SFJackBauer

Before the advent of Pulse Doppler Radars you could not lock on anything below you at all. So yes, altitude is an advantage if you have a Pulse Doppler radar... ...and... ...the conditions give you an advantage. Its not a cookie cutter case of always stay high or always stay low. That's why the plane have you on the pilot seat... to make those kind of decisions in real time.

Do you arrive at a dogfight (which is the point of the OP, not BVR) with a full fuel load?

Is this sarcasm or serious? If the latter, adversaries makes untruthful claims all the time when engaged in war. Welcome to the real world. Again, cannot ascertain if its sarcasm or not. Nothing in the article indicated that the missile still tracked after the radar lock was dropped. It only mentions the F-15E on two occasions: - To explain how the Iraqis were emboldened after engaging the escorts of a F-15E strike package on al-Qaim - Describing how the Iraqis thought they were being engaged by F-15Es with Mavericks while at the runway, when in fact were the Sparrows hitting the ground. Seems perfectly fine with me and I never got confused by reading the article, although I knew about the facts from other sources. Time to practice some reading comprehension, dudes :)

There is a bug section in the forums. Posting there will give it more visibility to the people who need to know about this stuff.

For some (a lot?) of us not real pilots there is a pleasure in approaching this hobby in the most realistic approach as possible. Which means, like the real dudes, studying for hours (as much freetime our other commitments in life allows). Which means, yes, spending time reading about SAM, missile systems, radar systems, aircraft capabilities, air combat tactics etc. And for me personally, leadership and teamwork as well, since (unlike most of DCS public MP) you never fight alone. For me this began in 1994 with Flight Simulator, learning about the simplest things in flight (whats the difference between barometric and radar altimeter? how to do coordinated turns?) and then step by step until mastering flying as civilian then transitioning into combat with Falcon 4.0 and onwards. I can say that even the little things learned have been beneficial throughout the years and even today I sometimes revisit them under new light. And it even gives you an edge of interpreting real-world events out there related to the stuff we learn here. Therefore for me, its not a chore of "memorizing", its more like constant learning, which also is a skill applicable to real-world stuff.

https://theaviationist.com/2016/02/14/f-15e-shot-down-iraqi-mi-24/ The Maverick works as much like the targeting pod - by contrast locking. There is not a physical principle that says it should not work. Have fun!

It's more complicated than that. Sometimes you need to keep your radar continuously emitting if its the only means of knowing if someone is out there (and if its your mission to know where they are). If you can rely on AWACS and your SA page, then yes, you can keep your emissions to a minimum. But even AWACS cannot see past mountains, so you must be aware of potential blind spots in AWACS coverage. EWR, being situated in the ground, has an even smaller horizon. Imagine the following situation: - You in a Hornet - Enemy A - Su-27 at 80 miles 40,000 feet, with radar on - plainly visible to AWACS - Enemy B - Su-27 at 20 miles 3000 feet, radar off, terrain masking - hidden from AWACS Is it better for you to keep your radar off, therefore not announcing your position to enemy A which is far away enough that it cannot engage you, and won't see you on radar, but not picking up enemy B which is stalking around with the IRST and about to kill you with an R-27ET? It all boils down to how much information you have about the battlespace - are you 100% confident that the enemy B does not exist?

Just multiply the three digit decimal by 0.060.

I've never seen anything that would indicate that this would be possible. As far as I understand active radar-guided missiles tend to stay shut-off until launched, unlike passive seekers. The aircraft has a bigger radar anyways, so why use the missile as seeker, instead of conserving it (in terms of battery and cooling) until it is actually needed? I am referring to the "seeker perform the search itself". As for LOBL, when launched at short range, the seeker goes active off the rails. It must immediately acquire the target, therefore it has to be within its FOV. Given that it has 30° field of regard, it means pretty much pointing the nose at it. AIM-9X has 90° seeker field of regard.

Answer: However the targets were at sea level. I have had trouble hitting high-altitude targets.

