What do you mean joke? Do you know how many of my friends don't play DCS because they can't afford it (the damn war thunder/apex legend free-to-play peasants).
Why would you explain? Alibaba is gna ship to your door. FL doesn't need to know. Unless you share your purchase on the data link like a complete tool.
I dunno why you couldn't see the smoke from the front but only from the back. Once again I think altitude and weather plays a role. Maybe high moisture conditions? Whatever I give up. It's still only HALF as smokey as mig29 so there's that.
For me it was trying to land. It wasn't a try hard landing but I still kept waiting in idle and airbrakes for the flight path marker to fall down to the E bracket but it was way slow. No indication that plane was exponentially losing speed. It also doesn't slow down on the ramp or after touch down easily. Drag feels low. I dunno maybe it's not this plane and all other modules have higher drag than real life like the sd10 vs 120 issue.
If you look at the videos, the engine doesn't seem as smokey as in game tbh. E.g. On any of the airshow videos, you hardly ever notice a faint trail of smoke behind the aircraft. Is this an altitude thing where it smokes at higher altitudes?
Mi8 is my favourite russian tech example. it can take so much punishment and still keep going. in my opinion its the best helicopter of its class and time.
Ah so the reason is that you typically need tanks on the inner pylons and pod on centerline so there is no space but other than that the SD10/LD10 wrecks your engine on the way out of fired from inner or centerline pylons.
The engine should learn to hold its breath lol.
You guys are wrong either in understanding what I said or just talking about tangential stuff that wasn't being referred to. I may or may not be right I never really know.
The gun also doesn't have any spread which is not useful for A/A. All this may be cus designers know this thing won't catch up to any plane to hit with bullets. Dog fights will only happen if other side wants it. Otherwise it's all missiles.
Today's ground targets in "realistic environments" are Toyota trucks and houses as seen through your TGP.
I dont know if fly-by-wire lets these through. The jet is much smaller than the tomcat so a bit stiffer? i guess and it shouldn't shake as much, i think thats why they have the artificial aoa warning sound.