oh come on JDAM is easy mode for wimps, real men self-lase their GBU-16 or do it old school with a depressed fixed pipper and iron bombs!
( i jest of course)
although jesting, it has a ring of truth. Alas most of the real men doing LGB or CCIP attacks are us simmers…you know, the same real men that navigate the FSX or X-Pane skies using VOR-to-VOR or NDBs…and now in the real world, even the Hi-Alt Airways are starting to go away in favor of GPS point-to-point and improved TCAS.
…I’m getting a little misty here…I need a moment 
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I often prefer CCIP with Mk82s or 84s to most other types of bombs.
I wanna aim and drop, flipping thru 12 subpages to arm and lase and designate and all that gets in the way.
When it’s an F-19-style sneak attack on a target without them knowing I’m coming it’s one thing, but in the middle of dense ADA and enemy CAP…eh, not so much.
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IMHO…white the actual NATOPS manual is good for many things–mostly flying and getting on the boat things–it is non-applicable for many more. Plus, the actual weapons systems NATOPS manual is classified. (As VF-32 SECRET material custodian I had custody of a copy for each pilot / NFO in the squadron…took up 2 drawers of one of my safes!)
To get a good simulator focused manual, might I suggest:
I just bought this one…but there may be more on line.
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True…but that’s the whole point of SEAD/DEAD, Mig-Sweeps, counter-air strikes with Tomahawk, etc. Gain local air superiority over the target area so you can fly in and drop the JDAMs from an altitude clear of the smaller AAA/MANPAD threat.
Organizing something like that for DCS–with live “Bad Guys”–would be awesome!
Sorry, I can’t hear you over the fun I’m having doing a single-pass multi-target release in a highly contested air space.
Also real sim pilots know the litmus for masculinity is self lasing a Paveway you lofted over a terrain feature while inverted, recovering from said loft while enemy defenses attempt to engage you. At night. In weather.
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Or, as @klarsnow calls it, Wednesday.
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…and slightly hung over.
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I just found my old copy recently! I’ll start reading up.
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If you can’t find one of those.
https://forums.vrsimulations.com/support/index.php/Superbug_Introduction
This is also a fairly decent hold over. It’s not 100% accurate to the Superbug, and the Superbug does not transfer 100% to the Legacy, but it’ll do for getting an idea of the sensor logic and flow.
(nsfw)
Replace “Ginger Ale” with “CATOBAR”. A ramp is not a catapult @Maclean. Even the French and Brazilians have figured this out.
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Single engine…!
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In Mech Revision?
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I still have mine too! 
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With smoke in the cockpit. And one of those Behind Enemy Lines SAMs that is tied to your tail following you for like eight minutes.
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…while your 15 year old daughter is texting you about going to “a College Party”
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Whilst lighting up the night sky
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Plus all the additional issues cited above and…
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