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Sounds like you're in auto-flaps - should be half.

No - that's a different model Mirage in the picture, the M2000C ingame can only carry four AA missiles.

The Tunguska only locks to fire its guns, so it'll only lock when you're very close.

It also basically halves the engagement range of enemy SAMs - a very useful feature in a SEAD/DEAD aircraft.

Diamond is bandit, square is bogey. We're missing the symbology for friendly, which is a square with FRIEND written underneath. ED aren't simulating IFF properly yet.

The symbols look like this: You can see the icon already when in STT (though it's just showing as unknown/ambiguous right now), you can also see some of the new symbols starting to appear on the SA page in Wags' updates. The symbols can be colour coded - e.g. Red for hostile as you can see here:

140nm is optimistic for the radar we've got in the Hornet - you should start picking large planes up at 100nm or so. Even at 100nm you'll need the radar set to high PRF, a narrow scan (20/40 degrees) and maybe a 2 bar scan to pick it up reliably.

The Hornet uses HAFU symbology (Hostile, Ambiguous, Friendly, Unknown): I think the difference between Unknown and Ambiguous is that Ambiguous tracks have been IFFed but not returned a positive IFF response, though I'm not certain.

Yep it would've been a lot less confusing if ED had made the placeholder IFF just use friendly/unknown instead of unknown/hostile. Then it would have fit what everyone knows about how IFF works, as it is it's counter to how everyone expects it to work so it's a really common mistaken assumption that diamond means unknown.

First off - Merry Christmas! Sorry but that's incorrect, and someone chimes in with this incorrect understanding every time this comes up. I've explained why it's wrong before here: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=224966&page=2 If the DCS Hornet had IFF working as you describe we would just see a box with FRIEND underneath for a friendly after a positive response, and a box for unknown/ambiguous/no response/failed response. Diamond means hostile - it doesn't mean unknown. But DCS doesn't model IFF properly, it's a fudge, so we just have hostile and unknown and we're missing the friendly state/symbology entirely. A box does not mean a correct IFF return as you can see the Iraqi Mig-21 marked with a box on the video in that post - so your understanding is incorrect unless Iraq hacked the Mode 4 codes. It'll all make a lot more sense once the IFF/ HAFU symbols and logic are in - we should hopefully then get the HUD symbol we're missing, which is for a positive IFF return: a box with 'FRIEND' written underneath. You'll also then see that hostile track files have a diamond, unknown/ambiguous have a box and friendlies have the box with 'FRIEND' underneath.

Diamond is hostile, box is unknown/friendly, box with just corners means you've lost lock.

I heard in real life that the laser codes are normally set to be unique per aircraft for that day / AO - so rather than the JTAC telling you what code to use, you'd tell him what code you're using and he'd change his settings. It means it's a lot easier then to manage multiple targets and multiple aircraft. Obviously that isn't the way it works ingame and you can't tell the JTAC to change his code during the mission, so what we've got is a fairly sensible fudge to allow us to operate in the same way, especially when there's different JTACs running on different codes. If they do change it, the worst thing they could do is make it a mission editor setting - that would be incompatible with how many multiplayer servers with multiple JTACs work. We need to be able to change it ingame either via the knee board (like the F5 and Mirage) or loadout editor.

The Stennis was also in the Gulf the last time Iran threatened to close the Strait (I'm guessing that's what inspired ED to pick the Stennis): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011%E2%80%9312_Strait_of_Hormuz_dispute

Interesting, that's a change from what seemed to be the plan before the Hornet released isn't it? I'm really happy if we do get the double racks, the Hornet will be a real powerhouse with 8 JDAMs.

We don't have it yet, but there's a shortcut with the sensor select switches to put the radar screen on the right DDI (and stores page on the left DDI). As long as there's not a page that can take TDC control there already (e.g. not the HSI, SA, FLIR or Radar formats) or the Stores page, if we sensor select right it'll switch to the Radar page and if we sensor select left it'll show Stores. If the HSI or SA page is there, it switches between them. Just gotta wait for ED to implement it - they might be waiting till more screens are finished (like the SA page).

Just to be clear - that video is taken from the desktop mirror, it's not filmed from the headset, so you're not seeing what it actually looks like inside. This is a better illustration of what it actually looks like if you sat in the position in the middle and then put a camera in front of the lense and zoomed in on the dials (i.e. this looks worse than it does in the headset, but gives you an idea of how the dials look from the normal position):

It didn't sound like it from the mini-updates.

How does LTWS use datalink?

I wouldn't necessarily read this as a list that will be completed in order or that everything on this list will be completed before anything else is delivered. I have a feeling what's being listed there are developers' current work streams. It matches what Wags said at the end of October - e.g. The guy doing FPAS would do datalink next, the guy doing JHMCS would do HARM next, and I guess the Maverick guy is now doing LGBs. I suspect that the guy doing the AA waypoint and BRA data is the radar guy that has LTWS up next.

I'm guessing they're simulating the oxygen system being damaged (or switched off when the plane's power switches off), and.....: https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3506222&postcount=4

Yep, you can set the whole lot. I've done a few with B1, M2, Bx6, Bx7, Bx8, Bx9, B3, B4 - all worked perfectly! I'd been avoiding the Viggen as it all looked thoroughly complicated, but with this new planning addition I spent the weekend learning how to blow carriers up with the RB-15 and caused chaos in MP as a result :D

Don't we need the AG radar for that? Unless they've changed priority, Wags said ATFLIR would come first.

That's one of the questions in the FAQ: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=197186

Yeah I'm a bit disappointed that LTWS has been on the priority list and 'coming soon' since release, and now 6 months later it's disappeared without an explanation and doesn't even make the top 10.

Only that it doesn't run on my phone :)