DCS F/A-18C Hornet JDAM Tutorial

[@itsumonihon]

redkite's the bob ross of military air combat

[@Wikkus]

Excellent, clear, concise, as always. ED should hire you, soonest :D

[@RedKiteRender]

That would be awesome, having the time to learn the system, produce and then get a video to all you guys on release of the weapon rather than the lag time it takes to make these videos after release.

[@cs512tr]

100%

[@willm.n2178]

These are hands-down the best DCS tutorial videos out there.

[@hamlet2kk]

Hats off buddy as usual the most comprehesive content for DCS

[@joachimbrand2314]

Perfectly explained! Thank you very much! Especially the part of converting coordinates

[@RedKiteRender]

You're welcome :) It's something really not obvious to the user, i'm sure many have entered DD MM .MM and gotten misses or invalid inputs, i wanted to make sure people understand how to do things properly!

[@RedKiteRender]

***Important update to Preplanned mode*** Please be aware that the Multi-drop technique used in this video is no longer possible Please see my update to Jdams/jsows: kzbin.info/www/bejne/r32UamZrbb2XrpY DCS has just had a update with a significant change to the JDAM Pre-planned mode. Rather than having just 6 pre-planned targets shared between all pylons we now have 6 pre-planned targets PER pylon. This means you'l need to program each pylon one by one. However this also allows you to rapidly drop up to 4 jdams without changing co-ordinates once setup. JDAMS on dual mounts still share their co-ordinates with the pylon, so if you're dropping from a dual mount, you'l need to program in two sets of co-ordinates, drop one from that pylon, then insure you've selected the second target and drop the second from the same pylon. if you're using multiple dual mount racks insure you're changing the correct pylon's target as it'l select the next pylon automatically. This behaviour will change in the future where dual mount pylons will have both a LEFT and a RIGHT station independent of each other, like single station pylons.

[@spitfirefrench]

Based and Redkite-Pilled.

[@Wingman77tws]

It would seem that it does not drop the correct bomb that I have selected, instead dropping all 8 bombs in the same order regardless of what I have selected. so do I just mentally have to keep track of which bomb im on and which pp to be set to? also does it really bind to the correct waypoint from the station, so if dropping bomb 1 off of rack 8, does it take the seleced pp from station 8? or the selected pp from the currently selected station in the pp page.... I think this is worthy of you making another video. its a bit tricky.

[@Wingman77tws]

how do you reset pre planned points after they have data? for the case of after you re-arm.

[@RedKiteRender]

@@Wingman77tws There's an ERASE button, i think on the pp msn page. somewhere bottom left on one of the pages at anyrate, hope that helps.

[@Wingman77tws]

@@RedKiteRender yea thanks, I have tried that and is seems to wreck the whole pp mode. after using the erase button pp stays crossed out and no longer works.

[@vakostyle]

I love your thorough, clear and very structured tutorials so much. Your work is so important for people like me who just got into dcs world. Thank you very much.

[@RedKiteRender]

Thank you so much!

[@rwhunt99]

Thank you, I depend on you for getting an easy to understand accurate method to employ weapons and systems in DCS! Wags goes a bit fast for me to understand it thoroughly.

[@RedKiteRender]

No problem! I like to aim so even a beginner can understand all the fundamentals, without skipping the minor details, but also provide a background and practical skills (like the conversions) so you really can get into using the system without gaps in your knowledge. Took a couple re-writes of the script to trim the fat and get this one concise and how i wanted it :)

[@benwright201]

Thanks Redkite. You are my 'go to' for DCS tutorials. They're well structured, well scripted, and delivered clearly and comprehensively to understand. Well done mate and thank-you for the big effort you put in as it really helps learning the sim.

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks Ben i appreciate the kind words.

[@TheRobo]

Already know the ins and outs of JDAM employment, but I still watched this entire thing through because you're so thorough with it, and often add tips in... awesome video as always RK!

[@RedKiteRender]

No problem Robo! One thing i'd noticed people trip up on is coordinates so i felt it's important to cover using them, it's no fun having a new toy if you can't hit anything with it!

[@TheRobo]

@@RedKiteRender Yup, that was the major hiccup I had when I first took a look at them. Now I understand how they confrt from Minutes and Seconds + decimals to decimal minutes and vice versa.

[@PervonHarke]

This is the best Tutorial I have ever seen. If someone has disliked it I cannot understand why. (cough cough luckily not 40 mins of unscripted wobbly talk cough cough GR cough cough)

[@RedKiteRender]

Honestly feel they do more harm than good, with lots of people running round only knowing how to push buttons in order not understanding what they're doing.

