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Does the nose leg shorten itself to fit inside the nose bay?

empty outboard pylon, GBU, Sidewinder/BOL, Tank, strake, empty centre, TIALD, Tank, Sidewinder/BOL, GBU, empty outboard pylon.

The GR7/9s sometimes carried the gun pods if there wasn't enough strakes to fit in place, as they essentially did the same job as the strakes in the hover, forming the box section with LIDS fence, strakes/gun pods/tgp and airbrake.

Yup, also known as the DMT (Dual Mode Tracker). Harrier requires TIALD or Sniper to laser designate its own targets.

Bagpuss, did you have anything to do with IPaq? I remember messing about with that on the GR7s. Datalink on the Gr9 was a much more elegant solution!

Looks like there is an update to Anti-rad missiles in 1.5.6. Looking forward to seeing if this has fixed the problems.

The SU25T and weapons really needs some love. It's capabilities make it a unique aircraft in DCS :-/

This is more or less how the RAF came to upgrading to the Mk107 engine for the Harrier, which was much more suited to the high altitude and high temperatures. You can try reading about what happens when the Royal Navy end up in the desert. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joint-Force-Harrier-Ade-Orchard/dp/0141035714/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

Any news on this? I keep getting asked to help out with SEAD duties and keep having to explain the bugs with these two weapons :-/

For airshow displays they used to run light. We used to take the pylons off to save a bit of extra weight and give them some more hover time.

It makes taking off in an overweight SU25T much easier though :)

Is there a shortage of kh58s at Blue airfields? I don't seem to be able to load them onto my SU25T. Not that they ever hit anything ;)

They can only really hover dry with the Mk107 engine, gave them that extra bit of thrust and essentially took away the need for the water tank. It stayed for ballast obviously.

http://info.publicintelligence.net/AV-8B-000.pdf

Nice one Bill :) With the Mk105 and 107 engines the water is mainly there as ballast unless operating in high temperatures and/or altitudes. Otherwise, the water is used for water injection when the aircraft is set to 'Short Lift Wet' or 'Lift Wet' mode for hover and short take offs/landing. The engine is temperature limited so to get some more power the water is sprayed onto the turbine blades and around the combustion chamber to assist cooling and allow more fuel to be pumped in. The pump is air driven from engine bleed air, gives you about 90 seconds hover time.

That's a lovely looking model! :)

Limited indeed but ALARM capable apparently. http://www.fleetairarm.com/exhibit/british-aerospace-sea-harrier-fa2-xz499/1-29-49.aspx

Plenty of differences between the GR9 and AV8B+ too, not just a repaint! I think the FA2 carried ALARM aswell?

No ALARM or AMRAAM for the GR9s. Do the AV-8B+s have helmet mounted cueing?

Haha, I have just had a look at some videos of the FSX version, it looks like they have got it pretty much spot on! A few points, it might just have been the video I watched or FSX limitations or AV8B specific. You should be able to disengage NWS, anti-skid and NWS won't work at the same time. You should be able to start the engine without firing the APU gen up first. Flaps need to be reset before they even think about working. It doesn't look like water flow and IGVs are modeled? Most of that is just being picky! I'm tempted to dig FSX out and give it a go, I miss the old carbon fibre death provider!

Ex Harrier bloke (GR7/9) here, just getting back into these sims. A Harrier would be mega for this sim, even if its not a GR! Consider it sold!

Harriers are close to the EGT limit when they are in the hover, at altitude and in high OAT it gets very close, you wont ever see them hovering with much loadout if any. Harriers also use water injection when hovering and for STOL, it gets sprayed around the combustion chambers and onto the turbine blades, which as Rico mentions lowers EGT and allows more fuel flow. OBOGS has nothing to do with LOX does it? At least in the systems I have worked with they just use an MSOCS to provide the pilot with what is basically nitrogen free air from an engine under a bit of pressure...oxygen? :) PS Dont drink de-min water its not good for you :)

A few cannon rounds or Shkval would spoil a Hog pilots day ;)

I would buy it over F18, much more interesting!

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