Harlikwin
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9 hours ago, Volator said:
That's a rather optimistic estimate
Hope springs eternal and all that.
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On 8/13/2025 at 4:57 AM, yufighter said:
It seems that this project has been shut down, it is not on the list.
Yeah 90% chance its dead along with the rest of razbam. Hard to run a company on hope rather than cash.
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On 8/19/2025 at 10:00 PM, F-2 said:
I recently got to look at some Westinghouse documents at a museum. On the apg-68, a block 40 (v)1 manual from 1989 and a (v)5 manual from 1995. You’re completely correct they almost look like different Radars.
the (v)1 in air to air is more similar to APG-66
RANGE WHILE SEARCH
UPLOOK SEARCH
AIR COMBAT MANEUVERING
VELOCITY SEARCH
TRACK WHILE SCAN
SINGLE TARGET TRACK
SITUATION AWARENESS MODE
Maybe VS uses HPRF but I was surprised that the modes are so different from the (V)5 which seems to reflect the DCS radar.
interestingly AMRAAM was already In the manual.
I usually am
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3 hours ago, SuperKermit said:
I am a bit confused by the functionality of the 300-600m gun range button with the different IR missiles.
What I (think I have) learned:
- AIM-9B: no function
- AIM-9P, J: uncage (once a lock-on is achieved), only as long as the button is pressed
- AIM-9JULI: SEAM?
- R.550: boresight mode with reduced 5° FOV (from 20°) as long as the button is pressed
- R.530F IR: no clue. What does it do?
Is that correct? Could anybody please elaborate on the 530F IR?
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.
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Holy cow this is amazing... We need this in DCS yesterday!
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6 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:
Yes.
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.
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11 hours ago, Dragon1-1 said:
You sure those Iraqi mods weren't indigenous additions? Because they did not, in fact, get any better gear from the Soviets than any other 3rd world country, MiG-29 included. They didn't even get the R-27T and R-73, which miffed them somewhat. They did figure out how to mod the MiGs that they did get, though.
No, they might have demanded good gear, but they actually got the same monkey models the rest of the Middle East got. If they didn't, the Gulf War would not have been quite the cakewalk it was (assuming they knew how to use the fancier tech, their big problem was training).
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.
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9 hours ago, AvgeekJoe said:
Thanks for this. I checked and the Blue Fox radar mk 1 DID go to the Falklands. Shoot, so whoever develops the Sea Harrier is going to have to INFER radar performance. Sea Harrier radars weren't all that useful over the 1982 Falklands skies though...
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.
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On 7/1/2024 at 12:47 AM, Temetre said:
Hm, reading up about soviet radars currently, am I seeing right that the Mig-29A doesnt actually got a 'real' Pulse Doppler radar?
Mig-29A should have the N019 Sapfir 29 from what I see, which seems like its derived from the Mig-23ML. As in, its basically a pulse radar with MTI filter that mainly just removes some of the clutter. Similar principle, if different execution, as the Mirage F-1 radar. So if thats correct, it should be vastly inferior to true PD radars like in the Mirage 2000, F-14 and potentially even the F-4Ns AWG-10.
Curious, is that correct, whats your thoughts on that?
The later mig23 radars were also PD, though a "weird" externally coherent PD.
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1 minute ago, AeriaGloria said:
Dogon is just the MPRF mode every MiG-29 has.
You are referring to “SP” or “Free Space” mode where targets where plotted by azimuth-velocity, and was supposedly so disliked by Soviet MiG-29 crews it was removed after 2-3 batches, thus you won’t see any pictures with it really.
Thanks for the correction. I just recall it was missing some free search mode.
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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.
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On 4/6/2025 at 1:08 PM, F-2 said:
Iraq’s migs were not equipped with R-73 but they were capable of using them. The Iraqi Fulcrum was a 9.12B and it was specially de modified the Soviets simply didn’t include it.
Exactly this. CZ never bought the R-73 either, not sure on the DDR or Poland. But everyone's 29 could use the 73.
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On 4/19/2025 at 5:34 PM, AeriaGloria said:
What evidence is there of that? All I know is that both 9.12 and 9.12A use Parol-2D. 9.12B is using more similar to Kremnij-2M of MiG-21/23 with 8BK code selector. In addition, differences between 9.12 and 9.12A are that 9.12A is using N-019E and export version of KOLS, though both are supposed to have identical performance to their domestic counterparts. In addition the 9.12A is missing Cipher 4-15 on its Datalink panel, which means it cannot connect to any Beryuza datalink ground stations, thus limiting them to Lazur/Vozduch-1M.
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.
On 4/19/2025 at 3:39 PM, Dragon1-1 said:Iraqi were not WP, though, they were vastly inferior models for the 3rd world. The only difference between Soviet and WP version was the IFF.
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.
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On 1/18/2025 at 9:16 PM, rkk01 said:
Ahhh well - all is now resolved…
we can’t have a Sea Harrier FRS.1 to fly from HMS Invincible, because the 1970s era Blue Fox radar is STILL CLASSIFIED
… but we can look forward to flying an F-35 from HMS Queen Elizabeth, because that’s OK…
BONKERS
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.
On 1/19/2025 at 9:15 AM, AvgeekJoe said:I share your frustation. The 1982 Falklands War would be a fun sim to play out.
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.
