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This seems to be true if I cross reference my copy of "An Outsider’s View Of The Phoenix/AWG-9 Weapon System, Stephen Thornton Long, Naval Postgraduate School, March 1977" (also used in the old whitepaper) which says that the characteristics of the Aerojet Mk 60 Mod 0 motor had a total weight of 199 kg (439 lbs). However in the same document, it says that "the solid propellant rocket motor has a total impulse of approximately 97,000 lb-sec [~431477.5 N-sec] and an average thrust of approximately 4,000 lbs [~17792.886 Newtons] with a burn time of more than 25 seconds, depending on the temperature" when referring to what seems like both the Mk47 Mod 0 and Mk60 Mod 0 motors. If you were to compare that with our current Mk47 and Mk60 motor performance, the motors are lacking in approximately 15000 lb-sec [~66723.3 N-sec] of total impulse.

I'm stating that the AIM-120C-5s, with absolutely perfect guidance with no twitching and abnormal seeker performance, would have performed better. And that coupled with the already higher entry speed of the AIM-120C-5 during that scenario, the AMRAAM would've done better than the AIM-54. Especially since you posed the question "could any other missile in DCS fired under the parameters IronMike Presented do any better?" and the AIM-120C-5 did better in a similar scenario/parameters.

It also good to note that the AIM-120C-5s do have a different guidance API/scheme and because of that, the missile does lose speed a lot quicker once it is active due to some particularities in its guidance that aren't there with the older guidance API that the AIM-54 is using. But looking at the pure kinetics of it, like what Noctrach said, the AIM-120C-5s go active against the enemy MiGs at the approx the same speed of Mach 2 and they hit the MiGs at a higher speed too (approx +0.1 Mach).

I'm looking back at the Hazard Classification Of United States Military Explosives and Munitions, U.S. Army, June 2009 (one of the sources used in the old whitepaper) and it directly contradicts the propellant mass for the MXU-637/B propellent section that is featured on the AIM-54A. How do the new sources override this information? Was the US Army document incorrect? I would really like a new document similar to the old whitepaper which outlines the sources for the motor performance (if possible).

Yes.

Reposting my charts here as well. Click Here for Google Sheets to Graphs 500m 6km 12km In conclusion: Bring an Mk47 motor variant. Also nozzle_exit_area still equals 1e-6.

Chart time! Click Here for Google Sheets to Graphs 500m 6km 12km In conclusion: Bring an Mk47 motor variant. Also nozzle_exit_area still equals 1e-6.

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Yes since the main lobe clutter filter is not used in PD-STT, it cannot be notched. An intended feature. You can still lose track if they enter the zero Doppler filter though.

I would absolutely love to hear some answers regarding these questions along with if this is still utilizing the older API that doesn’t have a dedicated FM and motor sections (boost and march) like what the AIM-120s, S530D, and SD-10 currently have. Overall sounds like next patch is going to be great and I can’t wait to drop some graphs into this chat later on tomorrow.

Will a new whitepaper be made in order to update the information we have? I would love to read the sources that were able to make these changes possible along with stare at the graphs. Also did the nozzle_exit_area stuff ever get added?

A/A refueling in the Tomcat is definitely tricky. For the last week I've been wrestling with every plane in DCS in order to try to do A/A refueling and the Tomcat was definitely one of the harder probe-and-drogue planes to A/A refuel next to the Harrier. Once I got it down tho, I feel like is super easy and requires a lot of tiny movements of the stick (and I even removed the 15 curve I put on for exclusively A/A refueling). Of course, when compared to real life, the Tomcat has a longer throw for its stick when compared to HOTASes at home (especially desktop ones) so that would definitely help when doing more finer movements IRL. But even IRL, there are cruise videos of Tomcats having problems getting into the basket as well so I feel like it isn't a DCS only thing.

Looks like ED is going to be unable to make a FF MiG-29 9.12 due to the current geopolitical situation so maybe Heatblur and TrueGrit could make a FF German MiG-29 (both the non-upgraded and upgraded models) thanks to their connections with the Luftwaffe.

Pretty interesting proposition. Maybe if we do that we can get every single wishlist feature regarding the Tomcat added.

Okay I updated the mod to V1.5. I also decided to add the 580 gallon center line fuel tank from the one of the other F1 variants along with the GBU-27 (albeit it has a super old 3D model). EDIT Screenshot I forgot to send:

I'll look into it. They probably changed some of the file structure again.

The A2A tracking seems to be a thing that all TGPs in A2A mode do. Litening and ATFLIR do it and its super annoying but it could be realistic since it mostly happens when you're not in a STT mode.

As the one that cited that video which countered his claim that the Tomcat is a 6G aircraft and cannot pull more for a fraction of a second, this entire argument, in my honest opinion, has been trying to argue with an inanimate object. Like this isn't a discussion but more of something to gawk at and be amazed at how someone can try to deny every ounce of evidence that is readily available on the internet. For those wondering the video, here it is. It's a video where Kurt Schroeder, former Grumman Test Pilot, describes the time where he was RIOing for an Iranian trainee and that trainee inadvertently pulled 10+ Gs resulting in the G meter to be pegged at at the maximum G limit it could display:

I'm looking at my 1972 version of the NAVAIR 01-F14A-1 and it looks like that MSL Options switch is there with the SP PD option. There's also like super old promotional footage of the F-14 when it was first being introduced and some of them have RIO scenes that show the MSL Options switch with a SP PD option. So I think our Block 95 will have a SP PD option on its MSL Options switch. Here's some:

Deka could add training variants of these missiles which would be similar to the Captive AIM-9M. Nothing more than just that extra sense of realism if you're doing training I guess.

https://imgur.com/a/4GN0auu My super loud space bar is me pressing the trigger and then you can see the "Hot Trig" light go out and it turns back on once the Sparrow is released.

Hot trigger light will go out and turn back on once the first weapon is released.

Check the special menu option that relates to weapon selection. I personally haven’t had any issue utilizing the “Weapon Selector Up” and “Weapon Selector Down” to select all the selectable weapons recently.

Well it doesn't help that the AIM-9s currently have inaccurate lengths which can contribute to the pylon placement being incorrect.