Military Assets for DCS by Currenthill

[currenthill]

6 minutes ago, clanitho said:

It's a problem on your side, I use 7-zip without problems.

 

Thanks for testing! 

1 hour ago, hornet1a said:

Thanks for all those high quality assets currenhill!

There seems to be a problem with the Isklander SSM 1.1.1 when its being unzipped.

I tried with 7-zip,Peazip and the Windows 10 buit-in unzipper with the same outcome:i get this error message

"Data error : Iskander SSM 1.1.1\Mods\tech\Iskander SSM 1.1.1\Textures\Iskander_SSM_textures.zip"

The Isklander appear in game but the textures are missing

I downloaded the file 3 time with the same results.

 

 

Since it worked for @clanitho, it has to be errors introduced at download. Have you tried downloading it with a different browser?

[hornet1a]

It was on my side:if i download the file with Edge it's fine.

Was downloaded with Firefox 112.0.1 yesterday.

Strangely enough i just downloaded the Isklander with Firefox and it will extract correctly!

 

[Gundamator]

Hello, I noticed that the AMRAAM-ER model on NASAMS 3 is abit off, it seems like you copied the ESSM model directly but the AMRAAM seeker head makes it look a bit different, I've put some reference photos bellow.  I would appreciate it if you updated it.

[ruddy122]

Stupid Question

 

How does the new Chinese Tank ZTZ 99 show up in DCS Mission Editor?

I enabled OvGME like the other mods but can't find it

I selected armor Red Forces (Combined Force Red) and no ZTZ 99, please help

[currenthill]

14 minutes ago, ruddy122 said:

Stupid Question

 

How does the new Chinese Tank ZTZ 99 show up in DCS Mission Editor?

I enabled OvGME like the other mods but can't find it

I selected armor Red Forces (Combined Force Red) and no ZTZ 99, please help

It should be visible with "China" or "Combined red forces". It has a [CH] prefix like all my assets. 

[ruddy122]

I re-installed and activated no ZTZ 99

Strange

Like my DCSOpenBeta won't take it

[Abburo]

@ruddy122 ZTZ99A is working fine... just double check the installation path and ensure you are choosing a coalition that makes it visible like China or any of Combined forces Red/Blue

[currenthill]

15 hours ago, Gundamator said:

Hello, I noticed that the AMRAAM-ER model on NASAMS 3 is abit off, it seems like you copied the ESSM model directly but the AMRAAM seeker head makes it look a bit different, I've put some reference photos bellow.  I would appreciate it if you updated it.

You are correct. I accidentally used the ESSM Block 2 which has a different shape. So I modelled a new one, should be more accurate to the AMRAAM-ER (ESSM Block 1).

Edited April 23, 2023 by currenthill

[Gundamator]

4 hours ago, currenthill said:

You are correct. I accidentally used the ESSM Block 2 which has a different shape. So I modelled a new one, should be more accurate to the AMRAAM-ER (ESSM Block 1).

 

Thank you, that looks excellent. I always love to see you modeling SAM systems especially western ones. Have you considered the Leichtes Flugabwehrsystem Ozelot, or the Crotale NG to add? It would also be interesting to see the new Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system, and MRC (ground launched tomahawk and SM-6 for ground attack) from the US Army. Either way I am exited to see what is added next, thank you for the work you do.

 

- Gundamator

[NOYB]

Not sure of the extent to which DCS core or your own mods will support it but..

AN/TPS-59 Radar, 700km

AN/TPS-77 MRR, 470km

 

AN/TPS-80 GATOR 100km <with CRAM support, to replace MPQ-64 Sentinel in a single radar>

 

LTAMDS Radar  <MPQ-65A with GaN AESA, probably over 250km, vs. very small RCS targets>

 

These radars operate at L-Band, <1.2 to 1.4GHz>, S-Band <2-4GHz>, X-Band <10-12GHz> and C-band <4-8GHz> respectively and so, the first two at least are not horizon dependent in terms of detection of lolo threats through tropobounce or surface wave effect.

