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thanks for the tips guys, will try the gun funnel out and re-do the air-to-air training mission with the TGP properly (every time i do that training mission i just manually slew the AIM-9 seeker over one of the frogfoots and shoot it down without thinking!)

Hey guys, I've been playing some missions and campaigns and i feel like i'm slowly getting the hang of engaging ground targets. But I always seem to get shot down by some pesky Su-25 if there isn't any CAP present and my wingman is overwhelmed. I couldn't find a dedicated thread for air-to-air defensive tactics on the A-10C so I decided to start this thread. What is the best way to search and track a target with an aircraft that does not have an onboard radar? AWACS vectors can be handy, but in a merged scenario if you lose track of the target the AWACS updates are usually outdated the moment one receives them. I do find that once in Air-to-Air mode that pressing TMS Up Short to have the sidewinder seeker head to a circular scan about its boresight is quite useful to get a lock. I haven't really grasped the advantage of the Air-to-Air mode on the TGP, because there is no indication on the HUD as to where the TGP's field of view is. Also, is it possible to activate a 'gun funnel' when in Air-to-Air mode? I find that I usually have to guess (based on the GAU-8 boresight cross) where the rounds will land when I am engaging an air target with guns. Any help would be welcome!

Most servers seem to be password protected, so i've only been online once sucessfully!

awesome shot! :thumbup:

Hey Kylania, if that 4th Smerch spawn fix works for you when you get the chance to test it, would you be so kind as to post the .miz file? :D

thanks genbrien, thats a very useful note!

I had to edit the mission and remove the cloud/rain, my system cant handle the fog :( .trk file must have been corrupted because I couldnt open it after!

did this yesterday. It was a massive pain, stick was all the way to the left!

I do as VJS161_Fire said above. You need to re-load the DSMS data if you decide to RTB during a mission to re-arm and the DSMS doesn't recognise that the pylons now have weapons again.

Just been watching your Maverick guides, excellent work! I was having serious issues using the TGP in conjunction with the Mav but it's all sorted now after seeing your vid. Going to try the multiple JDAM drop now. Looking forward to your SAM vid when its out!

Are you interested in the airfoil section (like NACA0012 etc)? I would expect that to be classified but lets see if anybody at ED can answer your question.

wouldn't call it cheap! my printer eats ink like no other :(

i downloaded the english version and so far have not heard anything about starforce. wth?

from what ive read, the current in-service version indeed has a 8km range.

I realise this has been done to death, but I found a VERY interesting bit of information about the Ka-50 in an old book of mine: Keep in mind that this was published when the first picture of the Ka-50 was seen in the public, and the heli was referred to as the Ka-41 Hokum, not the Ka-50. Some interesting quotes: - "the Ka-41 has for at least three years been regarded as the world's first helicopter fighter aircraft, intended chiefly for shooting down other helicopters." - "another odd feature in a machine designed for speed is that the fuselage is wide enough to house the crew of two side-by-side." - "the tailwheel landing gear is fully retractable, the main units folding into bulges along the sides of the fuselage" - There are at least 3 and probably 4 weapon stations under each wing". - "Armament: Chin-mounted gun, almost certainly of 30mm calibre; the only photo shows , well outboard on the wings, large rectangular boxes which (it has been surmised) might house the IR-guided version of the R-60 (AA-8 Aphid) close range Air-to-Air missile, said to be carried by this helicopter." My comments: It seems like defence analysts, while giving hope to some of us about the Hokums air-to-air capabilites, were woefully wrong with many of their initial understanding of the Ka-50. As we now understand, the Ka-50 doesnt appear to have any air-to-air capabilites at all! maybe just american propoganda to accelerate their own A2A heli capabilites?

Couldnt see this posted here. i dont speak russian but even just the footage was interesting to see! the Black shark is shown doing backflips at some point in the vid. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3508637194308410701

well, so far i have been comprehensively owned by the apache. hid behind a hill until the apache turned around and went away from me. pulled up to the brow of the hill to lock on, apache does a high pitch maneuver and launches 2 hellfires within a couple of seconds => 1 dead Ka-50 :(

same thing happened to me today on multiplayer. was hovering near a wingman who was near a ridge. he suddenly fell like a brick and smashed into the ridge. i hovered over to his crash site and suddenly i lost power in both engines, with all my screens blacking out with no warning. no explosion, no nothing. im pretty sure i had anti ice as well. no time to react and i had to eject :(

god, it was really annoying to get constantly swatted out of the sky with no warning today in multiplayer :(

you have to realise that for many (if not most) of the guys here, the language issue was only worth a few seconds of bother. this is probably the first time someone has said something about it (and indeed, wanted a refund because of it), and so the expected reaction could only be extreme. In general the community here seems pretty helpful, its unfortunate that you arent willing to see that side of us :/

Tried landing on a roof and slipped off! ...oops!

"There are no "mission names" just an indication of the general type of mission like "Area Defense", "Deliberate Attack", "Raid", etc." OH! thanks for clearing that up. so i quit that campaign for no reason *facepalm*

scratch what i said about no problems: it seems that if i die while playing part 1 of the georgian campaign, i have to start from the beginning. also, the missions are different every time i re-do them but they have the same names as before. anybody know whats going on? i had no such issues in the vista-compatible campaign.

in the above video (you may have made a typo) it is actually a tamil manpad vs a sri lankan hind. that is a crazy vid though, but i found it odd that the firer aimed so high up when the tgt was actually much closer to the ground. splicing of two unrelated clips maybe?

lol!