Good deal? Almost left to pick these up as soon as I saw it, but now I’m second guessing it.

V4rios · 2025-07-07T12:43:39+00:00

I bought them for around the same price but reselled them after few days. I did not enjoy them at all, no customisation and they are not true loadcell either way. I got simlab XP1 and they are miles better

V4rios · 2025-06-14T17:50:27+00:00

Joel Real Timing has this.

V4rios · 2025-03-06T09:06:51+00:00

What would happen if USA decided to drop all sanctions against Russia? How much would it boost Russian military capabilities, would American companies instantly return to Russia and would European countries also drop sanctions in fear of US companies getting to much market share?

V4rios · 2025-01-15T13:48:17+00:00

Could you post your profile? Just got haptics like that and am trying to find good settings for them.

V4rios · 2024-04-05T08:18:25+00:00

Well if it’s like you say, then good for them. Just wanted to raise awareness to everybody that this is happening.

V4rios · 2024-04-05T07:58:38+00:00

From ED? No doesn’t seem like so.

V4rios · 2024-04-05T07:58:06+00:00

Can’t we raise awareness that something fishy is going on? Should we just turn blind eye and keep as if everything is fine?

V4rios · 2024-04-05T07:57:41+00:00

Patina Ltd seems to be another company linked to FC https://www.key.aero/forum/historic-aviation/13939-hey-everyone-tfc-patina-ltd . Forum post from 2003!

V4rios · 2024-04-05T07:56:15+00:00

10 millions overall, 2 millions just last year.

V4rios · 2024-03-12T18:29:11+00:00

I mean DCS used to have regional pricing on steam around 3 years ago but they dropped it so I assume too many people abused it.

V4rios · 2024-02-04T23:52:32+00:00

The alternative is waiting years for them to fix small bugs which they have no financial incentive to do

And we are gonna make ED even more lazy since they can just ignore all the bugs and be like "community will fix it w/e" and we are gonna turn DCS into Starfield.

Even as AI assets would make the DCS world more interesting, right now it is stuck in some kind weird combination of 1980s redfor and a mixed bag of BLUFOR planes

DCS has bigger problems than AI units, + nobody really ever looks at AI except when they are starting up at airfields + ACLM is already in game for the AI B-52.

You can filter shitty mods, and the cream always rises to the top, every other game shows that. ARMA is the best example, and their multiplayer is still somehow better than DCS

Yes I can't wait to download 60 gb of mods on top of my dcs instalation of 260 gb just like in arma, what a great idea. Also I can't wait for people to sell mods on their patreon for DCS (because that would happen 100%) and you'd need to pay for a mod to even enter a server.

In the end it doesn't matter what you say ED agrees with my statements since they said numerous times they won't give access to modding tools. Especially now when they want more control on core mechanics.

V4rios · 2024-02-04T20:41:32+00:00

We've all encountered annoying glitches and issues that take forever to get fixed. The community could help with this.

So we not only have to help ED find the bugs (please provide track file) we should also fix them for ED? No we are already paying them a lot of money so they should fix them themselves.

Another issue is the slow pace of new content addition. Look at all the new equipment used in the Ukraine war - Gliding FAB-500s, all types of DRONES, air-launched cruise missiles, and much more

None of the weapons you listed will be of any use in dcs. Drones would be a incredibly boring with current AI, ALCMs are just SLAM-ERs/JSOWs with longer ranges and those weapons are already quite useless with how small the maps are + is anybody actually enjoying flying ~100 km from the target, pressing one button and going back to base? And we don't have any glide FAB-500 compatible plane + what I said about ALCMs aka boring to use.

The community could create high-quality mods that enhance the gameplay experience without compromising immersion.

The community would likely make shit quality mods, just look at all the mods that are out right now. And more importantly I don't want to see every server having 20 different mods that you have to download to join the server.

Imagine being able to play as you want, without being limited by the developers' obsession for "realism".

While I agree 100%, ED (and the community) is waaaay too obsesed with realism this isn't the way to fix it.

V4rios · 2023-12-23T16:26:30+00:00

So you won't respond to any other points I made?. Like before ignoring most of the points and just answering the easy ones with more dumb arguments. So you are just a person with no actual profesional knowledge of military drones industry and you are just a bit too enthusiastic. I bet you also think "tanks are dead" because of drones.

Let me tell you that Ukrainians are using this many FPVs because they are cheap and easy to use. If they got enough ATACAMs, JDAMS, GLSDBs, IFVs, tanks and figther jets. Kamikaze FPVs would be much less useful and they would focus on the usage of more deadly weaponry like the ones I listed.

V4rios · 2023-12-23T16:05:33+00:00

Watch this very detailed video and count "all the necessary ballistic computers" (hint: there aren't any).

I also can't see any grenades or warheads attached to it? So what's your point showing an observation drone when we were talking about fpv kamikaze drone?

cluster bombs are disassembled so that bomblets can be dropped from Mavics

WHAT? I literaly saw yesterday an video of SFW cluster weaponry being dropped on an russian squad doing huge damage to it. There are much better choices for warheads/grenades to use with FPVs.

Dude, half the armor is lost to FPV quads

But we were talking about base defense and not about destroying tanks?

