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Well maybe this will sound stupid, but what happens to me sometimes is that the "flight part" DCS program (green in windows taskbar) is not active when launched (doesn't have mouse focus, don't know how else to explain.) Alt escape, then reclick on DCS icon in taskbar solves this for me. Cheers, PLP

I feel that we are missing... DCS: Santa's sleigh. Although I'm not sure ED could pin the flight dynamics down with so much data that's still classified. And then accurate reindeer coolant temperature management would be hard for any simulator to achieve... Maybe if they made a deal with the North Pole DoD for a santa trainers contract? :music_whistling:

I agree with this! Plus you could have a map "extension" that is basically just an airbase far away from the actual map, take off, refuel, fly over, take photos, taunt Mig31s... That would be simply awesome. Osprey would definitely be cool too, and interesting to fly.

Simple question: which aircraft would you love to see, but know will not reallistically be done in the forseeable future? Let me start with 2 aircraft I'd sell my soul for: - DCS Hawker Tempest V Because it is (one of) the best single-engine prop fighters of the war, and it looks gorgeous and mean at the same time. Would be a perfect opponent for the Dora. Oh and did I mention the 3000hp 24-cylinder napier sabre engine? - DCS F9F Panther It's probably not an extraordinary plane per the flight characteristics, but the most beautiful plane the US Navy ever had IMHO. And I love the idea of carrier ops in general (just can't wait for DCS F/A-18). So go ahead, let the dreamer inside you free and tell us what exotic aircraft you would like in DCS!

Ok, got it, using scripting and mist. The two screenshots should be self-explanatory. Ship Group called "ship" and a Trigger zone called Z1 used as waypoint.

New Ship Group

Hadn't noticed it, tried it, only vehicule groups show up in the list :(. Thanks for the reply anyways.

Hi, I am making a mission on which you start on a ship (Huey on Normandy), and I noticed you don't stay put on the ship if it is moving (you slide). So I thought make the ship stationary, take off, then trigger the ship to move. Is there a way to do that without AI off? I still want it to be able to blow up stuff. It isn't that important, just if I am missing an easy option I would be happy to know.

Look forward to reading these :book::thumbup:. Slightly off-topic, I found Pierre Clostermann's the big show to be the best fighter pilot's account of WWII by far (read it in french - it is superbly well written.)

That is a good point; a back of the envelope calculation for aircraft prices (aircraftcompare.com) means that for 5 billion USD nowadays you get about: - 36 F-22 - 25 JSFs (@200mil. piece, debatable) - 74 F/A-18E - 71 Typhoons - 73 Rafales - 81 Saab Gripen - 106 F16s - 138 strike eagles - 250 A-10s - 185 Mig-29s - 156 Su-27UBKs - 76 Su-35s This is a very crude estimate (no fuel or maintenance costs, which would make these figures even more extreme.) Still I believe if you have 156 Su-27s or 73 Rafales operating from stretches of straight roads disseminated in the countryside you could wage a much more efficient air war than if you have 36 F-22s. The F-22s probably would have a hard time ensuring a 24-hour air patrol (except if you are covering the area of switzerland...). Plus if you take a head-to-head engagement between 30 F-22 and 150 sukhois, a number ratio of 5, the F-22s need a 62% missile success rate to shoot all sukhois down, but then would have no missiles left for bombers or whatever the sukhois were escorting, thus the risk of losing F-22s on the ground. In general, I get the feeling that we are in an analogous situation as just before vietnam, when military thinkers though the age of dogfights over and did not see the use for a cannon in a fighter. See how that turned out. Why should it bee so different now? As for totally autonomous drones, I do not think it is possible today to have a failsafe and efficient way of distinguishing friend and foe, meaning that some kind of targeting datalink will be needed.

But then again, a satellite is a very appealing target, isn't it? Probably not out of reach of a technologically capable country? Again - in the very unlikely (or so it seems right now) - case of a conflict between nations with substantial air forces. If you knock AWACS and satellites out, how capable is a modern air force? My basic point is that sometimes it seems to me that the Air forces are over-equipped for actual conflicts (where you basically need A-10s and a couple of F-16s for Sead/CAP maybe) but at the same time maybe not that well equipped for a determined and creative foe. Military forces in times of relative peace have a horrible track record when it comes to predicting what warfare will look like.

Hello all, Some things struck me while reading discussions about possible future conflicts here. It seems to me that people seem to neglect how conflicts are always chaotic. There seems to be this vision of a well-ordered battle between clearly identified blue and red forces going at it in good order that never seemed to have materialized in past conflicts AFAIK. Why would it be so different this time around? Everybody talks about drones and datalinks, but I never saw a discussion about the real threat of hacking (and/or jamming?) in this context, especially against an electronically capably enemy. IFF too could be meddled with, right? Also, again just for the sake of pitching wild ideas: it seems to me that all those Gen. 4 and above planes would be extremely vulnerable to a gamma-ray frequency EMP pulse - say from a H-bomb in the stratosphere. Wouldn't then an old school Mig21 have the advantage of still being functional? - Again just for the sake of a discussion, not saying this is going to happen. I am not pretending to be any kind of expert, I just would appreciate your thoughs on these subjects. My basic point is that air war in the future will probably be much less different and exotic as most people seem to think: why would I be wrong? Cheers, PLP

Su-27 passive EO systems alerting hostile Hi all, just one small issue that is a bit annoying for me. I noticed that the passive EO BVR (the "2" and then "O" keys) mode alerts a hostile of my presence - as if I appeared on its RWR. I attached a short track where we see an F16 engaging defensive as soon as I turn EO sensors on - that is unrealistic or am I missing something? On a side note, does anybody know how deep the electronic/missile warfare is modeled in DCS:W? Like jammer homing, burner IR signature and so forth? Cheers EO_spike.trk