Because they operate at longer wavelengths, TPS surveillance systems' precision is not as great.  But their range and thus ability to be emplaced well back from the FEBA allow them to operate as divisional level early warning systems which then cue the FAAD level alerters which then allow the last minute activation of engagement radars like the MPQ-53/65/65A on the Patriot or the <coming> Ghost Eye on the NASAMS 3.

It is the networking of multiple radars which makes possible serious ballistic missile threat defense as the cuers tell the engagement systems where to point and batteries can fire missiles along coarse bearings BEFORE the engagement radars come up, with the latter, fire control, radars using their specialist sideband datalinks to refine the missile trajectory and seeker pointing index lines of the interceptors into precise target acquisition cubes once they are stabilized, on bearing, at max speed.  As an example of how this works

Exercise Rapid Arrow 1

 

Exercise Rapid Arrow 2

 

The method for implementing this network control, at the tactical <frontal> level is IBCS or the Integrated Air And Missile Defense Battlefield Command System.

Army ccdc domes of protection 0 - United States Army Futures Command - Wikipedia

Through a specific system called JADC2 or the Joint All Domain Command And Control network

United States Army Futures Command - Wikipedia

To use Patriot as a system everyone understands, the whole MIM-104 system is upgraded, much like a Windows Update, through what is called PDB or Post Deployment Build software and hardware changes/replacements.

As a result of PDB 7 and 8, Patriot can now act as a center post or hub node for a bunch of other radars communicating over the SINCGARS or Link-16 datalink systems.  Where a single NASAMS 1 battery system might have eight launchers and two MPQ-64 radars, that translates to a large coverage area as 2-3 NASAMS units can plug into the network and bring the combined coverage of SIX MPQ-64 Sentinel radars to allow the fixed site Patriot to remain completely radar silent, firing PAC-3 missiles forwards, using handed trackfile data which then cues their own autonomous ARH seekers to acquire the target, even against clutter.  Even over the horizon from the Patriot battery which fired them.

This is why it is essential to use networking because each radar is vulnerable to ARM attack, LAMs or jamming, but collectively they can multistatically triangulate sensor tracks as 'blink on, blink off' single illuminations to track all sub-horizon threats.  Including simple GPS homing systems <i.e. systems without complex TERCOM routed waypoints that swerve and circumnavigate around known radar sites>.  And the coordination comes from the hub node which not only collates their data but tells them when to come up and on what bearing, to form instantaneous, triangulated, tracks on threats like cruise missiles, in the brief instances they are within horizon for the FAAD alerter radars like Sentinel.

The missile trajectories are then refined to line up their seeker cones <which are very narrowly defined, on the order of 10-15 degrees> to acquire a potentially stealthy target, dead centered in it's scan, rather than having to do a volume search, against clutter.

For a high speed intercept of a TBM like the 9M-723, the narrowness of this cone is accompanied by a need to be at a stable Mach point, with minimum jitter as the booster shakes the whole missile.  So that ONLY the front end ACM <Attitude Control Motors>, in combination with an initial 'play' by the tail controls, can achieve the diverter thrust impulse to hit a selected portion of the threat weapon's missile body, precisely.

At higher altitudes, this is all much simpler because there is less air fighting the control system and a more predictable, constant, effector closure rate to make high accuracy range:rate calculations.  But you absolutely have to have the interceptor up, out of it's box and downrange to make this happen.  You cannot be turning and twisting with the booster still firing.  And as such, the surveillance radars, themselves often cued by DSP or SBIRS satellites, are effectively your launch authorization, based on bearing and target speed.

The newer TPS-80 and Ghost Eye radars use AESA and GaN <Gallium Nitride> to increase the accuracy and power of the array in tracking these inbound missile targets with some accuracy.  But it is the SAM systems Fire Control Radars which still are talking to the missile specific datalinks with X or S band specific antenna.  Not AWACS.

With Ghost Eye going to the NASAMS 3 and a choice between AN/TPS-77 or TPS-X for early or late cueing, the kill chain starts to look more complete.  And by giving the bad guys more radars to try and defeat, things like ARM attack don't mean as much because the EWRs will defend themselves with SAMs fired from batteries between them and the FEBA penetrating weasel aircraft.

