Harlikwin

Yeah I think thats an older pic. And you are correct that it has the wide scan, by default and you force it into a narrow scan.

Hope springs eternal and all that.

Yeah 90% chance its dead along with the rest of razbam. Hard to run a company on hope rather than cash.

Its correct for the 9B, it can't uncage. 9P/J can uncage once locked (others too) IDK on JULI, maybe thats right. Correct for the 550. I don't think the 530F had anything like uncage, it was a really primitive missile.

Holy cow this is amazing... We need this in DCS yesterday!

This is the saddest commentary on DCS. If you need a stand in (which you shouldn't in any reasonable game) the I-16 is way closer FM wise and even comes with a japanese skin.

Uh where else are they gonna get spo-15 from. The CM dispensers were from the MLD as well IIRC. After the disastrous first year of the war the Soviets were pretty amenable to upgrading Iraqi jets and capabilities.

Still no docs for the MK1 tho. The Anderwave stuff came later but from what I heard all the known manuals are/were for the later radars. It's not even performance really, it's literally the buttonology/modes that aren't known. Other than that it was a fairly simple pulse radar for the mk1.

The later mig23 radars were also PD, though a "weird" externally coherent PD.

Thanks for the correction. I just recall it was missing some free search mode.

I mostly hope that IRST doesn't see thru clouds... We got Fog impacting IR stuff recently so I'm hopeful actual clouds blocking IR comes before or with the release of the 29. Also KOLS was mostly to be used for weapon systems Cueing, the IRST "functionality" was pretty terrible according to pilots with major clutter problems, which makes sense given that it doesn't really have much in the way of clutter processing per the TM.

Exactly this. CZ never bought the R-73 either, not sure on the DDR or Poland. But everyone's 29 could use the 73.

The export radar was missing one mode "dogon" IIRC. KOLS is a more interesting question but I don't have proof one way or the other, but I suspect there may be differences. But yes you got the other stuff right. Iraqis generally demanded, and generally got pretty good gear from the SU. Their mig23MLA was upgraded well beyond standard soviet jets. It had a SPO-15, extra CM's etc. So I doubt their export 29's were anything other than what the WP got, maybe they stripped out the DL stuff at best.

Yeah unfortunately some the later Blue Fox ECCM tech made it into captor and other radars and thats still classed. So there are no docs on the radar at all (destroyed in fact from what I heard). Ron mentioned they could do the Gr3 and there were enough docs for that. But well, given the current state of things thats unlikely too. I mean, we don't have the 82 version of the map. (probably the easiest thing to fix, given its just using the "delete" tool) We don't have a FRS.1 or GR.3 and likely never will. We don't have a mirage III of any sort or even one in the pipeline. The state of DCS ships/radars/sams is well in a word "grim" from a modeling/realism standpoint. So well... it is what it is unfortunately.

LOL this thread is now in "discussion" which basically means ED doesn't care, this is where threads goto die basically. Based on previous ED decisions, we will get the 2005 whether we like it or not, with no provisions for a downgrade, just like the F16/18.