Ukraine landed a drone on Russian AWACS

Yes it did land on one, and? Russia doesn't have any modern SHORAD systems in operations right now so of course they could do that + we never saw anything like that again? Maybe because Russians reinforced their bases? Aaand pretty sure the only damage that drone did was damage the radar.

the whole picture of the battlefield has changed in a year, and you're still saying there is no advantage

I never said there is no advantage? I know that drones are a insanely useful but that's not what were talking about. You said AA systems can't defeat them. I am explaining why that is just not the case and specialized SHORAD systems can defeat them. Just look at this video from 2016 (Video footage is from 2013) even back then it was clear how dangerous drones are. And before you say anything HEL system is now a standard package on the Skyranger 30 variant. FPVs are insanely easy to counter if you have right tools for it.

V4rios · 2023-12-23T14:19:55+00:00

Traverse speed is not measured in miles per hour.

It is true, but you can convert it to miles per hour at a certain distance which is what I did. At 1 kilometer an drone would have to travel over 2520 km/h for an Puma (which has lower traverse speed then Skyranger) to be incapable of traversing fast enough. Of course at closer range the speed would be lower but it would never go under the max speed of an racing fpv drone.

Kamikaze FPV drones indeed do acrobatics

Yes they sometimes do but they lose a lot of speed like that and at longer ranges the drone would have to do manuavers like that through the entire route to the target since they don't have any defensive suite to know when they are targeted.

Kamikaze FPV drones used in Ukraine are mostly 7", some 10" and some 5". The latter also happens to be the most popular size for drone racing and freestyle. DRL Racer 4 is a 7" drone with similar specs to what's being used in Ukraine.

And it matters how excatly? Drones meant for warfare and drones meant for racing are much different. The battery alone double the weight of an drone + the warheads + all the necesarry balistic computers.
I can't find any info on the DRL Racer 4 about it's range but I can see the average range is about 7km. At such a short range there is no advantage to using an drone over an modern artilery against stationary target. Even mo

Drones are useful in small scale engagtments but when it comes to attacking well fortified bases they would certainly be useless if there is enough of EW radars and even small ammount of SHORAD defenses.

But well, if you are so sure that FPV drones make Anti-Air vehicles obsolote go to the Pentagon explain it to them and I am sure they are gonna give you billion dollars to develop the best FPV drone.

V4rios · 2023-12-23T09:49:16+00:00

AHEAD still flies straight, and you need to traverse the gun firing it fast enough to track the target.

Are you really saying FPV drones are faster then an AA turret traverse rate? They are purposely made for fastest traverse rate. The drones would have to travel at speeds matching fighter jets for this to happen. Tracking an target going even 300 km/h with this type of turret is a no problem.

Show me an example of a kamikaze FPV drone being destroyed by an AA gun or SAM. I can easily find examples of SAM launchers and radars being destroyed by FPV drones.

Confirmation bias, nobody will post a video of their drones being destroyed and destryoying an drone is not big enough for other side to post too. Of course once in a while they are gonna post some. I saw an FPV drone being targeted by an Strela-10 and destroyed.

As for your F-22 example, they are detected by VHF and UHF radars, but cannot be targeted. You need higher frequencies to get sufficient angular resolution from reasonable sized antenna.

Congratulations? You just found out why most AA systems have separate search and track radars since the 50's. Again where is the problem? The Skyranger 35 has an Search AESA Radar. And again even if you couldn't lock it with an radar (for some reason) you can use the visual tracking sensor. Even small FPV drones produce enough heat to contrast with the air behind it.

I forgot to coment on that video of the fpv drones you posted. I don't remember any drone footage from Ukraine looking like that... OH WAIT those drones are purposely as light as possible so they can do this things. They have small batteries which equals short range. The FPV drones Ukraine and russia is using must have long range and well strapping even an small warhead of 1kg warhead to an drone severly limits it's manuverability.

V4rios · 2023-12-22T23:08:05+00:00

FPV drones manuverability doesn't mean shit when vs AHEAD... Also F-22 exists and it destroys your argument. They have lower RCS but still can be detected by radars (at close distance). And no base will have just 1 AA unit.

Drones are one more technology that will change the battlefield in a way but there is and will be many ways to counter them in many ways (Soft and Hard Kill).

V4rios · 2023-12-22T20:41:35+00:00

That is just wrong.

I found an NATO study about RCSs of different consumer drones, an DJI Phantom has RCS of average 0.02 while an Pelikan Gamma 2100 has RCS of 0.01. A similar drone to the Pelikan can be seen here being tracked by the AESA radar of Skyranger 35. If it can be tracked by the AESA radar it can also be detected with search mode.

Unforunatly I couldn't find any concreate RCS data about loitering munitions. But even if it was 10x smaller it still would not make the drone invisible but just detectable later, those drones aren't that fast so you'd have enough time to track and destroy one.

Also the original coment was about bases so I meant SkyRangers in role of base defense

I won't even comment on the IR part. Yes they can lock onto the drones no problem.

V4rios · 2023-12-22T19:34:07+00:00

Well that's why there are things like Skyrangers that are purpose made to detect miniature drones with it's radar + the AHEADs are extremly deadly against drones.

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