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Yeah, if I remember right, the overdrive is for emergency situations, like getting over mountains in the thin air. I think you can run it for about half an hour before the engines blow, or something like that.\ Can't remember if you have to turn off the governors or not. It's all in the flight manual.

They can be right on me. I put the gate over them, and LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK, LOCK... Nothing. Then they gun me down. Unfortunately, my Fake RC Controller joystick is too primitive to employ my guns properly, so I always lose in a gunfight. The only way I can really use guns is with manual gunsight and some hardcore flying. I get a couple of rounds in sometimes. :joystick:

[quote=26-J39;4100822 Its getting tiring listening to the same ramble. :doh: Yeah, 26! That's why I ignore you!

Lol, you try dealing with an AH-64D coming at you. If you run, you'll just die tired. Same with fighters. @BadCRC - Even when the heli's are coming at me, I still can't lock them. Not till there right on me, and by that time it's too late.

Lol, try locking a helicopter at range. You can forget it. Don't even bother trying to lock a fighter at any range. This is why we are demanding Igla's.

Any new news on BS3 is probably going to be in the Russian forums.

Would LOVE to see ED do a Longbow. I think it would come down to how much information they could get on a real one (Same problem with the Russian Ka-52, which I drool over. :p) Probably still a lot of restricted systems on it. However, the new systems being made for the F-18 / F-16 would probably reflect a lot of systems in the longbow. So, who knows?

Actually, he promised more information in Autumn, if I recall correctly. As for graphics, I don't see the third rail and Igla's on the new Shark model yet, so.... A LOT of us have given input on what we want to see on a new MODERN model of the Shark. Features that would reflect it being a hand of the Ka-52. Not this same old relic of the 80's. I for one, am not going to spend any more money just for a graphics update. So, maybe all has not been revealed yet. Give them some time. They're in development of the F16 / F18 right now, and MANY new and good things are going to come from that, that are going to effect ALL the other modules. I for one, am hoping for a contrast based Shkval that actually works. x

Hopefully, with EO work on the F-18 and F-16, it will trickle down to the Shkval on the Ka-50.

Last I heard, it won't be until 2020.

If it isn't the middle of the day, and the target isn't a big tank, my shkval won't lock crap. But yeah, the shkval needs to lock on contrast like the IRL one.

Just because you have lock, does not mean you have a clear shot. On auto, you have to align the two circles, one within the other. That will give you the C, and your missile will fire when you pull the trigger. Otherwise, your missile will not fire. Manual mean the missile will fire whether you are aligned or not. If your not aligned, the missile probably will not enter the laser tunnel and will just fly off randomly. As razo+r says

Yeah, it's not easy to auto hover. You have to get the copter in the best hover you can, and then hit "auto hover". It was never meant to put you into a hover from normal flight. But once you get into a good hover, and hit "auto hover" on, it does quite well at keeping you in the hover.

Some of you fail to understand what the people like me are saying. We DON'T CARE whether it was ever fielded or not. :lol: If DCS wants to sell us a new copter, they have our demands. So far, I believe it is Igla's, FLIR, RWR, and some want full blown glass cockpit. We want what the modern Ka-52 should have been. Pretty much a single seat version of the Ka-52 used to carry out attack and defense commands issued by the Ka-52, with the 52 being the Group Leader / Command Post. I don't think many care about President-S. We are looking for Night Mission and anti-Fighter defense capability.

I'm pretty sure the fighters only carry standard HE rounds. Maybe a GE GAU-13/A 30mm gunpod?

ED knows they won't sell it if they don't give us what we want. :) And that includes FLIR. The copter is plain UNSURVIVABLE on a modern battlefield, when every boy and his dog has an F-18.

Meh. It's China. I wouldn't even bother. Would just be a waste of time and money. You might as well sue North Korea.

Yeah, sometimes my shkval wanders uncontrollably. It takes a few times of pressing lock to stop it, then it wanders again. Definite bug. Yes, and I've seen the laser range jump a lot on mine as well. Looks like a lot of stuff has been broken. I'm guessing this is why they want to do a BS3, to pay for all the bug fixes they are going to have to do.

Well, they must have spies. Because I can start a mission with enemy heli's set to patrol a small base beyond some tall mountains. I can fly NOE a few feet above the ground keeping the hills between me and them, so they can't possibly see me. Yet if I switch to the camera to view what they are doing, they are already starting to head towards me! LOL, they know EXACTLY where I am! You can't sneak up on the AI. I haven't played that mission in many months, but I assume it's probably still the same. It's like most FPS games I play. The enemy can see through ANYTHING. It's like someone above said, the AI needs to use raycasting to see if it's sight is blocked by solid objects. Just watch the tanks as you are moving behind trees. They can't possibly see you, yet their turrets will track you.

Oh yeah, I've had heli's pic me up from behind large hills. The AI is ALL SEEING.

First thing you should learn is the Auto Pilot (i.e. "Trimmer"). SOOOO different. Not much about it in the manual, but a lot of good information in this post. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=246417

Basically, the gun was only meant to penetrate APC's and only the OLDEST Russian tanks (T-50, T-60 series). Last I read, max armor penetration is about 90mm RHS. I don't bother trying to shoot tanks with the gun. That's what missiles and rockets are for. The only damage your going to do against a tank, with the gun, is tracks, main gun, secondary guns, lights, scopes, etc. Lucky kill against the engine. Not sure how much any of this is modeled in DCS. Cool! I'll have to look for those.

Actually, the trees are a decent height. You just need to fly very near them, a few feet off the ground, and they will cover you. Flying low, I never get attacked by A-A missiles. The fighters always use their guns. So, it looks like they can detect you, they just can't get a missile lock. I'm sure they could get a lock with an anti-tank missile though, if you were moving slowly enough, which you probably are. Luckily, the AI in single player haven't figured that out yet. :p Still, their guns can reach out to about a km or so, and 20mm will tear a heli to shreds. Which is why we need to carry Igla's, so we can launch a few at them when we see them diving at us, and hope for a hit.

Just sign the petition to get R-27ER's on the Ka-50. :D Or, you can just keep as low as you can, and behind trees and objects. Also, stay close to friendly SAM's. If fighters are present, your dead in the open, flat terrain. Hopefully, we get those Igla's in BS3, so we have SOME defense.

Lol, yeah, you have to have quite the balls to be an RW pilot on a modern battlefield. Seems every boy and his dog has a fighter jet nowdays. From what I've read, the heli blades show up like a bright light in the dark on radars. I'd have to research more to be sure though, and exactly what type of radars the A-A Active Radar missiles are carrying.