Two last factors:  First, NASAMS 3 is the equivalent of S-350.  It is supposed to be the medium maneuver follow-on to Patriot so that advancing 'Ukrainian Counter Offensive' type maneuver forces are not without mobile AD presence.  As such, it can be expected to operate more on it's own than within a cluster of carefully site-surveyed surveillance systems.  Because of this, it is likely going to have an MSHORAD or even Centurion close-in defense goal keeper <though NASAMs can also fire smaller, more agile, weapons like AIM-9X>. 

Iskander and presumably Kinzhal and Tsirkon employ penaids in the form of dispensable repeater decoys which mimic target RCS to active <X or Ka band> missile seekers.  You may not be able to emulate the full Iskander kinematic profile, with it's drop to low altitude and offset turn-ins to leave cone on single emitter SAM defenses.  But could you mimic the equivalent of highly effective chaff?  This would allow you to improve the base SSPK of the SAMs by early launch and tight acquisition cone handoff while still employing an effective EXCM last chance seducer to 'dodge intercepts'.

Russia’s Use Of Iskander Ballistic Missiles In Ukraine Exposes Secret Decoy Capability (thedrive.com)

Thanks for taking the time to read this far and please continue your excellent work.

 

 

[ruddy122]

It works now put the T-84 Oplot in and the ZTZ-99 showed up

[currenthill]

1 hour ago, ruddy122 said:

It works now put the T-84 Oplot in and the ZTZ-99 showed up

Great find, thanks! There is a dependency error, I will get it fixed.

[currenthill]

ZTZ-99A2 MBT 1.0.1 released!
Changelog Version 1.0.1

• Changed the display name to ZTZ-99A2
• Fixed dependency error
• Fixed the top speed

1 hour ago, Gundamator said:

Thank you, that looks excellent. I always love to see you modeling SAM systems especially western ones. Have you considered the Leichtes Flugabwehrsystem Ozelot, or the Crotale NG to add? It would also be interesting to see the new Dark Eagle hypersonic missile system, and MRC (ground launched tomahawk and SM-6 for ground attack) from the US Army. Either way I am exited to see what is added next, thank you for the work you do.

 

- Gundamator

Thanks! And thank you for the suggestions. I know there might be a Crotale being worked on by an other creator at the moment. 

1 hour ago, NOYB said:

Not sure of the extent to which DCS core or your own mods will support it but..

AN/TPS-59 Radar, 700km

AN/TPS-77 MRR, 470km

 

AN/TPS-80 GATOR 100km <with CRAM support, to replace MPQ-64 Sentinel in a single radar>

 

LTAMDS Radar  <MPQ-65A with GaN AESA, probably over 250km, vs. very small RCS targets>

 

These radars operate at L-Band, <1.2 to 1.4GHz>, S-Band <2-4GHz>, X-Band <10-12GHz> and C-band <4-8GHz> respectively and so, the first two at least are not horizon dependent in terms of detection of lolo threats through tropobounce or surface wave effect.

Because they operate at longer wavelengths, TPS surveillance systems' precision is not as great.  But their range and thus ability to be emplaced well back from the FEBA allow them to operate as divisional level early warning systems which then cue the FAAD level alerters which then allow the last minute activation of engagement radars like the MPQ-53/65/65A on the Patriot or the <coming> Ghost Eye on the NASAMS 3.

It is the networking of multiple radars which makes possible serious ballistic missile threat defense as the cuers tell the engagement systems where to point and batteries can fire missiles along coarse bearings BEFORE the engagement radars come up, with the latter, fire control, radars using their specialist sideband datalinks to refine the missile trajectory and seeker pointing index lines of the interceptors into precise target acquisition cubes once they are stabilized, on bearing, at max speed.  As an example of how this works

Exercise Rapid Arrow 1

 

Exercise Rapid Arrow 2

 

The method for implementing this network control, at the tactical <frontal> level is IBCS or the Integrated Air And Missile Defense Battlefield Command System.

