panton41 Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 I'm reading Vipers in the Storm by Keith Rosenkrantz and he's flying F-16C Block 40/42 in Desert Storm and talking about using LANTIRN. The book was written in 1997 referring to a war in 1990-1991. What exactly are the changes on the Block 50/52 and the specific sub-model model DCS simulates in regards to what he's talking about? Is the LANTIRN limited to Block 40/42 (which Wikipedia suggests)? For that matter, is it still in service on those aircraft? Does the Block 50/52 have something equivalent, or is it intended for a different role entirely? How does Block 50/52 manage terrain following flight, or is that the purview of the Block 40/42 model? I've always understood that newer block basically meant "what the previous block had and then some" or am I wrong? Windows 10 64-bit | Ryzen 9 3900X 4.00GHz (OC) | Asus Strix B450-F | 64GB Corsair Vengeance @ 3000MHz | two Asus GeForce 1070 Founders Edition (second card used for CUDA only) | two Silicon Power 1TB NVMe in RAID-0 | Samsung 32" 1440p Monitor | two ASUS 23" 1080p monitors | ASUS Mixed Reality VR | Thrustmaster Warthog HOTAS | MFG Crosswind A-10C Warthog | AV-8B Harrier (N/A) | F/A-18C Hornet | F-16C Viper | F-14B Tomcat | UH-1H Huey | P-51D Mustang | F-86F Saber | Persian Gulf | NTTR
SimHog Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 I'm reading Vipers in the Storm by Keith Rosenkrantz and he's flying F-16C Block 40/42 in Desert Storm and talking about using LANTIRN. The book was written in 1997 referring to a war in 1990-1991. What exactly are the changes on the Block 50/52 and the specific sub-model model DCS simulates in regards to what he's talking about? Is the LANTIRN limited to Block 40/42 (which Wikipedia suggests)? For that matter, is it still in service on those aircraft? Does the Block 50/52 have something equivalent, or is it intended for a different role entirely? How does Block 50/52 manage terrain following flight, or is that the purview of the Block 40/42 model? I've always understood that newer block basically meant "what the previous block had and then some" or am I wrong? According to Waggs, in the cockpit familiarisation video, the DCS version of the F-16 doesn't have terrain following radar. AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D @4.2Ghz | MSI MAG X670E Tomahawk | ADATA XPG 64GB 6000MHz CL30 DDR5 | Team Cardea A440 Pro M.2 PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD 2TB | Sapphire NITRO+ RX 7900 XTX Vapor-X| PIMAX Crystal Light
Geraki Posted October 4, 2019 Posted October 4, 2019 According to Waggs, in the cockpit familiarisation video, the DCS version of the F-16 doesn't have terrain following radar. First of all DCS must tell us which USAF F-16CJ block50 CCIP block 2007and tape is simulated is a CCIP M1 or M2 with tape 4.1? 4.x...e.t.c newer or older? in order to suggest features or corrections could be implemented fixed. Kind Regards
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