DmitriKozlowsky

Tornado with South Atlantic map, emulating fictional conflicts, in Patagonia, Tierra-Del-Fuego and Drake Passage, would be such a sweet combo. Especially on fjords, channel islands, and highlands on Pacific side. Snaking the along between islands, islets, cliffs, at 100-200 ft, to strike at ground and naval targets. Whole area is a maze of terrain and water. Chile remains a solid Western ally, Argentina, sadly, has been slipping into clutches of SCO. Especially China. Russia also is taking advantage of Argentinian dissatisfaction with US, OAS, and EU. With oil and gas deposits and potential opening of Northern Antarctica to resources exploitation. Area is ripe for conflict.

I used to question this myself. Still do. But it appears to be correct behavior in fast forward flight and has to do with dyssymetry of lift in coaxial (or contrarotating) rotor system, and as lower disk is always in flow 'shadow' of upper disk. So I take as correct, as a given, and fly. I recall back in late 1980's and early 1990's either a Russian general or Western general officer saying this was a weakness, as it required combat hard maneuvering to the left when breaking to avoid attack, or response. When turning hard, lower collective as much as possible, regardless of turn direction. Rolls should be done with extreme care in such helicopters. A Russian Air Force helicopter general bought it when put then new KA-50 into prohibited regime, which caused his rotor disks to intersect. He did not eject. There are advantages over main/tail rotor rigs. LTE is never an issue, as there is no tail rotor. Settling with power risk is reduced, but is still there. Faster Vne. Contrarotating helicopters are faster then similar rotor diameter main/tail rotor types. KA-50 in DCS can haul 280kpb and approach 300 kph, 180-but must be flow with care at that speed. Apache starts to blade stall and roll to the left at 240kph. In my odd experience with empty DCS Apache with 40% fuel. At around above 135 knots, I get uncommanded rolls to the left, that must be countered with right cyclic. With 150 knots being Apache's Vne in DCS, but I think of 140-145 knots as its effective Vne. For fast forward flight try lowering collecting and aft on cyclic , that may reduce disk tip distance. If you Vne chirp, drop collective immediately, either center cyclic or slight aft on cyclic to slow down. CHirp gives few seconds and 1-3 more knots of speed before rotor disks intersect. Americans don't seem to like this layout, and have avoided it, but are now back to it with rigid rotor contra-rotating. Americans have had better results with intermeshing rotors of Kaman Husky and Kaman K-Max.

Has ED and its 3rd party have tested and benchmarked DCS with Intel ARC GPU? 1. Is it compatible? 2. Is Intel ARC effective platform for DCS? 3. Baseline 100FPS system with Intel CPU and Intel ARC to run DCS at 1440P with High settings at 100FPS? Module would be DCS: KA-50BS2 4. Relative performance to same system with RTX 3060Ti FE.

Not that I am wishing or asking. I am curious what people think of AMX A-11/A-1 Brazilian-Italian colab. Light, single seat, air-ground. Does have Vulcan and can carry 2 X AIM-9M, Brazilian Piranha all aspect late gen IR/CCD, and South African Darter. Perhaps, but not certain, Israeli Python. Not in news a lot, but plenty in inflight refueling mishaps on YT.

I admit. I am now launching DCS, not to play, but to see what new module or theater is announced. Even thou we now have, or will have a plethora of European types I still hope that following are offered; 1. SEPCAT Jaguar 2. Hawker Hunter 3. Super Etendard 4. F8N Crusader (late model USN/USMC and French Navy) 5. Blackburn Buccaneer (Desert Storm/Desert Shield modernized). 6. A-7D USN/USANG, HAF outgoing variant. 7. A-4M Super Skyhawk II 8. SUper Lynx 9. AW101 Merlin Chinese AI: JH-7, J-8, Q-5

AFAIK COIN starts with OV-10, picks up Pucara, and ends with A-29. Everybody else is also-ran. After two decades in Af/Pak. A-10C and AH-64 are tops for plinking terror-dogs with manned systems. Best COIN work is drone. Ukraine does that show that drones have limits in unpermissive environments.

