chaff and flare

[risali]

Does someone know how i can use chaff and flare correctly?

 

Are there rules to perform a best lauching in battlefiel, such as among and interval to deploy.

 

thanks

[dundun92]

Flares are pretty simple. You need to get as many flares you can get out in as short a time period; flares are just a dice roll in DCS. You also want to minimize your own IR signature by dropping out of afterburner, and if possible all the way down to IDLE. Breaking head-on into the missile decreases your own IR signature. So for flares the sequence is cut throttle, break into the missile, and drop flares rapidly. Generally 10 flares dropped in one second (you can use something like Joy2Key or a macro script to do this) will spoof anything if you drop it in IDLE/MIL. When you are really close, like under 1-2nm, you also want to pre-flare (dropping 1-2 flares every second or two) before you get the missile launch, as when you are this close its hard to get the flares out of the jet fast enough if you wait till its launched. This applies to both SAMs and AAMs btw

 

 

 

Chaff is slightly different. Against SAMs, the general rule is to drop a ton of chaff (something like 15-30 depending on the SAM) while beaming it (putting it near your 3-9 line). Against the SARH AAMs and the AIM-54/R-77, chaff is effective if you are close to being in the notch. You dont have to be very precise.

 

Against the AMRAAM, with its new chaff modeling, it is only effective when you are almost precisely in the notch. The best way to chaff AMRAAMs is to drop like 5-10 chaff per second while turning through the notch at slow-ish speeds, like in these vids:

 

If it doesnt work initially, turn in again and keep S turning in and out of the notch while chaffing.

Hope this helps

Edited September 29, 2020 by dundun92

[risali]

THANK YOU!