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As far as I know, in Germany the anti-shipping mission was flown by either the F-104 or Tornado carring Kormoran missiles

There were also trials in Italy, I imagine with the -S, although it was not adopted.

Eh, the F-5E first flew in 1972 and the A that the Vietnamese flew is pretty different, much more so than just a slightly too modern RWR on the F-4E.

And it was one of the more capable Starfighters at that role (together with the later German and Italian ones).

This myth needs to die already. The Tomcat's wings swing forward between Mach 0.6 and 0.8 (source: the actual F-14 manual https://www.heatblur.se/F-14Manual/general.html#wing-sweep-system ). If the wings are forward you're fighting exactly where the Tomcat wants to.

Greece flew the Thunderflash until 1991 according to Wikipedia. I'm not sure it makes sense to cross check with the IFE's list though, that leaves out a lot of options.

Eh the F-5 radar isn't exactly the most realistic representation in DCS, and even then it gets really mediocre at low altitude. If you want another comparison - for the Mig-21 it doesn't sound completely insane assuming you're at low altitude.

I can't track down a source but I have read Italian pilots saying that (I imagine at low-ish altitude because clutter?) the AIM-7 envelope was more limited by the radar range than the missile.

Yea but the controls that reverse at high AoA are the ailerons (like the Tomcat or Mirage F1 really), not the rudder

As far as I know, only the Greek F1CG carried 4 Sidewinders, and that variant is beyond the scope of the module.

Yea definitely, it's just worth remembering. On the other hand, the big about the Mig gunsight being terrible is still accurate even if for the wrong reasons

One thing to mention about Have Doughnut is that the buffet stuff is not really applicable to any Mig in DCS, and the control forces bit mostly applies to the Mig 15 and 19 but not the 21.

I'd imagine various refinements to systems/FM, reworking the radar (which imo is by far the weakest part of the module), and completing the F1M.

And they've said this is a prototype for the G.91, which was very much a photo recce platform.

The part about night time low level navigation and delivery is insane o.O

We're going to have to debate the semantics of the word "winter" again

I have a non-nuclear weapons manual for the German Air Force F-104G (not gonna post it just in case), but it refers repeatedly to the Dash 34 and only really mentions sight settings and depression tables, rather than e.g. target designations etc. The only exception is when high altitude level bombing is discussed, in which case the manual states "or in some specialized instances using the F-104G radar is a method of determining the correct release point." So my gut feeling is indeed, conventional weapons delivery should -for the most part- be visual only, and the LABS-y stuff is mostly for nukes only. Regarding the 104's role, for many other air forces it's important to remember that the conventional strike role was taken up by other aircraft (e.g. the F-84F, G-91, Mirage, F-5, Draken, depending on the operator/year) so focusing on nuclear delivery first and foremost kinda makes sense in the Cold War. Obviously that changed post Vietnam, but for many European operators it wasn't long after that that the F-16 or Tornado came online anyway.

It's in the highlighted post

Fwiw there were em charts posted in the F-104 section a while ago (so I assume they comply with rule 16 since they are still up) that show the F-4E having a slight edge over the Mig-23ML, in turn having a slight edge over the F-104G. Not sure what the source is though.

It already is implemented that way. The Viggen interacts with IFF in the same way every single other module in DCS does. As to why the Viggen is still tagged as being in EA, that's all up to Heatblur really but the truth is at this point the EA tag in DCS is essentially meaningless, and not just because of the Viggen.

The Mirage F1 and other aircraft with clickable IFF panels still do not model it - they simply added the animations to the cockpit, but whether you click those buttons or not is entirely irrelevant. IFF remains a simple check the game makes against coalitions.

I'd love an F-84! Bit of an understatement there - in the early/mid 60s it was actually the most common fighter in NATO, even more common than the F-86 (and the F-104/F-5 hadn't arrived in large numbers yet).

Correct, the Italian S interceptors did not have ECM gear (except for the fighter bombers that were passed to interceptor squadrons as the Tornado came online) at any point of their careers - supposedly the reasoning is that they didn't need defensive gear in their role which is naive at best, but hey, that's the Italian Air Force in the 90s for you, they don't call those years "the crossing of the desert" for nothing. The ASA upgrade did not feature a pulse-doppler radar, more of an MTI-type thing a-la Mirage F1 which was still pretty mediocre in look down. The jets that did have countermeasure dispensers were mostly the Gs that went to Desert Storm, I don't think even the fighter bomber ASA got them. As far as I know the only Starfighters to have a proper RWR like the ones we are used to in DCS were the F-104Cs in their second deployment to Vietnam, and CF-104s when they switched to conventional strike. The Dutch also had specific ECM gear, but I don't know whether it's a RWR antenna, some sort of jammer, or what else. In all 3 cases you can see the fairing under the nose.

This is the best pic I can find of jets from the 37th fighter wing (you can tell from the symbol on the tail) that are in the fighter bomber configuration (see the gun plus the antennae for the jammer), but are carrying wingtip AIM-9Ls (and all those point to these being ASA jets). The 37th fighter wing included the 18th Fighter Interceptor group (whose logo you can see on the intake), which indeed were/are (they fly the Typhoon now i strictly air to air. So yes, operating jets in the a2g configuration for a2a would be perfectly realistic actually.

I honestly wonder how these numbers compare to a Viper.