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=== In Game Description ===
The RM50 Suite is a multi-function, multi-mode radar array designed for both search and fire-control applications. By focusing tighter beams through the radar panels it is able to track a single target with high accuracy while also maintaining a volume search scan, all without the need for a separate turreted module consuming an external hardpoint.<ref>It does this poorly, you want to pair it with the external FCR</ref>

Multi-mode radars suffer from the drawback that they can only lock a target out to the maximum detection range of that target based on the sensitivity of the sensor, unlike a dedicated fire-control radar which can lock out to its maximum effective range.<ref>The Parallax can lock a target only if its own search sees that target on the current sweep, and only while the return is at least its minimum lock SNR (3 dB) above noise. Against an unjammed target whose detection is limited by sensitivity, that is about 92% of the search range; jamming shortens lock further.</ref> In other words, if the search function could not see the target on its own, it will not be able to lock a track from the sensor network.

=== In Game Performance ===
This is the best anti-jamming radar in the game, and when combined with the [[component:rf101-bullseye-radar|'''RF101 'Bullseye' Radar''']] and [[component:e57-floodlight-illuminator|'''E55 'Floodlight' Illuminator''']](s), can negate one [[component:j15-bellbird-jammer|'''J15 'Bellbird' Jammer''']] per flood in most situations. A frontline formation should always have one, lest they be rendered helpless by token jamming.

=== Stats ===
{| class="wikitable"
! Bulwark Huntress
! 
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| Cost || 45 pts
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| Dimensions || 2x2x2
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| Hitpoints || 300
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| Hitpoints to Function || 30
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| Damage Threshold|| 40
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| Mass || 7.5 tonnes
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| DC Priority || High
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| Power || <span style="color:#FF4040;">'''-3600'''</span> (kW)
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| Max Range || 9.5 km
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| Detected by ELINT || 11.88 km
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| Signature Type || <span style="color:#429a30;">'''RADAR'''</span>
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| radiated Power || 4100 kW
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| Gain || 50 dB
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| Aperture Size || 30 (m<math>^2</math>)
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| Overall Effective Output || 307.5 GW
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| Sensitivity || -38.5 dBm
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| Noise Filtering || 0 dB
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| Positional Error || 30 m
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| Velocity Error || 0.1 m/s
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| Track Quality || TQ10
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| Can Lock || <span style="color:#90EE90;">'''Yes'''</span>
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| Min. Lock SNR || 3
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| Lock Error Mult. || 0.15
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| Jamming LOBs || <span style="color:#90EE90;">'''Yes'''</span>
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| Jamming LOB Accuracy || 0.75 deg.
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| Can Burn Through || <span style="color:#90EE90;">'''Yes'''</span>
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| Burn-Through Power Mult. || 12
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| Burn-Through Damage Chance || 20%
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| Allows Identification || <span style="color:#90EE90;">'''Yes'''</span>
|}

{| class="wikitable"
! Detection Range by Radar Signature
! Detection Range (km)
|-
| Detection of 1000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 6.09 km
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| Detection of 2000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 7.25 km
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| Detection of 3000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 8.02 km
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| Detection of 5000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 9.11 km
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| Detection of 7000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 9.5 km
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| Detection of 9000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 9.5 km
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| Detection of 12000 m<math>^2</math> Signature || 9.5 km
|}

== External Links ==
* [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O_mt6tBeqcxT7Cev86FiRHMAyLMbpVUZki_svteVXBk NotSoLoneWolf's Radar Calculator V8.3] - can simulate radar and comms jamming across a wide variety of parameters