DCS F-14A & B Tomcat JESTER AI LANTIRN POD CONTROL!

hey guys welcome back to dcs world i'm spud knocker as always and today we're going to take a quick look at jester's new ability to use the lantern pod in the dcs f14 a and b tomcat now this new ability for jester really breathes new life into this module because ever since the release of the f-14 single-player tomcat pilots have been locked out of the precision strike capabilities forward air controller airborne and close air support capabilities of the f-14 tomcat and this will also allow more f-14s to take on that precision strike role in multiplayer because now you do not need a human pilot and a human rio to access the lantern pod in the dcs f14 this is really going to be a breath of fresh air for this module and i am excited for all of the new possibilities including air-to-ground focus campaigns for the f-14 which i think is definitely sorely needed so without further ado let's go ahead and get started of course we've got a beautiful vf-31 tomcater skin on our f-14 today this is my second favorite livery after the vf-111 sundowners and attached to our f-14 we've got a very prototypical operation enduring freedom operation iraqi freedom loadout for f-14 with two gpu-10s on the front phoenix pallets and two gpu-12s on the rear pallets please keep in mind that as you build loadouts for your f-14 in the mission editor always have the heavier bombs up front and the lighter bombs in the back of the tunnel for weight and balance and stability purposes and if you can try to drop the heavier bombs first and the lighter bomb second if it's unable to do that it's okay but you will have a little bit less stability as you're flying the jet around of course we also have the lantern pod on the right hand glove station and we'll go ahead and head into the cockpit to take a look at the other additions to our f-14b so here in the cockpit right off the bat you'll notice that your air crew your pilot and your rio are now using mbu 15 oxygen masks instead of the much older mbu 5p oxygen masks that have been in the f-14 since its release it's a very cool addition that really makes you feel like you're flying a very late model f-14 over the skies of afghanistan or iraq we also have new digital engine interfaces down here to the left of the tid which is very very cool to see with little digital screens with actual digital tapes instead of physical tapes like you see in the f-14a tomcat but without further ado let's go ahead and hop in and get started with actually using the new jester ability to use the lantern pod this is a awesome new capability for the f14 and i am super excited about it so turn our gun rate to high because i like to use high gun right great even for strafing ground targets get as many bullets as possible on that target in the shortest amount of time and then you'll see when we go to the air to ground mode of the hud gesture will automatically switch our tcs view over to the lantern pod and there it is and it'll tell us our laser is armed perfect so let's go ahead and have him cue up our waypoint one which will be our ip point and we can see that point is in the forests of lebanon as we cruise out to hit hama air base here on the syria map so as we are rapidly approaching this waypoint uh we'll go ahead and have him queue up our navigation to our target point and have him slew our pod over to our target point at hama airbase so we'll just go over to set q mode waypoint two and we can see that our target air base over here is rapidly about to be masked by looks like maybe part of a gbu 10 on our wing pallets this is because of the fact of course that the lantern pod is mounted way off the center line on our right glove station with our target being off to our left here so we'll go ahead and have jester cue up our navigation to our target point through the original uh navigation menus and of course when you first bring up the gesture menu in the air to ground hud mode with a lantern pod mounted the lantern interface is the first thing that pops up if you then need to get to say your old air to ground weapons menu you simply go up to the top left click the menu button select ordnance and we'll select our gpu 10. if you need to get back to the main menu just open up the gesture menu click the menu button once again while looking forward and now you can navigate through all of the menus that usually appear when you open up the gesture menu beforehand so go ahead and click off for autopilot and we will make more of a left turn than we need to get towards our target area here so that way we can look for targets without having to worry about masking our pod now one of the things that i really really like about keepler's implementation of this new ability for jester is all of the controls that you see um to actually interface with the pod through jester are all things that you could do with say a human rio in your backseat or with a real pilot with a real rio in a real f-14 for instance let's go ahead and do one of those situations before we actually start to attack targets so we'll get our autopilot back on and we'll pull back on the throttle a little bit so that way we can give ourselves a little extra time here so