IronChancellor

IRL can the door gun be retracted in flight?

How does the bomb timer work?

I turned on the backlights and now I need to shower...

Since theres no onscreen indicator for switch modifiers (the dcs control modifiers, not in-cockpit switches), it would be nice if there was a cancel button that would clear all the active switches.

Both aircraft were set to the same weight, so it must be some kind of aerodynamic phenomenon. I am interested as to what exactly is causing such a large difference. So what I gathered from that is that I should go ask the yoyo guy as he is the knowledgeable one. EDIT: @Yo-Yo Hello, could you take a look at my original post in this thread?

Not at 8 km. Maybe at 4-6 km against non maneuvering aircraft. But the point remains the Ka-50 will have no problem killing the apache long before the apache is even within launch range.

The hellfires have no proxy fuze and 8km range MAX. I doubt they will be able to hit any helicopter that isnt hovering. Also if they fix the skhval the vikhrs will easily put both the gazelle and apache in the dirt. The vikhrs are not affected by countermeasures, fly at mach 2, and have a 12kg proxy fuze warhead. (the aim-9x has a 9kg warhead) I've shot down mirages, mig-29s, and vipers in PVP with the vikhrs. If ED models the ka-50 accurately, jets and helicopters alike will literally run away from it (as they should).

If the DISS-15 doppler system isnt working then nav and hover won't work. Not sure if that's the problem but maybe it will help someone.

I keep seeing eagles flying around at mach 2 with ease. Yet, when I try that in the flanker it takes 5 minutes just to get to mach 1.5. I figured it was the weapons drag+fuel weight, so I put it in the editor with no weapons and reduced fuel so it had the same internal fuel as the eagle. The eagle still accelerated faster than the flanker. Ok, so maybe the extra weight of the flanker is causing more drag which is more important than thrust at supersonic speed? I thusly reduced the flanker's fuel even more until the flanker and eagle had the same total weight. Now I was certain that the flanker would leave the eagle in the dust because it has 44 more kN of thrust with the same weight. The eagle out accelerated the flanker again. This time I let the simulation run until the eagle had reached 2000 kmh. The flanker was still creeping toward 1600 kmh. My question is, why is this so? Does the larger airframe create too much drag to accelerate much past 1500 kmh? Does the airframe compromise aerodynamics in favor of high AoA controllability? Do the air intakes on the flanker not perform as well at supersonic speeds compared to the eagle? Does the space between the engines on the flanker cause some kind of drag at supersonic speeds? tl;dr Why doesn't the flanker's additional 44 kN of thrust make it accelerate faster than an eagle of the same weight? flanker-eagle-acc.trk

What is this book called?

I had assumed that they were there to gyro-stabilize the sight (eg. if the helicopter turns the sight stays pointed in the same direction), but that doesn't seem to be the case. Are they related to ATGM guidance?

I'm pretty sure whats happening is that server side I am desyncing and pulling 5g with the sight open, causing the gyros to fail. But clientside, Petrovich still says the weapons are ready and the doppler system gives strange readings. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1C3CHRj77qoKixNOymIo7dFB_6zyAKNV3/view?usp=sharing

I asked this before in the Mi-8 fourm, but could we get the mag var on the kneeboard like the F14 has?

I just fixed mine. Turns out the dcs resolution in system settings was not the same as my monitor.

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@BIGNEWY mi-24p-atgm.7z

After unchecking the experimental features box the rwr reverts to the old behavior. Is anyone else experiencing this?

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3315529/

Even without the direction I can still scan for launch smoke. A firearm discharge is a brief flash of UV light. A missile in flight is a continuous emmision. Also you can use the MWS without giving it control of countermeasures. I currently scan about once a second. If the system goes off every three seconds then that's a major improvement. I don't see how this paragraph relates to the qoute above it? Personally I would be happy if ED made a full fidelity Su-24 module. /s

I just noticed right now that this fixed. the display only counts in 20s, so it will show 60,40,20,0.

IMO DCS should model everything that is physically realistic. Let the mission designer dictate what is allowed by command/doctrine. If the ground crew could put an S-5 pod on the pylon and it would function, then it should in DCS as well.

Would it be possible to get the magnetic variation on the kneeboard like the F-14 has?

I know the Su-25A used to have the Kh-25MP missile but that it was removed. Does anyone recall why? From what I can find the Kh-25MP works like the harrier's sidearm and can be used without any ELINT pod. Is it reasonable to assume if one were to mount it like a Kh-25ML that it would fire?

Maybe a ICBM launch at 100km. The MWS will cue you to check for launch smoke. Currently, without MWS, I have to scan for launch smoke constantly and only glance down at the IT-23 to target identify. I would pay $20 just to have an intern change a few constants in the shkval lock code.

There is a difference between not receiving answers and not reading the answers you recieved. At the ranges the ka-50 engages targets the mws would detect anything that an rwr would. The only possible benifit of RWR is that it wouldn't go off when your wingman shoots a missile. But since they are linking it to the ABRIS, I suspect it may track the missiles position which may also allow the mws to only trigger on incoming missiles. It will be interesting to see how they model it.