DCS F-16C Viper HARM Targeting System & Markpoints Tutorial! 

Bringing back the Retro Intro Baby! I am so pumped for the HTS Pod guys! I except DCS World Servers to be swept clean of SAM Sites in no time with the HTS's ability to pinpoint SAM sites in unknown locations, in any weather, day or night!

It's amazing how something so small on the plane can change the way you do everything. Loving this update.

On the Markpoint page, you can press M-SEL and it will make that Markpoint the current Steerpoint. Don't forget to dobber left after to get your HUD symbology back (ie. CCIP fall line)

Just watched Tricker's video on this too..you guys are my favorite Viper pilots! Great stuff as always!

Having come to the F-16 via Falcon 4.0--->BMS 4.35, I feel most comfortable learning the DCS version of this particular aircraft, and must say the diversity of weapons it can handle is amazing. MOST amazing I think is the astronomical power behind its single engine!?!?!? There's a documentary about a USAF pilot who'd saved the day for our besieged troops using sonic boom and the ridiculous on-demand power of this beast. I clearly recall its official release to the US arsenal, and that there were two points that set it so apart from the others: 1. the helmet-mounted targeting was like a real-life debut of the system in the helicopter in 1987's movie "Firefox", starring Clint Eastwood. When I saw the film in theater (a place packed with auditorium seating where films are projected onto a vast screen, popcorn costs about $10/oz, and soft drinks are more expensive than champagne), the idea of such a device seemed decades before its time........ then whattaya know, the F-16 Fighting Falcon appears :) 2. the deliberate flight INSTABILITY of the F-16 was one of its ultimate features; it is this instability that provided unprecedented maneuverability AND reduction in pilot fatigue due to the location of center-of-gravity. My (not-so-expert-but-fascinated) understanding is that the F-16 is second only to the F-22 in terms of turn-on-a-dime finesse. HARM is something I've shuffled my feet with so this is (typically, Spudknocker) the right place :)

What great timing I just got back into DCS with an all new setup and picked the F16 to learn first. Sweet thanks for the tutorial!

Man this is my favorite thing to happen in Dcs For a long time ;)

Syria's most well defended camel race track. The Harm pod & markpoints are a real game-changer for me in the F-16 - loving it.

0:00 That classic intro totally caught me off guard, not gonna lie!

Also love the explanation of how the targeting system works!!!

Great tutorial Spudnocker, thanks!

You can see that the track radar isn't rotating anymore. So, I guess thats sort of a way visually confirm that it's disabled.

I think you can use m-sel (button 0 on icp) for fast access to the Steerpoint set via the mark function. Nice Video as always!

Awesome detail explanation! Thx a lot. Greets from germany. Cheers and many happy landings

Man your tutorials are amazing. I'm a bit dense so I like how well you explain things. I like GrimReapers too but seems like he assumes everyone is a DCS pro and he goes way too fast. Keep up the good work!

6:50 - "Racetrack for camel racing"?...ok, I'm intrigued. lol

Love the video.....my favourite quote "a simple yet complex procedure". Which is it, simple or complex. Here's a word "tortology" lol. Great vid.

The most detailed video on using HTS+TGP.

Good Video Spudknocker!

Now we just need a AG mode for the HMCS

Wonderful tutorial man! Well done! How do you enable the threat rings on the MFD? I am struggling to find it and I cannot... Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks for the very detailed video. Just tried using the F16 with HTS /HAD/HARM in a multiplayer map but it was not getting anything on the HAD display although SAMS where locking and firing at me. Can a multiplayer server disable the functionality of the HTS?

Nice video. Noticed that the HARM hitting looked different in Wags video. I wonder if this is an update that will later be coming with the AH-64 with ED trying to work on things closer to the ground for it, or if it's because your HARM maybe exploded early. (9:10 mark in wags video for what i'm refering to)

Awesome video. I was good until the Markpoint stuff, I'm going to need some practice with that workflow!

