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TGP and NAVFLIR night test.

Prowler's AV-8B N/A latest test flight (Yes that's an LHA):

Still working on the TGP. I'm going slower than expected because I am learning how to manage the LITENING. Two screenshots of the latest test. The left MPCD is displaying a generic camera that is looking forward with no Zoom. The right MPCD, with the legend VIDEO RIGHT, is displaying the TGP camera with Zoom factor 6 and Zoom factor 0. You can see the difference in resolution with the generic camera in the left MpCD.

Thanks for the comment. I'll send it to the mission designer, who is not Baltic_Dragon.

That is a good question and the answer is: we don't know. There is no public documentation about the RDI radar available. This functionality is not implemented.

The only pump that needs to be turning off after the engine is working is the starter pump. That pump is controlled by the switch that is clicked left when you open the DEM button cover. You only need to click it to the other way. Leave the other pump switches in their M (On) position since they are the booster pumps. Switching them Off will trigger a Master Caution warning.

This is a bug that is hard to replicate. Not even ED managed to do that and this is why we cannot find a solution for this. The only workaround is to change the controls while flying a mission.

One minor correction for the M-2000 DDM (Missile Launch Detector). The sensor is installed in the D (ground attack) version used by the AdA (French Air Force). It is not used in the C, because the M-2000 DDM sensors have a limited view zone and they are used to detect MANPADs. Thus only aircraft that will flow close to the ground will require it. The C is an interceptor with secondary Air-to-Ground capabilities, so the AdA never saw the need to install the DDM in them since they will never send Cs to go flying nape of the earth to attack a ground target. We decided to include them because we know that many are using the M-2000C as a strike aircraft and in that role the DDM does make sense. The great flame war happened because many thought that the DDM can be used in an Air-to-Air engagement. But it really has a limited capability in that role because: a. It has a huge blind spot in the rear b. It cannot "see" missile launches from above. But in order to accommodate everybody we made it optional to mount the DDM in the M-2000C.

Of course you will get the TAD.

A-7 engines live on the edge. You can over-rev them quite easily and thus risking engine failure due to high temps. The A-7 NATOPS indicate all the Dos and Don'ts of engine handling. You always have to watch engine RPM and temp. The A-7 has its own AOA problems but not due to engine but to wings. In short at high AOA the wings act like a huge airbrake so it can easily enter into a stall. That is why on take-off it was recommended not to exceed 10º pitch up. Also from your link: 9 crashes due to engine failure in 1969 alone.

The problem was not in getting video, that was easy- The problem was in making the camera behave as it should.

It took me a week but at last I managed to make these work: FLIR White Hot and Black Hot modes. A usual with these problems it was just one tiny number the root of all my problems.

It shows the TDC's position in relation to the BE.

You click on the N switch in the VTB. It changes the bullseye wp up or down. BE 0 is the aircraft.

Folks, it is something that we cannot control since the problem is inside DCS. Like you we have to wait for the fix to arrive.

In TWS the radar does not change its RF emissions because it is still in search mode. The only difference is that it is internally tracking a single contact from all the others. When you change to STT (Single Target Track) in order to guide weapons, the radar RF emissions change. It is this change in the RF that a RWR detects and then sounds the alarm indicating that a radar had gone from search mode (suspicious but not threatening) to track mode (very dangerous). This is the reason why the new batch of active homing missiles do not need STT. They can be launched while the radar is in TWS so they don't give an early warning to the enemy. Of course they are detected as soon as they turn on their own radars, but that is another issue altogether.

Fair enough. I'm learning something new. :smartass: I don't recall where I read that bit about Super Cobras and the Sidearm in Desert Storm. And you are right,the articles don't say when and where it was used operationally, if it was, but all of them say "expended".

Still working on the cameras controls. This is a CCD video test. Final result will be different.

That's for ED to decide. If they can make the FARPs store supplies then why not?

A snipet from the Keyboard input default.lua: :smartass: -- Left MPCD {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB1 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB1_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 01'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB2 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB2_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 02'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB3 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB3_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 03'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB4 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB4_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 04'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB5 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB5_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 05'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB6 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB6_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 06'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB7 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB7_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 07'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB8 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB8_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 08'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB9 , up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB9_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 09'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB10, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB10_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 10'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB11, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB11_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 11'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB12, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB12_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 12'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB13, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB13_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 13'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB14, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB14_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 14'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB15, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB15_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 15'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB16, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB16_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 16'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB17, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB17_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 17'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB18, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB18_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 18'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB19, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB19_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 19'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, {down = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB20, up = iCommandPlaneLeftMFD_OSB20_Off, name = _('Left MPCD OSB 20'), category = _('Left MPCD')}, How the buttons are numbered in the AV-8B N/A MPCDs

Last known location. If the set is mobile they will move it after shutting it down. Even 20 meters to one side will do the trick.

I cannot find the article but I read somewhere that the Soviets copied the AGM-122 idea by converting R-27Rs. No idea how many and if they are in use today. For a long time Soviet AA doctrine was to have both versions of the same missile, IR and SARH, and to fire both at the same target. The idea was that either one or the other would hit the target. It was a time when the technology was fairly new and the systems were very unreliable. Unlike today when the systems have matured and are highly reliable.

I've heard that it was used in Desert Storm by USMC Super Cobras. Anyway, the AGM-122 was not renewed because by that time the US navy was interested in the Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM). That program was also cancelled. For some time there was talk of fitting an anti-radiation seeker into Hellfire missiles but that too came to nothing. Original production run for AGM-122s was for 5,000 missiles of which only 818 were built from AIM-9C stocks. There was even interest from Italy, Spain and Greece for purchase of the system. The AGM-122B would have used AIM-9Ls and they would have better electronics integration including a cockpit panel for the pilot to switch seeker capabilities. So in this case, like in many others, it was the better killing the good and in the end getting nothing. BTW, all literature I've read says "expended" as in they were used for their intended function: killing enemy air defense radars, specially Shilkas and Geckos. How many were fired in action vs training is not specified.

That's funny because unlike the Shrike the Harm can memorize the last known location of the locked emitter.

They were used since all missiles were expended and no new ones built.