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Possibly next to the ALQ-119 which could suppress the tracking radar of the ZSU AAA, allowing the Kurnass crews to fly low more often. They could avoid SA-6 locks with less fear of being sniped by AAA. My gut feeling is these were only available in tiny numbers in the last few jets that arrived during Rivet Haste.

Do you have or fly the F-5? Ever fly it on ECW or similar and have a blast? The F-4's radar is like that but way better. Also, Sparrows which, if DCS missile failure rates were more realistic, would still fail like (wild guess) ~15% of the time anyway. I think folks would benefit from looking at the F-4 and adjusting the mindset such that they don't look at it like it's a very old version of a 4th gen fighter and more like it's a Korean War plane on steroids. We are able to change our perspective for WW2 planes as entirely separate and discrete. Korean War jets too. It's time for this era of jets to have their own category. Imagine jousting an Su-27 in an F-15 and having 2 of your AIM-7M's fail. You're now in a lot of danger because you have to assume their missile did not fail. If the same happened in the F-4 vs a MiG-21, it's frustrating, but generally you're in a lot less danger. Yes, you can do a lot less than in a Hornet but there's also generally a lot less to do vs the enemies of the era. I do agree though, as someone who can mostly only fly alone, I hope Jester will be capable of handling the new controls on his own sufficiently to make the experience in MP fun.

There is: Furthermore, the MiG-21 is performing too well at low speeds - it sustains the same turn rate at very low speeds which is why if you rate fight one clean in an F-5E, the MiG-21 will actually beat you: Hopefully these both get addressed at some point.

In regards to the F-5E, the conclusion, like usual, it isn't that simple. Instantaneous turn rate is a bit better for the F-5E, but I believe in DCS, it underperforms there due to its inability to reach the ~40 deg. AoA it should be capable of reaching. In terms of sustained rate, the slatted F-4E has the slight edge but I can see that going away with a full missile load. See real data/data calculated from real manuals here: In a clean, DACT environment with just guns, the F-4E will be superior in the 2 circle/rate fight. However... as always, there many other ways to win a fight.

For me it was a surprise. No e-mails or other notifications.

Please see the attached log. I'm getting this "Protocol Stream Error" regularly when joining some servers (particularly DDCS but sometimes even the dogfight servers). It doesn't happen every time. Could it be a page file issue? It's currently set on auto. CPU: Intel i7-8700K @ 3.70 GHz (12 CPUs) with 32.768 GB RAM GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Ti with 27.457 GB total memory EDIT: After trying to join the DDCS server again today, I noticed that this stream error tends to happen when I scroll down the roster list. Sometimes it happens after I've joined an aircraft but it happens most consistently with the scrolling. If I try rejoining then I get the same error immediately after connecting. After these events, my fxo folder fills with files and deleting them all allows me to rejoin the server successfully. Of course the error returns when I scroll. dcs.log dcs.log-20240331-020318.zip

Gotta use that engineering degree somehow!

Received just today! Canada

If anyone's curious, this is what it would look like. Note the brick on top of the radar repeater display with the little sight camera.

I'm willing to bet you can get it printed and bound for a relatively cheap price at a shop somewhere. That's what I definitely did not do with the books I found online when I was in college

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I'm in the same position right now. That's why I hope i'll really like the FFB2 on my desktop. I only hope the future will include home ownership for that man cave

Sounds convincing! It will be a consideration for the future, for sure. I looked this up as well and hope to make this a future project in a man cave or something. The FFSB stick in combination with the F-4 might just launch the next stage to this addiction. Dammit now why did you have to put that out into the universe, now I'm seriously considering it... Come to think of it, my membership to the gliding club was far more expensive than a Rhino FFB kit.

May I ask why you have many? Do they break often? Yea the deadzone thing might be tough, but I still have my VKB with which to switch back and forth. Maybe one day there will be a good FFB stick or a kit that won't break the bank.

I'm assuming the F-4 will have FFB as well. After reading how people experienced the F-14 in a whole new light, I just bought a Sidewinder FFB2 which arrives next week. I'm pumped.

Lol thanks, I guess some things are more interesting when they're a mystery.

Maybe my google-fu is weak today, so I couldn't find the answer. Why would only 3 barrels be sighted as opposed to all 6?

I'm just as guilty except unlike you, I pushed my luck. Apologies to both you and everyone else who was abiding by the rules.

Both of these posts perfectly frame how I feel as well. In terms of things I could buy, I could not have been more excited for anything else ever and when BST canceled it it really was a massive disappointment. But to have the game and technology progress to this point and then have HB pick it up is incredible and will undoubtedly bring one of the most detailed modules ever made. I feel lucky to be around with DCS in such an advanced state compared to back then.

Then you had this absolute mf'er https://theaviationgeekclub.com/the-story-of-chico-the-gunfighter-the-very-unique-gun-podded-stormy-fast-fac-f-4e-phantom-ii-used-during-the-vietnam-war/

Is there a reason why pseudo-Doppler was used if Master Arm was off vs simulated Doppler when Master Arm was on? I'm curious to know if there were disadvantages of one Doppler calculation over the other.

Now that that's over... does anyone know if the Shrike is only useable against the SA-2 and SA-3? I seem to remember that the SA-6 was impervious to it in 1973 in Egypt and Syria, but I also know there several variants of seeker heads that we may or may not be able to equip. I wonder if they can be used against higher digit SAM systems.

By all means! Keep sharing! For anyone who's on instagram (hopefully you don't mind, Dr. Petersen) here's the link: https://www.instagram.com/spetersen13/?hl=en My fianceé and I are big fans of your photos of cats and planes (respectively)!

The manual is supposed to teach you how to operate the aircraft though, so detailed descriptions on how it all works internally might be out of scope if done for every component. That said, some things can be explained as long as it is relevant to understanding how to employ a certain system. Additionally, a lot of the manual is taken from the real manuals so the content was more of a McD/USAF decision. Now for a very high level answer to your questions: the pulsed radar transmission is used to determine range, by timing the receipt of the reflected signals. The CW signal reflection is used to determine the Doppler shift return of the target and the AIM-7 homes in on a reflection matching the expected bandwitdth of Doppler shifted returns. Range information isn't extracted from this signal so theoretically if another target flew into the beam within the expected Doppler gate but with a bigger RCS, the AIM-7 might go for that target instead. The rear antenna is used to compare the reflected signal to the APQ-120 transmission directly behind the missile so that it can calculate the speed gate by comparing the two (since that is also red shifted as the missile moves away from the F-4). The rear seat antenna polarization switch determines the polarization direction of the transmitted radar EM waves. I believe the reason for this switch is explained on the manual, if not the 1F-4E-34-1-1 which you can find online for free. Reflections are polarized more or less in either the vertical or horizontal direction depending on what they were reflected from (ground vs rain for example), so the switch is used to filter out some of this clutter return. Similarly, most sunglasses filter out horizontally polarized light due to the reflection of light (glare) from the ground. My guess is that there was a hardware limitation or a reason to reserve CCW polarized reflections so the AIM-7 will only guide on the other 2 settings.

Thanks for these! It makes me feel like I'm being inducted into the 3rd TFS - without having to do all the other hard stuff lol