It might take a couple of extra views for me personally to nail this down, but good job 👍

Thanks for the video clearing up how to two new features work with each other so well! I was having the issue in my own game where the SAM sites were packed in so close together that I was having difficulty locking the one I wanted. In Wags video around the 5:42 mark, he talks about TMS Right handing off between emitters. Have you been able to get this to work? I also had an issue where after getting repaired, the HTS pod wouldn't lock anything. I don't know if you've experienced that or have any further insight on target handoff. Really enjoy the content, keep up the great work & congrats on 40k!

Thank you so much for one more video! Do you have a print screen of your graphic settings inside DCS? I'd love to see. Thanks!

Amazing video thanks! Any news on the ECM pod?

Why did you create two Markpoints? Why not make the first MP the Target? Thank you for another awesome Tutorial!

That's a lot to do just to visually see the target area but very interesting video

now all they need to add is the Towed Decoy and will be ready to do major SEAD missions

I am struggling to implement bvr tactics in a live battle with other planes interacting and changing my plans. I would love to see a video explaining when and how to engage targets and how to effectively run away when things get too hot.

Question: I have the winwing orion base f16 throttle. Zooming in with the targeting pod had a delay, I need turn a few times in order to zoom in 1 (untill 9). Anyone has an idea?

If you were firing through cloud cover could use the hts to create a Mark point and the use the Radar in Dbs2 to refine the point for a jsow shot?

Can you go further into the markpoints please? I've tried using them and once markpoint 26 is set I can't set it to a different location. I can only change markpoints 27 and up. It has STPT next to it on the DED, so not sure if that's something that needs to be unselected. Can you also explain what the OVFLY option means on the markpoint DED page?

one problem ive ran into when using the HTS is when i land , rearm and then takeoff again and come back to do another SEAD mission after locking up a target on the HTS the HARM wont perform the handoff and the target wont be outlined in red and i therefore cannot launch the HARM and i cant seem to perform the hand off, anyone got any ideas on what im doing wrong?

What happens if you fire the harm just by pressing tms-up on the hts page without adding a markpoint? What steerpoint will show up on the wpn page as a target? I used it like this yesterday and all harms hit the target but I didn‘t check the wpn page.

My HAD says it’s off, how do you turn it on? I’ve looked in the controls but have found nothing

My HAD is off, anyone know how to fix it?

Harm attack display screen is not working to me?at screen 'HAD OFF' error or bug?

is there any reason why my had page says off when i open it. i cannot use the had because it constantly says its off when i have the harm pod equipped

Anyone figure out how to HOTAS steerpoint selection yet?

I'm new to learning the Viper and I have a question maybe someone can help clarify. When using the HAD and HARM in POS - EOM mode, do you still have to select the Active ALIC threat table 1/2/3 (WPN page button 2 on top row)? Nobody mentions it in their tutorials so maybe it's a non issue. Maybe the handoff takes care of it? In my practice mission, I setup a SA-3 so that would be table 3 which is not the default when powering up the HARM.

Would it be possible to create threat circle in HSI using HTS and share it via datalink?

Uh ... this is literally the first of your great tutorial videos where you completely lost me at 11:35 with the the quick switching between the MFDs, doing handoffskies, entering something-steerpoint-something, and suddenly you just fire and it hits like Gandalf's magic fireball from hell. Think I'm missing some fundamentals, because I have the same issues with Mavericks.

Whenever I start from the Ground, my HAD says HAD OFF and I'm really struggling to turn it on... any suggestions?

How do i sent my made up markpoints to my f16 human buddy?

Apart from "we'll go ahead" all the time this was a useful video, thanks!

Do you live in Canada or the states

So not sure all thise step using the tgp also us that valuable considering the result if this video... that it didnt actually show the level of damage. Instead, that info came from hts.

Whereabouts do you live

13:23 i think you fired your harm on the first mark point(26) and not the more accurate one (27). i might be wrong though

Seems like so many things have to be done first before a HARM can actually be fired off in this mode. Too many steps.

Thank you! Started learning the Viper again a few weeks ago. Its a fantastic module