Shark-Bait Posted October 12, 2014 Posted October 12, 2014 I was trying to figure out the whole ASP system. :-P I've recently updated DCS: World to version 1.2.10.32582 and now when CU15 is set to 'auto' it doesn't change the angular correction dial. It used to. From MiG-17 wiki: "Soviet engineers obtained a captured F-86 Sabre from Korea and they copied the optical gunsight and SRD-3 gun ranging radar to produce the ASP-4N gunsight and SRC-3 radar." So the ASP should be effective at Air-to-Air ? I'm having some real issues with it, for one it doesn't seem to work very well. You input target size and have to be right on top of the target to be able to use it. <400m Does the MiG-21 have a range radar like the MiG-17 for use with the ASP? 'cos the Sapphire radar doesn't track below -1.5 degrees which makes it kind of useless when pointing the gun/nose ahead of the target. I mean it has Altitude radar, why not a range-radar also?
Shark-Bait Posted October 12, 2014 Author Posted October 12, 2014 (edited) http://fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ac/row/mig-21.htm MiG-21 FISHBED Sensors MIG-21pfs = Spin Scan (R1L) radar, RWR, Balistic bombsight MIG-21bis = Jay Bird radar, RWR, Balistic bombsight J-7 = Type 222 ranging radar, RWR, Ballistic bombsight You notice they mention 'RWR' and a 'Ballistic bombsight' but no radar altimeter even though it has... so methinks maybe it does have a gun-range radar like the F-86? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mikoyan-Gurevich_MiG-21_variants MiG-21F-13 (1960; Izdeliye 74; NATO "Fishbed-C") Short-range day fighter; the MiG-21F-13 was the first MiG-21 model to be produced in large numbers. The F-13 had further upgrades: an improved ASP-5ND optical gunsight and an upgraded SRD-5ND ranging radar. The MiG-21F-13 was also built under licence in China as the Chengdu J-7 or F-7 for export. - - - - - "an improved ASP-5ND optical gunsight and an upgraded SRD-5ND ranging radar" It almost sounds like they were made for each other ;-) Edited October 12, 2014 by Shark-Bait note:
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