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Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
So FLIR pod had a different functionality than IR Mav? Interesting. -
Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
That supports my point. To lock a cold target you have to change to something with contrast. -
A: that is what I have been saying this whole thread. B. What @henshao posted above.
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That's wrong though. The CFTs on the E, with all the pylons, have more drag than two wing tanks. It was true on the F-15C CFTs which only had AAM launchers and not 12 pylons.
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Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
they only lock if there is enough contrast. If something is alive and cold it wont lock or even show up. They are already modeling surface temperatures and changing them dynamically for the FLIRs, no reason not to do the same for IRST. -
Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
It may be unrelated right now, but it shouldn't be. The sensor logic is the same, look at an area and detect thermal contrast. Tiffy being a high altitude and high speed fighter puts it's sensor in the best possible condition to spot other high altitude high speed aircraft. It should have >45nm detection range on anything supersonic that isn't behind a cloud. The IR system in DCS is less borked than it used to be, and they are working on it, but it isn't ready for proper PIRATE or even OLS functionality. And according to combat pilots seeing something clearly from 40nm wasn't an issue. -
oh, thanks for the correction
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I used to use the fire extinguishers to shut down the engines after a mission, so they do something.
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Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
The difference is there are podded IR systems in game with >45nm capability and you can slave the TGP to a waypoint and watch a green wall roll back. That is not realistic. Things should fade to unrecognizability like they do visually because that is the closest analog to how IR systems work, they just receive. Sidewinders will growl at the sun but a pod with the resolution to tell you how many wheels a vehicle has at 44nm sees a green wall at 45nm? -
LOL indeed
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His videos on the subject were quite awful. He went into the merge with one engine already pulled and often had the wrong engine pulled for the situation. Only occasionally did he have the right engine pulled in the right situation and that is when it looked cool and made him look good. If you are going to do this you should keep both engines in AB and pull one out of AB only when already at low speed and otherwise in conditions where the rudder isn't enough. Nothing he did in his video was unachievable using rudders with occasional cross control lateral stick.
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Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
Sorry, but physics should determine what can be seen and when, there is no reason for the "brick wall" -
LOL, It's more like how I celebrate completing a mission with fuel to spare. Love me a supersonic egress.
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Will the Eurofighter have an ir seaker like the su-27 have for example?
Spurts replied to isglas's topic in DCS: Eurofighter
one limit factor is that in DCS no IRST/FLIR can see past 45nm. Brick wall of no rendering past that. -
Sounds like you need to spend more time at low level on Afterburners
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I think he sounds like someone who has been flying with you for years and loves busting your balls, who has no concept of brevity most of the time. But given how "basic" his functionality is compared to a human RIO, you might be onto something.
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The failure of HB Tomcat to aerobrake might be related to the "sticky tires" solution needed to stop the thing from sliding off a carrier. that extra drag with WoW pulls the nose down under normal circumstances maybe?
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Gotcha! Yeah I can see how the order of info matters a lot more there. "Missile! 10 o'clock high! Break right!" is a lot different in getting info across than "Bandit! MiG-29, 4 o'clock high, 3 miles"
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It. Will. Not. Happen. Razbam has said so. Why should THEY spend man-years of time making a second flight model (this is not as trivial as a pylon removal) just so you can do an airshow? You want to do an airshow, use the F-15C. As to the F-16, there is a reason ED has been adamant on being a USAF F-16, so that they don't have to worry about the fact that HAF F-16 have CFTs and dorsal spines. Unless you personally want to give Razbam a check for US$100,000 stop insisting that they make the CFT removable. In the real world that is a multi-hours long maintenance endeavor. This more like removing an engine than removing a pylon.
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I can't say I experience all of your problem. I only get the "Bandit, MiG-29..." portion after I have the target locked up and before the merge. What conditions are you in?
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In the above video it looks like they are using half flaps until the nose comes down. Flaps drastically shift the CP of the wing and add nose down moment. Could this be a common factor when people are seeing aerobraking rollouts?
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These are added for realism.
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This is it. Again. They have already stated they will NOT do a CFT removal FM, and they should not. That would add a lot of time to the development and cost a lot of money. It will not happen.
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Tooling being destroyed or not is irrelevant. There is no active line for C models. Es were in production since 1985, but the C line all but shut down the same year. The Single Seat J was built in Japan until 1997 with "DJ" models during that time as well. Also, the last USAF Cs weighed in at 31,000lb, not 28,000lb. There have been no light weight Eagles built anywhere since 1997, and not in the US since 1985. I will repeat, there is NO production facility with tooling to make a lightweight Eagle or a Single Seat Eagle anywhere in the world.