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Thank you very very much. Is there any possibility , that such feature will be available for every module? Or is it just F-16?

Can't you just put a dirt on your own screen?

I'd say rather "Beyond 2024"

I also tested your mission. I just changed starting position. 30nm away to let dots spawn. bug repeats itself. I have fotos, but as far as I see it's not necessary? My best regards. Thanks for reply

I've downloaded it, I'll check it out with Zakson ASAP. Thank you very much

That is why one Grom, Igla, Stinger IRL today is usually enough to take it down. In afghanistan, most of them fell down from one stinger only. Sorry. But there are no indestructible choppers, and unsinkable ships. They can sustain considerable amount of small arms fire, but nothing else. AI - Mi-24 (and only AI) is too strong. But generally all AI are a bit too strong:

Can someone from Eagle Dynamics please pretend to be interested?

about ~30nm. It makes me sad that no one from Eagle Dynamics is interested . Not even Enigma - and it's his server most affected by the bug

Famous Monty Python sketch starts like these: "On these picture there are 47 people, non of them can be seen..." Dear ED We created these video to show some serious issue we found in dcs. It won't be surprise if I announce here that there is a problem with displaying a contact in MP environment. Contacts seem to disappear in most unexpected way. Mostly it happens on very dense populated servers, with rich A2G and A2A environment. Mainly I'm thinking about Enigma server, but the problem seem to be independent from Enigma specific environment, but rather is a pure DCS issue. And sorry for background noises, and my crappy english. I'm not YT big tit blonde... PS.: Below you can find a mission on which =Crow=Zakson tested the bug. See if you may repeat the results. PS2.: Watch the movie in highest possible quality, to see what I'm talking about. test-dot-101.miz

Nice work, and as such it earns some respect. And because of it I feel very sad writing it, but for DCS it suits just as well as camper wagon to Ferrari 458 or to Lamborghini Aventador. It's like homemade customization of BMW to make it look like M3 . For game flight simulator, where sentence "realism of simulation" is brought to level of paranoia, it's heresy. Please do not hate me. Somebody has to say it.

Mosquito becomes holes just from aiming at her. No matter what bullets you use. 3x0,5'' can set her ablaze.

=Crow= Squadron. Poland. Lads 20 - 45 years old. Our main focus are cold war jets, and chosen plane is Phantom. Even before he was introduced to DCS. We flew Red and Blue stuff, and occasionally we fly Warbirds. We fly MP servers, BF Cold War, Enigma Cold War, Squadron Coop missions from time to time. We fly everyday. We are not recruiting per say, but guests are very welcomed. We share any sources we have , and guests may participate in any events they want. Best regards PM me if you're interested

You just proved my point. Modern jets depend hard on modern technology. You can't fight Average pilot of F-16CM armed with AiM-9X and AiM-120B/C in your MiG-21bis with his R-60M and R-3R. Even if you're true ace. During Iran Iraq war many Iraqi aces, trained by RAF died not even knowing that they were intercepted. Simply the first sign of F-14 appearance was an explosion of leading plane. '60 and '70 were only time in history of air combat when planes 10-20 years older compete successfully with most modern jets. It was possible because a much more depended from pilots. AiM-9B /R-3S was hard to use and very unreliable, and becoming a "gun solution" needed a serious skill. Hit a plane moving and maneuvering 500KTAS by a cannon, without computer calculated leading, using gyro sight at best. That is really hard.

Oooohhh.... "Please allow me to retalk" as a classic said How hard F-4 may be? Lets see... from the beginning of aerial dogfight some around in 1916, every next fighter generation was better, but also more demanding from a pilot. WW2 pilot had to be better, faster and more fit than WW1 pilot. Bigger speeds, bigger "G", less time to aim , less time to act, AAA more deadly and more precise. Also pilot has to know much more about tactics and techniques. Bigger distances with bigger speeds - navigation far more complicated. '50 - yet bigger speeds, and G and very specific problems of transonic speeds. Pilot of MiG-15 or Sabre must be healthier, smarter, and better skilled. '60 - new threats. SAM, AAA, AiM, no more altitude advantage saves life. And you have to be prepared to fight in day and night - not like the guys before. Also you have to flight and fight in every weather conditions. Dogfight in late '60 is so complicated, that never in history of aerial warfare so much depends from pilot. Vietnam war is a culmination of it. Need a proof? check aerial victories table. Piston Driven A-1 scores victory over Jet+AFB MiG-17. Gen I , outdated (according to user and producer) MiG-17 causes massive problem for modern Gen III Phantom. or Crusader. Never before or after, planes so different posed such equal threat. Death literally can come from everywhere. And the planes themself are not perfect, oh no - F-104, MiG-19, Su-15, and the most difficult and sophisticated of them all. Phantom II. Only plane in history of aviation with slats... on vertical stabilizator (don't worry not our version), Able to break in half during straight flight due to oscillation caused by specific steering feedback , by specific speeds, and specific position of center of gravity. Changes in plane reactions to steering input depending from AoA (Tomcat pilots know what I'm talking about, right?) CW planes show what you're worth as a pilot. Nah... It's going to be easy peasy... Every plane after ('70, '80, '90...) came with more help to pilot. Full aspect missiles allow dogfights to be simpler. Just missile exchange on flight head on. Better missile wins, not better pillot. Computers on board navigate without an error, Datalink sees everything, Fly By Wire makes every pilot skill equal. You don't have to feel your plane with 6-th sense. You won't stall even if you're sensitive as a rhino. And even if you don't know any BFM or ACM? It doesn't matter, if your missiles have enough range. Even best pilot in his MiG-21 won't ever come close. Even if he's a real expert in his plane and you only have 2 weeks experience in your F-16, learned notch, crank, TWS. Oh... and if you wan't to be a Mav. you don't actually has to know how to land on carrier. F-18 will do it for you. Just find a proper button sequence. I am actually expecting huge amount of "bug" reports, about features actually being very carefully modeled features. Quotes I found about Phantom : "Phantom is a Pilots plane... You have to fly it". "In MiG-21 - 10 pilots will perform the same evolution in 10 different ways. In Phantom you may yourself perform the same evolution 100 times and result may be different every time you try." "We don't rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training." - Archilochus With my best regards Green Ugly Fellow