Army ccdc domes of protection 0 - United States Army Futures Command - Wikipedia

Through a specific system called JADC2 or the Joint All Domain Command And Control network

United States Army Futures Command - Wikipedia

To use Patriot as a system everyone understands, the whole MIM-104 system is upgraded, much like a Windows Update, through what is called PDB or Post Deployment Build software and hardware changes/replacements.

As a result of PDB 7 and 8, Patriot can now act as a center post or hub node for a bunch of other radars communicating over the SINCGARS or Link-16 datalink systems.  Where a single NASAMS 1 battery system might have eight launchers and two MPQ-64 radars, that translates to a large coverage area as 2-3 NASAMS units can plug into the network and bring the combined coverage of SIX MPQ-64 Sentinel radars to allow the fixed site Patriot to remain completely radar silent, firing PAC-3 missiles forwards, using handed trackfile data which then cues their own autonomous ARH seekers to acquire the target, even against clutter.  Even over the horizon from the Patriot battery which fired them.

This is why it is essential to use networking because each radar is vulnerable to ARM attack, LAMs or jamming, but collectively they can multistatically triangulate sensor tracks as 'blink on, blink off' single illuminations to track all sub-horizon threats.  Including simple GPS homing systems <i.e. systems without complex TERCOM routed waypoints that swerve and circumnavigate around known radar sites>.  And the coordination comes from the hub node which not only collates their data but tells them when to come up and on what bearing, to form instantaneous, triangulated, tracks on threats like cruise missiles, in the brief instances they are within horizon for the FAAD alerter radars like Sentinel.

The missile trajectories are then refined to line up their seeker cones <which are very narrowly defined, on the order of 10-15 degrees> to acquire a potentially stealthy target, dead centered in it's scan, rather than having to do a volume search, against clutter.

For a high speed intercept of a TBM like the 9M-723, the narrowness of this cone is accompanied by a need to be at a stable Mach point, with minimum jitter as the booster shakes the whole missile.  So that ONLY the front end ACM <Attitude Control Motors>, in combination with an initial 'play' by the tail controls, can achieve the diverter thrust impulse to hit a selected portion of the threat weapon's missile body, precisely.

At higher altitudes, this is all much simpler because there is less air fighting the control system and a more predictable, constant, effector closure rate to make high accuracy range:rate calculations.  But you absolutely have to have the interceptor up, out of it's box and downrange to make this happen.  You cannot be turning and twisting with the booster still firing.  And as such, the surveillance radars, themselves often cued by DSP or SBIRS satellites, are effectively your launch authorization, based on bearing and target speed.

The newer TPS-80 and Ghost Eye radars use AESA and GaN <Gallium Nitride> to increase the accuracy and power of the array in tracking these inbound missile targets with some accuracy.  But it is the SAM systems Fire Control Radars which still are talking to the missile specific datalinks with X or S band specific antenna.  Not AWACS.

With Ghost Eye going to the NASAMS 3 and a choice between AN/TPS-77 or TPS-X for early or late cueing, the kill chain starts to look more complete.  And by giving the bad guys more radars to try and defeat, things like ARM attack don't mean as much because the EWRs will defend themselves with SAMs fired from batteries between them and the FEBA penetrating weasel aircraft.

Two last factors:  First, NASAMS 3 is the equivalent of S-350.  It is supposed to be the medium maneuver follow-on to Patriot so that advancing 'Ukrainian Counter Offensive' type maneuver forces are not without mobile AD presence.  As such, it can be expected to operate more on it's own than within a cluster of carefully site-surveyed surveillance systems.  Because of this, it is likely going to have an MSHORAD or even Centurion close-in defense goal keeper <though NASAMs can also fire smaller, more agile, weapons like AIM-9X>. 

Iskander and presumably Kinzhal and Tsirkon employ penaids in the form of dispensable repeater decoys which mimic target RCS to active <X or Ka band> missile seekers.  You may not be able to emulate the full Iskander kinematic profile, with it's drop to low altitude and offset turn-ins to leave cone on single emitter SAM defenses.  But could you mimic the equivalent of highly effective chaff?  This would allow you to improve the base SSPK of the SAMs by early launch and tight acquisition cone handoff while still employing an effective EXCM last chance seducer to 'dodge intercepts'.

