MiG-31 behaviour ? ..

[Kaktus29]

do you think its realistically behaving.. i mean, how does a MiG-31 with superior speed and altitude actually engage in combat..is there any info? ..most likely he will not wait until 20 nm before launching his 70nm missile as i have witnessed many times before as hornet kills him by firing the aim120 before mig-31 launches anything..

 

also, mig-31 never uses his speed and altitude to his advantage.. dragging his ass at 1000km/h and flying at 8000 m .. what gives?..

 

it would be nice to model the Mig-31 with full suit of his capabilities ,not to fly since that means even more work for DCS, but at least for an asset for the Red team to use with his data-link capability and guiding the missiles of Su-27 ahead of him ..

 

i wonder at what speed is it safe to launch a weapon, i heard somewhere there are some limitations here.. like if you go mach 3 with pylons on it might be dangerous for plane, missile to do this.. but if not, than my god, mach 3+missile speed mach 4=S-300 launched in mid-air with superior altitude .. wow... but when can we see anything of that kind on DCS?..

 

right now Mig-31 acts as if its Mig-21..

[Grimes]

There aren't any aircraft specific tactics that the AI use currently. Some of their behaviors can be altered with the scripting engine. But I haven't gotten into that yet and it would still be bound by some of the AI's default logic.

[whitehot]

it would be nice to model the Mig-31 with full suit of his capabilities ,not to fly since that means even more work for DCS, but at least for an asset for the Red team to use with his data-link capability and guiding the missiles of Su-27 ahead of him ..

 

i wonder at what speed is it safe to launch a weapon, i heard somewhere there are some limitations here.. like if you go mach 3 with pylons on it might be dangerous for plane, missile to do this.. but if not, than my god, mach 3+missile speed mach 4=S-300 launched in mid-air with superior altitude .. wow... but when can we see anything of that kind on DCS?..

 

I'd like too to see this kind of features modeled in our favorite sim. Sadly, I think that this kind of tactics are very specific to certain platforms, and that it's very unlikely that they will be somehow implemented in DCS world. This, unless a "DCS: MiG-31 Foxhound" module gets released someday.

 

That said, in the current version the AI employs a very generic set of tactics, which are abstracted mostly from "blue side" real-world doctrine. I mean, that in fact it seems to me that the "red side" flies and fights the same way as their opponents do, but with different equipment, designed for different specifications.

 

Of course it would be very nice to see the various sides and nations trying to follow a plan and fight based on their different concepts of achieving their objectives. But honestly, I really doubt something of this complexity could possibly fit to the simulator engine. I hope anyway, that the devs will give us players and mission makers the means to recreate something like this in multiplayer battles.