Black shark MWS (how to detect incoming missiles)

[Maiser]

Hey there,
so i am playing blackshark 2, and when missiles are incoming i do not get any warning. I think there are two systems to warn you from enemies, LWS (Laser warning system) which should warn you when you are locked by a laser and MWS(missile warning system) which should warn you when missile is incoming.

The MWS button says "not funtional", so i would like to know what would be the way to be warned when a missile is launched towards you. Also, i did never got any warning from LWS (altough i am not sure if it is working or not).

[=AiR FORCE=]

There's no Missile Warning System on the Ka-50, only the Laser Warning System.

The LWR (Laser Warning Receiver) is described on page 6-47 and the LWS panel is on page 6-96 of the DCS BS2 Flight Manual EN.pdf located in C:\...\DCS World\Mods\aircraft\Ka-50\Doc
It's just a switch to set to ON/OFF and a Green Light.

Once the LWS is turned on, the LWR shows 4 directions and the state in which a painting laser is in, like Range-Finding Mode and Guidance Mode. It's very simple, either the laser is painting/ranging or guiding a missile. There's also an audible warning.

But again, there's no Missile Warning System. So any other missiles, like Radar or Passive IR missiles are not detected. But EOS/IRST from a fighter jet will be detected once within the Laser Range Finder's range.

[Chameleon_Silk]

ya to defeat radar guided missiles stay hellah low, you have to visually spot the sam launch in order to defeat it, staying low and terrain masking is your only real hope for survival in that enviroment.

if you get good you can lock it below 5 meters and get very close and personal (engaging big bad ass SAM with cannon etc)

[Maiser]

Staying low is the best option to avoid enemy engage, certainly. Problem is that when you do not know where it is, going higher is the best way to spot them! Unluckily, as you state, you must spot the launch in order to avoid it, that is why i prefer to keep distances, stay to about 8-10KM of the OA, and spot enemies with the skhval before entering it! Sometimes tough you may have to go deep into the mountains to get a target and you may have missed a SAM. At this point is where you are ♥♥♥♥♥♥, if you go low, a shilka may destroy you. If you go high and a missile is launched at you, you do not get a warning. It is a pitty! I guess there is a MWS in ka50 in real life, but this game has simply not implemented it (as there is a button, tough it states not operational). Perhaps i can use a script so it warns me when a enemy missile is incoming.

[Chameleon_Silk]

the ka50 modelled is the tech demonstrator it has a bit more agility and speed then the later models but lacks things like an RWR.

pretty sure the ka52 has an RWR.

[Drunk Pilot]

I was trying to figure out how to detect missiles my self and I thought it was quite complicated, but then it hit me.

[SeniorPZ]

Publicado originalmente por Drunk Pilot:

I was trying to figure out how to detect missiles my self and I thought it was quite complicated, but then it hit me.

..the thought or the missile?