jojo Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 minus the 45° rotation the Tomcat needs. What rotation ? :huh: Mirage fanatic ! I7-7700K/ MSI RTX3080/ RAM 64 Go/ SSD / TM Hornet stick-Virpil WarBRD + Virpil CM3 Throttle + MFG Crosswind + Reverb G2. Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/gp/71068385@N02/728Hbi
draconus Posted February 2, 2020 Posted February 2, 2020 What rotation ? :huh: Sparrow needs to sink its wings straight up into the Tomcat's fuselage. In other aircraft it's rotated 45 degrees to hang on hardpoints. Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
BonerCat Posted February 3, 2020 Author Posted February 3, 2020 Except for F-18 and F-15 Cheek stations. They're upright there as well. Maybe a few degrees off. Regardless, it's the same missile. I don't think how it's mounted matters much, as long as it can be fired. Modules: F-14, F-15C, F-16C, F/A-18C, M-2000C, A-10C, A-10C II, AV-8B N/A, MiG-29, Su-33, MiG-21 Bis, F-5E, P-51D, Ka-50, Mi-8, Sa 342, UH-1H, Combined Arms Maps and others: Persian Gulf, Syria, Normandy, WWII Assets, NS 430 + Mi-8 NS 430
jojo Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 Sparrow needs to sink its wings straight up into the Tomcat's fuselage. In other aircraft it's rotated 45 degrees to hang on hardpoints. Thanks, so US Navy got a specific variant of AIM-7 for Tomcat with a different hanging system ? Mirage fanatic ! I7-7700K/ MSI RTX3080/ RAM 64 Go/ SSD / TM Hornet stick-Virpil WarBRD + Virpil CM3 Throttle + MFG Crosswind + Reverb G2. Flickr gallery: https://www.flickr.com/gp/71068385@N02/728Hbi
TLTeo Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 Thanks, so US Navy got a specific variant of AIM-7 for Tomcat with a different hanging system ? No, HB had to change a couple of things in the DCS Sparrow to make it fit the hard points. In real life they were the same.
Naquaii Posted February 3, 2020 Posted February 3, 2020 It a technical DCS thing, the missile ejects opposite the hardpoint attachment, the ones on the sides of the fuselage of the other aircraft have an attachmentpoint rotated about 45 degrees from straight up and in their case that's fine. If we rotated the hardpoint on the F-14 that would make the missiles eject at a 45 degree offset to one direction. That's why we had to change the attachmentpoint on the missile to be on the same side of the missile as one set of wings instead of between them.
BonerCat Posted February 4, 2020 Author Posted February 4, 2020 Makes sense Thanks! Modules: F-14, F-15C, F-16C, F/A-18C, M-2000C, A-10C, A-10C II, AV-8B N/A, MiG-29, Su-33, MiG-21 Bis, F-5E, P-51D, Ka-50, Mi-8, Sa 342, UH-1H, Combined Arms Maps and others: Persian Gulf, Syria, Normandy, WWII Assets, NS 430 + Mi-8 NS 430
draconus Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 If we rotated the hardpoint on the F-14 that would make the missiles eject at a 45 degree offset to one direction. That's why we had to change the attachmentpoint on the missile to be on the same side of the missile as one set of wings instead of between them. OK so how RL Tomcats resolved this with hanging AIM-7s? Win10 i7-10700KF 32GB RTX4070S Quest 3 T16000M VPC CDT-VMAX TFRP FC3 F-14A/B F-15E CA SC NTTR PG Syria
Naquaii Posted February 4, 2020 Posted February 4, 2020 OK so how RL Tomcats resolved this with hanging AIM-7s? It's just different attachment methods and gravity IRL. This is purely a technical DCS thing.
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