Thats is unfortunate. But doesn't all of NATO send their retired airframes for storage at AMARC at Davis-Montham in Arizona. Becouse of dry climate. There are a lot of European airframes in that place. THere is also another facility at Palmdale Air-Space Port that is used for civil airliners, I beleive. Not far from AMARAC there is a US Army facility for storage of reserve armored vehicles. Thousands of M1, M2 Bradleys, M113, and Marine LAV-25 just sitting in desert waiting for remanufacture. Army wants to turn those into razor blades but Congress won't let em. As older M1 are rebuilt into new M1s at Lima, Ohio Tank Plant. Buccaner was such a handsome pretty airframe. What happened to all those 1050's-1960's British aerospace firms. All folded or got merged I guess. Like British auto makers.

G-1R was a European project , for NATO, that was cheap, built in large numbers, and could operate from rough and damaged fields. It was used as AG. Early models were evaled by US Army as close support and AFAC (Army) in 1961 . Then US Army got out of business of operating fixed wing tactical jets, and USAF declined to pursue G-91R. By no means an F-8 Crusader, the little Fiat carried 4 cannons, and rocket pods. It was a gunfighter. I may check it out. I doubt I would pay $80 for module. But then I told myself I would not get F-5. But then F-5 was on sale for $24 and I got it, and liked it, have no regrets. If I am away from DCS for weeks, due to work or life or stress, or high end fixed wing module. I do some basic solo flights in F-5E first. In fact, even with dedicated trainers in DCS, I still 1st recommend that new DCS players get competent in F-5E VFR and daylight attack, before dedicating serious time to higher end modules like AV-B/NA (LOVE IT!), F/A-18C(like it). F-5 is T-38 of DCS. If G-91R brings simple daylight strafe with guns and rockets and low tech visual ACM type, faithfully recreated, then its something to look forward to.

Can't really argue the points. I just got the map, and I am damn impressed. Really nice for fast jets. Baked shadows, not something I noticed, and don't bother me. In real world tactical simulators those are an issue. Shadows, since antiquity, are a warrior's friend. Things hide in shadows. Things that kill. Ground and air warriors train to look in the shadows, be wary of them, and use them. There are 'white' papers on image processing to reduce those. But for us I'd rather have lower quality maps down low and keep FPS, then trade FPS for resolution. One thing I notice in SouthAtl, is just how dark the areas are during night. I never been there in RL. In other DCS maps, well most of them to one degree or another, at night with clear skies, I can just make out major terrain features due to DCS moonlight, and roads. In this map , terrain at night is creepy dark scary. NVG help, FLIR a bit. But to fly at night in this map without tech aids,using MK1 optics, I need to shut off all lights and wait in dark for 10 minutes, to get my night vision. Monitor panels don't help either. Time to get a red filter for my ring lights. Perhaps that is a que to upgrade to VR. Have to practice and practice low level night navigation. The sound of the wind is nicely replicated. Gives a nice chilly ambiance. Average wind speed in Falklands is around 21-25 knots. Almost the wind over deck in carrier during flight operations.

Are the cable arrestor system at Mt.Pleasant 10-28 runway functional or eye candy? Or is this something else?

Looking with a more critical eye, I do have to concede that South Georgia appears to be outside scope of the map.

S. Georgia is within the scope of the map, as it appears. But I was doing visual inspection comparing Google Earth globe to Mercator or spherical projection in DCS. So perhaps I am in error. I did state that the islands off Antarctic shelf on other side of Drake Passage are outside of scope of South Atl. S. Georgia was within Falklands War theater. First landings , by Argentines, were on S. Georgia. Today South Georgia is still in 'play' as significant oil and gas fields have been claimed by UK. Something that is challenged by Argentina.

South Georgia would be added later on I guess. At moment there is water where S. Georgia should be. South Shetland Island , Seal Islands, and South Orkneys are further South then map extent. So thats that. That covers Drake Passage.

