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How to use the ECM Pod?


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Hello,

 

since I haven't found anything clear enough I want to ask it here now -> how do you exactly use it? I know how to set it up but do you activate it when a SAM is trying to lock you, or after he shoot its missile? And if you really can confuse the missiles with the ECM and you are very low to the ground could the ECM make it crash against the ground?

 

My English isn't the best but hopefully understandable :)

 

Thanks

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Once you are ready to go fence in and enter the Battle area, change it from Standby to either Semi Auto, or Auto, and it will start working.

 

Gerry Abbotts tutorial............

 

Settings for programs.... http://en.wiki.eagle.ru/wiki/A-10C_Countermeasure_Programs_Overview

 

And youtube is a power tool when you search

 

DCS A-10C Countermeasures..... http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dcs+a-10c+warthog+countermeasures&oq=dcs+a-10c+warthog+countermeasures&gs_l=youtube.3...1599.5357.0.5581.16.16.0.0.0.0.126.1175.14j2.16.0...0.0...1ac.1.11.youtube.-z9AlegAecU

 

Cheers

 

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The ECM jammer itself will make you harder to detect/lock-on by enemy radar-based SAMs. Once you see an enemy SAM signature on your RWR (the round radar gauge in your cockpit) you activate it by pressing CMS switch down (Z axis). You might look the exact key binding up in your options menu, because I have mine changed to something else.

 

Furthermore there are certain modes that can be selected on the front ECM panel (below the UFC and HUD), which are AIR, AAA, SAM1, SAM2, that stand for specific modes against specific threats (SAM1/2 being radar missiles, AAA is anti air artillery like Tunguska etc., AIR are Air-to-Air threats if I remeber correctly)

 

Then there are the CMs (countermeasures), which HowlinWolf was talking about, consisting of flares (against IR threats) and chaffs (against radar threats).


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you mean chaffs against radar guided and flares against IR missiles such as MANPADs.

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Fat T is above, thin T is below. Long T is faster, Short T is slower. Open triangle is AWACS, closed triangle is your own sensors. Double dash is friendly, Single dash is enemy. Circle is friendly. Strobe is jammer. Strobe to dash is under 35 km. HDD is 7 times range key. Radar to 160 km, IRST to 10 km. Stay low, but never slow.

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10 hours ago, RedTail11 said:

All that does is constantly drop chaff. Doesn't activate the pod. Mine is always in Standby no matter what.

You need to press CMS DOWN LONG in order to toggle the jammer on/off.

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