Do we know what the designation is for the dual rails & the requisite adapter(s) used in that configuration would be?
Potentially even if they could, depending on the Bus-bar tie in, the dispensers may not be separately addressable and so always be stuck in paired release, which is the issue with the AV-8A, even though it has cockpit indicators for 4x AIM-9 it can only mount two due to the ECP to permit this not being procured.
It was just named “Twin sidewinder launcher” in the manual. I think one route would be to try and get the servicing docs for the launcher. I might have to explore that to put this issue to bed.
Maybe if we could get a look at a Shar 2 that hasn’t had the wires removed yet or we get hold of the build blueprints used for building then maybe we could confirm if it was possible or not. Doesn’t @Flame2512 have a Shar 2 in his yard?
Sounds like an average wt user, got so many keys to bind nowadays you gota fold them together. My toggle laser key is (` + e) lol. Apparently thats bad coming from my friend that uses alt + f to lock targets on radar… Mines middle mouse button as it locks as well as squad pings.
Still need the super-large chaff packet in the airbrake on the FRS1 modeled :P
Falklands map next major, AND we can hope and pray (cope) that the IR signatures get fixed and EEGS is added. kind of a big one i am surprised hasn’t been added.
Im just really hoping they dont butcher it.
A full Falkland island map would be really fun and we need bigger sim maps but the 3 points of interest they specifically mentioned are just on the east falklands and they could just crop the island down loads which would be kinda boring.
I also reeally hope its an EC map and not just an ARB map the size of a postage stamp.
IR sigs wont be fixed, but Im really hoping we get the EEGS and combined with fuel dumping as well is going to make carrier ops much easier. Kinda also hoping we get our drop tanks too
I’m excited for custom battles Falklands map.
Could even do “what if scenarios”
With Bucs and Phantoms
No offense but you are daft if you think Gaijin is going to put much work into the Harriers within 4 years after “fixing” them
This would be the biggest EC map ever added to the game iirc and considering nothing new has come to Sim in so many years, I doubt we will get a proper sized map :(
Edit: To cheer up we can watch this:
We all know the chase Josh causes
https://youtu.be/2yYsmzeVHaM?si=uRrk2fxsf0Z64Y6d
I’m massively copium-ing that the reason we’ve had no new maps in so long is because they’ve been working on a super massive new map and it’s just taken twice as long as normal for an EC map
I hope not but I have a grudging feeling they are going to purposefully fuck something or with something just to spite us British players (not saying I’m British but British main)
Yeah, like it having no carrier spawns
Or being super small and only made for ARB
Would be cool if they added the Argentine carrier for the West side team
What br bracket would be most realistic for the falklands war, 11.3-10.3? Would get most of the early harriers which would be present in the war, mainly the squadron harrier. Although j7e/mig 23 kinda dominates that bracket
I’d say 9.7 to 10.7 with the FRS1e being the Falklands fit and the Nesher (Dagger) being at 10.0
It’s actually a rather decent bracket for the shar as well, as the FRS1 is stupidly over BRed for SB and the Mig23MLD is under BRed
The only way they could make it fit within 128 km by 128 km would be to either crop the island down, or scale it down.
Unless we got maps bigger than 128km² that people have been asking for for years
They are too lazy and cheap :(
I spoke to a developer about this years ago. The answer I got back then was that the game engine didn’t like maps much bigger than 128x128. I think it was that common issue with game engines where the further you get away from 0,0 be less precise some physics calculations become, and if you get too far away, the effects start to become noticeable.
IIRC he said the issue can be solved, but it is non-trivial and back then it was deemed not worth the effort as 128 x128 was plenty big enough for props and early jets.
That said, Norway is 128x164 or something odd like that, and the empty ocean map is 256x256. So I guess it might be possible.
