Military / Combat60 min lesson

BVR Engagements & Missile Defense

Manage a BVR engagement — use your radar, commit or abort intelligently, and defeat incoming missiles through proper notching, chaff, and terrain.

About this lesson

BVR is chess at Mach 1.5. Your tutor sets up scenarios — AMRAAM vs R-77, cold starts, 2v1s — and coaches you through every decision from contact to merge or abort.

Why a human tutor? BVR is about decisions under pressure. A tutor creates pressure, pauses when needed, and explains the decision tree.

What you'll learn

✓Radar mode selection and target sort
✓Commit / abort criteria — when to press and when to turn cold
✓Shooting — WEZ, loft, trajectory awareness
✓Missile defense — notching, chaff, terrain masking
✓Post-merge reset into a second engagement

Prerequisites

•DCS with an Fox-3 capable fighter (F/A-18, F-16, JF-17, etc.)
•Comfort using the radar

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Prep material

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