Apache lets Iranian backed militia know it's arrived at US Embassy Baghdad
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Just some New Years fireworks to cheer everyone up.
Actually those are to confuse passive IR weapons systems like the old Soviet SA-7 and Stingers we provided to the Muhajadeen in Afghanistan.
They are ejected on both sides of the Apache because they are in the line of sight from the ground of the twin turbine engines mounted on the left and right side of the helo.
I fly combat sims like DCS in my spare time, which is very little during tax season and year end crunch time like right now. Looking forward to the new Top Gun movie, even though it has so many technical mistakes it is hard to take it seriously.
Lots of CGI because the Navy is not going to let them play around like they did in the making of the first one. These days aircraft can only perform limited ACM, sitting inside a maneuvering 'bubble'. If your bubble touches the bubble of another aircraft, you get in big trouble.
It is why I love DCS, I can go fangs out like you would in real combat flying. The new F-16 is incredible to fly, but the Tomcat is still my favorite in that sim, I just wish Jester was a little more serious sounding... he is so excitable like a newb!
Well thank you Bill Nye The Science Guy.
Woah woah, lets not insult the man, he was talking about military aircraft, not rejecting the science that there’s only two genders
It was just a movie quote
I know, I just wanted to get a transgender dig in on Bill Nye
I’ll take quotes that can be taken out of context for 600, Alex.
I'm a woman, do I need to upload another photo? : )
Thanks! Youtube recommended some DCS videos and got me hooked! To survive in that sim you really need to know the weapon systems you have to employ and to defend against.
Learned how to "notch" from Growling Sidewinder, his videos are awesome!
Yes, just the difference between different versions of AMRAAMs is critical to getting reliable splashes. I was doing it all wrong and getting my butt handed to me until I learned to fire at high altitude and then immediately start downhill to drag any missiles the opponent had fired down into denser air to then maneuver to shake the lock it may or may not have.
Sometimes you get no RWR alarm, just like in real life, based on the detection angle of the sensors on your own aircraft. I've also learned to put my lift vector onto the bandit in close quarters fighting so that I can finally start to master rolling or vertical scissors... that and learning to lead with the gun and squirt rather than hose the target. You have only seconds of ammo and none to waste.
Learned real quick what the A-10 cannot do, defend itself against air superiority fighters that have been freed to hunt them down. It becomes a blood bath. Like P-51's going after Stuka's in WWII. The last thing you want to be is the lowest and slowest in a battlefield where air superiority has not been decided yet.
I do want to get into VR, all the really good DCS guys use it, but can't imagine justifying the expense unless I started my own channel and with the way Youtube is going these days, it might be hundreds of hours wasted for no return on the investment. Anything pro guns/U.S. military/USA they are de-monitizing and even deleting whole channels with little warning.
Maybe I will get a fitted flight suit and get a cool pilot/aviator call sign if their people could convince me they won't shoot "Bond Girl" down in flames as soon as they notice me on their 'radar scopes' at Youtube.
Nice chat! TTL!
Edit : If you want a deep dive into DCS and have some fun while you are at it, look up a Youtube channel named : Grim Reapers
You will know you have the right one if you hear an English accent from the narrator, he is the commander of their virtual combat squadron, kind of an aerial version of the "A Team". Lots of different aircraft in the unit and varying skill levels too. Some of the take offs are downright sketchy! Especially with the Saab Viggens, the UK's answer to the USA's F-111 Ardvaark. Medium bomber with some fighter capabilities, terrain following radar, etc.