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It’s a simulator, and prior to real action yes that is the best data you have available. I guess you’re proposing we go start a few skirmishes with a near-peer
by ethanbond 4y ago
It’s a simulator, and prior to real action yes that is the best data you have available. I guess you’re proposing we go start a few skirmishes with a near-peer adversary every time we have a new weapons system to evaluate?
- JimtheCoder 4y ago"and prior to real action yes that is the best data you have available." I am pretty sure the US military does their own wargames to get data for things like this, and I highly doubt they are using DCS as a data source...
- threeseed 4y ago> and I highly doubt they are using DCS as a data source No one said they did. But they do use simulators for training and mission planning: https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35-lightning-ii-training-systems.html https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/f-35-lightning...
- Thaxll 4y agoDCS has 0 information about real life data on modern planes so how would it represent anything close to reality?
- _3u10 4y agoFormer pilots use it… I would imagine they would know. The F-35 in particular isn’t super well modeled but it gets killed by what you’d expect to kill it, namely the raptor. Face it stealth is a huge advantage in BVR when you are well outside the WEZ of fox 2’s. And yes the F-35 gets killed in dogfights, however it slays pretty much everything in BVR. Also reports from war games report the same kinds of kill ratios, basically until the F-35 runs out of missiles it will kill every 4th gen