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india has a contract to supply Meteor missiles. This justification is not technically viable.

This is the world's worst kept secret by now, if you seen the previous page. Rafale employs vastly superior weapons already. Why would you need to employ 1980's tech on them?

This is huge news. The potential for PVP setups online is going to be epic with the F-15C and EF coming online. Cant wait.

Soon now... soon

just today, PoAF off Lisbon Airport. FYI this fleet is to be retired in coming years. A tender for replacement is underway.

BVR down to WVR. Cannot be treated in isolation when inserted in a context of a mission.

Hi gents, I have started to learn the F-16C this month of August, and play mainly A-A PvP multiplayer. From this perspective (and not from solo mission and campaigns) I have made the following threat ranking assessment based on how many times I have won and/or lost against each type of jet. 1 is best, higher numbers are worse: 1) F-16C 2) JF-17 3) FC F-15C 4) DCS F-15E 5) J-11A 6) F-14B 7) F/A-18C 8 ) FC Su-27 9) Mirage 2000 10) FC Mig-29S The viper out accelerates and out runs the hornet any day. Because of this it can climb higher and faster for longer range AIM-120 shots over the hornet in a big way. By the time merge is reached I feel that I have the initiative and more options how to end the fight in the viper. Many times I find F/A-18's flying high the PK for my shots is much higher than against other vipers and eagles. Also, the Viper can maintain cruise speeds @ angels 30K+ altitude without engaging the afterburner with 6 AIM120's and 2 bags unlike the with F-15c 8 MRAAMs and 2 bags. However the eagle still has a larger fuel fraction so it can travel or loiter longer in those conditions. In same conditions the hornet has more difficulty defending against BVR attacks. Most hornet drivers like to do low and slow ambush cap from behind terrain features but only a minority are consistently performing at that regime. More often than not the hornet hardly find chances to explore its superior turning ability (not sure if this is 100% realistic as I have ever known of both trading blows). The JF-17 is extremely menacing due to lethal PL-12's and the jammer pod which can operate at same time as the radar unlike the ALQ-184 on the viper (unless you reduce op mode to 1 which is weaker). The jeff is generally a slower jet than the F-16C and its dogfighting ability is similar to the hornet's. That's why is not nº1. However not many people are flying this jet. The other jets below just suffer from not being dominating in BVR enough, and because of that they cannot dictate the merge conditions preventing them from getting that many chances of exploring their stronger attributes. Summing up. The F-16C with that GE F110 engine is a BEAST. Rocket ship really. Loads of fun to fly and the unobstructed view from the cockpit is fantastic. In DCS, when datalink is available the F-16C comes out on top over the hornet as speed and acceleration matters more in PvP. However for some carrier ops might be the deciding factor. I personally prefer the flight experience in PvP, for this reason F16C it is my fav.

I don't think you will see the F-35 alot (I assume your speaking of multiplayer) unless both sides are using this same jet. Nobody likes to be deleted in midair with no warning and that would not attract many people. EF coming to DCS is not equipped with an AESA radar and therefore will most likely compare with DCS F-15C FF. It's not going to be invincible. That being said, yes redfor needs a more modern jet. Otherwise I only see Eurocanards VS teen F-X's servers in the future.

The meteor missiles are not yet delivered to India (as part of the Rafale deal with France). So they were not really prepared to face off F-16's and J-10C's. India is facing a problem of reliable BVR missiles not just for the Rafale but for the entire India AF jets (they have old unreliable R-77's which made scandals in India in the past). They have alot in the pipeline coming for years but not yet materialized (astra MKI & II, R-37, Meteor and others). Providing that each jet is decently equipped with proper missiles, then the JF-17 does not compare with Rafale but may be more comparable with Tejas.

neither, wait for the NVIDIA refresh (5070 super) or like mentioned above the 9060XT. VRAM is life.

lobies and backstage political drama was the criteria for selection of the aircraft:

this GPU is certainly capable of 4K, the only thing that could hold it back is the ammount of VRAM. Maybe when super variant comes around. NVIDIA realy likes to overcharging AND sandbag their products.

I dont think the prices will continue to raise linearly as they had in past years. Heres a few reasons why: 1- GPU crytpo mining is a thing of the past, plus we are going to a bear market sometime this year and that will last at least 18 months. 2- Realy poor condition of global economy, the average joe losing income and jobs, has no choice but to cut expenses, gaming being one of them. The youger generations give gaming more importance but putting supper on the table is going to be the priority. This could get worse due to major conlicts arising in developed countries (and this is going to throw a whole lot of new variables unfortunatly). 3- Deepseek, and the AI revolution becoming cheaper to attain AI. NVIDIA has a disporportional ammount of FAB allocation to the AI server clients. what hapens when they no longer need to buy as many chips? NVIDIA has no choice but to put those chips on the consumer market. They have to be aggressive as the comsumers are leaving markets. 4- AMD is right to cater to the budget gamer, by leveraging the console tech for PC gaming. This will normalise the hardware requirements you need. They are not there yet, as the current gen GPU's IMHO dont have enough VRAM (neither NVIDIA's "affordable" SKU's for that matter). 5- More FABs outside Taiwan in comming years.

