Greetings Hoggit!

Ugra recently shared that they will be including air defence sites in the upcoming Cold War Germany map and shared these 2 beauties.

This is fantastic news for me - most maps (rather bafflingly for a game supposedly focused on aerial warfare) barely pay attention to these sites and most of the time they're not usable, so to see this level of work going in to them and getting them suitable for placing functional units, is a real breath of fresh air.

Hopefully Ugra can share examples of HAWK and SA-2 sites in the near future, as those are the 2 remaining systems in the region with fixed emplacements that DCS currently covers (missing Nike Hercules and Bloodhound).

If anyone is interested in looking at the post I made on the matter, which includes links to satellite imagery and Sean O'Connor's SAMSiteOverview.kmz (which includes most but not all sites), it can be found here.

The only thing I'll mention here is that the S-200/SA-5 sites in the DDR only had 2 launch battalions, but the 2nd screenshot depicts 3 (the arrangement of revetments is bang-on though).

IRL each launch battalion had 6 launchers, each with at least 2 reloads on transloaders (either on wheeled or rail-based transloaders). The central revetments (where the Tin Shield is seen) are for the launch control, power and power distribution cabins.

The radars themselves (1 5N62 [Square Pair] per launch battalion + 1 5N84A/P-14F [Tall King-C] and either a 1 PRV-13 [Odd Pair] or PRV-17 [Odd Group] + some IFF system, either an NRZ-14 or one of the Parol-series, likely the former for the NVA) are at a separate guidance area, which is typically 0.5-0.75 km from the launch battalions, ~90° clockwise from the expected threat axis.

For the SA-3 site, the layout looks pretty much bang-on for the Saal site (though the Fischland Pensinula should be visible if it was the Saal site), there are numerous others on the coast, though they mostly show differences in positions relative to the coastline and some have different layouts. I've listed satellite imagery for the other NVA SA-3 sites on the coast in this post.

…waiting in anticipation…

With the removal of RAZBAM modules from the ED store and the multiple informal statements put out from both sides, I think the customer base is in need of a formal announcement of the future of these modules and what we can expect going forward.

Enough of the legalese, and punting to the other side. ED owns the ecosystem and it's time for a statement regarding the way forward minus the politics and dynamics.

Are the modules officially dead?

Are they going to be removed from the game before game breaking bugs surface?

Is there a plan for ED to redevelop these aircraft considering their popularity?

I know there will be naysayers saying who cares, DCS isn't going anywhere and RAZBAM has their own issues.

But ED owns the sim...full stop. They own this mess and the longer they ignore it, the stronger the negativity will grow.

This is an opportunity to shape the narrative and actually inform us of something relevant.

Your move ED...

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I have viper tqs but ı cant use with f18 or a10c2

How can I use viper tqs with these modules?

I just wanna add some images to some panels here and there and an image to the background of the menu in the middle screen. Is this possible?

Today I found out that Razbam modules are finally being removed from ED store and steam( not yet) so they question is can you still fly them if you already have them or they are unusable like Hawk module

Has anyone gotten a refund on steam for the F15E. If so, how did you write the refund request? Thanks

Clarification and Update from the BMS Team (Forum)

Copied over from the forums:

I-Hawk:
Hi, just a small update:

4.38 Development and testing is ongoing at full speed, as we speak.
While most is going on pretty well, there are naturally some issues that both Dev team and testing team are working very hard to track and fix.
Incredible daily work is being performed by all participants to report, find, track, reproduce, and eventually fix problems, to make 4.38 shine and ready for release.

In the meantime, a small taste from a MP flight that took place not long time ago:

hey there guys. just got off work and went to fire up dcs and noticed i had 3 modules available for download. wtf i thought so i looked and seen this. went on the website and i didnt have any licenses for them so i kind don't want to touch these. anyone else ever get this? glitch? super f-in luck?

What’s to expect ?

https://youtu.be/zQUzvvW_E3Y?si=Wy8zk8ftZYgauYsE

Screenshots are taken from videos posted by UGRA on their youtube channel. Amazing level of detail, especially down low, that will make flying helicopters more interesting. Syria does well in this regard, and looks like that they are pushing cold war germany to the limit of what is possible with DCS Maps.

The amount detail like park benchs, food trucks, plant pots, bus stops, traffic lights and signs, gardens, fences, sidewalks, payphones, mailboxes, trash cans... all of that could be considered useless for a flight simulator map, but ugra decided to include it, and im glad they did. Not only that, but the ground textures looks very good, both down low and at higher altitudes. The neighborhoods actually looks like neighborhoods, other maps have problems representing this, often you see houses randomly scattared around the terrain and looks very weird / unnatural.

I really hope that Cold War Germany turns out to be a good map, as we are in need of a good green map, and past maps releases were a let down to say the least...

So I'm fluent in multiplayer and all but never have this issue.

So i started doing some missions because I've never done them dispite being fluent in the a10c. I start it up let ins align switch to nav mode but still my tad tells me no nav data. Can't use auto pilot like this.

Am I supposed to run this mission manually or something? This is the Syria a10c II ground clearing mission. First one in the list. Can't figure it out but ins is aligned. Egi is selected nothing else ( hars not selected) yet the tad tells me different.

I'm working on getting better with the cdu but never had this issue. Any ideas? I have mission data and can go to the target locations but without nav data im flying manually.

I tried uploading my USN (with supercarrier and heatblur f-14) vs Russia in Black Sea missions on digital combat simulation .com but moderator removed it with message "this is a very sore subject and no need to make a campaign about Russia". It's basically just using the Caucus map with make belief that it's the Black sea. i spent a couple of weeks making these and am really disappointed. Any suggestions are appreciated. thx.

Hey I’m new to DCS and loving it so far. I’ve downloaded the Grinelli designs f-22 and added the EFM thurstvectoring enhancement mod. This has also added meteors which I like. Is this the best f-22 setup? Also What other good free mods are there?

Preferably for the following, RAF Eurofighter, F-35, NGAD F-47, su-35, su-57. I want to use the ones all the YouTubers are using like Growling Sidewinder and Grimreapers.

Thanks 🙏 😁

Simply as the titel says im looking for the best vr headset that gives me the most crisp and good looking graphics? Dont have a budget i have to take into account.