Harlikwin

Depends, the issue is likely if someone is developing it within russian with russian docs. Or outside of russia, with non russian docs... Say... IDK polish ones for the su22. (hint russia never used the 22)

Sad... No one cares about maps from the 2000's... The historical map would be far more cool and relevant say from 67...

Is this modern or historical map?

Precisely. I hope its not gonna be like the gaz. Well, it could be like the gaz, but I still want an AI gunner for launching missiles while I fly the helo.

Honestly we don't really know about the numbers for the Jeff, but I imagine the Chinese market bought it quite a bit, and it seems like its a big market for DCS.

Cool, what fictional radar features will our magical AESA radar have then?

I like the look of the earlier J10A myself. As for the release, who knows maybe ED's new policy means we get to find out in the next few weeks.

IDK, the whole SU-22 thing could be resolved by either the devs teaming up on it, or doing different variants. Plenty of interest in both the late and early cold war.

How about an AI gunner? I mean IDK exactly how it works on the ED helos but it should be the same sort of thing on any helo. look here command shoot etc.

So, the J10 (early one) shares a ton with the JF-17 so they might be able to do that. There is a fairly decent J10 mod out using the JF17 as the base already. But it all boils down to the politics of how that works for them. I think they have stated they can't do "modern" Chinese planes, or "currently in service planes. So unless thats changed I kinda doubt we will see a su-30mkk or a J-10. That being said I think the flanker would sell better than a J10. They also did say at one point they got MFD burnout and wanted to do an older plane, but lord knows what that could be.

Well the guy just above showed you how wrong that was, but plenty of early missiles used vacuum tube electronics.

Yeah It was a hybrid AFAIK. Pretty typical electronically of that era where engineers knew how to do some stuff better analog, and other stuff could be done digitally. A/D sampling was the major issue back then, which wasn't really solved "well" till the mid/late 70's.

9G still had some tubes, 9H was the first fully solid state navy winder.

There is nothing official about it being cancelled. And actually that line between "soviet" and "russian" is actually pretty interesting and could actually be good news in many ways. Well I guess not if you want a modern flanker or something tho.

So just had a weird failure for my Jetseat/simshaker. Its no longer being recognized as a USB device. I can plug it in but it then fails (Device Descriptor Request Failed). Is there a fix for this? Honestly I think its happened before to me a year or two back.

The time sequence is already in the thread. And we are talking about the 9B not the 9D/G/H (which don't even exist in DCS currently). Though the D doesn't uncage either. For navy missiles that started with the 9G, and for the AF the 9E was the first one with uncage while still on the plane. I don't recall off the top of my head buy I'm pretty sure there is a launch limit for the 9B and the derived R3S (seeker on that one should also work like the mirage F1 9B as well if other devs wanna follow along). Though that missile should have a longer lifetime and different/better motor.

Thats good to know and not really that surprising. On the upside it should have the expanded SEAM search pattern. So the only radar slaveable IR missile should be the 530IR in that case.

Why would the sunlit side of the building be the same temp as the non sunlit side?

Yeah I mean honestly you also have reflection as a major component of things in MWIR as well. Esp from water and other IR reflective surfaces which may be stuff you conventionally think about or maybe not. Remember in IR world what you see is a combination of emissivity and reflectivity. And also from a seekers perspective it mainly cares if it has enough contrast to actually "see" something. The hand and the ring are the same temp, yet...

Yeah same issue with this on ECW MP. He says the fire command, but doesn't actually fire. Its new with the last patch as well. Also he will sometimes later randomly yeet off the AT6 at nothing.

There are plenty of commercial simulators specifically for this sort of thing. Though how difficult it would be to implement that is another story. Like its very easy to "understand" like a hot engine... But most people don't realize like a rooftop in IR is gonna give you very similar signature. Or in the case of these sorts of primitive seekers imagine if you have a nice cool plot of forest with some small clearings and rocks that are "warm" thats also gonna give the seeker what its looking for. And since stuff like "buildings" don't really "exist" in DCS the same way as units do IDK how they might approach it.

Yeah I'm not arguing that point at all, its well documented that it was done. Though I really wonder how you guys are gonna model that. I guess you have heat values for vehicles for your FLIR model, but it doesn't really seem like there is anything for actual background objects, and honestly I haven't seen alot of studies on how effective targeting ground vehicles really was with different types of missiles, everything I've seen is highly anecdotal. 9X ground targeting is a whole other can of worms since it actually has an imaging seeker where nothing this old did. Also found your missile in that photo, looks to be an AGM-87 FOCUS missile developed during VN at china lake. It was a sidewinder derivative but both the seeker section and guidance section were modified so it could better be used against ground targets. Very likely the spatial filtering was modified. Here it is on a Huey

There were multiple techniques and filters to do just that actually depending on which specific missile you are talking about. By the time you get to the 9L/M even more sophisticated processing was being used. For example, the R60M contains two sets of optical filters in addition to the primary seeker dome material that also acts as filter. And its reticle design looks interesting as well, though thats more for spatial filtering.

Broadly speaking I think we are in agreement. But, it all depends on your understanding of "hot" and where in the IR spectrum you are looking, in fact germanium elements were used in the optical design precisely to cut out "hot" stuff spectrally speaking to reduce clutter and ultimately flare rejection as well. For the R60M in Afghanistan case and I believe the Vietnam and Angola uses cases as well, they were used at night where you basically didn't have any reflective clutter on the ground, so when you locked something "blindly" you could be reasonable certain it was an actual target.

Yeah that would be the button. It should work as uncage for the 9J/P/JULI (JULI is likely more complicated since its a 9L-Li upgraded seeker head/logic that can do fancy stuff if the weapons computer is up for it) And for the 550 (which defaults to a wide SEAM like autolock pattern) that same button commands a "narow" search instead of the wide one. So like instead of uncage, its more like return to cage. Currently the whole autolock thing is a major pain on MP servers as the missile will often lock the wrong target in furballs. Which was why IRL you had either the narow seeker FOV and the uncage button. Or in the case of the magic the lock whatever is on the boresight button, though the expanded seeker search by default could also be a big advantage.