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Are you telling me that in DCS units have a simple health bar to determine dead or alive? No effects like disabling movement, disabling gun(s), disabling targetting, etc.?

To be precise, the LAU-88 is a triple-rail missile launcher, not a triple ejector rack (TER). The latter is a device to 'eject' bombs. The LAU-88 is a rail system for missiles to slide off.

Also take into account that when a TGP is equipped only two Mavericks are taken along. Firing the outer Maverick on a LAU-88 launcher would damage the TGP. As a general rule of thumb, when a two ship doesn't have enough ordnance to accomplish the mission, you bring more planes instead of loading more ordnance. You have to take weight and drag into account and not load up the plane with what would be possible according to the brochure (e.g. 6 Mavericks). That said, there have been occasions where 6 Mavericks were carried into combat but I'll leave those stories to the people who've actually witnessed it, if there are any around here.

Like I said, TS + Aries + DCS works fine, it's just that upon mission ending I have to hard quit it so let's consider it a minor inconvenience for now... Thanks for the support you're offering.

That's right, the 97 isn't meant to be employed against infantry/light armor. But based on the desired effect on the target, you should take into account what Eddie said and perhaps carry along the 97 in DCS because of the difference between real life and DCS. This actually raises a question from my side: do the 97's Skeets in DCS 'detect' infantry? As for reality, a Skeet uses both a laser and IR to detect vehicles, I wonder whether the Skeet's IR detection would home in on body heat alone and therefore target infantry.

I'm using 1.976a yes but I didn't apply that fix yet. I'll try the fix to see if that solves the DCS crash. Thanks for the quick reply.

Towsim, I've got Aries working, no TS crashes or whatsoever but when I end/close a MP session in DCS, DCS.exe hangs and I have to hard quit it. Any idea what this is?