DCS damage model is oriented towards missles. We have to wait for a new "warbird" one which is in the works. :beer:
The sight representation in the sim is better than migs sight in the sim, auto ranging works. Of course it has limitations, its a very early technology! And all this educates us, the simmers, about how much skill the aviators of that time had to have.
Life support towards G tolerance in Sabre and say F-16C is hard to compare. Its was one of the first ones operational. And ED/BST had posts about actually researching that(and implementing tuneable G-tolerance mechanic in the first place).