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Also take into consideration. Things that might be possible in real life might still be something a pilot would never do. Because of stress on the airframe, risk of damage, risk of DEATH etc etc But in a simulator we don't pay for airframes, repairs, and when we die, we can simply respawn. The aircraft might be capable of more things, that no sane person would ever attempt in real life

Ok, slight typo on the diameters of Bradley AC. Either way - that was not the point. The point was that the Bradley seems impervious to the 30mm AP rounds of the BMP-2 - from all sides - including rear! Which means I am not surprised the Mi-24P struggles to damage it, with it's 30mm cannon

Just want to add my 2 cents to this. I took part in an event, some time ago. It was Bradleys vs BMP-2's, combined arms event. Before the event I did some testing. I put a couple of Bradleys as targets, set them to hold fire and hold ground. The objective was to find out the weak spots and how much damage a BMP-2 could do to a Bradley. Now the BMP-2 doesn't use the GSH-30, but the Shipunov 2A42 > never the less, it uses the same ammunition. During my tests, I found that the 2A42 of the BMP-2 did absolutely Zero damage to the Bradley's frontal armor, as expected. What made me kinda bummed out about the whole event though, was that I noticed I did ZERO DAMAGE to the side armor, and even rear armor. This was tested at all ranges - Including point blank range! Turns out the BMP-2 can only damage the Bradley by using it's 2 ATGM's The bradleys smaller 20mm autocannon could however, happily destroy a BMP-2, even by shooting it's front armor - no problem. In the end, I wrote it off as the usual DCS western bias

Isnt that almost exacly what you said by this tame last year? Hehehehe Like I said then. I hope very much to be proven wrong Only time will tell

Hate to say I told you, Razorback. It's amazing how ED let's the hype for thsi module die down - AGAIN. The hype got going in the Hornet video, years ago, with Wag's "What's this Hind doin here?" - then it just died out. And now they are letting the same thing happen again. Whatever happened to the "when we have something to show, we'll show it"? The usual bull. Only reason I'm touching DCS nowadays is a sertain C-130 mod

KA-50 Black Shark forum section. I'm pretty sure I've seen your face there XD

No. Wrong. I wish this myth would just die. It has been discussed to death already, and not only on this forums. Combat trials of the KA-50 was deemed a success and the pilots reported they liked the aircraft and the "increased load" was not an issue, thanks to it's advanced systems. The faith of the KA-50 and the KA-52 are because of totally different reasons, that were not supposed to discuss in this thread.

Ka-50 Can switch out the HMS for NVGs Put your NVG's on and tune the Shkvals Brightness/Contrast knobs a little, and you can se almost as good as in Daylight. Getting a proper target lock might be difficult or impossible, but stationary targets are easy and with manual tracking you can get good at killing moving targets as well.

This ^

Formation lights are small red/orange lights facing backwards only. Not the easiest to spot, especially not if it isn't dark. I am sure they are on - you just have to know where to look

Well, my experience in the Shark leads me to disagree. The OFP2 Rockets are quite effective at anything less armored than a BTR-80 I never leave home without them, and I qould argue the splah damge is enough to destroy groups of infantry, soft vehicles and light armored vehicles. Even without direct hits. The S8-KOM needs direct hits, so I never ever use them. On the subject of cannon/vikhrs and IRL trials. Well I guess it just depends on the mission designer in DCS. When I design my own missions, I usually tailor them for helicopters. So less armor and more infantry and soft targets. But most missions I play with friends are just littered with hundreds of tanks - so obviously it becomes a bit less realistic and more focused on Anti-Tank work

SPO-10 yeah, sorry. I just seem to remember that the number indicates how many indicator lights is on the RWR. Anyways. Yes. The SPO-10 in the MiG-21 has been broken from release. And IIRC, Leatherneck/Magnitude is aware that it is not modeled properly. Why it takes years and years to fix such an important instrument is beyond me. At the end of the day, I think SPO-10 is well good enough. You know the rough direction, so you can LOS the radar - and you now when you're getting locked, so you now when to take evasive action.

I fly only in VR. I tend to use the cannon as I use the rockets. Flight director on, and a running or diving attack with bore sight. But sure. Sometimes you can pick off soft targets from a little bit of altitude with the tracking cannon. It sure is useful. But for me at least, the primary weapon of the 50 is the Vikhrs. Secondary are rockets. Cannon is a nice addon (or useful in A2A, also in bore sight of course)

I am not sure - but it seems like OP is asking for a very specific RWR > namely the SPO-15, To me it looks like the thread derailed a little bit, and now you guys are discussing NO RWR. You can pretty clearly see in the video, that the Helicopter we are getting is (currently) equipped with a SPO-4 RWR (Same as MiG-21) While a SPO-15 would clearly be better I would argue, for a helicopter, and the role it has, a SPO-4 is sufficient. You don't NEED to know exacly where the SAM is - all you need to know is that a radar is looking at you, and from the rough direction - and when it is locking you up.

I almost exclusively use the 30mm in the KA-50 in fixed bore sight mode. Very rarely do I use it with the HMS and target tracking. Everyone has their own opinion of course, and although the 2x23mm chin turret would be cool, I think the fixed 2x30mm cannon is a monster, and it's the one I would want the most.