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how does you computer know where the IP point is? did you enter lat long coordinates in the jester menu?

What RF Guidance Unit for the Shrike are you using?

Can You show the pre launch? IP point, Weapon config etc. etc? It will be a more complete tutorial. Thx.

idk why, but i cant get the shrike to even get the search tone. Idk what i am doing wrong

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Ok. Makes sense. So when you hit/hold bomb release, it knows to release the bomb at the right time to hit a point - whatever distance you entered- from the IP in the direction your jet happens to be pointing (hence the target waypoint and flight control to keep you on target)

Why not use Laydown mode in this situation?

Im confused. How does the aircraft know that you want to drop bombs on a specific waypoint? Is there a way to designate the waypoint as a target point? If set up waypoint 1, 2, 3, 4&5, how do i let the plane know that I want to bomb waypoint 3?

Good video

I mainly play multiplayer on 4YA, how to you set the IP point? i don't have this step clear

Your run in speed is wrong, on bomb table you enter 550 TAS but you fly 550 IAS

This is gold, thanks!

Nice video! Can you also explain how to select the correct seeker during rearming phase? Thank you!

The thing is I love the Phantom and the way it was used to just drop a load of bombs on the enemy and destroy the whole jungle but in DCS the lack of splash damage makes the Phantom feel kind of pointless. I hope ED gets it sorted and thanks for these tutorials they are very nice and easy to follow.

What I don’t get about WRCS mode is… how can the Shrike actually know the range? You’re not entering a range in the WRCS, just the altitude, so how does it know?

Shrike WRCS mode isn't fully implemented yet ;)

Can you do a video on how to set up in the back seat for multicrew?

Gold!

Missile does the spinny thing, who cares if it works or not! 🤔

Thanks Shiftie.

Thanks Shiftie another cracking video, just shows you need to fly the F4 well to make the most of it eh...

Nice video's ! I've subscribed, simple and clear explination ! Many thanks for taking the time !

I find the weapons of the f4 are weak .. same with mavs .. you mostly just get damage and very rare you get something destroyed.. kinda of a shame but she's a nice bird to fly

You are really mastering this bad boy!

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Interesting how the first Shrike came off shooting forwards, but the other three didn't 1:18

Keep them coming! Learning a lot! 😉

Phantoms great Shiftie thanks from stream and vids

Mine always fall short by 2 NM… no idea what i do wrong so now i just add 2 NM The most wierd delivery mode thou must be O/S😅

Thank you for great video. Let say if we have detected a sam site during mission how we deal with that by lofting ? If we can not mark via F10 map, can we do loft bombing via visual targeting ? What will be they way use loft bombing ?

i see f4 i click

Between April and October of 1972, during Freedom Train and LB1, over 700 Shrikes and ~280 STARMs were fired, for 1 (ONE) confirmed hit. STARM was only a little bit better with two confirmed hits. Around 30 and 57 'probables' were determined to have 'maybe fragged something' from the crater locations and the rest were deemed 'suppression'. ED has the SAM logic wrong. Period 1960s-70s, if the maneuvering of the recognizable Weasel profile aircraft came nose-hot, the engagement radar turned off. AGM-78 was better than AGM-45 (Standard vs. Sparrow motor, 1,300lbs vs. 500lbs missile weight) because it's gimballed seeker, autopilot and smoke marker/BIA radio signal all allowed it to be fired with the EF-105F/F-105G pointed away from the radar, about 12-15nm from low level and as much as 25nm from altitude. The NVA might see the Weasel but they would not see the launch profile and would not go dummy. Shrike could be lofted from 17-21nm at 20,000ft, almost perfectly overlapping the SA-2 envelope, but required a bit of head space as 'Cool Hand Luke' icewater in the veins of the pilot because you were using the ADI to measure slant range by depression of the nose on consecutive sweep cycles while listening to the audible signal intensity to compare degrees nose-down with trigged slant range and then pulling nose high to shower the threat with ballistic curtains of missiles in a general range overlap of 3-5nm, based on where the radar _could be_, when the missile nosed over and tried to ride the beam. About as precise as it sounds, but such 'Kentucky Windage' was all we had. AGM-45 did not have autopilot memory mode (at that time, later blocks 10+ standardized the GCS somewhat with wider band coverage and better silent emitter homing) and so it was more 'get the hunter killer teams in there and let them do what they do' while the radar was dummy loaded (where the HK were significantly further out front, in lawn mower mode, in front of the ARM shooters) and so //suppression// was more or less that penaid tool, albeit an expensive one with dozens of rounds in air on targets which were preplanned based on the last drone photo of the site location, programmed into the ARN-92 LORAN (period GPS equivalent) as a waypoint location. This method, for those jets which had the towel rack, was much more precise in terms of predictive location of ARM impact as range overlaps (allowing for low level lofting) but depended greatly on the rapidity of targeting updates from the last Lightning Bug drone. Using wet film, even with target annotation, meant a minimum turn around on processing, interpretation and geo location of 2-3hrs after drone recovery (another 30 minute to hour plus evolution) and the Vietnamese could have an entire SA-2 battery jacked up, moving down the road and setting up in a new location in less than 4. They were also very good at camouflage (no 'pentagons' after 1967) and site dispersal betwween the obvious launcher pits and the hidden radars and of course surrounded their Guideline batteries with AAA flak lanes, as much as a mile deep. At a time when HK meant a Weasel and a division of F-4D/E with bombs or rockets, this could be deadly for our guys and it was from the SEA war that we learned you both had to have a very long reaching ARM with high memory based (IMU) autopilot accuracy and a package approach to SEAD so that the site/s (often in overlap) were overwhelmed with serious firepower as both AAA suppression and primary target kill. Shrike was a good missile, for it's day, but largely replaced by the AGM-65A in the last year of the war and ever since, for low level suppression, with the D in particular being considered valuable because the radar sails get hot and stay that way, even when dummied out.

Great video Shiftie!

how do you set up the IP point?

How do you use the VHF radio?

Awesome!

Nice one matey

Thanks Shiftie, will try this later. 😀

Have not been able to talk on srs even tho the freq is shown as right , how you select the radio your transmitting on?

noicee, im really enjoying learning the beast

Nice, short and to the point, many thanks

what about target altitude?

Do you have to set a target waypoint for this to work? If so, how do you do that, via F10 map?

Great video. I understand that the Phantom had some real life flight no nos like not using the ailerons for the roll at a certain AoA, you would use the rudder instead. Is this DCS Phantom modelled with the same type of accuracy?

Just a note, if you turn on the needle directors on the ADI they guide you in performing a 4g pullup, which the bombing computer is programmed for, and yaw input. They can help a lot in aiding precision

Great stuff!

Let me guess. You learned this by attempting during league bowling night. Lol. 🎳 😂 that was awesome. I can't wait to get home and try this now.

Well done Shifty! keep up the good work, and please keep the videos coming!

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Bravo Sir, great video Shiftie