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Today marks ten years since the Syrian conflict "officially" started, even though the actual civil war is considered to have started in late 2011. Here's hoping that this wonderful country with a stunning history and lovely people finds peace and normality some day, and that all the extremists, terrorists, dictators, and psychopaths in suits from all the opposing countries stoking the conflict to their own ends find a way out of real life and into DCS World with us, and that they don't forget to share their geographic coordinates. Here's an Aleppo skyline without the Umayyad Mosque's minaret (because it doesn't exist anymore), and a Palmyra without the Temple of Bel (because it doesn't exist anymore).

How does hovering the Harrier compare to a chopper in difficulty?

Officially. Unofficially, rumor has it that he might have wanted to shoot two AA guns in a row without a proper approach to the second gun, but rather just doing a quick 180 turn towards it right after shooting at the first gun, with three bombs on board, bleeding all of his speed and being unable to pull out of the dive, therefore shallowly smacking against the ground, bending both props, climbing back up too steeply with the remaining energy, getting super slow and falling out of the sky for a few hundred meters almost vertically into the ground. That moment when "damn I'm behind enemy lines" turns into "damn that's the least of my problems" in five seconds 😕

Well, my precious staying alive streak ended last mission, due to a dumb lazy mistake of course. So, say hello to our new recruit, [what ever rank] Lucas Rockwell! I'd prefer to keep the W skin.

What I've been doing for the last two months (it's much less work than that but I was lazy). If you wanna commit 17 minutes of your day to this, I strongly recommend watching on a computer (not phone) in a dark room and at the highest resolution. All of the video takes place at night.

Will join you chaps again tonight.

4th time I limped back to safety, still alive 😶

Thinking I could make a surprise appearance tonight.

Geez that Motorcycle song in the cloud vid takes me back. I am completely wetted now. I can already see I'll need to reinstall my flying stuff to at least do some videos.

Lol didn't know craft actually got de-coned in flight in real life like they do in DCS. I'm pretty good at losing the nose cone on the Mirage in order to boost the radar's range by 10 meters.

I have a sneaking suspicion that that ground moving target mode for the ground radar would get divided by zero if that traffic was actually modelled for real

Wow, how the hell did it just break up like that? Ground collision?

yep, those are the ones

Are those black magic bombs or just run of the mill clusters?

Yeah those upper vids are for sure the north coast of Cyprus given the terrain and heading.

I've been eying a Virpil stick myself for a while as well. Although I like the original Mongoose more, which I think they stopped making. How do you get that Virpil stuff though? Are there month-long waiting lists or something?

I'm in for tonight

It's been mentioned a lot already, this is true for some other a/c and countries as well. for example: https://forums.eagle.ru/topic/244197-syrian-mi-8s-and-mig-25s

What I mean is that you can't select a Mi-8 under the country Syria in DCS World in the first place, it's just not listed. So if you want to have a "Syrian" Mi-8, you need to actually put it into the editor as a Russian Mi-8 (or any other country of the same coalition) and load the skin from the same country under which the Mi-8 is placed (in the case of the skin I downloaded, Russia was allocated as the skin country in the lua). Basically a Russian heli in the editor with a Syrian skin.

One more notable irregular one is the Mi-8, whose folder name is Mi-8mt and NOT Mi-8MTV (the actual version of the aircraft in the module). There are also aircraft that are simply excluded from the aircraft list for a certain country in DCS World (often with little logic), so the Syrian skins I downloaded for the Mi-8 are actually found under the Russian Mi-8, as the helicopter is entirely absent as a choice when Syria is selected as a country.

There's a path in SavedGames/Liveries that also works. The module folders need to be named in an exact way that DCS recognizes. Probably not an issue as you already get the folder in the skin .rar file, but I for example had an issue with the Mi-8 because the folder was named Mi-8MTV, whereas DCS only recognizes Mi-8mt for some reason.

Sadly won't make it today.

Some really good/rareish footage of some of Russia's newest (versions of) aircraft, inside and out. Su-25SM3 and the Black Hawk-ish Mi-8 version MTV5 feature most prominently, but also Mi-28, Su-34 and half a dozen of other types. Comes at the steep cost of having to tolerate the white phosphorus chain smoking narrator and his superlative bullshitting. Also, man they shoot rockets from far away. I'm gonna try that split-S rocket run from kilometers of altitude in the DCS Su-25.