Dodging SAM Missiles in DCS - How Many Flares Needed

SAM dodging is great fun - but at what cost to your countermeasures balance? In this video, we'll fly the F18 Hornet, and try find a good balance...
Remember, there's never a 100% in defending, especially when it comes to missiles, but chucking all but the sink for just 1 missile, maybe isn't ideal either. So what is?
Contents
00:00 No magic number of flares
00:30 Diminishing Returns
01:20 The Science Setup
02:20 Setting up the Program for Countermeasures
03:00 Entering the threat ring
03:29 Multiple Missiles Firing
03:52 Round 1 Analysis
04:37 Round 2.. FIRE
04:53 Round 2 Analysis
05:10 The Sweet Spot Conclusions
06:08 Flying in a Legit Mission
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Hope people find this one useful, and as ever, this channel is not affiliated with ED in anyway. Had a couple of comments burred among several hundred kind & constructive in the last few weeks, making known their displeasure at the channel name "pretending to be Eagle Dynamics". I'll address this more formally in a video at some point, but briefly - for the 5 people still reading this, my channel was created in 2018 to make DCS videos, so I naively called it, "DCS Digital Combat Simulator" (but written as one very long word). Since then I have added mostly DCS videos, and the odd xplane video. I make clear on almost every video description & ending, this channel is not official and in no way related to, endorsed by, officially or otherwise ED (eagle dynamics) and that the DCS logo and Digital Combat Simulator is their product, their copyright. My ONLY saving grace, is that the name Digital Combat Simulator was already taken (thank goodness) and by combining the letters D.C.S. and the full name as one, I skirt awfully close, but not quite, to taking the exact name. That said, I'm not comfortable with this, and I am working to resolve it. As I can't change my KZbin user name, I'm still exploring other options available - until I do, please hang fire in this department!
#Dodging #Missiles #Flares #dcs world

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you for taking the time to carry out this experiment and make this informative video showing us what happened.

[@IRoNCLaW]

Your content is beyond reproach. I mean it truly is some really really great content. I live in the editor, and although I know enough to be dangerous in it, even in your tutorials where I already know what you’re teaching, I still pick up small packets of info I didn’t know. In this video, ideas for mission setup came to mind watching how aligned the SAM’s as individual groups rather than one big group. Well done, brother. Keep pumping out this great content. The community is all the better for it.

[@FlikenFlaken24]

I see you are started doing more focused videos in the last few weeks. I really like where your channel is going, hope there is gonna be a lot more videos like these. Also can you make one where you compare all the SAM sites in the game? Sorted by danger or threat or something like that.

[@hilok]

good stuff! please keep it coming 👍

[@jokerr9391]

This is great. Eagerly await a similar video for chaff. Maybe comparing chaff effectiveness against different SAMs is an idea for yet another video.😄

[@isaaccoote2874]

Awesome video as always.

[@danieldevadas6481]

reminds me a lot of that final part of the Top Gun mission where they're just defending for like 3 minutes straight

[@B0bik]

Awesome video keep it up!!!

[@Munky332]

Seems like Tacview would have been great for post analysis here. Just an Idea. I'd like to see this test repeated with Afterburner on, and vs chopping throttle at first sign of missiles. Maybe even different aspect angles. I'd like to see the effectiveness of older aircraft and the older missiles: ie F-5 (Aim9P and P5) vs Mig-21 (R-60/R-60M/R-13) Not only the effectiveness of flares, but of reducing throttle Also the effectiveness of Chaff against Aim-7's and Mig-21 R-3R's

[@DCSDigitalCombatSimulator]

This is a useful set of ideas... I especially like your suggestion to compare different power settings including AB, and how much that changes up the results on dodging flares, together with the timings on when to chop the power. I'll add it to my list, it will make for an interesting video for many people I'm sure, Cheers

[@shneebsful]

Less power less heat.....noted

[@FlintMcgee]

What are you Reshade Settings and the Tutorial was Amazing

[@otterfishingjourneys1362]

I find your videos more interesting then grim reapers channel

[@sasquatchycowboy5585]

It would both suck and be awesome if multi player could set up some kind of dynamic mission where you can only die once. After that you can't rejoin that mission. At least not until it starts over. You could do it in single player with a dynamic campaign. I wonder how much people would change they're play style.

[@wmouse]

There *are* servers with limited lives and other "economic" systems to encourage players to behave as if their life and aircraft matter, but getting only one life is too harsh. Getting completely locked out because of a single network disconnect or crash to desktop would kill a server pretty fast.

[@drphilsdoc5935]

I love your voice lmao

[@phrozen755]

I'm confused -- this is the ACTUAL DCS channel? Or just a fan who created a channel for some reason called the game name? Albeit, RedKite did a great analysis about 8 months ago on this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/b4CaZoarmp2hY8U (that has actual numbers charted out ... super useful)

[@mckseal]

This is a fan created channel.

[@BIGNEWY]

It has been confusing some users, but no not an official channel.