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  1. 2 hours ago, KoN said:

    I hate to say this but last night on the Greyflag server , i had a locked target list . I could not move up or down list or short right to select target .

    So it looks like your right . There is a Bug here . 

    >>> I must confess it seems that I made a mistake, I did not invoke Petrovich through the Ctrl-V command, but was able to give him the search targets command directly, after which the target list built up, but I was not able to select a target. Once I did do Ctrl-V first however the problem was gone. 

    Anyway Petro has become quite myopic, he doesn't see targets right in front. Needs a pair of glasses! 

     

  2. Did anyone try out the loft rocket attack tactic that both sides are using with their SU-25's given the SHORAD/MANPAD threat ? Not very precise but if you know the location  of the enemy forces it is doable, by putting it as a waypoint. I come in low and pull up for a loft shot from about 2 / 2.5 km from the waypoint See attached mission if you wanna try. It's quite cool, as is the low level flying by itself of course. 

    FT Enemy camp Ukraine SU-25 light HE.miz

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  3. Very strange, in one of my missions where the AI SU-25's are supposed to target vehicles like BMP's and Bradleys with Kh-25ML they completely miss their targets. I mean WAY off! When swapped in for Su-25T this problem does not seem to occur. 

    When I fly the SU-25 in the same mission, I have no problem hitting the targets. I have the same prpblem in the latest stable build for STEAM as well as in the latest Open Beta. 

  4. I do not know if it is related, but since the latest update I've been killed two times in a row by an AIM-120C of my own AI wingman! Two different missions, 1 mission I was flying F-16C, the second F-15C. In both cases my AI wingman shoots me when I ask him to engage bandits. 

    Is there a comms command to express my hurt feeling to my AI wiingman before I bail out? 

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  5. Do I understand it right that when you activate LST it switches to the DMT? So the Litening pod is in the Harrier not capable of LST functionality? That would be utterly strange, it would mean the radar-equipped Harrier, which doesn't have the DMT, cannot laser track? 

    It was my understanding that the DMT was no longer used when they installed the TPOD? 

  6. Sometimes, when I dive into some enemy positions to do a good gun strafing or rocket attack, the Mi-24P abruptly banks to the the right, losing lift and crashing straight into the ground. When it happens control inputs fail to have any effect. 

     

    I guess this is a correctly modeled effect of the tail rotor no longer having windstream due to the main rotor wash? Is there something I can do to avoid this? 

  7. 3 hours ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    I mean in HPRF it only works if the target is hot, its very easy to drop locks at long range vs someone using HPRF. Once you get into MPRF ranges is where you should be trying to get locks and shots as its less aspect dependent. 

     

    Makes sense! I have to withdraw what I said: I made a new mission, same distance, height, but other map and better weather, and now things worked normal, I could get stable TWS lock on two tracks from around 20 NM, not 10 as I posted before. I still do not understand what goes wrong in the other mission, but anyway so I have no reason to claim something is wrong with the patch. 

  8. 30 minutes ago, Harker said:

    Try increasing the ageout setting in the DATA sublevel and save it with SET, in the RWS page. For the AMRRAM, it defaults to 4, increase it and it might help with maintaining targets.

    The ageout setting is only supposed to control how long the bricks stay on the RDR ATTK page, but in DCS, it also controls how long the trackfile is maintained after the last detection. Which is shouldn't, as the logic is different for that IRL and is based on whether or not the target was detected on the same sweep of the next cycle.

     

    Interesting! I'll try that! 

  9. 14 hours ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    you using MPRF or HPRF?

     

    I tried both. By narrowing the scan I can detect better, but I continuously loose lock, in a way that makes TWS irrelevant. I resort to waiting till they are close enough and lock themin boresight ACM. 

    13 hours ago, Harlikwin said:

     

    Yeah the current performance is likely the hprf modes ED hasn't done yet IMO, which according pilots sorta suck anyway. MPRF it should be like half of what it is like 40nm or so maaybe a bit better. 

     

    To be sure after the latest path I experience problems *below* 40 NM. Very strange. With the F-16 no problems of course, but it's the Hornet I'm worried about, I like that is more realistically modelled, but my feeling is something is not OK, TWS really became useless for me (single player, againt AI). 

  10. Anyway something is just clearly wrong with the latest patch: Against AI Mig-23's at 20K altitude I have relatively useful detection range when I narrow my sweep, but I loose lock continuously (in whatever mode). The AI Migs can engage me first 100% of the time. They are actually not really manoeuvring as they are AI. 

    It is only when I boresight the radar when the bandits are within 10 NM that I can lock and engage. 

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  11. Anyways after the last patch I have really difficulties to detect head-on Mig-21's and Mig-23's with the Hornet radar. at 20K I can only start to detect them reliably at somewhat more than 10 miles, whether I do RWS, TWS, HI/MED/Interleave, the contact is faint and the lock almost immediately broken. It is only when I am in boresight mode that I can get a stable lock. 

     

    That is a serious degradation over the earlier versions. 

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  12. On the "one design fits all" question: I'm not sure they could have made a navalised version of the F-16. You need to put the bigger gear somewhere, you need strengthened airframe and you need more low-speed controlability hence maybe a bigger wing. So if they would have opted for a one size fits all for 4th gen, it would have been the Hornet. We would have missed out on one of the very best fighters ever! 

    I also think the F-35A has in some aspects a suboptimal design due to the F-35B requirements. It could have been slicker, and cheaper. 

    It' still a magnficent aircraft of course, ,and with the future adaptive cycle engine could really come of age. 

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