[@ironmike3084]

@@RedKiteRender You've helped me thoroughly understand the hornet with your tutorials. I've watched this video a couple of times before and I actually just completed my first successful JDAM strike. I didn't push buttons in a sequence but instead used preplanned coordinates and time on target. Because of you, I went from barely understanding the Hornet other than the very basic systems to actually understanding the systems. I'm taking small steps but making huge progress. Thank you.

[@RedKiteRender]

@@ironmike3084 You're welcome Ironmike308! Learning complex modules is all about those small steps! Nobody can learn it all in one go!

[@ontherampflightsim]

Not too late at all. They've improved since debut, which would now make for a better presentation. Excellent.

[@rafaelaldana1503]

By far the best tutorial! 👍👍👍Thanks

[@ID-8491]

Calm voice, good tempo and very concise.

[@figjam5181]

Redkite, Nice tutorial. I need to mention to your viewers that when selecting a PP2 or PP3 to program a second station for weapons if you don't program under the same Pre Planned Program, you need to select the next station before you select the next Pre Planned Program, PP2 or PP3 etc. otherwise it will not work.

[@kaelummadera4229]

I have become a confident, vr only, serious pilot thanks to your videos, instant sub, can’t wait for more after pre purchasing the f/16

[@shagrat47]

The easiest, and most realistic way to get from MGRS to LL is to consult the/a map, identify the designated grid and then identify the LL coordinates. No fancy math or web converter required. The most realistic, but more imprecise way is, to use the F10 map in Map mode find the grid from the map coordinate overlay and identify the LL coordinate from LL overlay. If you don't mind cheating a bit, there's still the coordinates display in the map bar for 100% accuracy. ;) ...and thanks for the handy overview and tutorials. Super helpful and to the point. :)

[@RedKiteRender]

Yes, you can however it requires a map with a resolution to at least 1 meter, of the target area, its not terribly practical in my experience to convert accurately this way. In the future we should be able to enter MGRS into waypoints so hopefully we wont have to worry about converting and can just combo it with waypoint desg in too mode.

[@shagrat47]

@@RedKiteRender Yeah, I still hope one day we get the 50k:1 standard military maps we dirt huggers used. Though there isn't an accurate one available for each and every corner of the world humans go to war, recently.

[@redacted4140]

How you don’t have more subs astounds me, great tutorial!

[@kevinsemon1491]

Truly the best tutorial videos, superb quality and easy to understand. Thanks!

[@pleasant8557]

Another fantastically informative video. Straight forward, clear cut. Excellent! Thank you!

[@MrPhantom453]

So detailed and thorough, as always. Thank you for your efforts Mr Kite. 👍

[@md11x6]

Very thorough tutorial. Thanks.

[@UWfalcin]

What a great video, amazing. Thank you s much for this. The training missions in-game feels like a library of words just thrown at you

[@dannygeed9322]

Thanks for all the DCS FA18 tutorials dude, well done

[@RomeoJulietWhiskey]

Fantastic, in-depth tutorials. I've watched them all. Thanks :)

[@SlowFinger23]

Thank you very much, Brilliant work, great instructor.

[@DanielLanducciSpotting]

As always, very didactic and easy to understand! Thank you!

[@dirkniedfeld7411]

You speak slow and good. Therefore non native speakers can understand you good. :-)

[@RomeoJulietWhiskey]

Quick question...with multiple JDAM releases, how were you aligning all 4 JDAMS? I thought you said earlier in the video you can only align one at a time?

[@RedKiteRender]

One Type of jdam, so if you had one 38 and one 31 you'd only be able to align one at a time. Jdams of the same type all align together

[@eagle3307]

Best tutorial on JBombs

[@TrickerDCS]

Great stuff brother

[@RedKiteRender]

Cheers Tricker

[@martonosimate]

Perfectly understandable as always :-)

[@niklasohlsson5473]

Thank you! This was really helpful Just did a PP run with four GBU-31. After i dropped one my other targets on my display was crossed over.

[@niklasohlsson5473]

Just figured it out. I did program one GBU31 then I had to "step" to the other GBU31. When dropping bombs I just did it from the STORES and just pushed the weapon release button 4 times. Easy Peacy =)

[@RedKiteRender]

@@niklasohlsson5473 Glad to hear you figured it out.

[@pampel3794]

6:48 Someone couldn't find the runway.

[@chrisstone9665]

He wanted that progressive taxi

[@HEATER_]

Too funny!

[@CallsignMunch]

Just a normal Southwest Airlines Taxi.

