[DCS KA-52 Mod]

9 minutes ago, YoYo said:

Currently, at least in the video, you can see that there are no any tooltips. The user moves the mouse cursor and nothing appears. So there are no tooltips in Russian either. I don't think he has tooltips disabled in the DCS options (you can do that). Of course, +1 for the tooltips in English.

You're actually wrong, they are there.

Also, again, tooltips aren't that important too. Only manual and displays.

[DCS KA-52 Mod]

13 minutes ago, YoYo said:

Only the interior and its textures have little in common with the tooltips and manual. These are 3 different things after all.

Tooltips can be in English to Russian text on the texture, which is consistent with the actual and batch line. 

Btw. There will probably be a mod with English textures, but I won't be using them anyway, I prefer real solutions.

I do not care about cockpit translations, I know some russian but I'm not that 'fluent' in it yet. I moslty care for the avionics (same as you can have russian or english menus in Ka-50's ABRIS, where I have russian cockpit but english ABRIS, that's what I wanted to know)

[DCS KA-52 Mod]

On 7/17/2025 at 8:31 PM, aston-m777 said:

No, it is not planned.

So no english in tutorials, tooltips and avionics (displays) at all?

[Logbook Rank in DCS]

In regards to the medals there are 8 and they are awarded based on overall score. Here is every medal with the required score to obtain it in order:

Air Medal:
200 points

Purple Heart:
600 points

Bronze Star:
1000 points

Airman's Medal:
1400 points

Distinguished Flying Cross:
1800 points

Silver Star:
2200 points

Air Force Cross:
2600 points

Air Force Medal of Honor:
3000 points

IIRC medals differ from country to country too, but scores are same.

[Afghan War: "Szatan Arba" campaign]

On 9/15/2024 at 7:22 PM, CyberCopter said:

I haven't been able to work out what Arba means? Might you clue me in please?

Shaitan-Arba means Devil's Chariot, first word Shaitan/Satan for Devil, and Arba for chariot. A little late reply but as nobody answered it I'm glad to help.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=ar&text=devil's chariot&op=translate

Take a look on the text under the translation in arabic, words are switched but phonetically are very similiar - earabat alshaytan and as I'm no expert in Arabian, I assume it was easier to say Shaitan Arba than earabat alshaytan, I really don't know and it's just a guessing game for me here.

Don't let me even start with other nicknames for the hind which Russians had, such as stakan/стакан, Galina/Галина (Galya/Галя), striped/полосатный, and of course the most famous one, krokodil/крокодил

To my knowledge such nicknames were for a reason - Stakan (Glass) because of the Mi-24A version which looked like a greenhouse, not sure of Galina, but I am suspecting it's because Galina Rastorgueva was one of female pilots (other one being Ludmila Polyanskaya) who flew a special Mi-24 variant for breaking the speed record for helicopters when they stripped hind of everything that was unnecessary to make it as much as light (and yes, they used women because they were lighter than men) and they hit speed of 368.4 km per hour which was in 1978 quite a feat. Nickname Striped was because of chechen war, most of hinds were 'sporting' invasion stripes to be quickly recognisable and to avoid friendly fire. The Krokodil one is a self-explainatory I think.

Wow I just quitely derailed into offtopic, sorry ... better get back to the topic

[Outdated hardware]

This doesn't make any sense ... there are no differences between standalone and steam versions of DCS, how can the one on Steam be "more playable" than the standalone one? Are you sure you didn't have borked settings anywhere in standalone version?

Best regards, SmukY

[DCS: CH-47F Pre-purchase]

Thanks ED team, can't wait for this one!

A question, as there was an italian version teased for very first time (which will be very likely for military DCS version, not for us) and obviously had an Laser Obstacle Avoidance and Monitoring (LOAM) system and now since I don't know Chinooks that much therefore I'm not sure if we are still getting it or not? Because I'm not sure if chinooks in US army (or other countries which are the operators of the version we are getting) do employ this system or not.

Thanks

[Mi-24 missing features, fixes, updates and Wishlist]

Another video of tip lights, I think upgraded Hungarian Hinds have even LED in the tips of blades and not looking like a single trailed light is even more prominent, as it is in the game.

 

[BS2 & BS3 : no blur effect on the engines?]

I don't think there are many differences in exhaust output temperatures between the D and E models; in every case, it can't be less than 500 degrees Celsius and can rise up almost to 1000 degrees Celsius, which is hot. Very hot.

And yes, links are for our US friends.

[BS2 & BS3 : no blur effect on the engines?]

18 hours ago, Flappie said:

The absence of heat blur coming from helicopters exhaust is old. I've just bumped the internal report.

