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There is no splash damage afaik at the moment.

What do you want to do? Present the people with an angry crew chief at the end? We don't have a campaign and especially in short term dogfighting you just fly the thing to the limits. If you had the option in reallife to return a bird that needs to get checked all over for hairline fractures, or - best case scenario - in a CSAR helicopter. I am sure pilots would go for the override option as well. Fact is that the F-16 is just capped at the moment by the attainable Gs in terms of what the pilot can handle.

That new programmer was hired and Mavericks were suggested to be ready end of April. Sorry to crush your hopes :-)

RCS data without azimuth / elevation taken into account is doubtful anyhow.

Notching requires chaff or ground to help get SNR up. Here they look like 10.000ft+ (even though a lot of vital information is missing from that video like altitudes). But if that altitude was already so heavily affected by notching, then I wonder why the AMRAAM lofts at all and doesn't attack from below .. it's useless this way if it does these chenanigans. I would figure this is some sort of defect.

Where did you get the Nick Grey post from? I am smiling knowing that first it was the supercarrier that was holding up everything. Now it's the new map and P47 ... and once those are cleared it's still the hornet that needs to be done before we get anything :D no .. I don't believe we will get mavericks anytime soon, kek.

FLIR in DCS needs a serious rework and I think it's already been acknowledged and "on the list" of ED to do so. At the moment trees are little nuclear reactors glowing quite nicely .. At the moment you can only point track "alive" targets .. etc. etc. etc. But the main defect that was reported here is from the recent lightning defect: The displays are just too bright when you go to IR mode. It doesn't have anything to do with the sensor. Just with the fact that you are being irradiated by light. Kind of like the AoE indexer problem!

It's a defect I reported in November 2019. https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=257642 That's not very realistic and might very well be against RoE. Depending on the altitude even an AIM-120 shot might be difficult if it's a supersonic runner. This is non-sense. Of course it's supposed to auto-lock and even betty telling you nice and loud: "LOCKED". But since the F-16 has been in limbo for so long, it's actually helping people learn it the *wrong* way and spread it as word of mouth. This is one of the first bugs that ever got reported for the F-16 from October 2019: https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=251153 Where did you get this information? You go to DGFT mode. If you didn't have a target locked before your radar will turn to non radiating mode. Then when depress (as it's called) TMS UP you will get the egg and your radar will emit again. You can now (without touching TMS UP) look around and your radar will try to follow your heads orientation, aiming for the egg. If something flies through that egg, it will be auto locked if within 10nm (I think it was 10, but take this as something between 5 and 10). if you want to go back to norad condition -> TMS DOWN depress.

I sometimes wonder what kind of BFM we are talking about here. The F-16 gets eaten in BFM by everything including the JF-17 at the moment. Unless you turn of G-Locs. (I'm talking about competent human opponents, not AI) Feel free to take a look at BFM tournaments and you will see the F-14 or F-18 in those. But the F-16 plays no significant role in them. Also if you like roll rate, try the JF-17. The F-16 feels rather sluggish in terms of roll in DCS.

Don't support the ongoing practice by buying the F-16. That would be my wish and recommendation. I disagree. The F-16 is far from A2A capable - especially not against humans. You can't tap into the G region you want to be in. The ACM modes are broken. Etc. etc. etc. No offense, but I think you're doing good weather A-G and also no BFM against non-AI. Being in the Bozosphere, being fast, dispensing AMRAAMS like a PEZ, sure. Go into BFM and you fight yourself out of rate quickly because you can't pull the Gs you need. And as for A2G. Just spawn a convoy on the move with a couple of Tunguskas in and make it a nice solid cloud layer at 10.000ft. Any plane will just happily fly around using MAVs, in the F-16 you can then resort to flying big circles under the clouds while the shooter drops the LGB on future coords you provided from above the clouds. Not exactly perfect. That would be 6.66 USD for a cup of coffee. That's quite expensive!!!

What works and what I used to test was ACM Boresight mode in the Hornet.

Teste F-16 and F-18 using AIM120 and AIM9 against F5, Su25, Su27. Neither guns, nor missiles would bring the enemy planes down. Only flying into them killed them sufficiently. So while I guess due to the less than cheerful and productive mood Airhunter's post will disappear. It is certainly understandable where it's coming from.

Personally I have the feeling the Viper responds delayed (and thus sluggish) in roll. Also personally think the Pitch axis isn't "grippy" enough, as in you pull hard and the onset of g isn't as quick as it should be. It feels very tame in that.

Is it wanted, that when selecting something with "TDC" press the radar is a bit "coarse"? it's not selecting specifically what I had under my cursor, but some spot closeby. mode is MAP. Also is it possible to use EXP/DBS1/DBS2 to "zoom in" and fine tune the SPI by selecting from that zoomed in way again? Can't seem to make it work.

The warning system for BVR is the RWR and every fighter plane has that. The MWS is actually helpful in a SAM / WVR / Merged situation. The mirage however has very limited smart air to ground options. No TPod and no self-lasing capability.

JF-17 by far.

Yes and it has been reported a while back. I do not know either. It's hard to see people defending this. I do not know any other software project that gets updates wrong so hard so consistently with so little transparency. (And I do count deleted forum posts as missing transparency as well and makes me consider changing to hoggit.) Yep. And what I do wonder (and before I get this deleted again, this is not meant to ridicule anyone or whatnot, just from a software engineer point of view purely scientific): If a patch like that for Wednesday is greenlit and can go live, what was wrong with today's hotfix that they did not greenlight it?

Some of the defects were known in advance to ED and yet they still went ahead with it: See Wags video and you can already spot them if you look.

You could have initialised the plane with 127 empty steerpoints and that would kinda have done what we got today :-) But hey .. we got something! And all the navy folks got was a Maverick with a damn huge range.

To be fair, hornet pilots paid the same money 2+ years ago and they are still waiting for their plane. We are basically them 2 years ago. And the supercarrier people .. they paid more than half of what we paid for the viper for .. animations .. but I am not a carrier person, I can't attest to the extend .. I just like to talk trash about those swimming man-cans. A MAV flies further than your bomb can glide. A MAV once locked on goes for the (potentially moving) target without you having to lase it. So if you are having some SAM site that's firing at you, a MAV will help you out more than a GBU most times. It's a (small) standoff fire and forget weapon.

I thought I did that in open beta this sunday ..

Prop-Planes: EA I-16 EA Christen Eagle II EA Yak-52 noEA Fw 190 A-8 noEA Spitfire LF Mk. IX noEA Bf 109 K-4 Kurfurst noEA Fw 190 D-9 Dora noEA P-51D Early Jets: EA MiG-19P EA Hawk T.1A (discontinued in EA, never even finished) noEA F-5E Tiger II noEA L-39 Albatros noEA C-101 Aviojet noEA MiG-15bis noEA MiG-21bis noEA F-86F Sabre "Modern" Jets: EA JF-17 Thunder EA F-16C Viper EA F-14 EA F/A-18C Hornet EA AV-8B Night Attack V/STOL EA AJS-37 Viggen noEA M-2000C noEA A-10C Helicopters: noEA SA342 Gazelle noEA Mi-8MTV2 noEA UH-1H noEA Black Shark 2 Environment / Surrounding: EA Supercarrier EA WWII Assets Pack noEA NS 430 noEA Combined Arms

Traditionally you'd think of the F-16CJ with HTS in two or fourships. before that it was F-4s iirc.

I don't know these numbers, nor did I claim or hint at that I do.

Roadmap: - AGM65 by end of April do you need any more roadmap?