 - 3000m and some 120 - 140 Km away, I was still intermittently getting locked up by the F-16's. There is no possible way in which the F-16's could have seen me on radar at that range, never mind through the mountains :disgust:

In all fairness I may be completely wrong about the circumstances, but I do think that radar range for AI aircraft might need reviewing at some point.

yeah, this happens since a lot of time.

If your ECM was still on, that would be the problem: Imagine a RADAR like a night vision sensor, looking into a dark room. It can see the planes going around up to a certain range and also their range. Now how the SPJ (self protection jammer) like your sorbtsiya is like a huge flashlight you shine into the RADAR. The RADAR just sees a big bloom of light in your direction, but can not see the range. And now thing you have your ECM on at 500km away from the enemy RADAR: He will still be able to see and lock you but can still not determine your range.

If you did not have your jammer on, please provide a track file, it always helps understand the problem. Please do not just make post, saying DCS is doing somerthing incorrectly, maybe it is your own fault.