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It's worth to mention, that in late '60 Navy had a very little concept what to do with Datalink. The EC-121 were quite rare (US Navy possess just 5 of them?) and very imperfekt. IFF was still an issue. Since 1968 system enabled the operators to distinguish MiG types and a color code system for them entered the air operations vernacular: "Red Bandits" (Mig-17s); "White Bandits" (MiG-19s); "Blue Bandits" (MiG-21s), and "Black bandits" (MiGs low on fuel), but suffered low refresh rate and poor radio comm. Practical detection range of 100 miles (160 km), enough to cover the Hanoi urban area and the main MiG base at Phúc Yên. A major disadvantage of this arrangement, however, was that most MiG contacts were beyond the 70 miles (110 km) range of the Big Eye's APS-45 Height Finder radar, so that they were unable to provide this data to USAF strike forces. Furthermore, technical shortcomings in the EC-121D's systems precluded either controlling a fighter intercept or identifying a specific flight under attack. So Data link was there, but I doubt if they were transmitting something more than data from "Mother" (and that's by far is the best case) With my best regards Green Ugly Fellow

There are no proper words in my vocabulary to express my disgust with these idea. With absolute lack of respect Green Ugly Fellow

I'm flying only as navigator :-). Works perfectly . Find yourself a company to fly and play. Usually there's lot more fun these way.

Same here. There laks of serious documentation of Transmitter (especially) and Receiver. Also I'm still finding a wonders like these:

Army on both sides used to think different that time (I mean '70 & '80). Some sort of "military introducing" we (in Poland) had in elementary school. I remember how we learned on one of lessons: in case of WW3: -expected time to die of soldier - 2min. -expected time to die of tank crew - 10min. -expected time to die of pilot - 2 hours. "Our army has for time "Z" shells that can penetrate everything, but barrel wore our after 10 shots, our planes can reach higher thrust, but engines melt and total wore out takes 2-3 flights. in '70s we were born, and we grown with a calm awareness that soon WW3 will broke out and we'll die. We just adopted that knowledge. Somehow still a threat of WW3 and atom holocaust isn't scary for me. I don't think that such "engine setting" made for "Z Hour" would be "a nice to have in game". I flew MiG-21 for a couple years and somehow never drop "A" bomb, but I remember my childhood. I am sure that there are more such "surprizes" in case of time "Z" in many military planes, tanks, rifles. Let's pretend that there isn't. My best regards Green ugly fellow

Many words - 80% offtopic, however very interesting. Thanks, but you shall think about posting it in some other topic maybe? "About tongue in cheek" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_Japanese_Army_Air_Service There is no mistake in writing IJA - since IJAAS or IJAAF aren't (or weren't) independent formation, but one of Army Forces, (like IJNAS are part of IJN ). Since they're not as famous as USAAF (also part of US Army forces - recognized as independent force after WW2) nobody cares. So IJA and IJN Ad2. Still - it makes no difference. And all that you wrote isn't actually a significant argument. Sakai wrote about USAAF planes in very professional way. He stated, that Zeke was still more agile, but USAAF planes could fly much higher than Japanese planes, and it was enough to make them obsolete. P-38 killed Admiral Yamamoto in spite of presence of Japanese fighters. They felt really helpless. Also simple comparison of performance at high altitude is enough to see what he meant. Being one of few still alive (at the end of war) experienced pilots, with great understanding of air warfare, and close to high stuff he had unique ability to properly understand and estimate technical advantage of USAAF and USN. I don't see anyone who's more competent to evaluate situation. Everyone else usually lack either technical knowledge, personal war experience, knowledge about aerial warfare, or specific japanese context. In the end back to the topic: Give us the A6M Zeke! My best regards Green Ugly Fellow

I red Saburo Sakai's book. I sensed that he rather saw F-4F as comparable to his A6M, and P-38, P-47 and P-51 as far superior. A chapter about it is quite dramatic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Islands_campaign has weakend IJA. However the end of Japanese Air Forces according to many Japanese and US Historians (and also it's stated in Saburo Sakai's book) came rapidly and was a shock to the Japanese Navy HQ. "The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" - 650 planes (380 in One day), many IJN Aces, two fleet CV's and one light CV lost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Philippine_Sea https://www.history.navy.mil/browse-by-topic/wars-conflicts-and-operations/world-war-ii/1944/battle-philippine-sea/turkey-shoot.html https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2022/december/marianas-turkey-shoot-plus-seventy-five F6F-3 brought an end to A6M Zero. It's simple. F-4U wasn't even necessary... In spite of that I want A6M Zeke ... Just as many other dcs fans. Being Inferior is irrelevant.

After wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MG_131_machine_gun Muzzle Velocity of 13x64mm: From 13 mm Panzerbrandgranatpatrone (API) - 710m/s (projectile 38g) up to 770m/s for 13 mm Brandgranatpatrone El. ohne Zerleger (I) (projectile 34g). to see the difference comparison will be justified: 50 BMG (also after wikipedia): From 928m/s (Projectile 42g ), up to 882m/s (projectile 52g) 12,7x109mm (also after wikipedia) From 920m/s (Projectile 44g ), up to 820-860m/s (projectile 48g) ... I would rather say that german ammunition (compared by muzzle velocity and projectile) is rather lighter than their USA or UDSSR counterparts. Finally .303 British: From 844 m/s (10 g projectile) up to 783 m/s (12 g projectile) - similar muzzle velocity, but much much lighter projectile shall loose speed rapidly compared to German ammunition. PS: A2G ammo belt of MG131 seem to be quite ineffective. Why is that? LF MkIX (AI )set to "No Reaction to threat" needs almost whole ammo of 2x MG131 (A2G ammo belt) (I used Bf-109) to be destroyed.

Waiting for MiG-21 face - lift or at least bug fix...

Hmm that may explain why I exploded by hitting a small (1m) fence. I love you ED. Thanks My best regards and admiration Kermit

I don't get the Joke. Do you make 262?

Move camera UP /Down / Left /Right + Save cockpit angles (hotkey) doesn't work for VR?

@BIGNEWYAny hope for fix?

Thanks I'll check

Thanks. I missed "T". Sorry Detrola is a radio navigation device allowing you to find a radio beacon.

Looks like it's related to ground position shift of P-47 during last patch. I blew up just doing circles over AF. Just "touch and go", so it can't be related to battle damage. @Edit:

Hi. Yesterday after the patch our squad started a bit fool around with Warbirds on Gudauta AF. I set 18m/s crosswind and we practiced landings. We took several planes, and there were many landing gears broken. Most warbirds were able to perform a pretty kangaroo-style-landings but jugs tend to...Explode instead of breaking landing gear. Is it connected with lower ground position of P-47 after last path? Belly landings seem to be quite safe , but lowering landing gear is a risky business, and a bounced landing looks just as safe as shaking nitroglycerin bottle. Can you please check if it's a bug or (god forbid) a feature? @Edit: In case of any doubts, just try to land hard enough to bend a landing gear. P-47 will explode. @Edit 2: Tailwheel spring & damping effect seem to be totally removed in MP. It's as stiff as the parrot in Monty Python sketch... With my best regards Kermit WW2WELT_Wrony_training_caucasus_20230414.miz

I spend 3 months mastering the Jug. And I had similar problems: there are 2 main reasons why Double Wasp gets damaged: -Main rod bearing damage: (occurs while trying to break with an propeller) to avoid : reduce rpm and boost by moving both levers back together. The steeper the dive is, the more you shall move them back. -False Ignition: (Too high / too low carb. air temperature, too high manifold pressure) most of the time when engine gets damaged without obvious reason is when carb.air temp. is below operational range. My suspicion is that it shall simulate an icing of carburetors? To avoid damage : keep proper temp. and manifold pressure My best regards Kermit

Enigma!

EC-121 for a long time had no IFF. It's a long and interesting story, because USN for some time used ... IFF of russian planes to recognize a enemy plane type.

I love the idea I reserve CCR for Navy F-4 and Gimme Shelter for USAF F-4 I really feel "sympathy for the devil" & F-4 'Nam community

@Skuva I failed to recognize a joke in Internet after I discovered "Flat Earth Society". Either I'm bit too old, or your joke failed to be funny, or... The topic for jokes is somewhere else?

Do you want to have plane that explodes mid flight? Or you want it to be WT like modelled? Described parameters are theoretical. All the plane did was to kill her pilot. "At 1:01 p.m., Colonel Korovin radioed that the aircraft was in a spin. 30 seconds later, he called that he was ejecting. The Ye-50/3 crashed near the village of Radovitsy, approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) southeast of Ramenskoye. The body of Colonel Korovin was located about 150 meters (164 yards) from the crash site, still in his ejection seat. The parachute had not opened, and the test pilot had been killed on impact. The accident investigation found that during the delay to takeoff, the liquid oxidizer accumulated in the combustion chamber. This caught fire as the prototype took off. The rocket engine’s turbopump exploded. The explosion damaged the flight control system and the prototype caught fire. The fire burned away a portion of the airplane’s vertical fin. When it entered a spin, Colonel Korovin was unable to recover. It was found that he had removed his gloves and tried to manually pull the ejection seat parachute release cable, but to no avail." Source: https://www.thisdayinaviation.com/tag/mikoyan-gurevich-ye-503/#:~:text=The Ye-50%2F3 crashed,had been killed on impact.