Can the A-10 win a dog fight?

Can Warthogs dogfight? Conventional wisdom says slow attack jets like the A-10 can’t dogfight. Watch and learn. Below 500′ above the ground, nobody would try more than a slashing pass because terrain denies vertical fight.

What is the best air to air fighter in DCS?

The F-16C, F/A-18C, JF-17 and Mirage 2000C are the best modern fighters. Modern multirole fighters are the most versatile and cost-effective. The F/16C can do everything from air-to-air combat to carrier takeoffs and landings.

Is there ground combat in DCS?

DCS: Combined Arms gives you control of ground forces during the battle. Use the Command Map to move ground forces, set artillery fire missions, and control the ground battle.

How many a-10s were shot down?

The A-10 force, flying more than 8,000 combat sorties, suffered only five A-10s destroyed (a loss rate of . 062 percent). Twenty of these aircraft returned with significant battle damage, and forty-five others returned with light damage that was repaired between sorties.

What does BFM mean in DCS?

Basic Fighter Maneuvers (BFM)

What is split S maneuver?

The split S is an air combat maneuver mostly used to disengage from combat. To execute a split S, the pilot half-rolls their aircraft inverted and executes a descending half-loop, resulting in level flight in the opposite direction at a lower altitude.

Does the military use DCS?

The 355th Training Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona is using DCS together with commercially available virtual reality headsets and other gaming peripherals to provide a low-cost way of augmenting more traditional training regimens on the ground and in the air.

Are there free planes in DCS?

You get 2 free planes, the Su-25T and the TF-51D. There are also several free mods that add planes like the A-4, and T-45. There’s no grinding to earn planes. The 2 free planes are more of a demo of the sim.

Can A-10 Warthog dogfight?

Everybody knows the A-10 can bring the pain to ground targets like few aircraft in history, but the aircraft’s tight turn radius and powerful gun can actually make it a force to be reckoned with in a dogfight too.

What is the difference between ACM and BFM?

Basic fighter maneuvers (BFM) are tactical movements performed by fighter aircraft during air combat maneuvering (ACM, also called dogfighting), to gain a positional advantage over the opponent.

What is a wingover maneuver?

A wingover (also called a wing-over-wing, crop-duster turn or box-canyon turn) is an aerobatic maneuver in which an airplane makes a steep climb, followed by a vertical flat-turn (the plane turns to its side, without rolling, similar to the way a car turns).

What is a 1 circle fight?

If the two fighters turn in the same direction (i.e.: both turn to the north), they will be traveling toward each other along the same turn circle. This type of engagement is known as “one-circle flow”.