I really wish they were the developer for the OH-58.
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I love the Kiowa. It was one of my favorite helos in Gunship 2000. I also had the opportunity to fly a real Kiowa demonstrator at a science and engineering expo back in college. One of my highlight moments.
–T
Isn’t Polychop doing an OH-58?
correct, on plans by polychop. BSK has the Mi-24P and the F-4E on develop
There’s talk about it around the net, inculding this site. I believe it is a project they are working on but have not yet decided on which platform for release. Polychop issued a press release on their FB page and there is an article on helisimmer.com that talks a little about the project. DCS World may or may not be a possibility. Several have posted on Polychop’s FB page asking for the project to come to DCS and the group responded that it is ultimately up to ED. They seem interested in pursuing it and hinted they would show ED the comments from their FB page in hopes of getting the project green lit for DCS.
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This will sound awfully childish but I would rather nobody do the OH-58 than to see it done poorly by Polychop. The Gazelle is a piece of flying fiction which, as a helo fan, I don’t care to see repeated.
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=3357626&postcount=27
Now that the team is back from holiday, work resumes on the Hornet. One of the big areas that you can see visible results is the EW page. Attached are a couple WIP images of the main display page and the manual (MAN) programing page.
I’ll do a full academic video on this later, but in a nutshell, the bypass mode allows single release of chaff and flare from the countermeasures dispense switch on the throttles and when in the ON mode, it can use semi-automatic (S/A), automatic (AUTO), and manual (MAN) modes. When set to MAN mode, the ARM PB brings up the programming edit page that allows you to create and save dispense programs. It’s a very easy to use system.
You may also notice the O1 and O2 counts, these are for GEN-X expendables.
On the radar front, much of the work is on the locking of targets in STT and LTWS modes. This is also critical for the ACM modes.
Other focused work continues on the flight model / FCS, bombing HUD, INS, and audio.
A small thing, but we also adjusted the DDIs and MPCD to not be smudgy messes.
Thanks,
Matt “Wags” Wagner
Senior Producer, Eagles Dynamics SA
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A little update today that shows some improvements to the cockpit lighting.
Mk-84 and AIM-9L also integrated in the Hornet this week.
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My jaw keeps hitting the floor. This will be ED’s masterpiece. It may raise the bar the way the MiG-21 did back then. Good Luck ED.
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Is that Yoda’s view of the cockpit?
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my copilot he is, the force. guide me he will.
but no, its the perspective of a pilot slumped over, KO’ed by the sheer awesomess of new Caucasus and the bug.
Mk-84! yeeeeaa booooyyyy! about as heavy as the family car, and as big. For when you absolutely have to kill every last mothrlovin’ one of them.
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So many bridge strike missions in Jane’s with Mk-84’s. This makes me happy.
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I flew F-15 SE3 and Jane’s F-15 so much that to this day I still pine for a good Beagle sim with the ground radar mapping to pick out my targets and slam them from afar!
The TGP in the A-10C just doesn’t have the same feeling.
That said, the weapon effects in DCS will need to be improved to make these bombs as effective as they should be. Far too often I see a bomb land next to a target and it only slightly hurts it, like it was a paper bomb with zero shrapnel.
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AFAIK, it has already been decalred as improved in 2.5
Oh boy! Finally! That alone would make 2.5 way better than eha t we have now. Perhaps they even fixed the other bombs’ flight model (GBU-38)!
I wonder if the explosion models also take into effect delayed fusing as we have fusing options in game?
I’d exceptionally love if bomb blasts would affect smoke…
I’d love a change in fusing. Just so I could enjoy the wave of forum posts complaining instant fused 500lb GBUs aren’t doing more than scratching the paint on MBTs.
Wouldn’t an explosion on impact be more effective than it bouncing off before exploding on the ground? A-10C manual page about Nose/Tail Fusing in DSMS isn’t really enlightening, just tells about Mk82 not opening their chutes on nose setting.
Bouncing? They should be embedding in the dirt and then detonating, not bouncing! Maybe if it’s an armored ship hull or HAS it might bounce, but in normal terrain? Nope!
Delayed fusing = Durandal runway denial ops. For whenever we get a plane that can carry them, that is.
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