If you don't mind a lot of polish speaking, one Schottisch maniac and lot of trainings, you're welcome to fly with us. WELT "Wrony" =Crow= Squadron. We fly warbirds and cold war. Main pressure is put on Cold War. We flew with MiG's 21-15-19, F-5, F1, AJS, but main desired plane since the beginning , and long before he was planned to release is F-4 Phantom. We're looking forward especially into USN Variants. We also have our dedicated server used for fun with other squadrons, and for training purposes. You don't have to be one of us to fly with us. We share experience and knowledge with everybody. Regards. If you're interested write me PM

Yes... It's very surprising that IAI test pilot liked home made plane better. Statistics are not supporting that. Nor is the poor performance of Mirage III. The plane has worst thrust to weight ratio of all time ( I am not kidding here, check yourself. It's very hard to find a plane with worse T/W ratio). The only superior parameter of Mirage III were their excellent pilots. Plane simply lacked proper engine. Check me out. IIIC is the lightest version of MIII but IAF/DF used the heavier one, and Nesher - yes you guessed right - was even heavier. The statement is not supported by any declassified mission reports we're know of. And any opinions shall be of secondary importance to dry facts. During attrition Mirages killed more MiG's - 124, but IAF/DF lost 19 of them. And that all considering easier tasks - not involving such great risk as the one taken by Phantoms. In the end Mirage (according to IAF/DF data) archived K/D ratio of 6,5, and Phantom 17:1 - numbers varied heavily (Wiki says that during war of Attrition Phantoms took down 116,5 MiGs, the book I just finished to read gives a number of ~85 MiG's). During Yom Kippur it was even worse, since lack of proper RWR equipment made Mirages fragile for Egyptian combined Fighter - SAM ambush tactics. Most pilot opinions are very sentimental and they are very interesting, but they're only that - opinions. Facts are facts. Numbers changes heavily if we compare Egyptian /Syrian data with Israelis, but the main picture stays. Mirages started to suffer significant losses. On the 3-rd day of Yom Kippur war Mirages and Skyhawks were forbidden to cross Suez Canal. Only Phantom survived clash against SA-2/3/6 and MiG-21MF, and proved being capable to perform strike (and perform extremely dangerous SEAD and DEAD) missions till the end of war. In most critical time only Phantoms could intercept MiGs over their own territory, in hostile environment of SAM sites ,and win for a short period "Domination in the air". At the end of the war of attrition Suez canal over the length of 50 miles was covered by 120 SAM sites (only the Egypt ones. I roughly quote after a book mentioned couple posts above, similar number gives declassified USMC analysis of Yom Kippur war). In 1973 Appearance of Phantom over Israel, marked the end of II gen fighters. MiG-19 almost totally extinct (even according to Egyptian data) and Mirages (never a proper multirole fighter) went to secondary role. In 1976 IAF/DF become F-15A and they pushed Phantom into Fighter - Bomber, and F-15A took a role of "Air superiority" fighter. They also marked an end to aerial dogfight as we knew since 1916. That is also were fighter pilot bible ends. Sad but true With my best regards Green Ugly Fellow

