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Thanks. It worked.

It is an EFM, otherwise we wouldn't have vectorial thrust.

Play nice. I've been tempted to close this thread because I feel it is devolving into a catfight about IR detection. My view on this issue: The "false targets" are a bug and not a feature. The manual explains the issue and how to mitigate it by using filters and the like but in the end it says that they cannot be 100% discarded and thus the pilot must live with them. This is the same issue with AG radars and ground clutter, the difference is that radars have doppler filtering to keep false targets under control. The USMC wants the "God Mode" NAVFLIR hotspot. Now, to the simulation problem. As I said, only active vehicles can be detected by the HS detector. Trying to interrogate the environment in front of the aircraft consume too much computer resources. This is the same problem why AG radar is such a headache. We hit this problem when we were developing the M-2000C Air-to-Ground radar ranging. Even with a high-end computer the FPS could drop to single digits unexpectedly, specially when DCS was redrawing the scenery. I don't like the random spots solution. If they are random, I cannot control where they are going to be displayed and some could be displayed in the air, which is a big no. Quite likely the 1st iteration of the hot spot detector will work with active vehicles only. Remember that this is what the pilots of the real aircraft want: no false targets at all. We will look for a technical solution that can create at least some "false targets" but that will take some time. I have some ideas but I have not shared them with ED and I won't until the time to develop the hot spot detector is at hand.

I would, if I knew how. The pocket guide is made on word with dynamic linking and then "printed" into a PDF file, but the links do not carry over. :cry:

The aircraft can be flown in all available DCS versions.

That will require terrain interrigation, which is something we don't want to do.

It was going to be a "Here's the aircraft. These are the instruments. Here are the controls." But, it is a fairly complex aircraft, specially with the nozzles controls and it took a life of its own.

It is calculated on the spot by the pilot based on aircraft weight.

Just a heads-up. ED is working on the sounder. We expect that AV-8B NA's specific engine sounds to be available by next week.

Indeed, by loading the TPOD in a wing station you also lose the other wing station because you have to load a GBU-12, that won't be used, as a counterweight.

These will be fixed in due time. We have so many thinks to check and review that small stuff like the tanks fins get pushed to the back of the TO-DO list.

MS Word error. Fixed. New update is available folks.

It will be released in the last days of November.

Just an error. The missile will be available on day one.

There is a "runway unavailable" timer in DCS that indicates that the runway cannot be used for a while. It is assumed that the runway is repaired after the timer runs out.

Not despised just obsolete although still very effective, but from what I have read there is a high percentage of MK-20s that are misreleased and thus the bomblets either do no deploy or the covered area is quite small. It seems that cluster bomb release is more an art than a science.

Not necessarily. 10 is the max number that can be displayed. If you have more than 10 vehicles, only 10 will be shown. If you have less than 10, for example 4, only those will be displayed (4 "V"s in the example).

Since the Intrepid Tiger II is a current heavily classified system, we do not know what its current capabilities are. We do know that the USMC wants it to be a full spectrum jammer so they can retire their EA-6B fleet. The IT II is being fielded as we speak. The USMC requested the upgrade in 2013 and now we are in 2017. It is possible that now they have their full spectrum jammer pod. Specially since it seems all it requires is a software upgrade.

Doubtful, and if it can then it is a classified feature, meaning we do not know its capabilities.

The Harrier main cluster munition is the CBU-97 with GATOR mines. This weapon does not exist in DCS so we only included the MK-20 Rockeye.

Nothing. They are not rated to use HARMs. Instead they are now using advanced ECM pods. The latest one is the AN/ALQ-231 Intrepid Tiger II, that has evolved from a communications jammer to a full spectrum jammer (radar and radio). In this way it can provide the same ECM coverage of an EA-6B Prowler. https://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/aircraft/systems/an-alq-231.htm

The reason why the increased IR sensitivity for the hot spot detector is not possible to simulate: 1. There are no true hot spots in-game. 2. To check for a hot spot the sensor would have to interrogate everything in its FOV (Field-Of-View), both terrain and objects. 3. This interrogation would take too many computer cycles and will severely hit DCS overall performance, not only on FPS but on everything else and it may even bring down DCS by grabbing all computer resources on mid or low end computers. 4. It is easier to just interrogate the active vehicles list to see if the vehicle is within the sensor's FOV. I talked at length with ED's development team about the hot spot detector. I even proposed to have it also get buildings and some scenery vehicles, but they said that the problem is to do that they would have to go back to interrogate the entire environment again. DCS does not have a scenery list. It does have an "Active Vehicles" list, because those are under DCS and player control, and only active vehicles have the "heat" value that can be used for it. So, in order to create false positives, which are not that difficult to discern anyway, both ED and us must find a way that does not impact DCS performance. The hot-spot detector can only show up to 10 spots on the HUD or MPCD. What the false positives do is fill these 10 slots making possible for you to miss a real target that could not be displayed because the slots were all full. This video shows the hot-spot detector in action. The "V"s are spot with a higher temperature than the surrounding area.

One of the available documents indicate possible weapons loads, which does not means authorized weapons load. So it is poasible to load 12 GBUs but it is unlikely such load is authorized.

Vol 3 is Classified.

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