Tossing Decoys (AGM-141 TALD)

With the TALDs out a few weeks ago I gave it a whirl with Kamsa to see what's what and you know what? Paint me impressed. They work like a charm!
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[@Tuuvas]

lmao imagine if IRL and needing to bust out the trusty 27 piece T handle ratchet wrench to adjust throttle friction mid flight

[@JETZcorp]

That's not so unusual, actually! F-14 crews very often carried screwdrivers and things up with them to deal with in-flight anomalies. Or, perhaps more importantly, to pull the G gauge and reset the max-G telltale after some BFM training so that the crew chief wouldn't know that they'd exceeded 6.5 that day. Naughty boys.

[@RedFail1-1]

Wouldn’t need to.. there is a friction lever..

[@paulbrooks4395]

Best use case for these is for DEAD, to saturate and fly a similar pattern to previous flights, creating a confusion, where the incoming formation looks like the TALDs. It should be impossible for a human enemy to distinguish between the behaviors of the decoys and a human. The usefulness increases as the number of targets in an area increases. It also increases by launching TALDs and then not attacking, to get an enemy to reveal their position for DEAD or get them fatigued so they think they are only facing a decoy. A high angle of dispersion also helps to degrade their certainty. Getting an enemy to look high while you’re down low is also a useful tactic. Unfortunately, DCS AI is so poor that many tactics are simply wasted on them. If we see MP with Combined Arms, these could be viable.

[@hansiminator69]

Hey ralfi, can you do a tutorial series for the F-16 like you once did with the a-10? It helped me so much understanding the a-10! I know it’s a lot of work doing something like this, and you’re probably not thaaat ‚advanced‘ in the viper like you’re in the warthog, but it would still help a LOT! :)

[@billmuller6133]

Yep I think F-16 or F-18 would be really nice

[@roter_milan]

Yeah, F-16 tutorial would be so great. Bought her in the last sale and now can't take my hands of her!

[@Ibikyo1]

He said on twitter, that he's planning one on the Su-25T first. So if ever, it's unfortunately going to take quite a while

[@TomP-148]

Those are still in "Early Access" and will probably change multiple times if he did a series anytime soon

[@billmuller6133]

@@TomP-148 when he made the ones on the a 10 it also still was in EA (iirc)

[@klhmia]

I beg of you, make a 'F/A 18C for dummies' similar to the A-10 guide, referencing similar concepts back to the A-10 guide to save yourself some time/effort if possible. Those were so well made and you're so articulate 🙏🏼

[@TomP-148]

DCS players: Omg the new TALDs are sick Tomcat players: ... Yeah we had them for years...

[@AngryCarMechanic]

I know right. That was the best part of being in the Tomcat during SEAD/DEAD

[@TheRealSuperhavoc]

This. Been using them to good effect since the cat released

[@venkuzephyr]

For a crosswind landing, Navy teaches you not to crab, but wing down into the wind. Touchdown with one wheel and then settle onto the others.

[@MrTacticalShooter]

The SA-6 doesn’t fire on HARMS, I’d love to see it go against a sa-10.

[@ralfidude]

The sa19s do.

[@fonesrphunny7242]

@@ralfidude IIRC that was patched out a while ago. I certainly haven't seen Sa-19s shoot at missiles for quiet a some time. Instead I've seen even more Sa-15s.

[@Valkyrie427]

Ever since I learned about the F-14's TALDs, I wondered how effective they could be at confusing players in a SATAL-style PVP event. Two wingmen in your squad have a full TALD loadout and everyone else hides behind them. TALDs deploy, and the other wingmen split off wide then come back in with a pincer maneuver, launching fox-3s at a distance, then cleaning up with fox-2s.

[@Juhujalp]

11:10 BRA 069 42 nm at FL420 uuuuh 13-ship of... uuuh unidentified and F/A-18?!?

[@RAAFLightning1]

Hey, a bunch of people did this on growling sidewinder, using a mix of TALDs and AGM88s to saturate enemy radars, it was hilarious

[@MidnightWyvern]

9:30 That one looked almost like me trying to learn to land a Skyhawk in all the damn turbulence from that last heat wave.

[@fogyeah5842]

Man a new day with a Ralfi video! Really enjoy your work man, keep it up. You got me into this a couple of weeks ago

[@forsyth8296pti]

*drops external tank on some villagers hut* "Looks like some lucky fan is going home with a souvenir!"

[@Parabueto]

I've been playing about with TALDs for a long time, but twelve on an airframe gets the kind of saturation you need to be useful in DCS. Four on an F-14 just doesn't cut it unless you have a solitary launcher.

[@neovo903]

Landing at 9:30 in vr it's so nice as you can feel the side slip. Could do it without any guidance from the hud

[@vovochen]

Ayyoooooooo, love it ! Thank you, really needed a Decoy vid.

[@johnhermann7498]

If they come out with the jet power TALDs, it's gonna change the game a bit... Good to see videos from you... Your videos were the first ones I saw that got me hooked on DCS again. Thanks for the great video showing off the TALD.

[@russhogan6967]

The only vids that when a new one is up, I have to drop everything to watch it!!!!

[@terranhightower341]

To "fix" the HUD on landing is cage/uncage. It will center your pitch ladder and E bracket and give you an indicator off to one side or the other for wind

[@billmuller6133]

I think these things will be amazing in a/a

[@LaRossaMusic]

Never stop making videos Ralfiboo

[@robocombo]

Love the modem noises as it lags

[@redcamarada]

brave, RDR altimeter turned off, RWR only on the small one

[@magicfox9822]

The sensation you feel when getting a rafli's vid notification is something else

[@catchthewind8563]

I am surprised that the F-18 with two engines is more fuel efficient than the F-16 with only one engine

[@sillyrunner1]

Haven't even watched yet but here's a like 👍 It's just what I do when I see a new Ralfidude video!

