drPhibes

Check the "Planned F-16C Systems and Payloads" post.

Actually, all the navaids at Khasab in the sim are fictional, since there is no ILS there IRL, and there is no way you could install one with the geography of the area. The valley is way too narrow for there to be any chance of getting a usable localizer signal beyond the immidiate area around the airport.

That's incorrect. The TACAN specifications are publicly available, and have been so for decades. Although MOOG Inc. in Utah is probably the largest supplier of TACANs for the US and their allies, there is actuallt a TACAN manufacturer located in China (PRC, not TW). Several of the countries around the Persian Gulf (including Iran) have TACANs at their non-NATO airbases. Does Khasab have a TACAN IRL? I don't know (I haven't found a public AIP for Oman yet, and airbases are often not included in these anyway), but there is no reason why they couldn't, being an ally of the US. The current beacons.lua for the PG map is bugged, as documented in several other bug reports. If you want the TACAN back, and don't feel like waiting for ED to fix it, add the following to your beacons.lua file (note that it'll probably not be playable at servers that enforce the integrity check): { display_name = _('Khasab'); beaconId = 'airfield10_2'; type = BEACON_TYPE_TACAN; callsign = 'KSB'; frequency = 113700000.000000; channel = 84; position = { 667.781860, 15.763658, -91.611923 }; direction = 88.473189; positionGeo = { latitude = 26.177844, longitude = 56.240980 }; sceneObjects = {'t:-1265041393'}; };

Ah, the good old Erdnagel :) In retrospect, using an interceptor with marginal wing area and poor low-speed handling as a fighter-bomber probably wasn't the best idea. Here in Norway we used the 104 for the only task it was suited for; taking pictures of Tu-16 and 95s over international waters.

The T-45 doesn't have a radar. Some T-45s have the VMTS (virtual mission training system), which emulates the function of the APG-73, but there is no actual transmitter or receiver.

You'll need a time machine for that. The company McDonnell Douglas no longer exists, and hasn't done so for almost 23 years.

https://nb.lmgtfy.com/?q=IIRC

How is "This weekend only we are offering the F-15C Eagle and Su-27 Flanker for DCS World to fly for free, both on our e-shop and on Steam. " and "make sure to take advantage of the free weekend 6th to 9th March." confusing?

Because that's where all new modules live until they get their own forum section. Case in point, the Mi-24, and previously the F-16 and F/A-18.

Version 2.5.6.43931 OB The following ILS frequencies are invalid: Bandar Abbas: 333.8 MHz is a glide path/slope frequency. The corresponding localizer frequency is 109.9 MHz. The affected beacons.lua entry: { display_name = _(''); beaconId = 'airfield2_2'; type = BEACON_TYPE_ILS_LOCALIZER; callsign = 'IBND'; frequency = 333800000.000000;[color=Red] -- should be 109900000.000000[/color] position = { 113693.740992, 5.776140, 13154.132035 }; direction = 28.001016; positionGeo = { latitude = 27.198930, longitude = 56.367921 }; sceneObjects = {'t:200310893'}; chartOffsetX = 4544.000000; }; Al Dhafra 31R: 111.2 MHz is a VOR frequency. The channel number in the lua (48 ) = a LOC frequency of 111.1 MHz. { display_name = _(''); beaconId = 'airfield4_0'; type = BEACON_TYPE_ILS_GLIDESLOPE; callsign = 'MMA'; frequency = 111200000.000000; [color=Red] -- should be [/color][color=Red][color=red]111100000[/color].000000[/color] channel = 48; position = { -211760.781250, 16.000016, -172123.562500 }; direction = -142.178420; positionGeo = { latitude = 24.241850, longitude = 54.558813 }; sceneObjects = {'t:341737472'}; }; { display_name = _(''); beaconId = 'airfield4_4'; type = BEACON_TYPE_ILS_LOCALIZER; callsign = 'MMA'; frequency = 111200000.000000; [color=red]-- should be 111100000.000000[/color] channel = 48; position = { -209686.093750, 16.000016, -174966.953125 }; direction = 127.900006; positionGeo = { latitude = 24.260120, longitude = 54.530469 }; sceneObjects = {'t:149389626'}; chartOffsetX = 4320.000000; }; Al Dhafra 13L: 114.9 MHz is a VOR frequency. Channel number 28 = 109.1 MHz LOC. { display_name = _(''); beaconId = 'airfield4_2'; type = BEACON_TYPE_ILS_GLIDESLOPE; callsign = 'IMA'; frequency = 114900000.000000; [color=red]-- should be 109100000.000000;[/color] channel = 28; position = { -210016.343750, 16.000016, -174357.843750 }; direction = -53.051655; positionGeo = { latitude = 24.257237, longitude = 54.536522 }; sceneObjects = {'t:343310338'}; }; { display_name = _(''); beaconId = 'airfield4_7'; type = BEACON_TYPE_ILS_LOCALIZER; callsign = 'IMA'; frequency = 114900000.000000; [color=red]-- should be 109100000.000000;[/color] channel = 28; position = { -212361.453125, 16.000016, -171526.843750 }; direction = -52.100001; positionGeo = { latitude = 24.236524, longitude = 54.564789 }; sceneObjects = {'t:149422500'}; chartOffsetX = 4310.000000; };

