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It looks like it would start like this: I quite liked this scheme when I drove past it Monday

FF Su-25A surely needed for CW Germany map...timewise,

Use the empty revetments for AAA ?

It should be, which implies the DCS FOV is 2x what it should be... Angle of view (photography) - Wikipedia

I thought the forward hemisphere thing was a first gen issue (like only working against 1 radar type at a time 7 that having to be set before takeoff) & that those SPS only had a single antenna at the front (while the modelled version has 2 & so works over a couple of bands/types - including the F4 the Iranians were flying). If ED model that the SPS does anything useful against MIM-23B HAWK sites even if that's only from the front quadrant & only below some altitude, that would still be a step forward. (Actually, even with the current poor modelling of ECM if E.D. made it you had to pick 2 radars it would jam from the loadout screen & it actually worked against those but only those that would be a better approach than just having it jam everything - or as currently - not jam anything.) I think (& I could be wrong), E.D. haven't included any default loadout for the Su-25 that includes an ECM pod, which - to me at least - suggests they know there's no point in loading one in game...

3 tracks of an Su-25 flying past an 'average' HAWK battery at the maximum range I could get a launch forcing no ECM use. SPS-141 loaded & options set to "ECM off", "ECM on when locked" & "ECM always on" but all get hit within 1m of the same location. ECM_Effectiveness.zip

Although the Hawk missile in DCS is labelled as a MIM-23B - & perhaps it's engagement zone, kinetics and warhead are correct for that missile, its ECM rejection plainly exceeds that of the MIM-23B. During the Iran-Iraq war (starting late 1980) it was found that the Russian ECM pods were very effective against the SAM HAWK / MIM-23B batteries - so much so that the US immediately started an improvement program that resulted in the "Improved ECCM MIM-23C/D" being developed. (The Iraqi's acknowledged significant losses to HAWK batteries but claimed no aircraft carrying SPS-141MVG pods were shot down until late in the war.) The MIM-23C entered service in 1982, most US units would have been using the MIM-23B until the mid/late 80's & other NATO countries probably longer (as an analogue, the MIM-23B was operational in 1971. All US units had converted to this standard by 1978). At the moment HAWK batteries appear to be completely immune to SPS-141MVG pods. For Cold war Germany - & for the Iraq map Iran-Iraq war scenarios - there should be a version of the MIM-23 that is susceptible to Russian ECM pods.

& how far away were the 2 sets taken from (if not the same, it's no comparison)

More than 1 Soviet livery would be useful.

I think you hit the wrong wish list thread. None of those were flying in Western Europe between 1944 and 1945 (that said - they are very cool things...)

? https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/afghanistan/images/ils_rwy_29.pdf

Maybe a bug, maybe a misunderstanding on my part. I bought the 'whole' map. If I look at the map of modelled regions on the FAQ, the map extends a little bit up over the northern border of Iraq: If I go to the mission editor I can't get the top part of the map to display all the way to the border. I play with the resolution at 2160 x 3840 - anyone else using that and able to get right to the top of the map (anyone playing 3840 x 2160 and able to get to the top of the map?)

Interesting!, Maybe for the region generally, but for the Iraq map? It's a long way from here and my history's not so good, but I thought Turkey sat the Iran-Iraq war out, were essentially uninvolved in Gulf War 1 and actively refused to be involved in Gulf War 2? I know they've struck Kurdish groups they designate terrorists in the area, but overall, I thought their involvement in Iraq had been pretty low? I'd have thought adding some more Iranian airbases would have added more to the utility of the map... 5 minutes of googling tells me that the following are all roughly the same distance or closer than Diyarbakir to Iraq and all saw action from day 1 of the Iran- Iraq war: Shiraz, Sanandaj, Ahvaz (where the Iran - Iraq war started), Kermanshah, Bushehr, Dezful No?

Like H4 airbase Syria - Google Maps

Stunning all-round. One small thing though: In the Hamburg vid there's some odd clipping of the container cranes that have their arms up at about 10-12 seconds in (the ones down are ok). At about 80 degrees to the aircraft, they just disappear...

I thought ED's helicopters had since the days of Black Shark 1

Was it ever paved (was it paved when the Soviets were there, or did they just use it unpaved too?) If it was paved when the Soviets were there, it should be paved: From the ED store description: Everyone using it as a Soviet era map has to live with the fact that the map is really modelling the times while the US & its allies were there, if the runway was paved when the Soviets were there this could be a nod to the fact that the 'war on terror' isn't the only war that's ever been fought there.

Can we have that fire as a user placeable object ?

North will still be North, which will still be up & down on the map in the game & the ME.

Maybe they should be a user addable static object (or a real unit with sensors) so people don’t have to have even more BlueFor objects on their Soviet bases than they already do

Just checked - there's one at Sharana

There is at least one already isn't there?

Working on the assumption that at some time there will be Winter textures for Afghanistan, could the textures cover the rivers and lakes with flat white - as either ice or snow - even if it's only a new surface texture for the water and they're actually still water as far as the sim is concerned? Ideally water above a certain altitude would become solid & white (perhaps gain a texture & a hitbox strong enough to become solid in practice?) but failing that at least looking solid would be better than dark rivers flowing through frozen landscapes. ("Ideal Plus" would be to simulate real life and let rivers be used as roads at altitude in the winter - but perhaps a bit too optimistic) Even without going to altitude in the mountains, Ghazni's daily average temp in Jan is -6℃ & < -2℃ Dec to Feb- so no water running down the streams there over winter... Salang pass in Winter

LOL Or better still - for those of us that use it as an 80's Soviet war map - don't

Everything else seems fairly self-explanatory - Nice MFD on the left, SatNav on the window but what's sticking out from the roof?