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There was a significant amount of noise about it, and it was a significant change. Iron bombing feels quite good now. Very enjoyable. LGB's can be placed amongst a group of vehicles like a SAM site. Possible to destroy an entire SAM site with one or two well placed bombs.

Never launch beyond 20 miles? Regularly launch at 35 miles with success against fighters. You might as well be using Sparrows if you only want to launch within 20. Key with long-range Phoenix use against fighters besides understanding it is a big fat missile and it wants high altitude launch and high altitude targets is understanding how the flight profile works and how much it is affected by bandit aspect. If you are chasing a bandit your range massively decreases, side on shots also have quite a reduced range. Hot high closure bandits are where you can comfortably stretch the range of the Phoenix. Even 50 mile shots are possible against high speed Foxhounds for instance. Keep in mind with Jester in PD TWS, he will have several blind spots when it comes to a target's closure. You have a Notch and a Hardware filter. So, Jester won't be able to see targets that are in drag aspect moving left or right of you (Closure equals your aircraft speed +-133 knots) or if they're matching your speed in a chase (Closure equals 0 +-100 knots)

Yeah, It's just a commercial product taken off the shelf and added into the cockpit. There's likely not a universal military standard as to what specific model of GPS system you will find. Maybe at the most they've narrowed down a family or brand of systems to install or general recommendations based on what mounting brackets have been made for them, (Sometimes custom jobs within squadrons)

Computer IP is useful for some more advanced lofting where you need to designate and release before you gain sight of the target. Like from behind a mountain. Effective with both LGB's and CBU's against SAM sites for instance.

The stick on the ground at zero airspeed will move very fast and hit stick traverse limits while adjusting the trim. But, that's not an indication of the actual trim adjustment limit. Don't look at the stick, just look at the gauge and continue holding the trim until you get to the desired setting.

Might not actually be doing anything wrong here, the INS is not really accurate enough for better accuracy than, "Well, I can see the target in the TCS at least." Although, just in case. The IP point is in fact in DDM single digit. So, yes, kind of 5 digits, but it's a decimal off of the minutes. The offset distance is expressed in thousandths of a NM. So could be something like 0.003 NM The altitude is an altitude delta from the altitude of the IP. So you need to enter not only the IP's altitude in the IP but also the difference in altitude to the actual target in the IP-TO-TGT. This also might have been one of the instances where you needed to use true heading for the bearing rather than Magnetic. I don't quite remember.

Almost any fighter will have reduced authority to pull negative G's. They are more dangerous to the human body, and pulling back on the stick takes better advantage of the wing designs. We're also coming into the era of plane designs that are inherently unstable for increased maneuvering ability so that probably has to do with why the control authority is limited in negative G.

Huge hit to money spent elsewhere, probably. Especially if we're talking post cold-war where the mindset became reducing the sizes and budgeting to military. There's certainly a priority list when it comes to this stuff and trying to convince people to upgrade old airframes when their first thought in their heads is, "Man, this thing is old, gotta find a replacement." Is extremely difficult.

Well, we can already tell that this is going to be at least somewhat the case. The english cockpit that Wags is using is labeled Miles on the HSI at the least. Although the HUD and HSI units look identical.

You're just saying it was marked on the map. Do you know if it was actually setup and radiating? Possibly destroyed? Contention from what I remember lets players place these things. Perhaps the player chose a bad spot and the EWR is terran masking? Do you know what specific unit it was?

I'll talk mostly within the scope of the F-4E. But, usually the primary reason is money. To be clear. The APQ-120 was actually upgraded, up to a v9, I believe. But, given a certain budget, you can spend that money upgrading old airframes to fit the new radars (It's not just a matter of swapping dishes, often the radar is designed to fit the airframe not only in terms of size but things like power draw, and the weapons control systems) or you can just shove the new tech into a new airframe. Of course, you have to realize that these are old airframes that might be reaching retirement anyway, with increasing maintenance costs. The ones who continued to update the old airframes are usually the ones that can't really confidently meet the upfront cost of new ones. So, you're only left with the option of upgrade.

Not talking about the RWR tones, talking about the Shrike seeker tone and the Director bars on the ADI. It very much pulses along as you get painted by the Lobes. The pulsing sounds nothing like the RWR New Guy Audio. Different tone quality between the Shrike Seeker and the RWR for the Dog Ear as well at least.

It tracks when it is illuminated by the radar and stops tracking when it isn't. You can see that if you follow the missile in. The guidance kind of pulses on and off. You can also see/hear it before firing, the director bars and the tone you hear also kind of pulse.

Both the HUD and the VDI have separate ILS/ACL switches.

It doesn't seem to occur if you just extend and retract in the air, I don't think it's a hydraulic pressure issue, so I would be very interested in what is going on if it's not wear and tear. The actual flight manual doesn't seem to say anything about it.