Pavlin_33

One small remark here: this is true for a fixed angle-of-attack. In general lift is a combination of airspeed and AoA, meaning you can have same value of lift in both high and slow speed regimes of flight (and anything in between).

So increase/decrease in lift causes a pitching moment to develop?

Why is that?

While the plane in the video did not experience landing gear collapase, it was probably damaged beyond repair - my assumption. I've been flying Su-27 for more than 10 years now and I can hardly recall having my LG collapse.

I think so too. I honestly don't know how the mechanics of this work. It's probably being blasted at the same time like @AeriaGloria mentioned.

Alammo should home in on target reflections only in terminal phase of flight - 80% (I assime this is for max range). Rest of the way it's following M-link.

Any update on this? It's kind of a core feature for JF.

Thanks, I did not know this.

Sure, but this was neither TWS or RWS like the OP mentioned, and also it would be great to know if this particular encounter was a look-down and how fast was the helo flying. Nice find otherwise.

I guess you could crank untill the radar goes into memory mode (flashing HUD symbols)? Then you'd have 4 seconds to "uncrank" back to gimbals before loosing lock. Bull's eye navigation for FC3

Hi, that one does not really fall under fighters hunting down helos using A2A radar modes/missiles. Any specific RL example that we know of?

As I've mentioned earlier MP servers don't exist in a vaccum and there is a lot of pressure from online community towards mission designers and admins. I don't like it, but it is a fact of life. People want to be aces and shoot lasers, so that they can land on home plate for tea and medals. If the sim offered F-35 along with Su-57 (not that it's possible), this would make more sense. No one's gonna fly a target drone for shooting practise.

Is there any evidence of RL fighters actively engaging helicopters with their radars in a2a mode?

Flying RL combat aircraft is no fun, 'cause you could die and all that stuff. Flying a sim is, because we get to pretend to be flying the real stuff without any of the risks/constraints of the real world. I simply wanted to draw attention to the fact that any disparity in air-frames could affect the sim negatively, when it comes to multi-player bam-bam arena. I also don't know when this "no balance" argument became an integral part of the sim. LOMAC started as a perfectly balanced platform, but I guess this got lost somewhere along the way.

Problem of RL conflicts is that those nations that you have mentioned don't have "cojones" to attack anyone that can match them in air combat, so yeah F-35 vs "flying trash cans" is historically correct. This does not mean, however, that it's ok to have the same situation in a sim. Also stealth aircraft are not so stealthy to long wave radio emissions, and I am not sure that DCS takes this into account.