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I came back to fly F-16 just yesterday after a longer break and I see the CBU97's still fall short of the target (CCIP and CCRP). I did comparison with MK82 in the CCRP and it hits flawlessly.. I'll try to post a track when I have a chance.

I was trying to compare it against Hind, and most of the times when I get shot down in Hind is my tail rotor or main rotor blades. Otherwise it is pretty much bullet proof. Can withstand some 23mm rounds fire or one or two "lucky" 30mm shots. Small arms does nothing to Hind, it can take short range head-ons on tanks, pretty much ignoring their light machine guns. Apache is indeed much less armored, and 12.7 or smaller can kill you - most of the times pilots die or they knock my engine out. However it seems that it is less prone to main or tail rotor damage. Stay fast (~80-90kts) and keep distance. When you get too close and see any rounds fired at you evade immediately until out of effective range. When hovering keep distance of 6 km to avoid ATGMs. Also the emergency landing is much easier in Apache and its main gear can withstand quite serious crash land.

It felt strange at first but I am starting to get to it slowly. If I remember how many times I crashed in Hind before I was able to land in hover.. What I feel strange is how torque is being applied to collective movements - it seems overshooting my collecitve inputs. However I have not noted yet crazy VRS we see in the Hind.

I play on a laptop - MSI GP66 with RTX3070 130W and i11800h with 32GB RAM, mostly on high with 2x MSAA and 1440p screen. I lock my FPS in Nvidia panel to ~65 FPS to keep my temperatures down and get ~100W draw from the GPU. However running Apache for the first time yesterday made my GPU go crazy to 130W and above, so I would say it is power hungry. Interestingly lowering objects textures to medium, made everything quite back to normal. There is a high power draw jump when I switch to CPG, maybe MFDs and FLIR is what is causing this. Need to experiment bit more when I have time.

Great server, that's what I have been looking for to entertain hind and bis. Unfortunately have been kicked out twice yesterday, one time while blue captured sector, second time my PC crashed and shut down randomly - I got black screen. That has happened before once in single player, so not sure if this is beta release issue or what. Also at some point when blue were close (I rhink 2 secors) I could not find farp or jump in to hind from the airfield. Can we have a farp next to a home base or option to take off from an airfield in helos? As a newbie in DCS (especially MP), can you help me find out what are the channels in hind radio(s) to tune to the server frequencies? PS would love A4 :)

Bought it over A10 trying both at the same time. Didn't even get to serious weapon employment to make the decision. After couple of hours moving around with both, hog felt soo sluggish to fly, while harrier is very fast in subsonic speeds and even quite easy to VTOL. Gives fun just flying. Got frustrated a bit with Mavs employment, but I do better now. I may get the hog anyway as it is one of the planes I have always liked, just not enough time to enjoy both now, and have pre-ordered apache.. I have a hornet already which is great but flies like glued to tracks, I sometimes get mig21 and do some bombing and rockets just for fun of the analog plane also in multiplayer. A4 mod is great but hard to find any server for it. So ended up looking for some A2G non fbw machine with guided weapons option - so here it is and it can VTOL :)

If you move IRMAV sensor once uncaged it wil unslave from other sensors, it seems that you have to press DESG to undesignate on HSD - it will re-set the sensor to the center and slave it again. Not sure if this is how it supposed to work IRL.

Same here with 2.7, FPS drops from 80-90 to 20-30 when flying low with ground clutter on the radar. Any fix please? This is so annoying.

Thanks! Still new to DCS, did not know about that.

Hi Guys, I have been looking around but could not find official flight manual for the 21.. There is a great Chuck's Guide, but what happened with the official one? I fas only able to find some old posts with non working links. Thanks!