The Devs have now confirmed that each nozzle acting as an individual engine is not what’s going on. So no that’s clearly not evidence.
Doesn’t really make sense, there has been many occasions were I’ve decoyed missiles whilst stalled in mid air with my J-11A and the message I sent was semi-sarcastic.
Harrier’s (all of them) gain the most thrust at lower speeds
What do you mean by this? As in they have the most thrust in-game at lower speeds?
as you’re probably already going pretty slow while defending
I don’t consider 700km/h to 900km/h to be slow and that’s the speed I usually fly at, those are also the speeds I usually get a IR missile fired upon.
The thrust curve on the Harrier is such that the slower you’re flying the more thrust the engine produces.
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Compressor likes it slower.
So yeah the optimum way to flare away missiles other than the 9M is to fly in a straight line or turn off your engine and get shot down by guns.
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Genuine question here. (This may have been discussed previously, but i cannot find it)
How come the 2x Aim 9L/M pylons on the FA.2 SHAR cant take the BOL/LAU138 countermeasure pods?
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There is nothing specific in the manual that says it cannot be done, but there isn’t also anything that says it can be done either.
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Fair. Just a weird surprise after playing the F.3 and other airframes.
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that’s insanely counterintuitive… especially given how for the first months of the Tornadoes idling your throttle was a requirement to decoy anything
I got hit and killed by an AIM9E on release of the GR.1, and I was on 30% throttle iirc
And yes I’m still mad.
Excellent tactics good sir, I will fly in a perfectly straight line and give people a free kill because there is an IR missile threat…
Also I know you’ve mentioned the 9M, but that’s actually BS, because there’s a situation where conducting the optimal defensive manouevres in game is actually increasing the odds you get killed lmao
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now when gaijin added realistic radar screens we could forward historical radar screen for sea harrier frs.1(e),late
GTM- ground target mode search
GTM track
normal radar seach
radar search ground clutter example
radar search track
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As in on the HUD HUD or on one of the monitors?
monitors, i meant radar screen not HUD ,my bad
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Got an insane idea but…
Can you suggest to the devs to replace the FA2’s Harrier Gr3 placeholder cockpit HUD with that of the F3’s? That way we can actually get some usable HUD symbology and it might actually be playable in Sim
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The spaghetti won’t be able to handle that
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why not? it should be a job of dragging and dropping the HUD code into the FA.2s files.
It’d make it a hell of a lot more usable (radar symbology for one)
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Why the the FA.2?
Why not all Shars
The FRS1 should also have similar symbology but not too the same degree and would be a far larger ask. Meanwhile the FA2 likely has all of the same symbology, but would just look different
I was thinking of all SHars getting F.3 HUD until the real HUDs come in. (If they ever come)
Yeah… It would be nice, but I think it’s asking for too much. FA2 though… I don’t think to quite the same degree