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having an option to mount and dismount the ale-40 through the rearming screen or as a mission editor option on our current mirage F1 versions would be very nice to have to better represent how these aircraft were equipped in the earlier half of the 80s and before on our missions, with phimat pods on the roadmap it'd also be nice to be able to fly with phimats only

very nice update! is there any chance we could also see RAF church stanton on this map at some point in the future? it'd be very nice to have more airfields covering the western parts of the map

the DCS huey needs a full rework at this point, hopefully if we ever do get it we can get all these little options added in, i'd be willing to pay for a huey 2 upgrade that addresses the problems our current version has and brings in a little more customizability to it or brings in a full early/late version package like the post says

would love to see ED lean more into multi-variant modules like a couple 3rd parties have and deliver an early 47D or C after the F is out, i really like the idea of getting a chinook in DCS but the F doesn't do much for me

Will we be getting the new aim-9P-3 on the F1 in a future patch? it had been used on the spanish F1s starting in the early 1980s but its currently not available ingame

its not just a matter of it not being bought or used, there were no modifications made to the F1M with the exocet in mind and its not really any more capable of using it than the F1CE or EE, i'd much rather aerges release an EQ-5 or 6 with real exocet capability along with all it's differences from the spanish variants and all the other extra weapons as an add-on or as part of a different F1 pack later on

afaik iran has been having a lot of trouble integrating much of anything they have on the F1, so far i've only been able to find pics and info of them flying with external fuel tanks taken from the F-5, im not aware of any other weapon they can carry from iranian inventory theoretically it should still be able to carry anything the F1EQs carried in iraqi service, but most of those weapons are not currently present in iranian inventory

as of a recent patch the br.250's textures have gone down in quality after being taken out of the game and put back in also, using quaggles' datamine for reference both the br.250's and br.500's explosive mass seems much lower than their counterparts of similar weight and filler like the mk-82 or mk-83 https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/releases/tag/2.8.8.43489 BR.250 (left) - https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/blob/master/_G/bombs/BR_250.lua BR.500 (right) - https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/blob/master/_G/bombs/BR_500.lua mk-82 (left) - https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/blob/master/_G/warheads/Mk_82.lua mk-83 (right) - https://github.com/Quaggles/dcs-lua-datamine/blob/master/_G/warheads/Mk_83.lua a small check up from the devs to bring the BR series of bombs up to the standard of the rest of bombs ingame would be greatly appreciated

bump, would be very interesting to see more of jordan in the map, especially those bases left within the map's constraints

If we had that + nitehawk it'd be a different story and i probably wouldnt be asking for this like i am, but since we dont and im going to ask i'd rather ask for a full product i'd like to see with all the bits and pieces over a compromise like this Either way we already have an answer from ED and if its not planned its not planned, hopefully it can be considered in the future

F1AZ and/or EQ-5/6 would be great for DCS, hopefully aerges can continue making F1 variants and packs after our main package is done so we can get closer to the full F1 experience

They wouldnt be, like multiple users have already pointed out our biggest problem with fitting the DCS hornet in these early scenarios are the link-16 and the JHMCS and like vampyre already said PvP scenarios before these systems were added into the module did just fine, an option to restrict these systems would go a long way but if im to ask i'd rather get the full early hornet package with the rest of the little bits and pieces that differ from ours what i want is an F-18A from the mid/late 80s or the very early 90s as said in the title and first post

thank you , im a little more biased towards the early 18A than the C but i'd be more than happy with either version prior to stuff like the apg-73 being introduced

if we wanted to take on these earlier scenarios with the current DCS hornet we would need to restrict crap our version has because as already mentioned the F-18 in DCS has systems it didnt have access to in the 80s and 90s and while it was a very good and capable plane in it's time regardless these systems give it quite an edge that it simply should not have in these timeframes, its not even just about balanced pubbie pvp servers but also about being able to enjoy authentic scenarios with authentic aircraft in general whether it be pve, pvp or singleplayer missions without having to worry about the plane you're flying being too new there's a reason for this there's been a number of pvp cold war servers that have tried adding the hornet and other blue mid 2000s aircraft in an attempt to have them stand in as the iconic earlier cold war versions DCS lacks while keeping red to period appropriate soviet aircraft. They usually die off after a short time unless some other important changes are made to who used what aircraft at what time for public pvp server balance as otherwise red players will quickly realize they're stuck on a steep uphill battle against aircraft that are 20+ years newer than the timeframe the mission is supposed to be set in let alone the aircraft they are allowed to use on these scenarios and just leave

