SwingKid

Is HAWK still in service somewhere? For someone with Google Earth installed on their computer, it would probably be illustrative to study the numerous SAM sites already identified: http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=modEarthMilitary&Number=406094&page=1&fpart=1 http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Cat=0&Board=modEarthMilitary&Number=373189&page=1&fpart=1 Posted before, but since no one mentioned it here..

On the contrary, it's business-as-usual that the message was ignored. If no one was interested in a new theme, it means they liked the old one. Anyway, no point arguing now. The solution is final. -SK

Well, if it isn't too far off-topic, I have a Russian language eyewitness claim that the S-300 hits targets farther than the officially-claimed 47 km (which itself appears to match the Wikipedia claim), and that the claimed 47 km performance was never revised upwards for subjective/political reasons. For whatever it's worth... -SK

Does this logic also prove the foolishness of lofted AMRAAMs and HARMs? -SK

Do you mean to imply that the low-altitude range of these SAMs is limited kinematically, rather than by the radar horizon? There seem to be quite a number of mast-mounted S-300 radars that would suggest otherwise... -SK

With all due respect to the community, I'm not being judged. That's already been done for you. I'm asking the questions. You can take over any time. -SK

Thanks for the reply, but what does any of that have to do with the topic of a dynamic campaign? -SK

This is not cool. EvilBivol-1 dreamed of being a mediator between the Russian and English communities at ED. He is now discovering - to his distaste - that he is, rather, something else. But he gave his word to cooperate, so the locking and deleting of law-abiding threads must continue, instead of the international discussion he imagined. Do you know what it's like to be betrayed by people who don't care? I do. I know exactly what's happening to him inside. Think of the scene in "Return of the Jedi", where Darth Vader is watching his master, the Emperor, kill his only son. Evilbivol-1. There is still good in you. :) We know it to be true. Save this message for him and send to him by PM. This topic will be deleted as soon as it's morning in the US. Maybe I'll be gone, too. I want him to know, I always believed in him. -SK

How does ED plan to approach the development of a dynamic campaign in the future - by developing their own, by supporting third-party modders, or there are no plans for such a feature? Is the DCS system of events and triggers, for example, intended to make it easier for automatic generation of missions? Or, will it mainly be up to the human mission designer to do even more work in the future, than in the past? -SK

How is that a "no?" It appears to me to be the same as what I wrote. -SK

I'm not sure. However, I've never seen it "explained it the past" for the Su-25T individually. I'm asking for a public clarification of exactly that. Yes, thanks. I still think that some of the new airbases like Mineralnye Vody were included with the intention of being used by jets, not by helos - given their distance from the state borders. -SK

Even when compared to the other Lock On aircraft, it seems like an appropriate candidate: - can bomb bridges and other targets that the Ka-50 can't handle on its own - can be used on both teams for multiplayer competition (Russia & Georgia) - AFM and damage model already finished - property rights exclusive to ED, not owned by UbiSoft - has the flying range to actually use the new airbases added to the DCS map - has an RWR/ARMs, allowing SAMs/AAA to appear in missions without overwhelming players The only thing it seems to lack is a 6DOF cockpit - does ED really think that makes it worth getting rid of multiplayer competition altogether? That would imply that non-TrackIR4 users are not in the target market for the DCS product line. Besides, recent screenshots have shown how quickly the AH-64A and A-10A cockpits could be thrown together - long before the Ka-50 is finished itself. The cockpit designers obviously have too much time on their hands if they're that far ahead. What's the issue? -SK

Indeed - the fact that you have nothing more to say means it's about time to lock this thread, don't you think? It annoys me that posts continue while I'm at work.. Doesn't it annoy you too? -SK

Indeed. I still haven't seen ED or Carl Norman apologize to Pierre "Papadoc" Legrand, when he was kicked off of the beta team for protesting against Flanker 2.0, and was later proved correct. Do you remember that? Did you like that, too? Like re-using the Shkval from the Su-25T? Please. -SK

I'm sorry to tell you this, but "WAFM" for AAMs was already tried for Flaming Cliffs - and failed. It was more complicated than expected, and proved simply too hard for ED to do. Some beta testers apparently don't realize this, and continue to speak about "WAFM for fighters" as if it's something still coming in the future - but nobody hears about it from ED programmers anymore. There are no plans for WAFM beyond air-to-ground weapons - only wishes and hopes, like the fighters themselves. So, if WAFM is what's really important, then ED has chosen the right direction, because only A2G can have it! I am arguing because I think the right direction is a dynamic campaign, and DCS is going head-first in the opposite direction from that. -SK

Realistically - what do you think ED can produce in three years, anyway, that they have not been able to produce in eight? I think ED should be making jet products for their own benefit, not for ours. It's much simpler, and they have some experience. -SK

Ooh, big words. I suppose someone would be getting their money at the end of "forever?" How will Black Shark be "good" for rotorheads without a dynamic campaign? It's not like you can stick them all in Hyperlobby and let them fight each other the way we're treated - they depend on a DC even more than we do. The starvation will continue. -SK

Good post. Does this imply that we'd still to be flying in the Caucasus after so many years? Neither Syria nor China have fixed-wing "CAS aircraft for the Russian side." The best time for the Su-25 is now. -SK

Hey tacit_blue, do you know where I could get schematic drawings of such aircraft as E-3, RC- and KC-135? -SK

Thanks. I'm glad I didn't have to read through that whole forum myself to find THAT. No comment. -SK

That's good. You can be our spy in the DCS forums then, since you're the only one there with any common sense. Has anyone asked how the two-seat cockpit of the AH-64A is presumably supposed to work yet? -SK

It's a texture mod. It should work with Merzifon. -SK

I don't know.. signal to noise ratio seems to have gone up around here, I didn't notice that at the Ubi forum. (i.e. I post a higher percentage of the remaining posts now :) ) -SK

One of the problems with the R-77 was that, desperate for cash, the Ukrainians had already sold it for pennies to the US by the time it was passing tests in Russia. This, together with other factors (e.g. the per-unit manufacturing costs when you have only 16 aircraft that can carry it) made it an extremely unattractive missile for Russia to purchase. I don't know what "official press release" AirTito is talking about (I'd be unwilling to believe one from Russia anyway), but ED team members have spoken to people from Vympel who confirmed that after the testing, R-77 orders in Russia were practically zero. The few examples that continued to be produced were only for continued development of the "all-Russian" RVV-AE, with which the R-77 is often confused. The RVV-AE appears to be more promising, but it was developed for export customers, and finished testing only recently. With the continuing instability in Ukraine, a Russian-made RVV-AE would make a better choice for the Russian Air Force, except that after 15 years, Russia seems to have proven to its decision-makers that it has no need for AAMs, when it can simply shut off the pipelines. Thus, Vympel continues to receive no orders. -SK

Hmm, an aircraft that already has the AFM and damage model done, is the most realistic and appropriate to the Black Shark concept, theater and airbases, works well in teams with the Ka-50 and could be used by both antagonists to achieve immediate and balanced multiplayer competition, all with minimal time, cost and effort. Maybe after the flyable An-26. :megalol: -SK