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[edit] EMCON settings for F22 (possibly not entirely correct)

EMCON Settings for F22 from Total Air War manual, by Digital Image Design (C)1998 Infogrames United Kingdom Limited and Digital Image Design Limited. (no ISBN or other publication information). This is based on public sources, but may have been tweaked for gameplay (it does however, provide an indication)

Manual does have bibliography, but no in-manual references to say which source is which. I'll have to sort that out sometime. (Leave me a message if you'd like details)

In the game, EMCON can be set manually, or it can be set automatically. EMCON 1 is most stealthy, EMCON 5 least stealthy.

EMCON 1
  • Radar is turned off
  • AMRAAM is disabled
  • IRST] (Infrared Search and track) is primary on board detection system with range of 50 miles. It can be used to target and launch sidewinder air-to-air missiles and maverick air-to-ground missiles
  • Radar Homing And Warning is on to a range of 50 miles (RHAW warns of enemy radar activity, tracks and then classifies the source type)
  • Missile Approach and Warning is on (MAW warns of enemy missile launches)
  • The communications radio is prevented from transmitting
  • Secure data link is set to receive.
EMCON 2
  • Radar is on and is able to id and track air to air targets only
  • AMRAAM is disabled, but missile steering information is now displayed in Air-to-air HUD
  • the IRST is on with a range of 50 miles
  • RHAW is active to a range of 100 miles
  • MAW is off
  • Communications radio fully on
  • IFDL secure data link is set to both send and receive
EMCON 3
  • Radar is on and is able to ID, track and target air-to-air contacts
  • AMRAAM is now enabled
  • IRST active with range of 50 miles
  • RHAW active with range of 150 miles
  • communications radio is fully active
  • MAW is off
  • IFDL secure data link is set to both send and recieve
EMCON 4
  • Radar is on and is able to ID, track and target air-to-air contacts
  • AMRAAM is enabled
  • The radar is also able to ID, track, and target large ground mobile and ship targets
  • IRST is on with range of 50 miles
  • MAW is on
  • RHAW active with range of 200 miles
  • the ability to manually launch drones and chaff is enabled
  • communications radio is fully active
  • IFDL secure data link is set to both send and recieve
EMCON 5
  • Radar is on and is able to ID, track and target air-to-air contacts
  • AMRAAM is enabled
  • The radar is able to ID, track, and target all ground mobile and ship targets. Air To Ground missiles requiring radar for targetting (Harpoon) are enabled for launch
  • IRST is active with range of 50 miles
  • RHAW active with range of 250 miles
  • MAW is fully active. The defensive suite of drones, ECM, chaff and flares is fully enabled
  • communications radio is fully active
  • IFDL secure data link is set to both send and recieve

--Kim Bruning (talk) 00:17, 12 May 2008 (UTC)