What difference does it make to DCS if the 54A and 54C are different as you said? I'd think that the other point argued in this thread, regarding seeker activation upon losing lock, is more relevant to DCS.

The FC3 F-15C radar scans much faster than the Hornet, but its nowhere near AESA.

Consider the possibility that you must be doing something wrong. I just played a mission where I destroyed 4 tanks with direct hits from 30k feet / 12 miles with a single pass dropping 4 GBU-38s.

Both have two wings, two rudders, two engines and TVC. Both are subject to the same laws of physics. I don't see how the Raptor in any way could perform a maneuver that the Flanker couldn't.

That's not a Cobra maneuver. In a Cobra Maneuver traditionally performed by Flankers / Fulcrums the aircraft does not gain altitude as the F-22 did. It was just a high AOA climb. And also, dude... that Youtube channel is chock full of clickbait videos and true "fake news" its not even funny.

Nothing like a healthy good dose of humor :megalol: Well done ED!

Correct. The same can be said in regards to the Phoenix. It has nothing inherently wrong with it, except the wrong expectations it generates on people who are splashed by it and think the fault is not on themselves. I haven't seen a single good argument in this thread against the Phoenix except "personal feelings".

No need to suspect anything. Just have to read the DCS roadmap -> https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=116893

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When switching to AMRAAM (LShift+D) after being in Gun mode (LShift+X) sometimes the radar stays on MED PRF instead of INTL. It doesn't happen everytime though, but it happens with few tries. Leave in gun mode for 1-2 seconds, then switch back to AMRAAM for 1-2 seconds, and back and forth until you get the radar in RWS with MED PRF. prf.trk

Sure it works. I've never seen anyone using the technique you are describing either in sim or IRL. That's exactly your problem. You SHOULD know the distance to not have to estimate any angles. Perhaps because you should not focusing on clear a "valley over there". You should clear airspace in front of you, and divide that airspace into zones of priority. Your priority is not let anyone come inside 10nm without you knowing it long before. Therefore you should be aware of your distance to a certain point in the space at all times, and scan around and beyond that point in order to know in advance whether you should engage or not. You should maximize the amount of information you have on the battlespace, and that includes scanning around the zone you are interested in. To help achieve that, you can use Bullseye or other waypoints as a reference, or even make waypoints yourself. And you should not tunnel vision on scanning only the ground, outside the guy at 40k feet is gonna get you. What you should do is always alternate between scanning low and high, or divide this task amongst your wingman. It's hard for me to write down since its became second nature after doing this for 10+ years in various flight sims. Feel free to hit me so we can hop in an online server so we can work it out more easily.

HOLY BANANAS I forgot how awful is that scene, had to rewatch it on youtube. Let me add a few: - Once the fuse works, the missile discards its nose cone (which would be its guidance section) and it reveals a structure resembling a UB-32 rocket pod, which then proceeds to fire at the aircraft. In reality, the missile explosive charge is located behind the nose guidance and electronics, and once it explodes the pellets (which cause the actual damage to the aircraft) fly in an annular pattern. - Why, once the Hornet is hit and leaks fuel, the flame comes from BEHIND the aircraft and not from the aircraft itself? - Once ejected, the pilots still in their seats bang against each other (c'mon, what are the chances? and they ejected seconds apart...) - The pilots once ejected activate the parachute manually, when in fact the chute is released automatically. - And once they activate the cute, in the movie its a nice beautiful and convenient PARAGLIDER, when in reality its a round canopy. - And why the hell that paraglider is colored like the flag of Italy?

Do not use the radar elevation caret as a guide, much less correlate it to the HUD pitch ladder. Use the radar Bearing / Range indicator (bottom left, reads BRA) and the cursor (TDC) altitude range. Move cursor until the bearing / range is good and move the antenna until the cursor altitude min/max overlaps the patch of sky you want to cover.

At a sink rate in excess of 3000 feet per second on touchdown, I don't think we want to see that maneuver live :smilewink: