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I don't suppose there is any way to mute the electric hum from the batteries? (I mean, other than turning them off :P)

There is no such thing in the manual. In fact it actually mentions that you can launch Vikhrs in pairs. If you are referring to the laser cooldown, that is not what's happening in my case. The laser is still active and does not require cooldown yet.

Is this a bug, or something I don't understand? Once I have launched a Vikhr, and it has impacted on a target, I then lock on the next target, but I cannot launch another vikhr for maybe another 5 seconds.

If your reaction is really bad like you say, go see a doctor. :)

Are you allergic to latex? You'd know if you were, many rubber products contain latex. I do not know, but the joystick might have latex in its rubber, too. However if you are not allergic to latex, then maybe it's not the joystick you are reacting to, but something else?

I tried the same mission again, but this time made liberal use of the F10 map to view the location of enemies in relation to terrain. That really helped a lot. I was able to use the Shkval to scan the terrain in the area where the enemy should be and was able to spot them without too much difficulty. I'm just wondering if that's kind of cheating.

Is there a counter in the cockpit for the number of flares/chaff remaining?

Ok, so then what if I did something like this instead: I would imagine the area with known enemies as a red circle, and a do not cross line before it. And then just fly a lazy figure 8 while trying to spot enemies from the side of the window. Take out what I spot on the edges first and slowly move in further and further? The gimbal limits of the Shkval wouldn't allow for it to be used in such a scenario to help with spotting targets though. Although, is the Shkval even intended to assist with target spotting? Or only to acquire the target once the general area of the target is known?

Well then why is it that in all videos I see on youtube, whenever someone has been fired on by a radar sam, they drop flares?

I used the mission editor to generate an easy mission for my Su-25T the other day. It created a few groups of tanks, artillery, apcs and trucks, interspersed with a few short range AA defenses (mostly IR). So, knowing where the enemy should be, I confidently climbed into the cockpit and, being forewarned of the IR missile threat, I climbed to 5km, approached the target area and tried to spot the targets. Mmyeah... the Su-25T seems to severely lack sufficient sensors for this task, or maybe it's like this for all aircraft? Even knowing where the enemy should be, it still took a lot of squinting to discern the small little black dots agains the terrain. I dived in for a rocket run and promptly received an IR missile from a Linebacker up my tail pipe. So yeah, the lesson there was that was a really dumbass way to fly a mission :doh: Does anyone have some tips on how such missions should be conducted? I really have no clue...

Sorry, I can't help you with your problem, but I wanted to point you to this youtube channel that has many official tutorial videos, of much better quality than what is provided in-game. Maybe they can help you as a substitute. http://www.youtube.com/user/eagledcs

Uhm, is what you're doing here legal? The soundtrack for DCS:W is one thing, since the game is free to download, although if you are benefiting from hosting it on your website through advertisement that's very questionable. But the sound track from the paid P-51 module? That's a big no no.

Alright, you have a pretty good point about it being designed to penetrate rather than spread out explosive power over the surface. And I didn't realize 500kg was the weight of the bomb, and not necessarily the warhead payload. That makes sense now. So then if I were to drop a FAB-500 on that tank instead, then another tank 5m from it should be smashed as well, then?

So, just for the heck of it, I dropped a KAB-500Kr bomb on a T-72B from my Su-25T the other day. Within 5m of that tank, was another T-72B. The bomb only destroyed the tank that it directly landed on. The other tank was seemingly untouched. Now this is a 500kg warhead bomb. Designed to take out reinforced bunkers. You'd think it would be packing quite a large explosion radius, no? At least it should take out someting sitting 5m from its impact point?

But don't some missiles have both IR and Radar tracking? I think especially those carried by fighters? Or do those not exist in DCS?

I asked a mod about this the other day. They said to post Su-25T discussions directly into the DCS World forum.

I can't tell very well from inside the cockpit, when looking at my wingtips, what my nav lights are set to when it's light outside. So I looked all over the cockpit while pressing the keybind for the nav lights to see if any switches will start flipping, but haven't been able to spot any. Is there a switch that visibly changes state for the nav lights?

You are my man! That way works very well! Thank you :)

I wanted to assign flaps positions to Rotary 1, so I set it to "bends" where 0% - 33% is one "button", 33% - 67% is another "button, and 67% - 100% is a third "button". The problem though is that it sends a button signal constantly when the rotary knob is at this position. So for example if it's sitting to the far left, at 0%, and if I had assigned it the button "f", then it just keeps sending the button signal for "F" like this - FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF etc, constantly. Obviously that's not what I wanted. I wanted something like, if the knob reaches this position (33% or lower position, for example), then send the button F signal ONCE. Just once. Anyone know if that is possible? Or has anyone actually found any use for these two rotary knobs on the throttle? I can't think of any axis to assign them to, and I can't seem to use them as buttons either :(

Wait, what? How do you do that? Only ALT, CTRL and SHIFT keys come up for me as modifiers. And although the pinkie is registered as a joystick key by DCS, neither the rotary knob doesn't elicit any response, so I'm guessing it's not being read.

In terms of capability (not in terms of the module capability, but the aircraft itself), it seems to me like the 25T has all the capability of the 25, but with much more. Better avionics and targetting, an epxanded armament possibility. Heck, the in-game tutorials for it even have it flying SEAD, even though I haven't found any mention of that on wikipedia. It was a prototype aircraft, so I guess ED took some "artistic liberty"? Anyway, so is this the case? Does the Su-25T does everything that the Su-25 can, and does it better? And can do more things besides? Is there anything that the Su-25 excells in over the 25T? (Apart from the slight difference in weight and agility).

Out of the air defenses that we have available in DCS, which are considered to be "too modern" for the Su-25 to handle?

I can punch in any kind of scenario in the mission editor and go have fun with the crazy bird, but I was wondering, what are real practical applications of the Su-25? From some videos and user-made missions I've seen, it's mostly a one-target, one-pass thing. You load up with bombs or rockets, make a single pass on the target, then go home. How and what was the Su-25 used for in real world scenarios?

Quick question - when I do a 360 degree roll, I always end up with the nose pitched down at the end of it. Is there a way to make a roll that will end with the same pitch as I started with?

I use the mission editor for that. One single airplane group for myself, plus a bunch of enemy vehicle groups for target practice. The place discussed is 5km East of Krymsk. You could just take off from that airport if you wanted to.