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Viggen Either a Mirage 3 or F-104 would be sick. The Phantom would be cool but who knows whether it's taken already or not... edit: grammar
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In that case, would it be possible to add a request to remove the RWR from the AI to the ticket (or make a new one)? @myHelljumper
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Yep, although I wonder whether that's more related to how simplistic the AI systems are....if it's not possible for the AI to have a directional RWR, it may be best to just force them to never mount it tbh. It's the "default" state of the jet for the player after all.
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Yeah maybe. Another big thing is that by the early 90s the technology was starting to just make it unnecessary to do low level. If I remember correctly, during DS about 10% of weapons dropped were guided, which went up to like 80/90% during Allied Force. I also remember reading about a Jaguar pilot doing an exchange with a USCM A-4 squadron druing the 80s, going to Red Flag, and being surprsied because they were going in at medium level with Walleyes rather than doing the usual low level thing, and even more surprised when it actually worked.
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From the previous page, ~22 degrees off boresight for the AIM-9, so probably not too far from the canopy bow. 60 degrees off bore for a radar lock is quite nice though.
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Yep. There's more to DCS than being a PGU truck, hence why having both an -E and some sort of Navy variant would be ideal. This thread is proof that there's sufficient demand for both.
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Yep, SPA mode and markpoints are incredibly under rated functions in the Viggen. It's so much better than creating them in e.g. the Mirage. I wish people were more aware of that functionality so we could stop the incredibly stupid "the Viggen can only hit pre planned targets!" posts, but nooooo, it's listed as a reconnaissance function and recce things don't make other things explode, so let's ignore it entirely. Rant off.
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Cool (pun indented, hehe)! For the Century Series aircraft, was that all Falcons, or just the G and F? Speaking of, this kinda makes me want an F-102 and/or 106 module even more (and especially a Draken since those also carried Super Falcons). And to try to stay on topic, it's a (admittedly somewhat weak) argument for doing an E over a C/D for the USAF birds.
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Excessive radar detection range on AI aircraft?
TLTeo replied to Night Owl's topic in Aircraft AI Bugs (Non-Combined Arms)
The AI becomes aware of your presence as well. I've had wingmen in the Mig-19 report detections of targets at tens of miles, which is way more than the radar display can even show. Different modules handle this differently too - for example the Farmer and Viggen are a mess, but the Fishbed seems more or less sensible in my experience. Beyond how radar actually works, it's one more piece of the crappy AI DCS has to deal with. -
Maybe when ED implements the new DCS Forum Modding API...and yeah, you guys at HB put in a good effort, put some people's feelings don't care about facts.
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Is there a way to correlate this to someone's ED forum account, and only kick that in for particularly annoying forum posters?
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HB Tomcat bias confirmed! Riot!!!!1111111111
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Yeah, I just flew this mission and it was only somewhat possible to engage the speedboats by using the sea radar, and even then it was guesswork more than anything. Same with finding the Grisha, finding it with the TGP is impossible but luckily it pops up on radar and after that tracking it is relatively straightforward. Tweaking the gain/level/contrast/brightness on the TGP improves things somewhat, but without the radar it would just not be doable.
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And more than two minutes worth of coolant...although I'm not sure whether that was fixed later on.
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Eh the CT is supposed to have received all sorts of cooler toys. I think those options may be more representative of the F1M, the C we're getting first will likely mostly have unguided ordnance.
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Hence my post make both or someone, somehow, will find reasons to riot. Personally I would be happy with both, but I can see why both arguments have merit
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At this point we can just agree to disagree and move back on topic, the conversation is going nowhere. Both USAF and USN variants or riot.
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Volandia! That museum is awesome, I was just in Malpensa last weekend but I didn't have time for a detour this time. Seeing the G-91 and Vampire sitting next to the F-84F there is always amusing, the Thunderstreak is immense by comparison.
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Because most bombs missing on either side is better than risking being off by a small amount, and having the whole string of bombs miss. At least, this is what RB's SMEs have been saying about the Mirage employing BAP-100s.
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Yeeeeaah no? The (clean) A model Viper can still pull 19 deg/s STR at 50000 ft. From the above, the ML model does about 14. There is no magic vortex generator or aero bit you can happily stick on a plan that will increase your STR by 5 deg/s. Could some late Mig-23 ML type thing go ahead against Vipers and come out decently? Sure, it has plenty of other advantages - BVR missiles for one, possibly aircraft numbers, possibly acceleration and climb performance. That's likely what the Soviet would have meant by "roughly equal to a Viper". But could it easily out turn a Viper, any Viper, in a 1v1 fight? Hell no.
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That is a very misleading way to look at it though. A single Meteor right now costs a lot because (to a fair extent) the thing is just entering production, while a single AMRAAM is relatively cheap because thousands of rounds have been built. Not that the Meteor will ever be super cheap of course, but it won't be 6 times more expensive than an AMRAAM forever either. And that has nothing to do with whether carrying 14 missiles in combat on a single jet makes sense or not.
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Again, well aware, I just don't see how that turns a Phantom into a Viper. It's not like the Mirage 3 magically became a Viper when the later variants got strakes, canards or J79s for example...
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I am well aware. What I'm saying is, the performance posted in the link is from an ML, which is reasonably close to an MLA, NOT an MS. That ML, close to an MLA, way better than an MS, performs similarly to a Phantom. Again, I find it highly unlikely that some relatively minor aero refinements (because as you pointed out, the wings had already been updated, the engine had already been improved, and the airframe had already been lightened by the time the ML/MLA came out) would take you from that to a Viper's turning performance.
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Uuuuh there's supposed to be a huge difference between the MLA and MLD though, because one had the extra strake thingies near the intakes and the other didn't. I also find it highly unlikely that a single airframe could go from being more or less like an F-4, to being comparable to the Viper, with just some relatively minor updates. I wouldn't be surprised it was true in terms of e.g. climb, acceleration, etc, but turning performance? No way. edit: in fact, the ML (shown in the link above) and MLA only differed in avionics.
