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Please stay on topic: http://online.wsj.com/article/PR-CO-20130828-907639.html

The Su-25 with 6DOF, cockpit shadows and the adjustable prism glass is freakin' awesome! Incredible sim fun! I'm an absolute fan of all those classic dial instruments. And then the way it flies! This is really Bullseye ED!

hello Foss, Evil.Bonsai, Thanks for the comments, I think indeed I have to look and wait for a clearer image for the Mav before trying to lock it. In another copy of the mission I come in higher, with less problems and risk, but here I wanted a setup where I would come in low.

I made a track that shows the "difficulty": the JTAC lases the target. I scan for the laser, track, and verify that I lock the Strela with the TGP. Then I slave the IR Mav, even in magnified view and can't see shit, so I lock. You see that the Mav locks a little beside it. I fire the first Mav, it hits the wrong vehicle. My second Mav locks a little bit to the left, and gets the Strela. I find it a little tough since the first four times I tried I got toasted this way. Don't get me wrong: nothing wrong with the game, I just wonder what is wrong with my tactics. So OK I don't need the JTAC to lase, but then again whatever how I ID the Strela with the TGP, the Mav locks something else. FT AGM-65 locks wrong vehicle.trk

Problem is the visiblity of the vehicles in the Mav seeker is to bad for me to see the difference, that's why I was counting on the laser. So my TGP locks the right vehicle, but when I switch to the Mav, slave it and lock, it locks on surrounding vehicles. I'll post a track.

I have this quick, simple mission that proves a little hard: I put a strela in the midst of some other vehicles, and I have a JTAC lasing it. The idea is to kill the strela, but somehow the Mavs always lock onto other vehicles, giving the strela a good shot at you. Mission starts in the air to keep it simple. The JTAC you need is the second one, EagleEye on FM 30. Any tactics suggestions? FT CA Russian Fist with A10CI-JTAC.miz

The whole idea that the US is sacrificing quantity over quality makes little sense to me. In fact, the F-35 is designed to be produced in higher quantities than the 4th gen competition. The whole supply chain and industrial base is designed for this. It is also designed to be produced at a far higher rate than the 4th gen competition. Where are the high production rates of Rafale, Typhoon, Gripen, SU-35 ? Remember they are currently already building the 100th F-35. And then the whole price issue: the price is not 10 times higher than the competion, but in fact only marginally so, with a shrinking difference when production ramps up. And you must count sorties, not airframes. The F-35 is designed to generate much, much more sorties than the competition. Two of the major problems that are faced by some of the very best competitors, the Rafale and Typhoon, are exactly that: production rate and sortie generation. In all sales negotiations that are going one today these are the showstoppers. And then there is the last, completely bogus argument: the F-35 has less payload. NO. It has more payload and range. It has less payload in clean configuration. But it can load as much if not more than an F-16 or Super Hornet. The only reason that a mix makes sense is the production delays which at a 10 year timespan to the original planning. Since the Navy has a relatively young fleet of Super Hornets, there is an opportunity to keep this fleet longer aboard. For the Marines and Air Force this makes no sense: who would buy F-16 if you can buy F-35 ? From the same company? And going from Harrier to F-35 is simply a quantum leap in capability. We heard the same nostalgia in the past when Tomcat and Intruder were retired. The naked truth is however that the US Navy currently can yield a much higher sortie rate at a much lower cost with Super Hornet. The same will be true with transitioning to F-35. Sorry guys, but US will be soon flying routinely about 180 F-22 + 100 F-35 5th generation aircraft. That is "quantity" to me.

Nice vid from aviationweek:

Some more info on F-35B on the Wasp: http://breakingdefense.com/2013/08/21/f-35b-flies-with-weapons-uss-wasp-testing-expanded-carrier-ops/

Helicopter crash in North Sea involving Super Puma: http://www.scotsman.com/news/scotland/top-stories/shetland-helicopter-crash-super-pumas-grounded-1-3061544

Super! Flying now! Many Thanks!

Ok, thanks for the update!

No, nothing. I play DCS with all available modules bought through the DCS store for ages on my desktop PC. Here I installed DCS through steam on my laptop to try it out. Worked fine, no hassle. I bought the SU-25 DLC through steam which immediately relinstalled the game and made the SU-25 DLC available a few days ago. Now I bought the A-10A DLC, but it didn't immediately reinstall, and doesn't show up. I will wait whether a new update installs in the coming days and see if the A-10A DLC pops up.

I have both a confirmation by Paypal and a confirmation email from steam. Everything went fine with the purchase. Could it be the DCS world on Steam isn't patched yet and so doesn't recognize yet the A-10A DLC ?

No. I even tried to delete the local content in Steam, realinstall the game but nothing changed; I have the SU-25 DLC but not the A-10A DLC. I cannot select the A-10A as player aircraft.

When I cllicked on install game right after purchase it seemed nothing happened

Yes, so when nI look in steam under my account details licenses and subscriptions the A-10A DLC is listed. But when I right-click in the library on DCS World and select view downloadable content, it is not listed, only the SU-25 module is.

I bought SU-25 DLC on Steam without a problem. Now I bought A-10A, but it doesn't show in my steam DLC list, and it is not installed. It does show in my purchases list on steam (I cannot order it again since I already own it according to steam).

No. The bug is not only related to the logbook: if you come back at the debriefing screen in the ME after a mission, you will see that whatever you did, "My Victories" tallies 0. The name of the player is also not appearing in the debriefing list, but instead the assigned name to the aircraft you flew (at least in single player).

I must say I also start hitting again with the AGM-65D, after many series of misses. So I guess false alarm?

If you can't replicate it, it must be something at my end ... here a track. FT AGM-65 doenst hit.trk

Something went wrong with AGM-65D with latest 1.2.5.x patch: it misses nearly always, even tough all parameters are good.

I fully agree. I would say the AGM-65D is seriously porked. Moving the seeker is indeed erratic; getting a lock seems only to work from less than 3 miles away. Two out of three Mav-D's that I launch simply overshoot their target. Simply unworkable.

The dogs bark, but the caravan moves on. The reality is they just bought another 71 of the jets, so this programme is going at a pace many 4th gen fighter programmes only can dream of.