AD-1 Skyraider is an important aircraft , serving through most of Cold War in many theaters in multiple services of multiple flags. I hate taildraggers, but I get this one for its Vietnam COIN work. SO? Is passive aggressive snark. Thus has no answer.

Even with quick dumb math. If a user has all existing and known upcoming modules and terrains , campaigns excluded, he or she is looking at over a $1200 (USD) spent on what started as free combat simulation game. Probably close to $1500.

So I got SouthAtl map. Looks great from altitude. Looking to have fun with it. What are those piles of pebbles to the left of Mt.Pleasant runway 28? Is it a buried tactical approach system? Or just pile of rocks.

Now we are gettting G-91R. Basically an advanced Gen 3 version of Sabrejet. Which is great! Its an interesting Cold War type, was used by Europeans for a long time. Into mid 1990's.

Looks like Pilatus

In 20-30 years maybe. As they are being retired. Electronic warfare is way too classified to be simulated. Best 'emulated' by AI, reducing chances of being hit or tracked. I think we may get E/F SuperHornet though not Block 3. Way too high tech and classified. We are getting F-15E but not the 'E' of today and not EX. I have no idea how close Typhoon will be. Tornado should be nice GR.1 IDS/ECR variant. ED only works with available open source data. Hence no real Russian or Chinese, except retired Mig-21. Though Mig-29A/C/G have very good approximate flight models but emulated avionics and no full pit. Newly announced Italian GR.1 which is very advanced Sabre (no really) it started as advanced Sabre for NATO air forces, is interesting. Because it was in service for so long. We really are getting bombarded with cluster munition of various types. From small COIN to large C-130 transports. New terrains are welcome. I just splurged for South Atlantic.

Well an accurate German Tornado IDS from 1989-1991 is IDS (UK GR.1), and ECR (SEAD) variants of Luftwaffe. GR.4 only came after Desert Storm lessons learned and losses sustained. GR.4 working in 1999 during Allied Force, Iraq, and serving till 2019 we won't be getting. One little detail, I am fuzzy on, is whether Kriegsmarine and RAF Tornadoes task with anti-shipping, and armed with Cormorant ASM, had extra plumbing and avionics for anti-surface mission or if IDS/GR.1 had built capability for that munition. Anyways this mod should fit very well with Kola Penninsula theater. Working with DCS: Viggens to sink ships.

British hold on to their reserves longer then many others. I think that their JFH Harriers are in 'deep' storage. Meaning they can be brought up to operational level from 3 to 6 months, depending on emergency. Some systems they carry on over to other airframes, when possible. Very frugal, our British cousins. Same applies to Tornadoes. There are websites dedicated to coming and going of airframes at Davis-Monthan AFB in AZ. Not a lot of British Tornadoes are there. In forty years, same thing will happen to British Typhoons and F-35's.

Single seat high speed low altitude fighter-bomber. Sign me up.

Looking forward to NOE computer + radar, allowing 600 KIAS at 200 feet AGL in all weather. Similar to F-111 TFR. How similar I do not know yet. Did Germans plumb their Tornadoes for JP233 delivery? Then there ALARM missiles for SEAD work, which was primary mission of Italian Tornadoes. Tornado was nowhere near a dogfight airframe. ACM was not its thing, it seems.

Tornado! Dear Lord, I hope the flight model and avionics, except classified ECM and secure comms, are modeled faithfully. They claim 1989 IDS variant, but it really is 1991-1995 from Desert Storm to 1999 Allied FOrce (Serbia) model. I am curious what the nitty gritty differences between German and British strike variants. Hope we get Kormoran anti-ship missile. Used by Kriegsmarine Tornado squadrons.

Everybody does that. A quick checkmark on kneeboard map, made by computer, is as good as having digital navigation display. That task in real life, marking the map current position by hand, is incredibly difficult, and takes a lot of experience. Mounted land navigation is a martial skill, and a perishable one.