[@PolTen72]

Yes please, test them in MP :-D

[@aquajay]

Hehehe a new ralfi video, keep up the work

[@MHTfueler]

Some good old TTI / 107th Shenanagins

[@Iffy350]

Have they even fixed STR vs ECM jamming in DCS?

[@michaelwestmoreland2530]

As a Falcon 4 and Gunship 2000 player, it always excites me to see brand new hardware. Totally fresh ideas. I know the Tomcat has had these, bit I'd never heard of them, and they bring a whole new job to SEAD and DEAD flights. Also...what's the functional difference between SEAD and DEAD? ALSO, can't wait for F-35 like Helmut displays that let us see all those visualizations in real time.

[@kataklasm5621]

SEAD is suppression of enemy air defenses which is mostly interpreted as killing the search/track radars of SAM installations. DEAD is destruction of enemy air defenses and is the killing of the actual SAM launchers. At least that's how I always heard it.

[@dasluder]

Yay another Rafi video!

[@jhagge2]

have you updated your sim setup at all? since the last video you did on it. im guessing you are using the f18 hotas stick.

[@dfurtman]

It'd be nice if you could set different parameters such as go 10 miles and start orbiting or something similar...

[@einarabelc5]

Try the Su 27 landing mission

[@shadow2002ish]

what is that map system you use to show enemies and missiles n stuff?

[@Cheiff117]

Hey ralf , review on the sponsored HOTAS compared to the T1600m hotas?

[@Darthybuddy]

I have used both. same quality, less buttons pretty much sums it up.

[@snakeoo7ca]

May i ask why you go full flaps instead of half on landing?

[@pootmahgoots8482]

Would be cool to see you fly the Super Hornet some time. :)

[@AntoniWroblewski78]

how much cover could these give a pair of a-10s on a SAM run? please test

[@cslpchr]

more like AGM-141 MALD. Because Sam operators are going to be malding

[@ChucksSEADnDEAD]

Yet another L for the SAM fandom.

[@evil4zerggin972]

Apparently a later decoy, the ADM-160, is literally called the MALD (Miniature Air Launched Decoy) lmao

[@CAL1MBO]

malding russian sam operators

[@yoyoyoyoshua]

What HOTAS do you use?

[@crashtestdummy9985]

Yes, yes, more testing indeed...you know, for science and shit.

[@Vector-uu7hf]

What server was this played on?

[@Navoii.]

AH-64D tutorial when

[@vovochen]

Are AGM-141s now in the game ? My Hornet doesnt show em as an option anywhere..... :( And im on Beta.

[@OliverMiles98]

So long as historical mode is off they should be under AG missiles -> ADM-141A (not AGM-114).

[@kilianortmann9979]

Been on the Tomcat since quite a while, but yeah it should now also be available on the Hornet.

[@TomP-148]

Adjusting the screws on your hotas? Are you no longer using the warthog?

[@rubiconnn]

I used to have a TM hotas warthog. Worst investment ever. Everything that is non functional is made of metal and all of the important bits like the mechanisms are made of cheap plastic. The joystick base sucks and the throttles have the worst cursor axis input I've ever seen. It's like the little nipple thing on old IBM thinkpads except it's cheap and it sucks.

[@slammerf16]

@@rubiconnn There's a mod available that puts an XBox (or something ) stick in place of the slew control - it's worth every penny.

[@rubiconnn]

@@slammerf16 You are still stuck with a throttle with plastic on plastic mechanism, which is fine for a low cost HOTAS but totally unacceptable for $450.

[@TomP-148]

@@rubiconnn you act like $450 is a lot

[@rubiconnn]

@@TomP-148 For a piece of plastic it is.

[@asphelite]

hahahaheheheeemuaahahahaa And full flaps 😆

[@Stivonim]

How do you see things in 3d like in 4:07?

[@Kurogumo]

TacView replay, you have to download it separately.

[@hyunchulshim3195]

Sorry about my newbie question, but could you tell me what the 3D visualization tool is?

[@onyx.95]

you mean tacview?

[@d.thieud.1056]

Discount growler time

[@rob.s7783]

That’s usually my excuse too cause it’s true 🥃

[@zolfkimbly103]

What map is it? Syria?

[@zolfkimbly103]

Yep, Syria

[@Royalwaffles]

They show up on radar and russian datalink, but not chinese jf17 datalink or link 16, kinda weird

[@thomaslincoln401]

Re: your last comment - it's almost as if they're designed to be decoys!

[@einweiesblattpapier2676]

11:00 i hipe thats a rethorical question.

[@schweizerluchs7146]

Looooonger videos please 🥺 ly Daddydude

[@zahnatom]

ralfidude *has problems pronouncing "Marj Ruhayyil"* also ralfidude: Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz

[@Boekoe12]

Euhm thanks YT for unsubbing?

[@CAL1MBO]

Np

[@Jesther01]

so WTF in Hell is happening here?? I decided to search for your channel by search today because it has been months since i saw a sign of life from, just to discover that you have 3 videos up since the last time a saw it and it's at least 2 months since my sub for your channel was cancel... Is youtube removing subs again? because that was not me.

[@sapsug4445]

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[@Rex-qz2vf]

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