F-14 - Engaging Jamming Aircraft. Or, Why DCS is a Poor Combat Sim 

IMPORTANT: I forgot to mention in the video that the AI cheats and it is capable of launching HOJ lofting missiles at you well before the burnthough range ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Very well put, this is actually a very good recap of where DCS evolution is strangling for 20 years now. Many of this is the same since LOMAC, like static RCS and burnthrough ranges, dice-roll countermeasures. Too much focus on missiles in my opinion, nut sure of the motivations or the goals of ED. Keep up!

Very interesting. I hope one day we can get radar specific burnthrough ranges so that way everyone doesnt have the "balanced" 30nm burnthrough. The AWG-9's behemoth floodlight shouldn't be equivalent to the Viper's flashlight. Still though this seems to track what I thought is most viable for jammer engagement, (meaning: 45nm estimated range, go 40 degrees nose up, launch, crank, re-engage)

i barely understand your accent bro

Dude, i love your website and all your videos. Holy shit, you are doing gods work. I am still struggling to see if jamming is worth it? or when it is worth it in DCS? any chance you can elaborate on when to use it? And does all the jamming work the same between the modules?

Amazing. Thanks for tips fighting Jamming targets! So what is the logic on Home-on-Jam in DCS? Missile HOJ is set only before launch? and then it stays in HOJ throughout the life of missile? I thought if missile loses HOJ (jammer of target off) then missile reverts to active mode (if it have radar). Like your RWR 13:40 was gave you warning that aim120 has its radar on and locked you didnt it? and yet it was still looking for jamming target?

I'm this kind of simer who does not use the sim on it full potential. I will never understand deep enought operation of radar emission and other EM system (detector, jamming, etc) to really have the ability to make the difference beetwin a hardcore realistic modeling and an average modeling. But i love what you said because even if i'm not knowledgeable enough on the subject, i expect a realistic sim to be the best one i'm evolving in. And i inform myself throught constructive criticize from peole who have the knowedge. Not because i want to use the sim at it best, but because i want to be in the best universe possible even if i don't use it full. Knowing that is important to me. Knowing that you are using the best is important as using it, for the feeling it give to "touch" the reality ! To "touch" the dream even if your not at the good level. Even if the user is failing to be efficient. Failling is good and it push to adapt, wich is the definition of a simulation (and not a simple game). And also because i know that more realism will push me to know better in a way or an other. I thank you for this. And even if all those problems are already well known by the community (EM environment and operation, IA, COM and some systems related to especialy) it's cool that you speak about it nicely but such seriously. All that is well known. But ED maybe must ear it again.

Personally, last year's trend feels like "eliminate f14s potential in modern scenarios because poor, helpless f16/f18 pilots die from 60nm launches while flying high and doing nothing to defend incoming Phoenix" and with every nerf (I can't name it other way) only the most skilled f14 pilots remain in their tomcats so "problem" remains

Hi I don't understand how to shoot aim 54 phoenix in PDSTT with this long distance jamming

I love your content,but...If I send you a head tracker will you promise to use it?

100% agree, finally a video that shows what i felt about DCS for 20 plus years.. i love the game, love DCS, i played original Su27 back in 1996 ffs!!! )) but anywhow, this is not combat sim, its aircraft sim, its high fidelity module sim, has nothing to do with simulating combat of any sorts, AI is non existent, which is evident when you go to mission editor and have to explicitely tell AI to do anything if you want it to act with "brains", like, go to point A, turn radar on, use radar guided missiles, i think we are close to me having to specify-Dodge enemy air attack by banking left, perform s-split, then return and etc etc.. very very bad! about combat sim? there is nothing to show its combat sim, combat sim would put elements of war in the theatre and would have an effect on gameplay throughout the campaign for instance, or multiplayer session if you will .... is there an imperative to hit enemy HQ? or any C&C structures? nope, why should it, you can put a mission to do this but it has no relevance to anything.. combat sim would make it so if you FIND OUT where enemy HQ is, and successfuly hit it, it means troops movement is LESS coordinated and would result in less cohesion meaning your ground attack offensive would be 20-40% more effective or whatever.. there would be correlation between things you hit and their effects and need to prevent such hits by AI or human players.. so, yeah, sadly i don't see it will get to that point, DCS will remain module sim, will keep getting more modules and that is that..some sort of modern electronic module maker of planes..instead of buying modules and putting them together, you but electronic versions and run them through 3D machines-aka computers ..expensive hobby and that is all there is.. what is more, for true combat sim you don't even need the high fidelity nonsense, you need the basics of ground war done, you need to understand logistics, defense, attack, cover, penalties, morale, exhaustion, organisation etc etc.. and the tank units, statistics, almost irrelevant when compared to massive BASICS you need for combat sim..