DCS: Black Shark for PC

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"DCS: Black Shark" is a PC game of the Russian Ka-50 attack helicopter and is the first title in a new Eagle Dynamics and The Fighter Collection simulation series: "Digital Combat Simulator" (DCS).

Following Eagle Dynamics' tradition of excellence, "DCS: Black Shark" will bring an even more realistic simulation experience than its predecessor "Flaming Cliffs". "DCS: Black Shark" will offer an unprecedented level of realism in regards to flight dynamics, instruments modeling, avionics systems, and weapon systems.

The artificial Intelligence of ground vehicles and helicopters has been improved dramatically as well as weapon modeling. A new Mission Editor includes a powerful electronic mapping system that allows user to easily create missions and campaigns. A new campaign system allows the front line of the battlefield to move back and fourth according to your mission success or failure.

Due to the increased flexibility of the DCS system, additional fixed-wing aircraft and helicopter add-ons will follow shortly.

Black Shark World - "DCS: Black Shark” operations will be based in the western Caucus region and will include portions of Russia, Georgia and a small part of Turkey. With Russia, special attention is paid to the Krasnodarskiy, Karachayrvo-Cherkesiya, Kabardino-Balkariya and Stavropol’skey regions.

Some of this area will be recognizable from "Flaming Cliffs”, but "DCS: Black Shark” has added a considerable new amount of terrain, particularly much of Georgia. The "DCS: Black Shark” map is approximately 330,000 sq. km of ground and sea area.

Radio Navigation and Physics Modeling

DCS: Black Shark features an authentic model of radio navigation equipment. The DCS world includes various radio navigation aids available in the theater of operations modeled in the simulation, including:

Non-Directional Beacon (NDB)

Airfield Outer Locator NDB

Airfield Inner Locator NDB

NDB Marker

Broadcasting station

Although not used by the Ka-50, the simulation code supports various other types of radio navaids for future flyable aircraft, theatres of operation and campaign scenarios, including:

RSBN

VOR

TACAN

VOR/TAC

DME

VOR/DME

ILS

ILS Marker

The DCS Ka-50 model includes the following radio equipment:

ARK-22 Automatic Direction Finder (ADF)

Beacon ID Receiver

R-800L1 UHF radio

R-828 UHF radio

SPU-9 intercom

ABRIS Advanced Moving Map System (AMMS)

DCS: Black Shark features an expanded ground personnel and airfield tower radio communications menu. Having provided power to and properly configured the radios, the player can communicate with the ground crew to request payload changes, fuel loads, sighting devices (HMS or NVG), electric power to the aircraft, etc. The player can communicate with the tower to request permission for engine start, taxi, test hover, etc.

The Ka-50 hydraulic system is used to provide hydraulic power to various helicopter systems. This consists of two subsystems:

The main hydraulic system supplies the flight control servo actuators for pitch, bank, yaw and collective. In case of a common system failure, it also ensures emergency landing gear extension. The common system supplies the landing gear extend/retract system, the main wheels brakes and cannon steering. In case of a main system failure, it supplies the flight control servo actuators.

The Ka-50 cockpit instruments are generally traditional electro-mechanical gauges that are mounted on the front dash and side / back panels. These instruments are divided into three general groups: flight control, engine control/monitoring and systems control. Other cockpit interfaces include traditional switches, dials and multiple-position switches. Additionally, the Ka-50 has multiple banks of warnings lights and cockpit illumination controls.

Landing gear is modeled as separate gear arms, each consisting of a wheel and an asymmetric shock absorber. The nose wheel is self-orienting, based on acting external forces. Such a model allows for modeling of realistic behavior including the development of shimmy effects at high speeds. Retracting and lowering the landing gear can lead to CG repositioning. When modeling landing gear operations their kinematic properties, external and hydraulic forces are all taken into account. The result is very realistic behavior in all conditions.

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