sleestak

Attached is a quick clip of an admittedly sloppy BVR engagement where my R-27ER appears to go active on the opposing F-15E. My radar dropped lock after maneuvering to avoid the AIM-120C headed my way. You can watch the R-27ER go dumb, and then appear to reacquire the F-15E and start to lead the target like it has an active seeker and ultimately impact the target (my basic understanding of HOJ is that it would be a pure pursuit intercept and simply fly directly at the emitting source which doesn't appear to be the case here as you can see the missile successfully fly an intercept course on the target). Ultimately, it looks like my R-27ER went active on the target, even though it should have been trashed after my lock dropped. I fly this simple BVR scenario frequently and this is the first time I've seen this behavior, just updated to 2.8.8.43489 OB FYI. 230816_r27er_active.trk

Repair appears to have resolved the issue. Recently imaged to a new M.2 NVME drive so perhaps something went amiss there.

SPO-15 in the MiG-29S (possibly other FC3 modules using SPO-15) is not producing an audible signal upon detection of missile launch/seeker active. SPO-15 shows the flashing red missile seeker visual, but no longer produces the audible missile signal despite the volume being on. Tried with AIM-54, R-27ER, AIM-7, and AIM-120 with same result. Same result in both single threaded exe and multi threaded exe. Have only tried with A2A missles, haven't tried with SAMs yet. Attached two quick tracks from a testing configuration I set up. r27er_nosposig1.trk aim54_nosposig.trk

Does anyone know if the drogue chute cap normally closes on the MiG-29 in real life after the chute is dropped? One thing that bothers me is the current model instantaneously closes the drogue chute cap after cutting off the chute. I'm pretty sure this isn't accurate behavior and is a "minor bug" with the model. For example, this video of a Polish MiG-29 shows the cap still open after landing and dropping the chute (go to 10:52):

Your radar is in track-while-scan (TWS) mode. Check out page 52 of the DCS MiG-29 manual. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/downloads/documentation/MiG-29_flight_manual_en/

Red strobe on the FA-18C vertical stabilizer remains visible even after damage completely removes vertical stabilizer from aircraft; screen shot attached.