***DCS: AJS-37 Coming to DCS: World!***

[Junglie]

Looks very nice and seeing how good the Mig was, I expect this to be amazing... This and the Tomcat will definatly be in my hangar :-)

[ebabil]

i hope we will soon see wepon deployment demos like mavirck, standoff munitions and anti ship etc

[Wacko_ZA]

Well, since we wont see a Gripen anytime soon, Viggen it is down here in South Africa too! Card ready, GF angry, DCS primed! aaaannndddddd RELEASE!

[mwd2]

How will the navigation work in the Viggen?

[GVO]

Fantastic work! I haven't been playing DCS for many years, but now I will definitely buy the Viggen (and later more planes, for sure).

Now, please release soon :)

[Friedrich-4B]

YeeeeHaaaa! Me Likes...

 

[Kilrah]

How will the navigation work in the Viggen?

 

With a map and a compass :lol:

 

Just fly east.... ;)

[Dudikoff]

Since you've announced it on my birthday, I'll take it as a sign that I have to buy it (or risk facing seven years of bad luck just like that old gypsy woman said).

[Sn8ke]

When is the release date?

 

Thank you.

 

Two weeks...

[=Pedro=]

Between two and four weeks :)

[mwd2]

Any information about the tactic, how the Viggen was used in the Swedish airforce? And are there mission ideas how it could work in DCS?

[Goblin]

Since I think you're doing the developers a favour by pointing out flaws and bugs as early as posible, I don't think it's too early to do so now.

 

It's clearly a fantastic job! And it's not always easy to get a proper perspective when looking at pictures and videos. It will be easier when the module is released, and we can view it live, from any angle.

 

But I concur with robban75s findings below. Also spotted a few mirrored decals. This can of course be because of the development status of the Viggen, so if it's already on the to do list, or fixed, well then, just disregard ;)

 

I noticed that the nose gear bay doors doesn't open fully. When hydraulic pressure is applied the nose gear doors are almost parallell to the ground. After engine shutdown, and hyd pressure bleeds off, they sag.

 

That said, I can't wait to buy and fly!!! Keep up the great work, Leatherneck! :pilotfly:

 

Perhaps a little early for critique. But here goes. :music_whistling:

 

The external 3D-model could use some tweaking though. The most glaring flaw would be the vertical fin. It's way too broad at the tip.

 

Also, no splinter camouflaged Viggen sported the small national insignias. That was used by the grey schemed Viggens only.

 

The font used for the numbers on the vertical fin(in the reveal)is an older style font never used on the Viggen. Some early Draken versions used it.

 

There. I said it. Now please don't kill me. :pilotfly:

[Goblin]

Any information about the tactic, how the Viggen was used in the Swedish airforce? And are there mission ideas how it could work in DCS?

 

Fly low.

Fly fast.

Hit hard.

 

;)

[firmek]

Between two and four weeks :)

I didn't thought that I'll say it but thats too much - Spit and Viggen at the same time :) Good that Christmass break is coming. There should be enough time to fly both :)

[QuiGon]

How will the navigation work in the Viggen?

 

I think it has some sort of INS.

[drPhibes]

Regarding the tip of the vertical stab:

 

I made some measurements on a picture of SE-DXN. The dimensions are not to scale (!!), but the relation between the dimensions are reliable as they are in the same plane (as in geometric plane, not the flying around, blowing stuff up kind of plane. The picture was taken straight on, so there's not much perspective distortion, and the same seems to be the case with the screenshot).

 

 

[Agremont]

Yeah it's definitely off by quite a bit. I'm sure it'll be corrected though. :)

 

Great model otherwise!

[RaXha]

Any information about the tactic, how the Viggen was used in the Swedish airforce? And are there mission ideas how it could work in DCS?

 

The main objective of the AJ/AJS 37 wings was to stop or slow a soviet invasion fleet. Swedish doctrine at the time was to fly in groups of 4, low (approximately 10-30 meters AGL) and fast (mach 0,8?) carrying RBS 04 or RBS 15 anti ship missiles (two on each aircraft). Most attacks would involve the pilot firing of all of the ordinance and then getting the hell out of there asap. Loitering was rarely part of the plan. :-) At least this is how i've come to understand it. :-)

 

Regarding the "low" part of ther flying there were incidents of viggens catching telephone wires with the drop tank, and incidents of roof tiling being blown of houses when they passed. That should give you some perspective. :P

Edited November 29, 2016 by RaXha

[mwd2]

do the AJS 37 have Chaff/Flare dispenser?

[Goblin]

Regarding the tip of the vertical stab:

 

Good job!

I wonder if it's the trailing edge angle that's off?

[Goblin]

do the AJS 37 have Chaff/Flare dispenser?

 

Yes, externally, in a pod.

[mattebubben]

do the AJS 37 have Chaff/Flare dispenser?

 

Yes but it would be carried in a separate pod on one of the inner wing pylons sacrificing one weapon (It was the same thing with the Jammer so if you wanted the Jammer Pod and the Chaff/Flare pod you lost two weapons pylons).

 

But it was never planned that all aircraft in a flight would carry their own countermeasure pods but rather one or 2 aircraft in the flight would have countermeasures and would support the others by laying chaff corridors

etc

(as the pod contained a large number of chaff for this reason).

 

And since the formation was usually pretty tight so one or two aircraft releasing chaff and flares or using jammers where supposed to protect the entire formation.

 

(Atleast that i my understanding)

 

But the primary defensive tactic would be the low flying at high speed making it hard for the enemy to find and try to fire at you before you had already attacked and left.

[drPhibes]

Good job!

I wonder if it's the trailing edge angle that's off?

 

It's a bit hard to tell from the pictures, but the angle between the top of the stab and trailing edge of the rudder is approximately 98° in the picture and 96° in the screenshot. IMO, the measurements are inaccurate enough that a margin of error of ± a few degrees can be expected, so it's hard to tell where the error is. And I'm not driving to Linköping with a ladder, tape measure, spirit level and protractor to find out what the actual values are. Not that I really care that much (I do most of my flying from inside the cockpit), but I know that the rivet counters out there will be losing sleep over it :)

[Cobra847]

You are indeed completely correct about the vertical stabilizer! :)

 

We just haven't gotten around to implementing the fix yet. Here's an image that shows the extent of the error currently:

 

[Chazz_BMF]

Well hello Sweden my old foe, we meet again ;)