[@rzr2ffe325]

Expedite

[@WILEY104]

A gentlemen and a scholar

[@GrizzlyVzla]

Very good explained Thanks!

[@vnyggi621]

You channel is a gem ^^

[@RedKiteRender]

Thanks V Nyggi!

[@Tuscarora]

That was a good tutorial.

[@hanswolfgangmercer]

Excellent tutorials!

[@HairyBogTrotter]

Thank you!

[@TheCraigHudson]

Yea dude great video just watched again as a refresher to employ gbu32. With all the modules dcs is literally drinking from the fire hose, as each Jett or helo has its own unique weapons employment mind you once you learn the gist the others are similar. You make this looks like child’s play, I can’t tell you how many times I’m at altitude trying to gps these buggers for Some reason I can’t take my head out of my ass and figure it out.

[@TinCup73]

Great tutorial Kite 👌🏻 Those Tornadoes in the background??!

[@RedKiteRender]

Yep :) AI only though.

[@DaveVoyles]

Wow, JDAM on the F-18 is so much more complicated and difficult than on the harrier.

[@RedKiteRender]

Depends how in depth you want to go, it is basically point and shoot in TOO mode. The Harrier will be just as complex once it's system is modelled fully.

[@Fercyful]

The best is back !

[@rudelchw]

Really nice tutorial, very clear ... thanks a lot :)

[@RedKiteRender]

No problem :)

[@TechGamer45]

Fantastic.

[@Tepnox]

Excellent!

[@aiolos2411]

What aircraft at 8:20 in the background? Kinda looks like an A7? I'm just watching this excellent video from my tiny phone.

[@RedKiteRender]

It's an RAF Panavia Tornado, (which pray for a DCS module of one day )

[@aiolos2411]

@@RedKiteRender oh thanks, that was my second guess but I got excited because I like Cold War Era US Navy aircraft, haha. You make the best videos, RedKite! Thanks for helping the DCS community!

[@RedKiteRender]

No problem! Leatherneck are working on an F-8 Crusader if you're into that, but i expect it'l be at least year or two of development away.

[@rumi.137]

Thank you very much

[@Lb8068]

AWESOME

[@TheKenji2221]

You would think a multi million priced plane would at least features a simple calculator or coordinates convertor. Especially considering other planes don't use the same format.

[@ninegravity2275]

thank you for this vd

[@hurtzplayz]

Starts playing jdam blues

[@utley]

Quick question with PP targets on JDAM programming on double racks: there are 6 PP pages, you can hold up to 8 JDAMs. How do you cycle double racked weapons so you can program them indivudually? This has been driving me nuts and its the only reason why i havent done mission 10 of Raven One yet. Hypothetically speaking, sta 4 with 2 bombs on that rack is still sta 4, and every time I select Step it just steps over to the next hardpoint and not the weapon.

[@Crypt_AU]

Can you explain in further detail the part where we have to REALIGN every time we switch weapons? Does this included if i go A/A and back to A/G? Or if you hit step on the page to select another bomb it resets and you have to realign it each time?

[@RedKiteRender]

Step has no effect, just cycles the selected station, all jdams of the same type align at the same time. But only one type can be aligned at a time eg gbu38 or 31. Going into air to air mode will deselect the jdam and depower it, losing it’s alignment unfortunately.

[@mariushusejacobsen3221]

Latest word is that the ED dev misread the documentation.

[@RedKiteRender]

ED's implementation of Jdams is not 100% accurate, and probably a very old software version, such is the way with sensitive systems and declassified information.

[@juanjo12el]

Nice Video RedKite ! What software do you use to record? I tried OBS but the picture is not great. I am trying to record while playing with VR set.

[@RedKiteRender]

I used to use Nvidia Shadowplay, now i use OBS with the nvidia encoder. VR is a nightmare to record for which is why i dont generally post content with it. Jabbers did a great video called DCS World - All things VR where he discusses how to record VR. Hope that helps :)

[@DD-sw1dd]

If your target is the waypoint can you just designate the waypoint a target on the SA/HSI page and then drop the JDAM?

[@Scorpac]

Is this outdated? I can't get it to work. i always only get 4 impacts, i guess each station with 2 bombs hits the same target

[@mersyndol]

After designating a target location with lat and long. Is there a way to clear the PP1 - PP6?? For new coordinates?? Not just add new updated coordinates but "clear" all data from the page.?

[@rzr2ffe325]

Is there a way to preplan coordinates into the bombs within the mission editor?

[@youmasenchi]

When using the BRU 55 for 2 Jdams can you drop 2 bomsbs form 1 station on to two targets? If yes how do you set that up?