All helicopters are affected by this issue (except the AH-64D which apparently does not produce heat blur at all).

Truth to be told I wouldn't be so sure about that.

To me the heat haze seems to be quite noticeable... also it can be hardly seen when trying to see it above the helicopter with quite monotone background. My 2 cents though.

[2 commands needed to show Pilot.]

Does if you press shift+p first show the gunner, and for second time it shows both gunner and pilot bodies? I haven't flew for quite a while, but similar is both in Mi-8 and UH-1H. Gunner should be visible if you move camera under the instrument panel.

[** Enhancement Thread **]

Sorry if this has been asked already but I can't find anything about this - are currently there any plans for the new 3D model of Gaz and new rotor animation like it is on Mi-24, AH-64D, Ka-50 III and so on?

[Rotor animation like in Apache!]

I haven't been flying for a while but in the latest trailers (f.e. Summer Sale 2023) I spotted the new rotor animation on the Hind? Can anyone confirm it? Thanks

[To Get you Dreaming of Being the Pilot]

On 4/13/2023 at 11:54 AM, Devrim said:

I know it's not necessary, but I wish this beauty had retractable gear. It would look so sexy imo.

Actually the first prototype had a retractable gear.

https://www.chinook-helicopter.com/history/aircraft/A_Models/65-07992/65-07992.html

And wings, too. Don't forget the wings.

[AI Jester / Iceman subtitles]

From the 2023 kickoff and greetings I've read this

Quote

In addition to this; we’ve also had our sights on JESTER v2, a complete rewrite of the JESTER AI system which will enable faster AI development and developer ease of use for integration in future aircraft such as the A-6.

What does this exactly mean - since it's a rewrite I'd like to know if will you finally be able to add the subtitles for Jester?

Thanks and best regards,

[Six Oclock sun glare in your instruments problem]

Try enabling shadows to at least low settings. I think there should be separated settings for shadows. One for cockpit only and other for externals only since externals are quite performance punchers.

[Any plans on translation for voice messages in Hind?]

On 12/28/2022 at 2:47 AM, BalticDude said:

I would like to know if this feature is coming still. It's been like over a year and I still can't understand what's being told to me in the Hind.

Have you checked settings in the tab for special settings for Mi-24? You now have both russian and english voiceovers.

[Not seeing an upgrade option even with ownership of Black Shark 2]

Login into www.digitalcombatsimulator.com, and if you purchased BS2 before, you should see a price tag of $9.99 instead of full price for BS3.

[When's black-shark 3 coming?]

Different thing. President-S jams and tries to throw off the missile's cueing, MWS just detects them and dispenses countermeasures. Difference will be that not only laser missiles willl be detected as they are in BS2 but also IR and UV will be detected now too.

[Competitor to apache]

AH-64D's DCS competitor is Ka-50, not Mi-24. Mi-24's competitor would be more like AH-1 rather than AH-64D.

Both helicopters have quite different tactics for similiar missions.

For example, AH-64 was made for hovering and sending missiles off from safe distances, meanwhile Mi-24 is more up close and "personal", it needs speed, and more speed it has, more it is stabile, it's just how it was made. Don't hope too much for Mi-35M or something like that since Russians already have a direct counterpart to Apache and that's Mi-28 Havoc.

The only problem with Ka-50 (and even with upcoming BS3 version) is that it doesn't exist anymore, at least not in flyable state.

[Co-pilot gunner AI interface will not appear]

Because you have to set it up in both menus, Mi-24P Pilot and Mi-24P Petrovitch AI Helper:

If you set it up in only one menu then you'll be able only to open or close it, but not both.

Hope this helps.

[4ya caucases server]

I'd recommend for you to invest into a table mount for a joystick, something like Monstertech and extension for it. Flying with such additions and without them is like comparing a day and night.

[South African Livery]

Which one do you mean exactly? Superhind? The one used by Neal Ellis?

[Rotor animation like in Apache!]

AH-64D uses the new prop tech technology, that's why it looks so buttery smooth. I'm sure Hind will get it later too.

[Mi-24p Armament]

Air / Ground switch may be related to what they did back in the Afghanistan war, when they used the R-60 missiles for hunting down vehicles with hot engines / campsites with recently extinguished fires at the night, so after firing they saw where the missile went and if it did hit anything, they mowed the area later with guns, unguided rockets and bombs, etc ...

So it is possible that the switch turns IR head in the missile (or tracker in the helicopter?) to look down than up for hot spots. But I'm no specialist neither for R60 nor Mi-24's antiair capability since it's quite new for me and I've been "researching" (to be precise, fanboying) this helicopter for at least 20 years.