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Well I suppose that settles it. I guess not that surprising given the R23 also used a monopulse seeker head. I guess the main issue for sparrow was miniaturizing it all.

the low low price of 69.99 (my guess)

Yeah I know. IDK, maybe I'll try to see if its doable.

I have some serious doubts that the original 530 was actually a monopulse seeker given its development date. The 530D for sure was, and I'm not really confident even the 530F was a monopulse seeker.

Exocet is in the game on ships currently... Might be able to hack it onto the F1. Might be able to dumbfire it or something that way.

Yup thats the one I was alluding to. Though amusingly Uboats at one point mentioned deka had an interest in doing it. And given that china had a flyable 105 at one point (built from parts) I do really wonder about that.

So will we get our patchwork "early" and "iranian" models before F4 hits? Most early ones were not very good for lots of technical reasons. At best under good conditions they could spot stuff like supersonic bombers kinda ok.

Yeah I have a feeling there will be a long time till the next update or something official.

And the F15E by raz.

Well the M2k and tomcat radars seem decently well done. However alot of other modules namely the F16/18 leave a good amount to be desired.

Well, DCS modeling of various fox2 is just kinda bad overall. I don't think ED is gonna improve it much or accurately given the current level of DCS radar modeling or the FLIR model.

Never ever assume that. Its actually pretty hard to find any relevant info on several of the century series of fighters. Docs get lost, binned, burned, or otherwise destroyed. Literally the F14 exists in DCS today because of a single ebay auction for a manual that shouldn't have been there. We literally are not getting a Sea Harrier, because Razbam cannot find any info on the actual radar used and the MOD has classified it because it might give hints about what replaced that radar. Or if we do end up getting it, the radar might be entirely made up. So just cuz something is "old" doesn't mean its easy to get docs for.

Yeah IDK on the seacat, in testing vs silkworms and other ASM's it varied from worthless to good, alot of the time it basically got fired and "dipped" into the ocean like 100m from the ship, sploosh. IDK if thats real or not, but I Wouldn't be too surprised if it was accurate. Supposedly it was basically worthless vs crossing targets, which I'll believe. The biggest current issue on the seacat is the reload time which is currently instant. SeaDart seems far more effective as an ASM/fighter intercept system. Ah yes thanks for the clarification...

IDK, The ships/units they released so far are mostly from the 70's or fit the 82 conflict. IDK exactly what else they have planned. Aside from absurd reload times I really find the seacat a really fun looking missile which dunks itself into the water a fair amount, which might actually not too far off from reality.

Yeah honestly the asset situation for CW stuff is pretty grim. Especially for older SAM systems. And it would IMO be pretty trivial to do. Currently for example we have the Chap, Mim72G (basically a 3rd gen IR seeker) I mean it would be trivial to change the lua for the missiles etc for just older 70's or 80's version i.e. gen1/2 seekrs. The 3d model is the same. And the lua for the missiles is pretty minimal as they are already based on existing sidewinder variants and if those are missing they should be added anyway. Similar arguments can be made for older versions of the Hawk, Rapier, roland etc and the various russian misisles though those tend to fit CW better than modern anyway. Similar story for older manpads, again we only have 3rd gen manpads for the most part. Adding an Sa7, redeye and maybe like an early gen stinger would again be pretty trivial lua wise. I know ED would use the standard excuse it needs its own hand crafted 3d model, but seriously, no one is gonna care, a man with a tube on his shoulder from 3000ft is a man with a tube on his shoulder. And yeah the whole DCS naval/damage/sam etc model is in dire need of an upgrade. Its really bad right now. I know raz has further plans for a CW asset pack, and we did just get some nice free assets from them, but lord we need way more assets.

Can you tell us more about your radar model?

From what I have read the 530F really wasn't built for shoot down scenarios, its use case was shoot up at high fast targets like mig25's etc. Given altitude vs clutter scenarios, IRL I'd expect it to be basically useless on the deck, but plausibly able to engage lower targets at higher altitudes. I.e. if you are at 5k trying get some guy at 1k, it shouldn't really work. If you are at 30k vs some guy at 20 yeah its prolly fine. The problem is that the missile seeker on the 530F wasn't a monopulse seeker so performance is gonna rather bad when there are multiple clutter returns, so it shouldn't work all that well in lookdown aside from "clearer" situations, i.e. high alt. This is one the the reasons the 530D was a big upgrade, cuz it had a monopulse seeker. Same thing with aim7F vs 7M The issue in DCS being nothing like this is even modeled aside from maybe the way the M2k radar works since it actually models things like sidelobe and MLC at lower alt.

F1 with the 530F should be decent. Though I hope the lack of "shoot down" capability is modeled.

it is slightly better than the R3R so wish granted. Though honestly the R3R is probably overmodeled.

IDK, pretty sure you got luke skywalker flying BFM for your AI Yup AFAIK its pretty much DOA at this point for whatever set of reasons.

Yup very well aware of the differences. Magic 1 is already in the game (added a patch or two ago), and currently it is all aspect (tested on mig21). Looks like a lua copy of the R60m with more range. Yeah IDK, but the 550 was added a patch or two back, so its not legacy. Also, people will be sad about the 530 (also currently in game now), but well, they should be. Its very steampunk, aerial torpedo ish.

Hopefully Aerges or ED fix the 550, currently its working as all aspect when IRL it was rear aspect.

You should look into the Skynet IADS script, it will largely do this sort of thing automatically for you in a vaguely "intelligent" manner. Yet another mod that patches up gaping holes in DCS.

Lord please let ED rework how these work, and actually add ME settable setting whether the plane can even have them for MP.

Yeah soviets didn't really do AAR during the CW for most stuff. Not how frontal aviation was designed to work.