NightTrain Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 Noticed after re-arming the 30mm cannon is not reloaded. Looking into the control settings and found you can assign a key or joy button to re-load it. Pushed it while on I was on the ground before, during, and after re-arming. No re-loading.
admiki Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 8 hours ago, NightTrain said: Noticed after re-arming the 30mm cannon is not reloaded. Looking into the control settings and found you can assign a key or joy button to re-load it. Pushed it while on I was on the ground before, during, and after re-arming. No re-loading. There is a slider that will go down as you expend your ammo. In re-arm screen, you need to manually move the slider to desired value.
AeriaGloria Posted December 5, 2022 Posted December 5, 2022 20 hours ago, NightTrain said: Noticed after re-arming the 30mm cannon is not reloaded. Looking into the control settings and found you can assign a key or joy button to re-load it. Pushed it while on I was on the ground before, during, and after re-arming. No re-loading. The re load button is a Soviet thing. Soviet guns often have pyrotechnic charges to clear gun jams or just load the gun. You have 3 of these to load the MiG-21/JF-17 gun and to clear jams. You have the same thing in MiG-15/19. Since the gun can’t jam in DCS Mi-24P, and it doesn’t need the pyrotechnic charge to load, it has no function other then to make a “CLANK” sound Black Shark Den Squadron Member: We are open to new recruits, click here to check us out or apply to join! https://blacksharkden.com
Avimimus Posted December 13, 2022 Posted December 13, 2022 On 12/5/2022 at 3:41 PM, AeriaGloria said: Since the gun can’t jam in DCS Mi-24P, and it doesn’t need the pyrotechnic charge to load, it has no function other then to make a “CLANK” sound Yes, I do hope they someday at jams for the GUV pods... that'd be pretty neat.
AeriaGloria Posted December 14, 2022 Posted December 14, 2022 5 hours ago, Avimimus said: Yes, I do hope they someday at jams for the GUV pods... that'd be pretty neat. Do you know common conditions for jamming? Material from the 80s make it sound like when Yak B overheats the symptom is round cook off, using the rest of the rounds onboard uncontrollably. Black Shark Den Squadron Member: We are open to new recruits, click here to check us out or apply to join! https://blacksharkden.com
Avimimus Posted December 16, 2022 Posted December 16, 2022 On 12/13/2022 at 8:31 PM, AeriaGloria said: Do you know common conditions for jamming? Material from the 80s make it sound like when Yak B overheats the symptom is round cook off, using the rest of the rounds onboard uncontrollably. Unfortunately, I don't have the best sources of information. Just the '400 rounds' every 15-20 minutes to prevent heating leading to primer/cartridge explosion... which makes one wonder why the GUV carries 750 rounds? Especially given the limited endurance of a fully loaded Mi-24. It seems to have also been vulnerable to dirt and jams. The ammunition links apparently also broke sometimes (at least in the turreted installation - the feed path might've been gentler in the gunpod?). Still - it sounds like it was quite effective when it worked. Anyway: Turntables, Afghanistan. MI-24 (topwar.ru) I'd personally be quite happy with either stoppages or a simple overheating mechanic... both would put interesting limits on the use of these pods.
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