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Digital Combat Simulator World (2008)

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It's been incredibly annoying that many people of the DCS community *still* refuse to believe that SFM cannot model thrust vectoring and therefore neither "Su-57" by CubanAce, nor the current "F-22" by Grinnelli Designs are able to employ any form of TVC. They see the PAKFA nozzles move and they immediately assume that is already a solid enough proof that the TVC is there...
Here I merged two videos I made doing the same experiment on the "Su-57" first, then on the only known to date TVC-enabled module: JF-17 by Deka. Of course it's not normally available, since the real aircraft is not equipped with it to begin with, but Deka added an Easter egg into the module, thanks to which you can sample TVC, albeit with only one engine. Ironically, whereas CubanAce's mod doesn't have thrust vectoring, but features the nozzles animation, the Deka's module DOES have TVC, yet it's missing the TVC animations.

So, the test is simple: wheel brakes on, enough gas to generate some reaction between the engine and the gear... then I start moving the controls. As it can be seen in this video, with actual TVC the JF-17 "dances" in place, whereas the PAKFA's attitude mostly remains the same.

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