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One thing that would be truly awesome is to have the HT dials/gauges reflect the daylight and gauge light settings. I.e. tinted red when the gauge light is turned up, and dimmed if there is no light and at night. Is it doable? I could settle for having the option of red dials at night as a "better than nothing" situation...

Hm... shooting from the hip in the dark here... but aren't the airfields numbered and if so shouldn't there be a list of airfields with the corresponding number assigned to it (like the RSBN)?

And take away all the daily laughs at the Leatherneck office generated by this thread? Not gonna happen :lol:

I'll check this when I get home, but I doubt that the monitor configuration in the xml-file would be the issue. The export files is probably what you need to check. I followed this instruction and have no problem with any gauges (MIG-15, MIG-21 and F-86): https://github.com/s-d-a/HT (Quick_Start_Guide_HT_ENG.pdf)

I had a Polish colleague helping me to translate the manual and here is his answer. Please note that he has no technical area knowledge and is not aware of standard terms etc, i.e just translated: zapytanie - włącza układ identyfikacji celu "swój-obcy" Inquire – Turn on the target identification system “Ours-stranger" msc - wyłącza układ selekcji prędkości w czasie atakowania celów lecących z małą prędkością. msc – Turn off the speed selection system while attacking flying targets at low speed. kontrola - włącza układ kontroli stacji ( jest to automatyczne sprawdzenie wszystkich układów czy stacja jest sprawna ). Self-check – Turn on the self-check system (automatically check the station if all the systems are working) zrzut - przełącza stację z dowolnego zakresu pracy na zakres "obserwacji", a także zrzuca przechwycony przez pilota cel ( np. cel przechwycony omyłkowo ). disengage – switches the station to “observation” range from any other range set, it also drops any locked target (e.g. target locked by mistake) meteo - włącza układ ochrony przed zakłóceniami meteorologicznymi ( odbicia od chmur itp. ). meteo – enables weather anti clutter systems (cloud reflections etc.) pass - włącza układ ochrony przed zakłóceniami pasywnymi. pass – enables the passive interference filter przerywane - włącza układ ochrony przed zakłóceniami przerywanymi aktywnymi i pasywnymi. interruptive – enables the active interrupted and passive filter nieprzerywane - włącza układ ochrony przed zakłóceniami ciągłymi. uninterrupted – enables the constant interference filter. There is one little detail that got my attention: "enables the active interrupted and passive filter" So based on that, INTERMITTENT should be turning on and off both PASSIVE and ACTIVE filters.

I'm interested in this as well, since I want both the (MIG-21) radar and the HT gauges on the same monitor. Didn't have the time to experiment yet, but wouldn't that be possible if you have a transparent background in the HT profile?

Right, the small chaffs that a fighter drops in order to deflect missiles is one thing. The examples in the video is larger "clouds" that are kilometers wide/long with the purpose to blind the enemies GCI and so on. This would be interesting to have simulated in DCS. In what level the smaller chaffs are simulated in general and for the MIG-21 radar would indeed be interesting to have some details about.

CONTINIUOS is for active jamming (transmitted/electronic), and PASSIVE is for passive (chaff/metal etc). However I'm uncertain about INTERMITENT if it is cycling on/off for active(#1) or alternating between passive and active (#2). #1 according to this page: http://www.flyshark.republika.pl/Samoloty_pliki/merlin.htm #2 according to Chucks MIG-21 guide Someone from Leatherneck might chime in regarding how this is modeled/simulated compared to the real life radar.

Perhaps both of you are right. Internally within US armed forces with the same communication equipment /chiffers etc it might be obsolete. But in other scenarios with multi national (including non-NATO) forces there still is some need for authentication?

The RP-22SM SAPFIR radar is equipped with some jamming filters: CONTINIOUS, INTERMITTENT and PASSIVE. So with this thread I just wanted to highlight the different effects with passive and active radar jamming. In this video ( ) with recorded real life radar images from the cold war era (60’s-80’s) you can see activities over the Baltic sea. There are several simulated attacks on Sweden (within international airspace) and also some breaches of Swedish borders. There are also examples of SR-71 Blackbirds, different NATO surveillance aircrafts (like the Nimrod) and also the first encounter with the SU-27 among many other things... The video is in Swedish but here you have some details about this specific part: Baltic sea, 1984, August 9 There was a big Soviet exercise involving almost 100 aircrafts (20 * SU-24 Fencer, 15 * TU-16 Badger & 6 * AN-12 and SU-15 Flagon fighters). During this exercise we see good examples of both passive and active radar jamming. Starting at 19:52 - Passive jamming with chaffs (AN-12) Starting at 20:11 - Active jamming (TU-16) During this time a Soviet SU-15 was chasing a civilian airliner in over Swedish territory (Gotland), however denied by them and causing some political arguments. Eventually it was regarded (by Swedish military) as an GCI error on the Soviet side giving the fighter vectors to the wrong aircraft (the airliner, not the SU-24’s it was supposed to attack). With chaffs we are talking about long passages with metal foils that are several kilometers long and wide. Please let me know if there is anything else in this video that needs to be translated. P.S This video has been listed before in other topics, so I am not claiming any new findings and so on :).

