BalkanBattler

You have more faith than I do! Your point is well made, and stands. Thank you. It is too early to tell. All the best,

Sorry for my bad english - I mean "removed from DCS" (the programmers have stated publicly they will never work on DCS again...)

Now that Razbam has dissolved - what are the chances of an Aerges Mirage III after the F-104? Personally I would love to see the Mirage III C, D, and E variants.

Thank you very much, great news!!

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this happens to me after cold start on the deck. It's not just a hot start in the air thing. If I am diving after a bandit, Jester calls out that we have lost cabin pressure repeatedly. This is even after the latest hotfix. Just FYI it's NOT only hotstart in air at specific alt range

Wow! Is this CNC machined? Cool!

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Thanks @NineLine. Is there any response to the fact that 3d models can be ripped straight from the GPU when running DCS? If this has not been shared, I think it would be helpful for leadership to understand. If this is a security issue, we do not believe that locking down the models in the model viewer actually resolves your security issue. Thanks again for sharing our concerns.

Sure thing, here is the quote Here is a Swiss F-5E evaluating 4x Sidewinders Yes, the F-5E could and was shipped from factory with the ability to air refuel. Some operators chose not to buy this, and so the switches were not included for example. Same with the JATO for example - you can see the mounting lugs for 4x JATO bottles on the F-5E remastered version, but the switch is not in the cockpit. That is ok, because the Swiss did not use JATO bottles. But this is a good example - the Jet is capable, it was designed to use it, it just depends on whether the operator paid for the feature. Mavericks as well - this was a factory feature sold to the Saudi's - not added-in after-the-fact. This is a common misconception. There is a very common misconception that these features were always "bolted on" after the sale. This is true sometimes, as in the Brazilian F-5's. However, it is not true for other export F-5's. Again, the example of the Saudi F-5's is pertinent here - they shipped from the factory with the right display, armament panels, and fuel panels to run AGM-65, Fuel probe, and JATO. Source: Northrop F-5, Jon Lake and Robert Hewson, World Airpower Journal, Vol 25, 1996. No. It was not always done after-the-fact. See above. As part of the Peace Hawk sale, "These two aircraft (F-SEs) [...] were delivered from production in December 1976" with the upgrades. Again - the point which I am trying very hard to make perfectly clear is that Northrop was able to and did deliver F-5's with all of the "features" directly from production. This is just one example. PEACE HAWK: A CASE STUDY OF A FOREIGN MILITARY SALES PROGRAM AND ITS MANAGEMENT Harry T. Drury, III, Captain, USAF Peter J. Glenboski, Jr., Captain, USAF I would be happy to pay for an upgrade that includes Mavs and a probe for example. I can't fault Belsimtek for making a barebones USAF Red Flag Jet. I can be disappointed that ED decided to model an F-5N, call it an F-5E, lie about "re-building the cockpit from scratch", missing the dual radios and INS due to "lack of data" (even though I provided data in the wishlist) deleting my posts when they went viral on reddit, and then re-instating them after telling me to include a link to my source (my bad). lol!

Like you, I have wondered this and I have asked, and have not been answered in these forums. However, we have a direct quote from Wags stating that as of the re-master, this is now the F-5 that was purchased by the US Navy in 2006. Meaning, it is no longer an F-5E-3 operated by the USAF. In fact, all references to F-5E **3** have been removed from the store page of both the original and remastered module. Swiss F-5's did carry Sidewinders under the wings, although never operationally. Hence the request from abitar above. I personally would have preferred an F-5E that best represents the default capabilities that Northrop designed and shipped from factory, like the refueling probe, mavericks, INS, dual radios, etc. Despite some prevailing mis-understanding on the internet, Northrop engineered the F-5E for export with these functions. It's just that some operators did not purchase the whole package. The best representation of an F-5E as designed by Northrop is the F-5E sold to the Saudi's. It included the removable fuel probe, INS, mavericks, JATO, and even AGM-45 Shrike capability. Alas

We have a US Navy F-5N purchased bac from the Swiss in 2006 in DCS, according to Wags, which did/does carry the AIM-9L/M.