let's say you're tasked with being a forward air controller airborne in your f-14 over the skies of say i don't know to crit come on autopilot and you're looking through your binoculars one day and you see a little town down there that you think maybe has a target of opportunity or has some kind of a threat that you're worried about for any convoys or any friendly soldiers that you're protecting down below you okay area track selected so we could say hey uh jester why don't you go ahead and slew the pod over that city over there and let's take a look and see if there's anything funky going on down there and then as you get that city up on your lantern feed you could say okay jester can you go ahead and move the pod a little bit down yeah that looks looking good looking good keep moving it down keep moving it down see that tree line yeah move it to that tree line there we go there we go and right there does that look like a guy with say a man pad on his shoulder or just this is all for example for instance then we could say okay jester go ahead and designate that point right 40 degrees and then we can go ahead and come back in and actually attack that point with a laser guided bomb or come in for a strafing run on that tree line or whatever the case may be so that is something that is incredibly useful and it's a very realistic way of say um interacting with the pod through jester and as you guys could hear i was kind of giving a bit of an example of how i would be interacting with the rio to get the pod onto that point but anyway let's go ahead and head back to actually attacking hama air base with a couple of laser guided bombs and of course jester because we've designated that point he's trying to walk us onto that target for a weapons release which i guess can get a little bit annoying if you have no intention of actually attacking that target so let's go ahead and set q mode waypoint waypoint2 to get it back to hama air base perfect and one thing that i wish that the controls for the jester lantern system were able to do was able to set a manual zoom to have jester zoom in and out the pod maybe i just haven't found it yet and so if anyone knows that if that's a capability please let me know in the comments down below one thing that i will say is jester does not look for targets by himself very well sometimes he does it really well and can latch onto target pretty quickly and other times it can be very frustrating to try and walk him onto a target point he usually tends to do better with larger targets such as ships or larger aircraft such as transports but i guess that makes sense with the lower resolution of the lantern targeting pod we'll kind of keep doing a bit of a lazy orbit around palma air base as we actually search for targets so i think the mode that i'm going to be using most in the f-14 is going to be that head mode where i actually manually direct jester around our target area and looks like maybe we've got some targets over here on this ramp area move it just a little bit more right there and we'll have him laser range valid right 55 degrees all right right 55 degrees we've got a range of about 12 nautical miles i think we can do that so we'll get go ahead and come around here and hama air base it is not easy to see out here it's always funny how difficult it is to actually find airports visually sometimes you would think they'd be the easiest things in the world to find come right three degrees right three degrees roger that cool and it looks like we got our lantern pod right on top of a couple migs down there and with a gpu 10 on those migs we're going to take out all of them right in a row we'll get the wings into bomb mode 10 seconds and jester of course gives us a nice countdown which is fantastic all right here we go jester and we'll just clean up the target point right there and we'll get it right on top of that mig nice here we go boom nice shot right on top of that mig all right so we'll go ahead and extend out here a little bit and we'll come around for a re-attack but for you guys this is the end of the road for the video it is a absolutely fantastic new addition to dcs world having jester be able to control the lantern pod and not needing a human rio on the back seat for those precision strike as well as close air support and forward air controller airborne capabilities of your f-14 it truly is transformative for this module um i mean i like i said i hope that one day we'll get some air-to-ground focused f-14 tomcat campaigns and this really unlocks what the f-14 tomcats bread and butter was in actual combat scenarios uh during the twilight of its career what the us navy was which is of course dropping bombs and being better at doing that than the f-15e strike eagle during the early 2000s in fact f-14a tomcats from vf-154 actually flew sorties as the lead aircraft for f-15e strike eagles performing close here support over a rock so if you guys enjoyed this video and i really hope you enjoy this new addition to dcs world so enjoy this beautiful game and have an awesome day guys we'll see in the next one

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Length: 13min 9sec (789 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 20 2021