It was my sister's, and she took her sweet time to take my advice. She had no bot to press the buy button instantly. It wasnt me. So they had those prices for more than a milisecond. If you want to continue to be clueless despite the evidence I provided go ahead. Pay more for less performance.

I was screaming on top of my lungs to get those cards back then before they dried out. If you think I am BS'ing you then here is the proof: yeah they saw people gobling up all 7900 series and jacked up prices 2X since.

my argument with Aapje is from couple of months back. the 7900XTX is 900€ and 7900XT is in the vicitnity of 500€, if the high end AIB's are avoided (my sister got a XFX Merc10 7900XT variant for 530€ just later last month). Anyone should have gotten one of those instead of the 9070 for DCS. The latter is poor value and will get maxed out sooner due to 16MB VRAM.

Well my 4090 already does more frames per second than my monitor can display at its maximum refresh rate (240Hz) So why would I buy a card for 50% price penalty, that functionally gives same gaming experience? The 7900XTX has same ammount of memory and for anything else than VR it also provides same gameplay experience in DCS. And if you want to focus on price per FPS ratio, the pricing data on hardware unboxed 9070XT review is from mid 2024. My sister booght a 7900XT this month for 530€ which for DCS blows the 9070XT out of the watter considering it has 20GB VRAM while the 9070XT would already be maxed out (even considering the AIB's will honour MSRP, which they won´t). So, in either case only a minotrity would get a 5090, equaly on the budget side, a 7900XT is better value, and in absence of a used 4090, get a 7900XTX thats 1000$ less.

@Aapje The results are similar pretty much across the board for all games. Conclusion: 7900XTX is still the best card for DCS rather than 9070XT, specially if you can still find any 7900XTX that have been on discount lately. #IkeepMyPromisses

I have a 4090 too and my experience is completely diffferent. Everything is silky smooth and unless the NVIDIA overlay is completely wrong I am getting 240+FPS (got it capped to my monitors refresh rate wich is you guessed it 240Hz). I see only minor issues using DLSS (shadows from forests get dark halos in some angles and missile smoke trails are somewhat distorted), otherwise a great experience. Not even the most recent CPU I have a 5950X.

I dont use VR but from my experience upgarding CPU and GPU's over the last few years: you dont need the latest CPU to run this game maxed out. All you need is: A CPU with 6+ cores and 4Ghz+ RAM 64Gb 16GB+ of VRAM Have DCS installed on an SSD with the OS The bottleneck seems to be the GPU and the ammount of VRAM it has. I have a 5950X with a 4090, 64GB of RAM and I am hitting the limit on my 4K 240Hz monitor. 190 FPS on ground and 240+(because I caped it) in the air. I estimate that, if you have like an AMD 5600 CPU or and intel 12700K, with an AMD 7900+ (those had 20-24GB VRAM) or any NVIDIA GPU with 16Gb+ that is less than 4 years, then your golden.

note: the founders 5090 doesnt have any power monitoring (as mentioned by der8auer in his overheat videos) but AFAIK the AIB partners do, added to that the later are also providing beefier heatsinks. So I say while the AIB are charging extra (because they get 0$ from the GPU itself) maybe if you really want to have a 5090 and peace of mind maybe its worth to fork out that extra cash...if you dont have an AIB 4090. For what I seen in my limited research (I have a strix 4090) MSI is really scoring major points this time around by having some of the best solutions without being the most expensive by far.

yeah I had issues with the 4090 (ASUS STRIX). The 12VHPWR cable adapter that came in the box caused me stability issues. The card showed a red LED at the power plug indicating something was wrong but it still was capable of runing becnhmarks even. Then I bought a cablemod with 12VHPWR PCI-e with 4 connections to the PSU. LED still showed red and problems continued. Then I bought an ATX 3XPCI-E->to->12VHPWR cable from the PSU manufacurer (wasnt initialy available), LED came off and that has been rock solid ever since. The cables dont heat up. Just dont use 3rd party cables. If you dont have an adapter from the PSU brand just save yourself trouble and buy a new PSU 1000W+ with one dedicated 12V plug and cable.