A new tutorial video from Matt Wagner details some of the updates to DCS: MiG-29A Fulcrum’s sensor suite with the ability to use the type’s cooperative mode to coordinate sensors onto target. It’s a feature that I hadn’t learned much about until this video so you may also find it interesting.

Sensors cooperating

In this 6 minute video, Matt Wagner from Eagle Dynamics, takes us through the various combinations of settings for DCS: MiG-29’s sensor cooperative mode. When enabled, the jet’s IRST and radar work collaboratively to find and maintain a lock on a targeted aircraft. If, for example, the radar loses the lock but the IRST still has it, the avionics will switch over to IRST as primary until the radar reacquires it. That’s just one combination as you can also have the IRST act as primary with radar in the backup. There’s also the helmet sighting and close combat configurations all of which have various nuances to each combination.

If you fly the MiG-29 regularly, check this one out.