DmitriKozlowsky

Obviously the Plus+ variant option with SuperHornet radar with AIM-120C and AIM-9X cap. Also would not mind Hellfire and/or Brimstone for anti-tank work. HarrierII likely can carry those munitions, though not in real world. But Marines did put laser guided Hellfires on MC-130K tanker in AfPak. I think that rate of fire of GAU-12 is low compared to RW. Watching YT videos of GAU-12 testing seems its more like GAU-8 on rate and sound.

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Red+Bull+Cobra+hit+the+concrete+roof+of+an+airport+fuel+station+in+Salzburg&ru=%2fvideos%2fsearch%3fq%3dRed%2bBull%2bCobra%2bhit%2bthe%2bconcrete%2broof%2bof%2ban%2bairport%2bfuel%2bstation%2bin%2bSalzburg%26FORM%3dHDRSC3&view=detail&mid=80C0F30F044E7C8C9D7580C0F30F044E7C8C9D75&rvsmid=9955B413B86A59D7E7D89955B413B86A59D7E7D8&FORM=VDQVAP Now compare that with attached TRK. Which allowed me to safely shut down, request repair. Of course the helicopter was left in place by repair crew in a way that makes it impossible to start it up , due to interference of lighting pole with rotor. An unrealistic feature of DCS rotors. The kind of damage expected should have destroyed the helicopter. Gazelle_blade_strike_lightDamage_repair.trk

The above example of Red Bull Cobra blade strike is kind of damage we should expect. Hit a building with blades IGE in DCS: Gazelle, and all that happens is blade tips shear off and aircraft settles a bit rough on ground but not catastrophically so. A blade strike in hard object, not grass, should violently and catastrophically disassemble the hub, engine, transmission, and fuselage housing. https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=Red+Bull+Cobra+hit+the+concrete+roof+of+an+airport+fuel+station+in+Salzburg&&view=detail&mid=479A4C9059893468922A479A4C9059893468922A&&FORM=VRDGAR&ru=%2Fvideos%2Fsearch%3Fq%3DRed%2BBull%2BCobra%2Bhit%2Bthe%2Bconcrete%2Broof%2Bof%2Ban%2Bairport%2Bfuel%2Bstation%2Bin%2BSalzburg%26FORM%3DHDRSC3

I got it up to almost 40K with 1200 fuel , TPOD centerline, and 2 X AIM-9M. However inflight refueling with 250 KIAS, is much easier at 15K. I just discovered, since last 2.7.10X update that below 250 AGL in Cyprus, there is now significant low level buffeting. So NOE tactical flight is a bit more challenging now, but feels more real.

OK then. DECM operation is automatic when set to RPT. How do we know when it is jamming ? Is there any feedback? SO Mini Jammer has no connection to DECM pod. So what is it?

Aircraft specific detailed mission planner. With turn raddi, based on GW, VNE based on loadout, elevation accurate ground track with elevation profile, weapon release envelope.

How do we know Mini Jammer (aka DECM pod) is working? When set to REPEAT (i.e. active) does it flash when jamming? What exactly does Mini Jammer button press (long) do?

IR/Lowlight goggles. Common, even wild hog hunters in Texas have better scopes and goggles then DCS pilots.

The Reb Bull Cobra is more like it. Also Now thats blade strike damage!

That is grass. I am talking about blades hitting a building, or ground on over rotation, or light pole. I read 'Chickenhawk' . Great book. Required reading when I was in Reserves . Along with 'Gates Of Fire', 'The Ten Thousand', and 'Team Yankee'.

If blades strike something, not only blades, but entire hub and transmission usually are destroyed. Right now blade tips just shear off, but everything else keeps working. This would appreciated in real world, but simply not so.

Is there ECM equipment in vertical stab fairing? Do we really have to lug an ALQ pod, where a center tank should be? BTW where is ALQ-131?

OK, how do I export them in first place?

What to do when TPOD is pointing into nowhere? So I get this issue often. For some reason, TPOD winds pointing to nowhere, and there is no caret pointer in TGP view as to where it is. TPOD wont re-center. Cycling STBY does not resolve. I try just holding down HOTAS in one axis then another, but TPOD never shows anything except grey. It is functionally very confusing.

MFD Export ala AV-8B/NA and M2KC. MFD are too small in F-16C

So the obvious question. Why is DCS ATC giving us useless QFE?

Perhaps I am incorrect. Or how this should be handled in RL. But I disregard DCS: ATC QFE or QNH calls. In DCS any start in air, will have altimeter set automatically correct. Mostly I start cold from ramp. I set the altimeter, after start up, to Electric source, and set QFE/QNH rotary so that altimeter reads same elevation as my parked aircraft , which I get from F2 or F10 view. Note that this is for air data sensor fed altimeter. NOT the radar altimeter, which is a different instrument. But there is also a procedure that states that altimeter should be adjusted such that it reads ZERO on parked aircraft. So that if you landing at same field that was departure field, and there is no radar altimeter, you know exactly how high you are above ground. My inner voice tells me to set my altimeter so that it reads same elevation as my parked aircraft. This makes more sense to me. QNH and QFE difference is both simple and confusing at same time. QFE is Query Field Elevation above mean sea level corrected for ambient temperature. In DCS, and in RL, 20C(68F) at sea level the altimeter setting is 29.92. In DCS, and about same in RL, air data altimeters are accurate to 33 feet. I was skeptical at first. But apparently air pressure at 33 feet above sea level has measurable difference then at ground level.

Projecting TPOD FLIR onto HUD,ala F-15E and AV-8B/NA.

Fast Attack Craft Hydrofoils from East and West and armed River patrol boats

Proximity Warning and ATC marshaling to prevent mid-air collisions in approach and landing patern.

There is a weird issue with padlock. It manifests itself when activated on high overhead angle view. If you padlock point in sky overhead, you will not be able to un-padlockit. View will permanently snap view back to that point, and the only way is to end mission. I think its a bug.

OK. But SC still needs to have ball and clara calls to AV-8B.

In Gulf '91 there were few combat missions flown. CV-59 deck texture even has that old axial deck line for Harriers, that was originally painted for experimental C-130 SuperCOD trials. It is a rare thing for Harriers to operate off CV, and I believe that when they do, they use axial deck line and start mid ships but outside landing area foul lines and run between cats and off the bow. In DCS, there is really no good reason why Harrier mission cannot be flown from CVN and recover on same. But without calls, LSO will always grade Harrier recovery as UNSAFE.

Odd padlock issue. Padlock point in sky directly overhead. CANNOT break padlock If I padlock a point in sky or target overhead. That padlock cannot be unpadlocked. Attempt to do so fails, and Center View snaps view back to point overhead, previously padlocked. Mission has has to be ended. Problem does not exist on padlocking at eyelevel or below own plane. Weird. May be its a DCS issue as I sometimes experience this in Mirage and AV-8B.