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Yeah, it was pretty much it except that: - the AIM-9 was selected probably before the BVR mode if I recall coorrectly; - most of the commands were given by Joystick and Throttle. And as you can see by the pic the radar is in TWS mode...

It does make sense yes, but at low alttitude what about the Hornet's long fuselage strakes (LERX) and significantly lighter weight ?

By curiosity, do you mean the Eagle might have higher sustained turn rate at some given alttitude, for instance ?

I would like it.

Hello, Not quite sure about your doubt, but giving it a quick try - it is possible (at the least in open-beta 2.5.5.38756.) Selected BVR radar mode; select TWS mode; place target designator over the radar target; lock; and the AIM-9 seeker is cued to the TWS radar target. See red circle at radar screen in the pic.

I understand. Although I do not use them anymore, "TOPGUN: Fire at Will !" and "Digital Integration F-16" boxes with the CDs and the manuals, do still at a shelf behind me even today... from 1995 or so.

Hahaaa ! Nothing personal, I admit on that situation we were very close to crashing into the sea - and besides, he (Jester) even made some cumpliments on my landings once (something like "feeling like a sofa" or something). Also couldn't avoid to mock with the guy which pissed its pants, because "the MiG-28 had a radar lock on them". ... but you should see my opinion on Iceman. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=196159&page=14

Thank you Pally, under views, although with somewhat disguised denomination, there it is!

Great ! Look forward to it. Thank you for the heads-up.

I understand you ! Those are the experiences which make this stuff outstanding. edit: by the way you have a PM.

Managed to do it several times in some land bases at Caucasus. In carriers, to be honest I don't recall now if I ever done it. Not much to it, only that it's useful not to be much far away from land, or at the least have some good alttitude to convert in gliding distance.

I confirm this, he should have been called Cougar instead... as he really is a p***y.

Cool video.

The TCS lock symbol for that situation - which changes depending on the weapon selected, disappears probably because the target got outside of the TCS gimbal limits, and so you lost the lock. The cross still on target, maybe because its representing the AIM-9 seeker head and its gimbal limits are bigger than TCS. I would recommend you to search in the manual, as I believe it also mentions the TCS gimbal limits.

Hello, Allow me a small correction - as I believe everything is working as it should: (The bolds are for highlighting purposes.) When AIM-9 selected, contrary to Radar-guided missiles, the HUD symbology meaning DOES change as in real life: - the cross symbol now represents AIM-9 Seekerhead lock... instead of TCS lock; - the diamond symbol therefore now represents TCS lock also... instead of just Radar lock alone; - so, when loosing a Radar lock, only the range and closure scales disappear from the HUD.

That's the spirit, you know Tomcat is THAT legend... :thumbup:

No, you don't have to undo anything on that regard. For me at the least (even after selecting A-G mode), with this last friday open-beta it's like always was: - the VSL Hi mode never had the moving diamond at the HUD, as I believe its tracking pattern is from 15 to 55 degrees, which is outside of the HUD's field of view; - the VSL Lo and PAL modes always have shown the moving diamond tracking pattern, for all the A-A missiles, either in ACM or Normal modes. I believe that with Gun selected, the diamond symbol isn't supposed to show any tracking pattern. Because without any Radar tracked target, the diamond will be representing bullet hit point at 1.000 feet distance.

Yep, I now remember I had to look at it with some attention to assign it at the first time. Glad you solved it already.

That symbol means there was also a TCS track on target at that moment. (Although the TCS doesn't provide any form of guidance to the AIM-7, in that case it's useful as visual cue to where to point the Radar, or Boresight, to try and get a lock again.)

Yep that's right, I didn't recall it because I rarely use the ACM switch - I use to go directly to the "missile mode" pushbutton (NORM / BRSIT). Interesting to see the AIM-54 lock and track a target even with the AWG-9 radar completely switched off. Also tried with the AIM-7, but being a SARH missile obviously can't do that.

+1 here, I'm already waiting for this feature too.

I'm not much of an expert on radar-guided missiles, but I thought that to fire the AIM-54 with its own radar active off the rails was instead "boresight mode"...

I suppose that the TCS lock changing to the instantly fired missile, might also be because of the missile's very bright exaust flame (which does a considerable image contrast)... so it somewhat makes sense.

About the wrong master mode, it's possible but I don't remember right now. On the TCS lock, is was maintained as the target bomber was still locked at the VDI; just the TCS LoS cross didn't apear on the HUD after some 10 minutes experimenting or so. But I'll have to experiment more to be sure.

Outstanding! By the way now that we are at it, sometimes the TCS LoS ceases to appear after roughly 10 minutes of testing with it, (in either of the acquisition or slave modes). I'm not sure if I read that the TCS has some overheating time failure implemented or so, eitherway it's an heads-up. I believe it came to appear again, after tweaking with the master modes - slecting AG mode and coming to AA mode again.