Thanks for all answers. I knew about the one in Finland, since I found a lot of pictures from it. The one in Sweden however was unknown to me but very much interesting. Thanks. My plan is to build a MIG-21 cockpit eventually... or at least some panels with correct switches and indicators etc. With DCS BIOS this is indeed doable today :) It doesn't have to be super accurate, since I will need to make some "artistic freedom" changes in the layout to better fit a monitor (HawgTouch profile for the instruments). However it would be nice to have it in a proper scale.

Anyone? Perhaps someone got the dimension for any of the standarf panels, like this one, and I just will calculate the rest...?

No need to be ashamed if memory fails you. Happens to me every day as well :music_whistling: I know it is on the left side in the simulator I have flown, and this picture confirms it.

Sweet. I assume it took some time to setup all viewports with correct FOV and so on. Please share some details about this. I guess those big touchscreen monitors are quite expensive? Perhaps you should have a separate thread about this setup :)

Here is the answer I got when asking about the "ARC to landing NDB frequency selfadjustment indication light": It isn´t modelled. It works with the "Inner -Outer" selector of its left (without use in this sim). Part of the ARK-10 navigation system, that we haven´t properly modelled. For the ARK-10 system it should works like something like this: Inner: pushbottons and Outer: "wheel" (sector) selector. Like the L-39 system. The only difference is that the L-39 ARK-9 is a manual one and the ARK-10 only works with presets. The inner and outer is not part of the "MARKER" system. It allows you to select between ADF frequencies, outer: frequencies set by the "Wheel Selector": (SECTORS in this sim) and inner for the frequencies set by the pushbuttons (1-9) But for the LNS-21, yes, it works to switch between markers. Maybe in 2016 we can see a real nav system for the 21, like the L-39.

Since the MIG-21 was a thirsty little bird with limited time in the air I believe having extra fuel when landing was a kind non existing problem/question back in the days. Hence no fuel dump equipment.

Isn't the extra joystick on the left side?

I'm trying to find a good source about the panel (and instrument) dimensions. The only thing I found was this comment: "Most of the gauges are 80mm in diameter with mounting holes 81mm in diameter, the exceptions being the artificial horizon which is 110mm in diameter with a 111mm diameter hole, the air pressure gauge (I think for brakes) is 60mm diam in a 61mm hole and the 2 small gauges at the bottom are 40mm diam in 41mm diam holes." So based on that I got an approximate ratio and calculated the dimensions shown at the picture. Is there anyone that can confirm or even better provide an accurate source/documentation?

I suppose there are different kind of smoke depending of the kind of propellant in the rockets. In this clip with Swedish Viggens (1:50) the smoke from the rockets is quite different (darker, thicker).

So, in theory there could be a 360 degree view? Interesting... (assuming you have enough CPU & GPU power)

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Having a HKP9 module in DCS would be awesome. The TOW missile used was RBS55H, almost the same as the land based RB55. It is based on the BGM-71 TOW - and for that one there should be plenty of information. The land based models had both normal optics and IR. The helicopter optics was developed in Sweden (Saab) and was some kind of (gyro?) stabilized. According to some forum posts I found there was also some tests with IR optics but never fully deployed. So the helo needed good weather... The variants for RB55 are: Sweden NATO RB 55B ITOW RB 55C TOW2 RB 55D TOW2A RB 55E TOW2B The upgrades was larger warheads, extedend probes, new engine, and the last version had multiple warheads and top-down capability (the shaped charge is hitting the roof/top of the target).

Anyone? Or am I the only one that want this functionality? Is it a bug that it is missing or is it just not implemented? Other aircrafts do, like MIG-15 and A-10...

I'm about to build a (simple) cockpit, and HawgTouch and DCS-BIOS are making that possible. However there is one big issue that needs to be solved and that is about to have the pipper and the grid visible in the HUD mode (Alt+F1)? Now it is just a blank screen with the radar i the bottom right corner... I have seen other threads about moving the radar (viewport) to a second screen, and I'll need to do that as well of course. But I can't find anything about the pipper.

I would say MIG-21, in order to complement the DCS-BIOS setup. However I just recently discovered the Hawgtouch profile so that might be redundant? Anyway, you are doing a great job, so any profile you do will be very much appreciated by a lot of people.