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Bump. Hope one day this is a thing!

Elite_Wing

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Good to hear, thanks!

@Viper33No reason to get sassy towards @Swift. From what I’ve read about F16 defense and how it effects radar scope - ECM jammer can cause some interesting effects to radar returns. As we all know, the jammer is an active emission that can be seen on your radar scope. Using it advertises your presence from much longer ranges that you could normally hope to detect a target. You will see a jamming target even with your radar in standby. You don't need to emit a signal intended to bounce back from him. Your radar can detect the signal he's emitting all by itself (thus causing false target bricks on the FCR). A radar signal is nothing more than a noise ping which has a frequency and a wavelength. Since conical scan radars use the phase of the target returns to generate error signals, an inverse gain deception jammer attempts to alter the phase by inducing fake signals into the antennas. Also, by altering the amplitude of the signal, the jammer induces large errors into the tracking loop. To do this, the jammer must determine the frequency, PRF, and scan rate of the victim radar. It then transmits signals that change the phase and amplitude of the target signal, resulting in a signal 180 degrees out of phase with the actual target. This 180-degree error rapidly drives the antenna off the target and causes a break-lock. Because of the signals being transmitted is the jammer itself is a perfect source for your radar to detect. You may not wish to use your jammer at long ranges because of this factor, but you'll probably wish to use it once you are sure that he knows you're there. You'll want to do this before he spikes or locks you, not when you are hard spiked. By then it's often too late. If he spikes or bugs you, he's got altitude, range, bearing, aspect and course on you and can use this information to his advantage. He may have already fired a missile. Once the radar has locked on to you and all the power of the attack radar is focused on you, it's harder for the jammer to break the lock than it is for the jammer to prevent the lock in the first place. Very often, once locked, turning the jammer on will not break the lock, but again it depends on range, aspect and other variables which you'll have to be flexible in assessing when to use your jammer.

null Ever since the latest DCS update, replays consistently now show "Mission load fail".

Bump - this is still borked. In the current implementation, bomb on coords still doesnt work and neither does VIS. You either have a point track and lase for ranging or you miss...

Bump, this is not “correct as is”

I think the argument comes into play whether you believe simulating extra DED pages, WPN options, or other "exspurt stuff" as you say "worthless simulation" - is the fact that there are 3rd party developers that go through great length and craftmanship to attempt to include said extra features and seek to "raise the bar" further. If other devs can do so, why not expect ED to do the same with such an iconic module such as the DCS F-16C. It should be no surprise people are going to want this aircraft simulated to the best of its (public known) abilities...

Thank you for taking the time to write this all out, and continuing to state the reality of the current module. Standing up for what us Viper folk desire to see in the future. This post should absolutely be valuable for the ED team to review.

Wanted to report in, same issue here. As of latest update, MP replays will always crash. There was a point in time - where the replays were working fine earlier this year. Hope to see this fixed again soon!

Yeah, guess I am just curious on what the hold up is at this point.

This model is already in the core game, and has been for quite sometime. What is the hold up on implementing it for the DCS F-16?

Bump. Especially when it comes to seeing airfields at night from a distance

I believe a DTC is confirmed to be coming. And I would assume those features you mention to come with the DTC update.

Ground crew can’t repack the chute while engines are still running.

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Great wish list items. Wishful thinking, but we have all been pleasantly surprised by ED before…

I am curious on how this will work/if it will work in multiplayer. And if this will allow us to "save server" before restarting our dedicated servers. Would help alot with performance, to restart and sync latest status on larger multiplayer mission files.

We really need the CATM120. I believe the model has been in DCS for years, but we are still unable to select it in loadout screen. Only CATM9. ED please advise if able, should be low hanging fruit tbh

+1.

Yep, this should be a standard moving forward for ED IMO...

Similiar to what Razbam implemented with the F15E, would be great if ED would consider giving us the same feature when Screenshot hotkey is pressed. This helps tremendously for those that are flying missions and require BDA/ingame recording of certain objectives and intel. For example, what Razbams TGP raw screencap feature looks like: Thanks!

Hopefully Kuwait will be included. You can’t simulate post Desert Storm ops without Al Jaber & Kuwait TBH...

Keeping the dream alive. Another new year of hopefully Heavy module love. Looking forward to the C-130 to help kick off this side of the community as well!