Nonsense! I hear sometimes such opinions, but there's no confirmations about it in any sources. Mirage III played a secondary fighter role ever since Phantom came into service. I am during a lecture of a book written by David Nicolle, and Tom Cooper. Phantom seem to be far more superior to anything what Kheil HaAvir had before. Especially in war of attrition when Mirage III and Nesher losts started to built up. Egipt become new russian fighters - MiG-21MF and (never used during that period) MiG-25. Together with new R-13M missiles. All of it together, made Mirage a bit "out of time" since he possessed no flare dispenser, useless radar, and insufficient thrust to weight ratio (compared to MiG-21 MF). Phantoms were tasked not just with A2G strikes as you want to see them - that role they took only after Israel become their F-15A/B and later on also F-16. Before that, during war of attrition, and Yom Kippur Phantoms were tasked with most difficult tasks. Deep strikes inside enemy territory, ands usually Phantoms performing such task were escorted by... Other Phantoms. If Phantom would be purely A2G plane he would never score a kill ratio of ~85 aerial victories vs 5 lost. Phantom was a greatest threat and biggest problem of Egypt, and Syria. It was also one of the reasons, why Egypt after a war of attrition and Yom Kippur... Broke cooperation with CCCP, signed a peace treaty with Israel. Because all that allowed Egyptian pilots to came to Miramar California to TOP GUN to... learn how to pilot a Phantom (they become excellent notes from their US Instructors). And that is also why, Egypt right after that bought Phantoms Before somebody argue - Mirage was still commonly used fighter, and played significant role, but "Elite" IDF/AF squadrons were equipped with F-4E Phantom. And yes, they were tasked with most risky tasks, but Mirage played secondary role in them. One more thing: you wrote: The reason was not to force Phantom pilots focus on their secondary A2G role - as you want to see them. The true reason was a new ambush tactics used by EAF during war of attrition. Most IDF/AF lost in them were... Mirages. They lacked situation awareness of Phantoms.

That is the number of kills made by F-4E only. Peter Davies writes, that during Vietnam War F-4 killed 17 MiG-17 at a cost of one F-4 lost to them. In the case of MiG-21 VPAF claim 74 F-4 downed. Estimated 197 MiGs (all types) were shot down during the Vietnam War, with 150.5 claimed by Phantoms. Anyway... I don't think that you understood the point. And IMO the point is, that people want to recreate Aerial combats over North Vietnam since MiG-21bis came to DCS. It was in the end, the last great Air Battle in history. Every conflict later was affected, by new doctrine of aerial warfare. Those doctrine was successfully tested during 6 Day war. There was no more classical struggle for domination in the air, but sudden total destruction of enemy air forces. Development of modern doctrine of Aerial warfare culminates IMO during Yom -Kippur War. Where SAM's reduced the mobility of Air units of both sides, and where battlefield shrinked to a small space outer range of heavy SAM sites. Aerial combat since then goes slowly but steadily into second plan. No more long intensive Air battles. Just the series of rapid interceptions, Head on clashes, with Full aspect missiles playing a main role. That is why, the "senior part of community" want Vietnam. Because they know and love Air Dogfight. ACM, BFM, Tactics, Doctrines, and they sleep with a Fighter Pilot Bible under the pillow... With my best regards Green Ugly Fellow

JG1 huge group, 2 Squadrons, USA and Europe. I strongly recommend them. Main (but not only) plane MiG-21bis, DDR Luftwaffe.

True... Just for your info - there are at least 5 such topics... Some of them even started with originally some other subject, but in the end it's the same conclusion.

Phantom Started his career in Kheil HaAvir in war of Attrition I believe. Mainly as Fighter. A Ground Attack role was covered those times mainly (but not only) by A-4 and survived Mystere's

I'm ordering a custom panel with multi selectors and weapon switches anyway. Weapon, Navi, Radar probably.... There's too much of it for warthog+2x MFD

Great Job Guys! I can finally feed my OCD. PS... Where is the Spoke?

As for Vietnam - sure, MiG-17 was main workhorse of VPAF, but saying, that MiG-21 wasn't significant there, it's a huge misunderstanding. VPAF lost 63 MiG-17 and 60 MiG-21. As for aerial victories: in a list of top 16 VPAF pilots one can find 13 x MiG-21 and 4 x MiG-17. Both MiG-17 and MiG-21 were active in North Vietnamese air operations. MiG-21s were often assigned to intercept high-flying U.S. aircraft, while MiG-17s were used for a variety of roles, including ground attack and interception. The MiG-21's higher speed and altitude capabilities allowed it to cover more airspace and engage in more sorties compared to the MiG-17. MiG-21s might have been prioritized for specific missions, such as intercepting high-value U.S. targets, means, that F-4 could met rather MiG-21 in the air. Peter Davies writes, that during Vietnam War F-4 killed 17 MiG-17 at a cost of one F-4 lost to them. In the case of MiG-21 VPAF claim 74 F-4 downed. Estimated 197 MiGs (all types) were shot down during the Vietnam War, with 150.5 claimed by Phantoms. I wouldn't say that MiG-17 fought more. F-4E and MiG-21 bis came into service roughly at the same time. The difference was, that F-4E was used everywhere from Sinai and Persian Gulf till the Gulf of Tonkin, and MiG-21 bis not. MF/PF/FL was a proper workhorse against Phantom.

I am aware of that. With a little imagination we may try to play some "Vietnam-ish" scenarios. However It would be nice to have some asset. For example - Chaparral we have it's late version. (Desert Storm?) Smokeless, bigger range, full aspect. Nothing near to Chaparral from Vietnam - based on AiM-9D Sidewinder. Also E-121 Warning Star. Also... Maybe not very popular and not important in Vietnam, but still a missing in DCS Mi-2