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You mean the whole mounting rail comes off with it then? Leaving just the small fin of the hard point left on the wing? Or does the fin come off too, leaving the wing completely "clean"?

Noted!

Bump for great justice. I play almost exclusively MP and I can't do much of anything useful with the MiG in any kind of reasonable threat environment without the SPS-141.

I'll take a stab at translation. I think by the word "User" he means an actual pilot? If the Tac Drop switch is Safe, you can't just pickle the bombs anyway. Only emergency jettison will make the bomb leave the rail in that config. I also believe he is specifying that you can't just jettison an AA missile. You have to activate the engine to make it leave the rail, so, like the vikhrs in the Ka-50, the emergency jettison will result in an unguided ballistic launch.

I tried it, and ended up just dumping it and going back to zero curves.

So, ejected, and was watching my recently departed aircraft head straight for the ground, nearly nose first, probably going somewhere around 700kph... Then it bounces off the ground in one piece, then a few more times, before coming to rest as a whole aircraft. Apparently the damage modeling is not being applied once you eject. No biggie but got some laughs out of me. The damage model appeared to work fine as long as I was actually in and flying the aircraft.

The day is nearly upon us. Well done.

Argh. They slaughtered the ID's on that site. The two outside birds are A's. Mid-left is a C, and mid-right is a B.

Were they pics of Nellis at one point? Because all I see are two pics of Creech.

Tonopah Test Range. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonopah_Test_Range_Airport

A few UAVs fit that shape, Phantom Ray being one.

Are there any plans to include TTR at a later time?

Been going to 104th again after a while, and the server will be full (20+) and only one or two souls on the TS.

If you know Spey, you know Boyd, and then you know where they're coming from, and from that perspective, what he's saying makes a certain kind of sense. The problem is, those views are 30 years old.

To expect anything even approaching scientific discussion is a pipe dream. Not even real intelligence analysts work with data that good.

Also look at this from a game designer perspective. You're expanding exponentially a system that's already there, and heavily interacts with another (AI) that will need to be revamped to interface properly. If something fails in this new system, it can completely break the game. You're adding another level of complexity for the development team to track. You also have to iron out the interaction between FC3 and DCS level aircraft. On top of this, you're adding another level of complexity onto the players, requiring them to support a system that requires a fair amount of coordination(MP)/documentation(SP) and interaction to use correctly, and if the players get it wrong, it could potentially break entire missions/MP sessions. Compare this now to the benefit that players are going to receive from having such a system implemented. Is it still worth it after all that to develop the system when what is in place now, although simplified heavily, works?

And the Su-25 has iiiiiiity bitty legs.

Thanks for sharing the insights Wags!

You can just recreate the shortcut on the desktop from the updater, right-click it to edit it and add "update" to the Target line so it looks like so: "C:\Program Files\Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\bin\DCS_updater.exe" update and it will force an update check cycle when you run it.

Is there -any- sort of tutorial on creating air defense groups that work together or does that capability no exist yet? I know a F4-style IADS is out of the question right now, but how close can we get?

This is not a RP element. This is a ranking system. Wouldn't mind seeing tools to allow server admins to set this sort of thing, but it would require a lot of work in the mission editor to get the underlying code infrastructure for it.

Are the batteries grouped properly? If they're not grouped, they act as stand alone and will exhibit the behavior you're seeing. The Chaparral and Avenger are stand-alone units so they'll attack as soon as their engagement logic tells them to.

Huey n00b here. Watched "We Were Soldiers" and just had to finally buy it. Good gravy is this thing a beast... RIDE THAT SUCKER! *WHIP CRACK*

Check your shirt too. I live in Vegas so it's f-ing hot, and wearing those dry-fit clothes. Both Reebok and C9 have these obnoxiously reflective logos on them. Took me a while to figure out that's what was causing my wig outs.