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Then that feature wasn't made for you. They were made for players with kind of reaction.

Are... are the turboshaft blades turning the wrong way in that video?

Your pilot may be cool, but is he 'Aviators on the helmet'-cool? null

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You can, in fact, Sight Select the FCR in a non-FCR aircraft. The key thing is that the FCR is only available as a Sight Select AFTER receiving and accepting an RFHO message from another helo.

I was able to get him to do so. AH-64Laser.trk

Yes.

Keep in mind how the control authority changes though. In forward flight, the aircraft is basically one of these: Always wanting to turn into the wind (which, in forward flight at those speeds is a stiff 40+ knots). It will stabilize in that direction; it's why you can't exactly 'slide' right or left at 80 knots. As a result of that, in order to maintain deflection at speed, you're going to need the rotational force to maintain that sideways aspect. and the required force gets much, much more the faster you go. This is why the rudder seems to barely do anything at 100 knots; the amount of rotational force the tail rotor gives is the same, but the amount it needs to push back is much higher, so the deflection is less. This is not at all to say that the SCAS systems don't have issues in the yaw channel, I've seen it go plenty squirrelly myself. But the fact that the rudder suddenly seems to lose a significant amount of authority over the aircraft's turning capability at some critical range of speed isn't necessarily the flight systems, it's just largely the physics of the aircraft.

You might get a singular lase ranging blip in real life IF they use it, but that's wildly different from a laser beam that HAS to be on the entire time the missile is flying towards the target.

Except the fact that the TOW has an IR strobe on the back that the sensor on the launcher uses to steer the projectile. This means the only way the target knows is to either see the missile or have the missile miss, and the target sees the strobe. By contrast, a lot of (though not exclusively) the Soviet and successor stuff shoots a laser beam that the target (aiming it has the proper warning sensor) CAN detect and see, as the back of the missile itself basically has a laser interferometer to guide it on to the target. So while the practice of how to aim a SACLOS missile is consistent bergen the two types, the actual mechanism, including what something like a Hokum or Apache can pick up a a target, are very different.

Step 4.5, SSS Up to select the Maverick.

But can I buy a shirt without a module? I didn't see an option for that.

Just for clarity as an intended Steam purchaser- Are the shirts only available through a key purchase for ED's store?

Probably the best way to frame what it did (granted, DCS players may not necessarily adhere to this practice) is similar in some ways to JTAC. For a squad, the biggest ordinance they can carry might be a recoilless gun, or a 60mm mortar. But you give them a radio, suddenly it's like having a bunch of Mk82s in your back pocket. So in a way that the bombs on the jet are the JTAC's, the Kiowa can command the Apache's ordnance. So with a flight of 3 with typical loadouts, the Kiowa might not be thought to have 2 Hellfires, but 26 (2+8 from each other aircraft). Obviously, if they want to break off and do their own thing, you can't stop them, but scouting for targets and directing fires as the 'Hunter' part of 'Hunter-Killer' teams is absolutely what this aircraft is designed to do.

May 21st, 2024.

So, a couple things it has that the Apache doesn't- APKWS laser rockets, and Stinger missiles. While the Gazelle might have the Mistral, you can't load anything but those on the aircraft, while the kiowa has two mix and match pylons of two missiles each. Additionally (though more extreme), the OH-58D has its observation equipment above the cockpit, like the Gazelle, although much higher and above the rotor, allowing it to observe from cover, giving it surveillance and coordination capabilities beyond what we have. To your questions of working with friends, let's look at two points raised- 1) Laser Designator. Theoretically, you absolutely can do it as described where you lase for missiles the whole time. Alternatively, you can use the laser as a 'hey, look here', they use the LST, and then one on target, you slap their back and say 'go crazy'. 2) Talk on/Coords. You absolutely can do this, and I believe Kiowa supports MGRS (and Apache only supports 8digit MGRS input), so if you're very close together, you're looking at 2 letters and 6/8 numbers to hand off. With a good crew, it's not terribly difficult or time consuming to do. And finally- Both. By generating any target point(s) for them, they can turn them into an acquisition source to throw hellfires at in a high arc from behind cover, and then you lase the targets (also from behind cover), and you can engage units in the target zone without retaliation.

Only one player can control the aircraft at a time, and all the control inputs inside the the vehicle are repeated in the other stations (the controls themselves are animated to match the inputs, regardless of who's controlling the aircraft). You can request control of the aircraft, and the controls are handed off to the other player, while the controls of the first person who was initially controlling the aircraft no longer work (until the controls are handed back).

Or maybe just till next year, since people are all worked up expecting it to come out.

I think those expectations should have been set when wags said it would be coming in the 'may/june update'.

I suspect it will not be in tandem with the Kola release. However, to be fair, Wags did say May or June, implying late May/early June, which is in line with the 6-week update patch schedule. (Video Timestamped)

There's nothing stopping you from trying all of them safely even if it comes out on May 31st. Unless your wife and/or loan sharks are tracking your purchase history.

I guarantee you won't lose any more time preordering it and waiting, compared to waiting for it to drop and buying it then.

Because if the main delay they took more than a month to fix didn't exist, it'd presumably be released a month sooner than May.

YES! THAT!

I believe the C-Scope also displays the icons on the TADS, as well, but I'm not 100% certain on that.