Russia’s Use Of Iskander Ballistic Missiles In Ukraine Exposes Secret Decoy Capability (thedrive.com)

Thanks for taking the time to read this far and please continue your excellent work.

 

 

Thank you for all the information! A lot of good info and ideas.

[Septic]

If you are taking Suggestions   We don't have any Chinese land based sites. eg HQ 9/16  (already got them on ships).

[Gogi12]

58 minutes ago, currenthill said:

ZTZ-99A2 MBT 1.0.1 released!
Changelog Version 1.0.1

• Changed the display name to ZTZ-99A2
• Fixed dependency error
• Fixed the top speed

Thanks! And thank you for the suggestions. I know there might be a Crotale being worked on by an other creator at the moment. 

Thank you for all the information! A lot of good info and ideas.

Hm, with APS sistem for this tank, seems that T-14 Armata and T-90M, are possible soon?

[tripod3]

Some example of bastion crazy behavior (rare)

P.S. it seems that stabilizing issue occurs when launcher isn't placed on strongly horizontal flat surface.

IMG_5649.MOV

bastion_ex.miz

Edited April 23, 2023 by tripod3

[currenthill]

47 minutes ago, tripod3 said:

Some example of bastion crazy behavior (rare)

P.S. it seems that stabilizing issue occurs when launcher isn't placed on strongly horizontal flat surface.

IMG_5649.MOV 963.82 kB · 2 downloads

bastion_ex.miz 6.92 kB · 0 downloads

 

Interesting, thanks for testing! 

[currenthill]

Soon...

[Abburo]

If you'll continue on this pace with these assets, we will find that our beloved airplanes and helis will soon become irrelevant in DCS   

Edited April 23, 2023 by Abburo

[VFA41_Lion]

1 hour ago, currenthill said:

Soon...

Nice!

i have no idea what i'm looking at

Edited April 23, 2023 by VFA41_Lion

[currenthill]

Just now, VFA41_Lion said:

Nice!

i have no idea what i'm looking at

 

Haha, it's the Chinese ZTQ-15 Light Tank with a 105 mm gun. 

[chen]

 currenthill , you are the chinese military fan's God !

Edited April 24, 2023 by chen

[chen]

You give the web's commander various  weapons to plan the WW III ...

[Eagle sur Pekin]

Thanks to currenthill for bringing me such a quality mod, as a Chinese player I am happy to see a high quality Chinese gear mod. however I would like to point out some minor issues about 99A2. In fact, in China, ZTZ-99A2 refers to the ZTZ-99A, which is the latest ZTZ-99 at the moment.

I have observed your model, and I think it is more like a fusion of the ZTZ-99 and ZTZ-99G (that's a folk term, but a more accurate term would be "一期改" and "二期改"), with some equipment from the ZTZ-99A.

（ZTZ-99，99式坦克一期改,In War Thunder it is called ZTZ99-II.）

(ZTZ-99G，99式坦克二期改，In War Thunder it is called ZTZ99-III)

Thank you again for your excellent work and I hope the pictures I have provided for you can be used as a reference.

[currenthill]

1 hour ago, Eagle sur Pekin said:

Thanks to currenthill for bringing me such a quality mod, as a Chinese player I am happy to see a high quality Chinese gear mod. however I would like to point out some minor issues about 99A2. In fact, in China, ZTZ-99A2 refers to the ZTZ-99A, which is the latest ZTZ-99 at the moment.

I have observed your model, and I think it is more like a fusion of the ZTZ-99 and ZTZ-99G (that's a folk term, but a more accurate term would be "一期改" and "二期改"), with some equipment from the ZTZ-99A.

（ZTZ-99，99式坦克一期改,In War Thunder it is called ZTZ99-II.）

(ZTZ-99G，99式坦克二期改，In War Thunder it is called ZTZ99-III)

Thank you again for your excellent work and I hope the pictures I have provided for you can be used as a reference.

Thank you for the information!