What is this "red line" on the Arleigh Burke

[lcabc888]

Hey, I noticed that there is a "red line" on the Arleigh burke. What is that? Is this functioning in DCS?

 

[Northstar98]

Looks like some form of track:

 

 

That little thing is a helicopter hauldown and rapid securing device, presumably it can be moved along the tracks and fixed in place and is used to secure landing helicopters particularly in bad weather AFAIK.

[QuiGon]

1 hour ago, Northstar98 said:

Looks like some form of track:

 

That little thing is a helicopter hauldown and rapid securing device, presumably it can be moved along the tracks and fixed in place and is used to secure landing helicopters particularly in bad weather AFAIK.

 

I don't think it's to secure the helicopter (that's what the "harpoon" on the belly of the helicopter and chains are for). AFAIK this thing is just to move the helicopter in and out of the hangar.

[Northstar98]

It might actually be both.

 

https://s2.q4cdn.com/767595508/files/doc_downloads/indal/horizon/Curtiss-Wright-Naval-Handling-Systems-Brochure.pdf

 

The tracks are certainly for positioning the helicopter, but the grey device could be RAST - recovery assist secure and traverse.

 

 

Edited February 11, 2021 by Northstar98

[QuiGon]

4 minutes ago, Northstar98 said:

Not the best reference material but I think it does both:

 

https://s2.q4cdn.com/767595508/files/doc_downloads/indal/horizon/Curtiss-Wright-Naval-Handling-Systems-Brochure.pdf

 

Oh, I see, thanks!

This system is a bit different then, than what we use in our navy.

[Northstar98]

6 minutes ago, QuiGon said:

Oh, I see, thanks!

This system is a bit different then, than what we use in our navy.

 

NP!

 

Yeah, it looks like this particular thingy (technical term I'm sure) has a receiver for whatever device is attached to the helicopter (like a probe). Whereas in your example there's a metal mesh/grid on the landing area, which the helicopter grapples.

 

 

Edited February 11, 2021 by Northstar98

[Silver_Dragon]

That?

 

Edited February 11, 2021 by Silver_Dragon

[Silver_Dragon]

22 minutes ago, QuiGon said:

 

Oh, I see, thanks!

This system is a bit different then, than what we use in our navy.

 

The grid on the helicopter Deck has the  Cramm heligrid I think.

 

Other Tow and secure systems
https://www.cw-ems.com/indal/products/helicopter-securing-and-traversing/default.aspx
 

[QuiGon]

I never noticed, but apparently the US Navy doesn't seem to use the "grappling grid" at all, where the helicopter arrests itself with a spike comming out of its belly? It's such a common system that I just thought everyone uses it.

Edited February 11, 2021 by QuiGon

[lcabc888]

it that implemented in DCS?

[QuiGon]

14 hours ago, lcabc888 said:

it that implemented in DCS?

 

No, we have no playable navy helicopter in DCS that would be able to use that and the AI navy helicopters just get glued onto the deck upon landing.

[Northstar98]

The Arleigh-Burke does have a hangar modelled (not in as much detail as the supercarrier though), same for the Ticonderoga, Oliver Hazard Perry and the Slava-class, the door is animated, but it doesn't look like its functional (alongside whatever landing aids these ships have, the Arleigh-Burke and Ticonderoga both look like they have a horizon reference system but it is non-functional and is definitely not stabilised unlike the real thing).

 

And RAST and the tracks are not implemented.