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On 1/22/2025 at 5:54 AM, okopanja said:
There were 2 more on March 26th. Go to FF Mig-29 forum section and you will find 4 stories I published so far.
https://forum.dcs.world/forum/1217-dcs-mig-29a-fulcrum/
I think ED should allow at least for mission maker/server to enforce missing features.
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.
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7 minutes ago, Kev2go said:
He has point the F15C radar has fixed detection ranges in the sense it doesn't take into account probability of detection.
Unless somethings changed recently and i missed it in the patch notes.
I mean FC3 radar is FC3 radar... Hopefully eventually the bulk of FF radars get to the point they are as well modeled the F15E radar model.
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On 1/20/2025 at 4:32 AM, bies said:
Yes, things were going fast during the Cold War. A cold, but still like a war. F-15A production started 1974, 1976 became fully operational and in strenght in Europe, 1979 production of both F-15C and F-16A started. F-15A went to second-grade units, air defence, National Air Guard.
Ehhh, the availability of the early F15A/C was absolutely abysmal. Like ~25% or so per the docs, the best squadron in 79 had a 50% availability rate. The APG-63 MTBF was measured in like double digit hours as well then. "in strength" in europe never exceeded 100 planes, with like less than half actually flying in the 70's. All that changed after Regan took office but it took a few years too.
On 1/20/2025 at 1:54 PM, Raven (Elysian Angel) said:Yes, but I understand resources are limited so that's why I asked what the cockpit differences are. The F-15E having EGI didn't bother me since you can set the mission date at a point where no GPS is available - perhaps I simply don't know enough about the real aircraft but I never noticed anything in the cockpit (panels etc) that looked out-of-place for an early-'90s bird - luckily we had the older UFC at launch.
So if the cockpit of the MSIP II F-15C was exactly the same between late '80s and mid-2000s (and that seems to be the case), simple checkboxes in Special Options can achieve something that would otherwise take a new cockpit with certain panels removed and/or moved around.Yeah, it would be great if ED actually did that. But with their track record I'd basically expect, nope.
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On 1/20/2025 at 12:20 PM, Death_Angel said:
They don't have to model all the bases, only a couple would suffice for an awesome cold war campaign!
Yup like 3-4 would be fine.
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16 hours ago, twistking said:
An A variant would be relatively similar to an early C, correct?
There are some differences, but basically for early 80's before the C started to get the MSIP upgrades it was similar enough. Though I bet no DCS fighter aces want to fly without Chaff/Flares, well aside from whats packed into the airbrake.
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1 hour ago, twistking said:
If there's no way to "dial it back" to a 80s/90s version than i'm not that interested.
With the Cold War Germany map on the horizon, why would anyone be interested in yet another 2000s aircraft...Well, here is the part you don't know, with the current president Germany is gona be the 67th state or something like that.
2 minutes ago, Bremspropeller said:Not just that.
With multiple 3rd party devs bringing out several variants of their jets with one packege, ED won't get away with just providing one variant at the same price IMHO.
Yeah, that is a good point.
3 minutes ago, fargo007 said:But then what about it's relationship to the other more contemporary maps? Syria, Iraq, PG, Kola..... End of the day, they have to pick a horse and ride it.
I mean honestly I was really underwhelmed with Sinai when it came out cuz 73... But well recent world events have made the "modern" map at least somewhat relevant. And a "modern" eagle would fit Syria pretty well too. So like there are maps that a 05 eagle would fit, but really I find the whole obsession with modern silly as there is no modern opfor. Though I guess if we are doing the F35, that might mean other "modern" red jets could be made to the same standard of fidelity. J-15 Ayooo.
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4 hours ago, F-2 said:
I can’t speak for the helmet or Datalink but I don’t think apg-63(v)1 should be noticeable different to the pilot.
Yeah... I honestly don't know why its so hard to add a tick box to disable stuff like JHMCs or DL for devs. It would make the plane a ton more popular across more eras that it doesn't quite fit in, instead of server owners trying various hacks to make stuff fit. It would be a nice "nod" to the community TBH.
44 minutes ago, SuperKermit said:Exactly, same here.
I would much prefer a version that replicates a Cold War gone hot scenario. To me the F-15 is the pinnacle of fighter design of that era. And that ended - at least per my definition - with the fall of the Berlin Wall in '89.The addition of all the later developments just dilutes this experience.
Yeah same... Like a F15A for the early 80's vs the mig29 would be at least a realistic matchup. A 2005 F15C with DL/HMCS and the bells and whistles vs a 1983 at best mig29 with well, lemme see, a seat cushion I guess. Isn't exactly the best matchup. Though I know redfor guys will make the best of it.
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29 minutes ago, Wizard_03 said:
Yeah its bizarre to me. Why are we talking about bombs we should be talking about shooting things down.
Yup. The F15C was at least in "the press" not a pound for air to ground. And we have the F15E for A/G.
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1 minute ago, Hobel said:
yeah i see.
What about new modern ground radars or Awacs?
Now that this door has opened, more modern sams and ground radars should also find their way to DCS ?IDK, maybe. But like they would have to actually model the whole modern battlespace, which well... Not trivial. Considering we don't even really have a 60's level IADS implementation I wouldn't hold your breath.
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Mirage F1 Sidewinder lock
in DCS: Mirage F1
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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.