for sure, some people may believe that and they'd be wrong but nothing like an "F-5 cockpit version of the hornet" was ever a point i was trying to make on the conversation, there was never any mention of it being anything like a shrunken F-4 or an overgrown F-5 or an early viper A, im not sure where you're getting this idea from on my posts, im aware the F-18A and C are similar aircraft what im asking for is a hornet version that can more easily fit into these earlier scenarios without outclassing the actual period appropriate aircraft on either side just by virtue of having systems 10~20 years newer that they should simply not have access to on these timeframes, mainly jhmcs and link 16 and sometimes some of the tgps when they're needed to stand-in for the nitehawk, this is not necessarily a problem with our current hornet since it simply has the equipment the F-18 ED is modelling is supposed to have but more of a problem caused by the lack of an earlier hornet version that can really complement it and take good care of these earlier time periods "just dont use link-16/jhmcs" isnt a very solid argument either since as already mentioned there's no real way to restrict the use of these systems on these scenarios, the only "later"-ish addition you can really restrict on our hornet beyond weapons and stores is the GPS but that isnt as nearly a big of a deal and afaik was already a thing on the C hornets by the time they started flying so it doesnt really matter anyway, them being so similar just means ED will have to do less work on the 18A and we'll get it faster after our C is finished

i am aware the 18A and 18C are overall pretty similar aircraft, that doesnt change what i said or think, the current DCS hornet still struggles to fit into early scenarios due to reasons i've already mentioned, i am not asking for a late 90s A either but something closer to the end of the 80s or the beginning of the 90s the practical reason for an early hornet variant is having a hornet that fits early scenarios

a mid to late 1980s/early 90s F-18A would really help fill out those iconic scenarios and conflicts the earlier hornets took part in like desert storm/ operation el dorado canyon/operation deny flight etc that we cant quite do with our 2006 F-18C due to advanced systems we cant reliably remove or limit in the mission editor like the jhmcs or link-16 and missing equipment we've already been told wont be getting on our current hornet like the nitehawk tgp on top of other differences like the radar or engines an F-18A from this timeframe would complement our current 18C very well by giving us a much better reach into virtually any legacy hornet operation throughout all of it's service life with the A filling in early scenarios and the C taking good care of everything after the year 2000, give us better access to simulating some more export hornet users like spain, canada and australia who all used the 18A as their main fighter aircraft for a substantial ammount of time and finish perfecting the DCS legacy hornet experience with both variants being relevant to their own thing and with little space for one to end up eclipsing the other. If money was a concern with this idea something similar to what heatblur plans to do with their naval phantom variants or something similar to what was done with the A-10C2 or BS3 upgrades could be considered and the 18A could be added as something like a separate add-on or module rather than be fully integrated into the F-18C module, the interest for something like this seems to exist from a good part of the community given the ammount of content and discourse there is around these earlier operations and conflicts involving the earlier F-18s both in multiplayer and singleplayer environments so i think it would be liked and do well either way

UH-1B would be very cool but i'd rather the current UH-1H get the rework its been needing first

i think it was a valid payload for the G but afaik it wasnt done much, not very sure tbh

you can go check their facebook page and see stuff like 4 sidewinders on the F1 or see old posts on the 101 saying we'd get mavericks/laser designators/countermeasures, none of which are a thing on the versions of the planes we're getting/got dont get me wrong im happier with what we've got, but they're still mistakes they've made and i wouldnt be surprised if they made similar mistakes again

they look the same because they're the same bomb, they're br.250s painted red for training which were the most normal bomb for spanish aircraft at the time these are pictures of 4 different 104s, you can tell by the registration number on the tail and the squadron number in front of the engine intake, why would they test the same bomb on the same platform so many times?

its a training drop, br.250s/500s and bme-330s used for training were painted red while the bombs meant to be used operationally were painted like we have them in DCS i can post pictures of different spanish 104s dropping bombs until you're convinced

spain used them for more than air to air, there's a good ammount of pictures out there of them training with bombs

aerges has gotten info on their previous 2 modules wrong before, i wouldnt be surprised if it was a G and they just got some stuff wrong again

yeah i hope we get multiple variants of the 104 as well, a spanish G with an early A or a C would be ideal for me