Neither of which is a valid ILS frequency, so there's definitely something wrong there.

111.2 MHz is a VOR / VDB frequency.

The 117 is on hold according to their facebook page.

You can't spoof P(Y) code receivers. However, jamming does work (and would be an interesting EW feature in the sim).

F16 carrier ops makes just about as much sense as F-14 lunar ops.

Someone should tell the guys that control the volcanoes (whoever that may be; perhaps it's the t-rex riding nazis that live with the lizard people inside the hollow flat earth?) that they have been using magma the wrong way for all these years...

While Antonov's An74 famously uses the coandă effect for additional lift, Subs' revolutionary technology will be the first type of spacecraft propulsion based purely on the Dunning-Kruger effect.

Using Pu239 actually makes this idea even dumber. I didn't see that coming...

Prayers and fairy dust keeps it from melting. Don't you know anything about nuclear physics?

Just paste the video ID (in this case 2vLKSmFKbKA) between the [ youtube] [/ youtube] brackets. Not the complete URL.

No. No. The half-life of plutonium (Pu-238 ) is approximately 88 years (source). Regardless on how we interpret your nonsensical term "52 Trillion zeros in years" (either 52 trillion years, or 52*10^100000000000), 88 is less. If you start out with 1 kg of Pu-238 you will have 500g after 88 years. And 250g after 176 years. After 875 years, there will be 1g left. Sorry to say so, but youtube university and a 100% reality-free diet will not get you the Nobel Prize in Physics.

According to this picture form the Northrop Grumman press archives, the ECU is detatchable, and the mounting bolt pattern looks pretty symmetrical, so perhaps it's possible to flip the ECU?

Nuclear thermal rocket engines use (or to be more precise; used, since all experiments with these ended decades ago) fission reactors to generate heat, which they, in layman's terms, do quite well. Radioisotopes do not. They are fine for powering RTGs in Soviet lighthouses, deep-space probes or NASA's latest Mars rovers, but they provide nowhere near enough thermal energy for the proposed use.

Some interesting aspects: 52 Trillion zeros = 0, just with unnecessarily many digits. Plutonium, cobalt and barium melt (and boil!) at temperatures considerably lower than 4000°C. Turning 1kg of water at 100°C into 1kg of steam at 100°C requires 2256kJ of energy, so if you want to vaporize 1kg of water every second, you need 2,256MW of thermal power. Pu-238 produces a decay heat of approximately 570W/kg, so you'll need 4000kg of Pu-238 to produce a mass flow of 1kg/s of steam. And no, I don't have anything better to do in the evening than to disprove trolls/nutjobs on youtube.