An introdution to the Viggen's NAV bombing mode in DCS Thanks to @Bishop for the help with the research! If you have any comments, suggestions or questions please drop by my Discord at: / discord
The vellow veritcal needle on the ILS (on the Artificial Horizion) can be used for left/right alignment in NAV mode. So good for both laydown and toss attacks. Great video as always
don’t take this the wrong way but i put on your videos (mostly the tutorials of aircraft i don’t have so i wouldn’t miss much) to get me to go to sleep cause your voice just is very calming. don’t think u bore people to sleep, the tutorials that are important to me teach the stuff very well & most importantly u explain why systems work in such way they do. all love❤
God I love your approach to your videos. Your desire to understand the why of things is so helpful for me. I wish I had found your A-4E videos before I did all my own testing and playing around as it would have sped things up lol
Viggen is a whole system designed around this kind of bombing, so using it all makes things a lot easier, specifically the autopilot features help a lot with these navigation point level releases in my experience. If you put the centre dot of the navigation indicator on the HUD within your HUD velocity vector, it means (assuming no drift) you are perfectly lined up for your target, commanding the altitude hold mode at that point leaves only the counting down the range cue portion of the run to worry about for the pilot. Also, for the toss releases with Viggen, I personally don't even look at the HUD cue after lining up properly. I just follow waypoint range indicator, and start pulling up around 6 kilometers, and then follow G gauge, and release when I hit about 4Gs. I get both fairly decent standoff and acceptable accuracy that way, and is good enough against both MANPADS defenses on target area and even an SA-2 site :)
I'm loving this series. I always loved playing around in the Viggen but could never really "get it" due to the Swedish logic in switchology and not knowing the context of how the weapons were intended to be employed.
You're coming a bit slow on your runs, something like mach 0.7 or so. AFAIK you're meant to be doing more like mach 0.8-0.9. That should give you a bit more standoff. =) Been quite enjoying these videos, was reminded a lot of my own experimentations on the Viggen. You might also want to map the doppler radar's land/sea switch so that you get as accurate measurements as possible when you fly over water on the way back to setting up. =)
hi, glad you're taking on AJS37. a very interesting aircraft which when it arrived was a bit ahead of its time. Now I may be the last on the ball here but I think you might be able to get help by contacting @hilmerby. He is a former SweAF pilot and flew the AJS37 for many years. He has his own channel (link below) with some videos for AJS37 different weapon systems. youtube.com/@hilmerby
when it comes to toss bombing there is a standard technique for this with the AJS37. The technique was i.a. used for flare bombs to illuminate a target area for trailing aircrafts or other units.