[@GazAce]

Dislikes should not appear here, ty and awesome as usual RK! ;o)

[@RedKiteRender]

There's always a few! Seems like youtube law at this point.

[@Motorman2112]

8:15 Tornado :)

[@Basilone45]

A bit confused by something from this and the 1 pass 8 JDAMs video. In this one for the PP mode you add the target data for PP1-4 and then cycle to the next after each bomb releases. From the other video it seems like PP1-5 are unique to each station. Were PP1-5 global across the aircraft at one point and they changed it later on?

[@RedKiteRender]

Jdam / JSOW logic has sadly changed a lot in the last year or so, about 3 times in total! Plan to re-visit the hornet as a whole when i get the time, after it's 'official' release.

[@Basilone45]

@@RedKiteRender ah ok makes sense thanks

[@ThePizzaGoblin]

What happens of there are multiple targets in the same waypoint? Will the bombs find targets independently and can I drop multiple bombs on the same waypoint?

[@RedKiteRender]

They cannot seek targets, only co-ordinates. If you're using your waypoint as the target it'l land on the co-ordinates of your waypoint. If you want to drop multiple they'l all hit the same point.

[@jasboy28]

These are great tutorials. I'm using Pre planned mode, getting coordinates from either the F10 map or the JTAC. 9 times out of 10 they miss the target, but get close. Any idea why?

[@RedKiteRender]

Check you're using precise co-ordinates from your map, and that you're entering them in the correct format. Either ddmmss.ss or ddmm.mmmm (make sure this matches your selected format in the aircraft)

[@jasboy28]

@@RedKiteRender Thanks for the reply. I think I figured it out, in that I wasnt capturing the coordinates accurately enough in the map. I zoomed as close I could to the targets then took down the coords, which seemed to work. Still doesnt fix the inaccurate JTAC issue, but its a good start.

[@tiger7810]

Hello, thx for your tuto. I have a simple question, 5:41 You have small gride, and différents "pictogram". How can i have that? Thx

[@RedKiteRender]

I added the grid with video editing to demonstrate how important precise co-ordinates are as they allow you to target smaller specific points. The unit icons are using the Russian style editor icon from the main menu options menu

[@tiger7810]

@@RedKiteRender Ok thank you so much

[@JayDKB]

I don't see a bomb to load that says J82? is it just a MK82y which I do see??

[@RedKiteRender]

GBU-38's are the Mk82 with Jdam kit, Mk82's have a number of different parts that can change their name and function. Like the laser guidance kit, which makes a mk82 a Gbu-12, can be a little confusing, especially since some aircraft differing names in their software.

[@JayDKB]

RedKite awesome great videos without these videos I don’t think I’d be playing this sim. It’s a lot to figure out and between work and other life challenges it’s hard to deep dive to learn .big big thanks

[@jiajianhou426]

How come when i plan 3 targets and then after i release the first bomb, both second and third targets are gone. PP2 and PP3 are both crossed out. i have to reenter the coords.to drop the second and third bombs.

[@Viper555]

I'm having the same issue, I think it's a bug.

[@Viper555]

I figured it out. Watch his video on JSOWs, it explains it all in greater detail. Every station (top left it says STA 2, 3, 4...) has its own pre planned drops. So this means that PP1 on every station should be every target. It sounds confusing but just watch his JSOW video

[@LAWest]

How do you get the units in the map to look like that?

[@RedKiteRender]

Settings - Gameplay - Editor icon style - Russia

[@SDsc0rch]

does anybody know? will the F-14's pod ever get higher resolution??

[@ullmannbh8958]

SDsc0rch why would it? In reality the F-14’s LANTIRN pod has a bad resolution depending on your distance and your zoom options. Its cold war tech

[@SDsc0rch]

oh.. you misunderstood "higher resolution" in terms of lat/long decimal places

[@RedKiteRender]

I couldn't say, i suspect the D-model tomcats had the greater accuracy, i'm not sure if the older B model had an accurate enough INS for it to be useful.

[@SDsc0rch]

@@RedKiteRender - we had bravos on our deployment in the late 90s and the impression I got was our tomcats were more requested than the strike eagles of the time - that's why I'm kinda surprised its not depicted as precise (lat/long) as other targeting pods

[@RedKiteRender]

Generally you don't need anything more accurate unless you're specifically guiding gps bombs. it'd be plenty for getting eyes onto targets. Heatblur are pretty insane when it comes to research and detail, but of course we're all limited by what's deemed fit for declassification.

[@TraxxI8]

too late...

[@RedKiteRender]

For you perhaps, im sure many others will appreciate it, and being more thorough theres a good chance even those with some experience will still learn something.