Sealpup
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3.10.1: In the 'Polarization Control' section, it's talking about 'light'. Should likely be talking about 'energy' or 'RF' or something along those lines.
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Any TACAN set can do air to air ranging. You just, as mentioned, need to have each aircraft on a channel where the transmit and receive are opposite each other. 06X and 69X is one example, but every TACAN channel has an 'opposite' that you can do this with.
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Definitely needed as a server-authoritative option. So that those using the Shark in multiplayer can actually make full use of it without needing to occupy ramp space for almost half an hour.
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On 7/18/2023 at 7:13 PM, Aussie_Mantis said:
This one is fairly easy to explain: The Magic series was designed to be Sidewinder compatible for NATO interoperability reasons. If it can carry a Sidewinder, it can carry a Magic, and vice versa.
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Its used for the same kind of navigating as the map plotter. Just with the navigator keeping track of map location manually.
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The HOJD/ATT version is for use with a toggle switch. It will be in one state when the input is on, and in the other state when off. The separate ATT and HOJD are for assigning them to individual push-buttons.
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If these objects all share a location, type, and country, would it not be possible to create a 'garbage collector' script to periodically remove them? A bandaid fix until the root cause can be addressed.
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Main problem with any Zero is going to be documentation. Not that it does not exist, but that it uses a specific technical-oriented dialect of Japanese of which few, if any, can still read or speak. Here's hoping they've found a solution to that one.
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Its purpose is providing a really big boom against bombers and the like. Not all that much more.
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I would give so much to be able to add my own map marks in-mission.
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On 7/24/2022 at 5:49 AM, Fox One said:
@ Scandfox
Here is a video of an F-16C landing and aerobraking down to about 75kts
I would be surprised if the real Mirage 2000 can't hold the nose up even to a lower speed...
Oh, you certainly can! Its just that, when you've come to a stop, you'll find the nose is STILL up in the air with the ground down remains of your turkey-feathers scattered in a trail along the runway behind you.
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1 hour ago, WinterH said:
Now this part will be controversial but
in a close in dogfight though other aircraft will have the upper hand as 23 will imo be hard to get the best out of in dogfighting. Maybe not Viggen because of its huge AoA limitations and huge deltas becoming a set of sails/airbrakes after the first 180 degrees of a turn :p.
Not so controversial. The MLA still has control surfaces tuned for high speed flight, and lacks the later aerodynamic tweaks that benefit the MLD. That said, it will still accelerate like an ICBM, and should be able to kinematically defeat any weapon thrown its way so long as the pilot is paying attention and doesn't get too aggressive.
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5 hours ago, admiki said:
Can you explain your process? Do you always tell Petrovich to deselect targets before breaking off?
This is exactly what you do. When you tell Petrovich to de-target he also secures the targeting periscope, which in turn cages the gyros to prevent damage.
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Looking at the size of the HMG, I seriously doubt there would be enough room for the gunner to have a full field of fire if both guns were mounted. The LMG's, on the other hand, there should be enough room not only for two guns, but two gunners! Assuming you're fine having more than one window-licker in the unarmored fighting compartment.
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Also individual position buttons for the trigger position. For those of us with actual flip triggers.
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It's an assault-piano.
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48 minutes ago, SmukY said:
Air / Ground switch may be related to what they did back in the Afghanistan war, when they used the R-60 missiles for hunting down vehicles with hot engines / campsites with recently extinguished fires at the night, so after firing they saw where the missile went and if it did hit anything, they mowed the area later with guns, unguided rockets and bombs, etc ...
So it is possible that the switch turns IR head in the missile (or tracker in the helicopter?) to look down than up for hot spots. But I'm no specialist neither for R60 nor Mi-24's antiair capability since it's quite new for me and I've been "researching" (to be precise, fanboying) this helicopter for at least 20 years.The R-60 had some functionality to make it more resistant to things like flares, the sun, and other extraneous heat sources. Its possible that switch turns that functionality off and tells the missile 'kill any hot thing'.
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Sadly the weapons used aren't capable of this. The Ataka is either SACLOS or an RF beam-rider, depending on the fire-control system used. And Shturm is a straight SACLOS weapon. These weapons are only capable of staying more or less in the sight picture all the way to target. And before anyone mentions it, yes, Ataka CAN float high in the sight picture for the first bit of launch before drifting down into the center before impact. However this requires an FCS with rangefinding capability, and its only a few meters of pop-up for the purposes of avoiding bushes and trees on the way to target.
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11 hours ago, Bremspropeller said:
It's confortable to see I'm not the only mad man in this place
As the cat once said, 'We're all mad here'.
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Eh, course and distance is the data a TACAN puts out by design. The impressive bit is the offset fix point.
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Well, I stand corrected.
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Most of the Pave Tack's size is its cooling system, which is primarily for the early-gen FLIR sensor's health. I remember hearing something about the better cooling also giving the laser better firing times, but I cannot remember WHERE I heard that from. Otherwise its the benefit of FLIR vs TV sensor, and also the fact that DMAS birds simply can't use Pave Spike.
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That would make sense. The 20mm ammo is stored closer to center of gravity, so just dumping the casing overboard won't hurt the weight and balance too much. The .303 is stored in the nose, and there is a lot of it. Losing all of that weight could make the aircraft much more tail-heavy. And as the saying goes: 'A nose-heavy aircraft flies badly, a tail heavy-aircraft flies ONCE.'
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More like an example of, as the associated report called it, a couple of 'cowboys'.
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Also, is it just me, or is there nothing in the manual about the HUD/Sight specifically?