F-16 AIM-120 HUD Update: Why It’s A Game Changer

In this video, we'll be discussing the changes to the AIM-120 M and F Pole Indications on HUD in DCS F-16. Updates to this system have been implemented to make the gameplay and piloting experience more consistent and accurate.
If you're flying the DCS F-16, be sure to check this out! This video will help you understand the changes to the AIM-120 M and F Pole Indications on HUD, so you can make the most of your flight experience. Thanks for watching!
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
00:12 What is M/F Pole?
01:08 Example
03:51 Outro
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[@havoc1861]

I had just typed "huh, wonder what M/F pole for the viper is" in my dcs group discord and ping - Tricker posts a video about M/F pole, thank you sir!

[@SimbaScreams]

Great video, T! Clear and Concise! I hope your day and the rest of your week are as awesome as you, sir o7

[@MamboDCS]

Great stuff Tricker, thank you :)

[@jpatty5473]

Thanks dude i was looking for this explanations today!

[@MitjaBonca]

Fast and simple representation. I would also like to see someday that we get HPRF function for the AMRAAM missile.

[@PrezDCS]

The AIM-120 is always in HPRF when it goes active. It's MPRF that isn't modeled on the missile.

[@MitjaBonca]

@@PrezDCS Wrong. In DCS we currently do not have HPRF active stage or Husky. But we have MPRF active stage, we call that stage Pitbull. So in short, if you shoot the missile way out, 1st of all it's guided by mother aircraft's radar, then as some point (cca 10-15nm out) it switches to it's own radar and it should go into HPRF (currently not yet implemented), and then at cca 4-8nm out it switches to HPRF.

[@PrezDCS]

@@MitjaBonca You misunderstand. I am not talking about the active stages. I’m talking specifically about the AIM-120s PRF usage. It is HPRF only right now, not MPRF. Medium Pulse Repetition Frequency is NOT currently modeled on the 120.

[@MitjaBonca]

@@PrezDCS No, I didn't misunderstand. Check what Tricker says ones again at 0:47

[@PrezDCS]

@@MitjaBonca He's just wrong, dude. It should be stated the opposite. The missile behaves as if the M-pole is the only mode, but it is in fact in HPRF otherwise known as "Husky" as he says. Ask literally anyone who knows anything about how the missiles function in DCS and they will tell you what I have told you here. Also, don't understand why you decided to pick this back up over a month later lmao

[@captaindutt6407]

Great video sir. And thank you for keeping me current In the Wiper, as nanny likes to say.

[@tankers4897]

Tank you for explaining your poles to us

[@LordPuna]

i love you. this helped a lot.

[@lordlobs]

Great vid as always!

[@TrickerDCS]

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[@Moose88]

Another great video!😊

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[@falcon88h]

Good one...🤙

[@PrezDCS]

Maybe we will actually get MPRF modeled on the missile soon if they spent the time to add this to the symbology. Two weeks(tm)?

[@enyakk]

I don''t think so. They've been content with modelling the AMRAAM as going single-state active since forever. There are other instances in the F-16 where there would already be Husky symbology but they are consistently skipping over it. Pity though since there is some pro/contra-strategy in leaving an AMRAAM either in Cheapshot / Husky or Pitbull.

[@haackhaack4217]

2 weeks!

[@snotcycle]

dcs is srs simulation guise

[@DCS_World]

Thanks for staying up all night working on this😂 I saw your caffeinated ass toiling away late💪🏾

[@AviationPlus]

Finally welcome to the club. I have plenty of videos on it. Been there got the shirt. BMS manual ehh. Oh in DCS the pitbull is A hmm well that is something I am not used to.

[@TrickerDCS]

lol still waiting for lots of features... but, one step closer

[@TonyB64D]

I love your content!

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[@Bonesie1985]

so that tiny circle at the top of the dynamic launch zone in the video used to be the pitbull range of the missile before this update. Since it;s constanly at the top of the DLZ in this video, does that mean this circle now represents husky?

[@thebrain7441]

Another major part of this update in regards to a2a missiles was that the R-77 and R-27 had a guidance change which allows the launcher to manually loft them on to targets. Needless to say, this greatly increases their lethality. They also managed to f up the AMRAAM again in that you have to constantly maintain a track until pit bull or the missile won’t go active. 😅

[@rapteakewl]

Great video! I have a small question, looks like the symbiology on missile launch was 17-M as you stated, so at 17 nm the missile will go pitbull, and indeed when you were at 17 nm from target the symbiology changed to 17-F which means the missile went pitbull. However if you take the closure rate, you could assume that the distance should be lower, no? or is that number calculated on launch parameters (it assumes nothing is changing in regards to your and the bandit flight vector)

[@migdonalds]

thats assuming there is a closure rate. if you crank, and the target turns cold, there might be an increase in separation and therefore a higher F pole

[@rapteakewl]

@@migdonalds Thanks!

[@MitjaBonca]

Small correction, I think you explained to incorrectly. It's at 1:21, M-pole. What 17M means is that the missile with go MPFT in 17 miles from this point, not at 17milles to the target as you said. Based on the current data from the HUD, the missile will go MPRF at 8 miles to the target (25-17=8).

[@jared9191]

And boom goes the dynamite

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[@thomasephraim3651]

I've been Flying BHS for aaboout 5 years. My question to you is where do I insert my Control inputs? ( I have a cougar throttle and Real Simulator Stick) Thanks, Rhino

[@TrickerDCS]

What is BHS? Would love to help

[@thomasephraim3651]

@@TrickerDCS Sorry I meant BMS. I make mine in Excel. thanks, Tom

[@achristodoulidis]

Please make some compare about A- pole M-pole and FCR sustain lock and distances lock with BMS please

[@TrickerDCS]

I plan on it but that will be in the next few weeks unfortunately

[@sfctw1]

any way we can see target altitude in the HUD ?

[@peterblackburn5793]

Tricker... talking about poles.