Radio detection had become an important military technology at the beginning of WW2: all parties actively used radars to detect different target types. After the end of the war progress in radio technology and electronics provided even faster development of the onboard radars for aircraft, ground vehicles and vessels.

We have always endeavoured to implement vehicles in our game with maximum accuracy, and that’s why when we introduced more modern vehicles we understood that this technology should also be implemented.

In real life aircraft progress and its strike capabilities forced the development of the ground-based countermeasures. Adding new vehicles in the game - strike helicopters with long-ranged ATGMs, air-to-ground missiles for the jet aircraft, as well as increasing speed and bomb load of these aircraft made it necessary to introduce countermeasures that could be used by ground vehicles to meet new threats.

After the end of the war airborne radars became an important component of combat air force, which actually defined the efficiency of the warfare system as a whole - and we could not ignore that.

In War Thunder update 1.87 "Locked on!" we will introduce new game mechanics - a sensor system, that will consist of means for radio detection and target lockon, as well as means for finding firing solution for airborne armament. Radar stations in War Thunder are implemented with high accuracy, taking into account all technical and physical capabilities of the real vehicles, plus they will be easy to use in the game.

For the ground vehicles radar stations may consist of several elements: