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Do you have the watch/clock icon at the bottom center of the editor selected or enabled?

The tomcat has it's own launch/salute key, should be Left Shift + U by default.

I was able to get catapulted. Were you in full Afterburner?

Sparrows launched in PD-STT do not guide. Sparrows launched in P-STT do guide, but all of them loft with ACM cover down. The AIM-7MH is still doing the weird minimum G turn off thing referenced here. Tested with air start F-14A, F-14B F-14A Sparrows All Kinds P-STT.trk F-14A Sparrows All Kinds PD-STT.trk F-14B Sparrows All Kinds P-STT ACM flicker.trk F-14B Sparrows All Kinds PD-STT.trk

Nah, seems I've misinterpereted an advisory not to use it above 400 knots as a limit that it wouldn't engage above 400 knots, my bad. https://forums.eagle.ru/filedata/fetch?id=6646641 https://forums.eagle.ru/forum/english/licensed-third-party-projects/heatblur-simulations/dcs-f-14a-b/bugs-and-problems-bf/249024-no-bug-autopilot-issues

How fast were you going? The autopilot won't engage above 400 knots (or 450, I don't recall exactly).

They did. So far I've only been able to find pictures of Mk-76s and smoke markers loaded on them though. That and a China Lake jet with TALDs on them.

Notice that the picture you posted, and every other picture with MAK-79s all feature F-14As in early prototype test schemes, and that there are no pictures of operational squadrons with the pylons, nor do any aircraft actually drop bombs from the pylons. Those are publicity photos aimed at the USMC and other potential customers saying "of course the F-14 can totally do air to ground". The problem is that the loadout had significant separation issues, especially with retardation devices. These problems were never solved before the F-14's air to ground capability was deleted due to budgetary issues and the primary customer (the Navy) focused instead on rooty tooty Phoenix shooty and other such air to air needs. When air to ground did start to become a thing again at the end of the 80s, the MAK-79s did not return with it. F-14s with little exception would drop single bombs from pylons 3,4,5 & 6. A cursory check of google will confirm this (and actually show them dropping the bombs). The facts of the matter are: The MAK-79 was never used operationally. HB added the MAK-79 configurations as a hypothetical assuming they were ever fixed, because they're nice people. The Art for the MAK-79 will be made in the future, probably after the A is comfortably in the wild. In the mean time, you can put 14 Mk-82s under your jet and pretend you're a goofy F-111, even if the bombs float.

If I had to guess, probably because that particular adapter was actually used fewer times than I have fingers on my hands and the only reason we have it is because HB are nice people. Coincidentally the ADU-703/BRU-32 combination that was actually used happens to be modelled pretty well, so I guess y'all can always use that in the interim.

The MAK-79 adapter hasn't been modelled yet, it's on HB's to do list.

Is there any way we can get four skins for the model with the different hull numbers like ED has done with their Perries and Ticonderogas? It may not be 100% correct for each hull, but it goes a long way towards providing variety for mission makers.

1) It's the Digital Display (DD) and control panel for the APG-71. It's a completely separate system than the AWG-9's DDD and has a bunch more functionality. 2) The box on top is the Sensor Slaving Panel (SSP), Which is a tool to help the RIO determine which sensor is slaved to the other. Sort of like how you can slave the TCS to the RDR or vice versa in the B, only with more options.

That should be a bug in of itself. The AWG-9 should not be letting the RIO select TWS MAN if it thinks it has an AIM-54 in the air.

Sprucans and Kidds, Outstanding!

Just to be sure, we're talking about PLM here, not PAL? PLM is only engaged so long as the pilot holds down the PLM button, afterwards the radar reverts to whatever mode the RIO has set. Likewise if you're in VSL and press PLM, the radar reverts to the RIO, not VSL.

Perhaps the extra 5-10 miles makes the difference? I attached a collage of the tacviews from my track generation. The common behavior between them seems to be making a 6G last ditch turn towards the target about 2NM after it could have done anything, and the falling helplessly outside the targets turn circle. Shots were taken in both Pulse and Doppler STT. We eliminated chaff as explanation. I don't believe the target notched the missile seeker as they don't unload to one G and glide. The missiles have not exceeded their battery life, and they are still locked by the launching platform.

It's me, again. I've been trying to test Sparrows since the synchronization of the code, and I've noticed some odd behavior with the AIM-7MH that seems to be unique to the F-14. Taking shots at ~20 miles against a maneuvering target with no CM, this missile will consistently miss despite ostensibly not being notched and having the speed and battery life to make the cut off for intercept. Generally speaking, the engagement would proceed such that the missile begins it's terminal steering at ~6NM from the target. At ~2NM the AI target will begin a last ditch evasive maneuver of varying intensity, but the missile will maneuver aggressively to achieve cut off despite having a speed of roughly Mach 1. Once the missile has passed the target, it will select a 6G turn in the direction of the target before going dumb. In testing this occurred just about every time. This behavior doesn't seem to be present in MHs fired by F/A-18s (I haven't had the time to test F-15s). For completeness' sake I also tried shooting ED MHs from the F-14 I'm not 100% convinced they're immune, but when they weren't notching themselves they seemed less prone to this behavior. Neither does the HB AIM-7M seem to be as seriously effected by this issue. Launches from a similar situation will see the -7M maneuver aggressively over the last mile to connect >66% of the time. In the remaining 33% it would behave like the MH and fail to maneuver to aggressively enough to hit the target. I've got no idea what's causing this, with the exception of the autoloft setting on the -7M and -7MH, y'alls code is identical to the ED Sparrows. HB MH Miss 1.trk HB MH Miss 2.trk HB MH Miss 3.trk HB M Miss 1.trk HB M Hit 1.trk HB M Hit 2.trk

Fair enough, that's my bad. I don't know what the capes of the C-5 are beyond "very good", but I would say that ECM was a large and evolving consideration for any target the -54 would be expected to counter, It's dubious the capability would be allowed to stagnate for 16 years.

It's broadly representative of a pre Upgrade example: LAU-138s are from 1997, LANTIRN is from 1996, Fishbowl TID can be representative of a number of scenarios. Even then, do you have anything to say a 1991 AWG-9 can't guide a 1999 AIM-54?

It would depend on which version of the C HB have chosen to model: an AIM-54C from 1999 is not going to have the same software as an AIM-54C from 1986.

I too am insecure enough to be offended by people who don't look like me requesting a gesture of representation that doesn't inconvenience me in any way. Think of the horrors such a move would unleash upon the world! Such as... and... also... Okay, I can't think of any horrors such a move would unleash upon the world, but challenging the status quo vaguely offends me some how, for some reason.

Nope, that's not how the jet works. You can either learn to work with jester or find a buddy to fly with.

In that case it looks like it was a coincidence. When your Phoenixes went active they decided to go after the most attractive targets they could see, in this case the supersonic anti-shipping missiles.

Your missiles decided they were going to kill the Kh-31s instead of the bandits. How did you launch your missiles?

I don't think that is a bug. There is certainly space for two tomcats to occupy the catapult launch positions of 1 and 2 at the same time. The two catapults converge however, and any where forward of the Sea Sparrow, there isn't enough space for a tomcat to occupy both catapult rails. If you want to do synchro shots, try one aircraft on a waist cat, and one on the bow.