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Buddy lase, I assume?

Thanks.

Why is it over?

Haha, it would be a perfect simulation of the EMP. :lol:

That's a fair point from a commercial perspective.

No, I disagree. First of all, a fighter jet carried nuke like a B-61 is not a city killer, even on it's highest yield settings. It was designed to be a fairly discrete weapon. Relatively. And I think you're misunderstanding the context in which they would be used. It's not like in the middle of a MP war, that the one guy with a B-61 will lob it in and win the war out of the blue to everyone's surprise. The conflict would likely escalate to a point where both sides knew it was coming and it would turn from conventional to nuke and stay that way until it was resolved one way or the other. Or another likely scenario is that an individual nuke strike would be put on to take out a specific target, such as an Iranian weapons facility or such. The interesting part is the fighter would still have to penetrate enemy defenses and defensive CAPs and hit the target and fight back out. It would be very easy and fun to set up a nuke-specific mission pack in an MP server and both sides would have to play their roles. You would still have fighter cover and escorts, AWACs, SEAD, etc. The red air and IADS would still have to try to stop the fighter from getting through. IN fact there would need to be much much more coordination of Blue air assets to make sure they were not affected by the blast once it went boom. And I reject the ethical and moral arguments. It's a valid weapon most western and adversary militaries use, so is a legitimate simulation aspect. And it's not like DCS is actually melting anyone. The key is you would only use it in a specific context or scenario. Of course you would not use them willy nilly just to win an MP mission. That's just silly.

Sigh

And that's very much real life. A Clean viper is practically unbeatable in a 1v1 turning fight against most adversaries (pre-AIM-9X and HMCS). But as soon as you load anything on it, even tanks - it's a different animal. It's not bad unless you have a bunch of Mk-82s as well. But it's not the untouchable that it is when clean.

Being fairly new to DCS, I may have missed earlier discussions on this topic. But what is the reasoning behind not having nukes in DCS? Several of the aircraft such as the F-16, Hornet and the upcoming F-15E from RAZBAM carried them IRL. I get that conventional is the main focus of DCS, but nuke equipped fighters were a part of the cold war on all sides and it is still a viable mission today. Is it an ethical question that DCS has shied away from it? Or more of a practical thing with getting enough source material to code it? My guess is a bit of both. I'm just curious, because I think it would be very interesting to be able to simulate all the "what ifs" that thankfully never actually happened between NATO and the Soviets, or North Korea, or China and such. On the practical side, of course ED or anyone else is never going to be able to get B-61 tech manuals and such. But there is quite a bit of open source stuff on the internets that a fairly educated guess could be made. Or is it just too politically sensitive to go down that road?

on the MPCD. It would be really cool to be able to add custom maps to the moving map display in the Hornet. For instance, the more detailed NTTR maps with the different restricted ranges marked out. Another that would be good is to be able to place other things like threat rings, tanker tracks, ROZs and such on the moving map. But of course we would need the DTC function to make this happen. Just a thought.

What if they're naked??:lol:

Yep, that has been my experience as well. Thanks for your service. BTW - the A-4 looks like a fun little toy.

Very cool! Is this roadmap anywhere other than in the 1000 page thread? Like in a changelog or something similar on the DCS website?

I give up.

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

Ok, a couple of things. First off, what you're attempting to describe is not a breathalyzer - it is an actual medical instrument that gauges lung capacity. It's called a "Spirometer". They are sometimes used during initial screening for fighter pilots. A breathalyzer would do nothing to measure how well you're doing the G-strain. Even just the breathing portion of the G-strain. 2nd - your understanding of the entire physiology seems off. Either that, or your description is being lost in translation as I assume English is not your native language. Pressure from breathing against closed airway does NOT cause blood to pool in the extremities. Plain old gravity does that. Neither does the G-suit force the blood back to the head or heart. The vast majority of the G-strain is about tensing your muscles in your legs, butt, and abs to keep the blood from pooling due to gravity (Gs). The G-suit just helps your legs and abs to have something to strain against. The G-suit alone if you did nothing else would maybe get you 1 extra G from just resting and doing nothing else. The breathing is more to continue to supply oxygen to the brain and relieve lung pressure to allow the heart to refill with blood sooner. Suggest you review this website and the videos to better understand what you're trying to achieve. https://goflightmedicine.com/agsm/#:~:text=in%20your%20browser.-,The%20Anti%2DG%20Straining%20Maneuver%20(AGSM),brain%20perfusion%20and%20pilot%20consciousness. I understand what you're trying to get at, but I just don't think you realize what it entails and what parts you're missing to create the "experience".

Uhhh..... oh nevermind.

No, of course I was being sarcastic. But the point was that there is more to the AGSM than just breathing a certain way. A LOT more. Just blowing air into a tube really means nothing on it's own. And how are you going to talk with the tube in your mouth? Pilots need to be able to talk on the radio even when pulling max gs. And no, they are not breathing into a tube for several hours, they are breathing into a rubber mask. There's a difference.

Yeah, PWIII do have some very limited "glide" capability with the bigger fins and proportional guidance. Speaking of which, when is PWIII going to be implemented in DCS?

It doesn't work this way. As Rainmaker, said - you can't really have both as a Desert Storm era Strike Eagle and one from the mid 2000's are almost two completely different aircraft. The HW and SW upgrades and the capabilities differences between 1990 and 2005 are mind-boggling. The flight control SW changes alone make the aircraft fly very differently between the two eras. If you want an AIM-7 / AIM-9L / no NVG / old -220 motors / mostly dumb bomb aircraft from Desert Storm - then the best way is to have the most current model RAZBAM is making and just load it down with 1990s capabilities. It won't be perfect, but you can at least 'pretend" you're in Desert Storm.

Concur with this.

Another question for the Hornet drivers here..... is it a real function to have to put the laster code in for each bomb in the SMS? Not sure what that would accomplish since there is no interface between the bomb and the jet and certainly no way to change the bomb's laser code once airborne. Is it simply a placeholder to tell the pilot which bomb has which PRF code?

Again, I haven't seen that. I was just playing around with doing a bunch of GBU-12 attacks and it was not a 100% perfect weapon. Ive you had too much spot movement, it would miss. If you had a stable laser - it would most likely hit. I had several near misses (right next to it) with the GBU-12 against a T-72 and it caused 0% damage as you would expect. DCS is not perfect, but I haven't seen it to be too far out of the realm of what IRL is like.

A couple of things...... 1) Self coordinate generation depends on the system. Modern jets are perfectly capable of self-generating Cat I/II coords if they have the right equipment - such as Sniper Pod or SAR. 2) New Gen GPS weapons such as GBU-54 (laser JDAM and such) have that capability more for engaging moving and Dynamic targets more so than to increase the GPS only accuracy. The DoD was more than happy with with existing JDAM accuracy, but they needed the additional capability that the laser added to increase the range of targets they could engage. 3) as in almost everything..... it's GIGO. If you give GPS weapons average to poor coordinates, you will get average to poor accuracy.

Haha, I didn't say it was a *good* idea to reverse or delay the turn, just that the last guy to turn determines the type fight.