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There are similarities because : Yakovlev did the heavy lifting, LM built the F-35...

Different maker.

There will always be planes for any map in DCS. I won't complain about not getting EXACTLY THE PLANE SET I WANT !!! Is that what you mean ?

The vagaries of the English Language. When he said "I thought", he meant in the past, but not now, because he believes you, and the "Thanks" were for giving him the new information. :)

there couldn't just be two versions running at the same time ? One for light helicopters and another for Mi-8 ?

That's what I thought.

So if it is where it should never, and IRL would never, be ?

Hegelian answer: Things that are not nice.

Hot gasses - lots of hot gas - stored in a form that increases their stability and density.

If you search it's all been done already

I don't remember anybody mentioning re-doing flight models... Another 'say it and hope it happens' ?

They track, but apparently don't navigate to that track while the lock is outside their FOV ? Look for an Ironhand post.

^^ If they'd finished off the systems that aren't modelled (higher fidelity radio systems for a start), , implemented the laser using the same API as for the other modules (So other modules' weapons can see it or its weapons can see other aircraft's lasers), added the new damage modelling, given it a better cockpit and external model, put rain / snow / ice on the windscreen & functioning wipers / demisters - I'd have said that was enough for an upgrade fee... Fantasy weapons and systems just makes me less likely to buy it, and taints the whole perception of the module. Particularly if there's no way to remove them from the external model (hint from a customer)

Presumably nothing. If you don't buy the SC you'll still have access to the current carrier - & there's no reason to believe that won't be "carriers

He said “all the same structures”. They’re not the same structures, they’ve all been updated. Yes, the shelters are in the same place — so are the runways. - because they were placed to copy actual places. You want them to move them so it feels fresh ???

If your DCS airbases look like this, you need to turn your graphics up

Although you have repeated this many times to justify your wish for fantasy elements, it’s simply not true... (And “near-imaginary” is an imaginary concept. )

Then surely you could both just fly a space sim with shields and a laser cannon ?

You obviously haven’t actually looked at a screenshot of Lock-On’s airbases for a long time, or you wouldn’t be saying that the current bases are at all like them.

& you don't care if it's an imaginary one ?

Same reason USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air Flight 655* People panic under stress. Remember the FAA had told US civilian aircraft to exit the area, and both Al Jazeera and at least 1 website had reported that B-52's had left Diego Garcia for Iran. They'd have been waiting for something inbound... *in case you don't remember, Iran Air Flight 655 was a scheduled passenger flight from Tehran to Dubai via Bandar Abbas, that was shot down on 3 July 1988 by an SM-2MR surface-to-air missile fired from USS Vincennes, a guided missile cruiser of the United States Navy. The aircraft, an Airbus A300, was destroyed and all 290 people on board, including 66 children, were killed. The jet was hit while flying over Iran's territorial waters in the Persian Gulf, along the flight's usual route, shortly after departing Bandar Abbas International Airport, the flight's stopover location.

Get a grip on reality... Conned ? Showing you images of what appears to be a very nicely done map and saying "you can buy this if you want" is conning you ? Have you no self control & find yourself forced to simply buy whatever is placed in front of you ? I can't see that's a problem of E.D.'s making... If it has nothing to offer you, show some self restraint and don't buy it. I like the look of it and the stated area better than the Normandy map, and expect I will get it to fly the Mossie over. As with all the DCS maps, whatever timeframe you chose to set in the ME. It's intended as a sandbox, not a history lesson.

That's the way the map system works You can fly from Georgia into Turkey, and the new Syrian map will include Turkey. They may overlap, but they won't merge - there's a size limitation. Mackers and BK both sell burgers that have most of the same ingredients - is it fishy that 2 burgers by different companies get sold as different products when most of the content is the same ? E.D. and Ugra are separate companies selling similar but different products. Happens all the time... Plus, for it to be fishy, they'd have to be tricking you into buying it somehow. They're offering it for sale, not forcing you to buy it. If you don't think the extra content is worth your money, choose not to get it. It sound & looks like a more interesting part of the world to me than the Normandy map (which I have always quite liked even in its early incarnations), so I think I will get it. Wouldn't it make more sense to put in a low polly place-holder so the mission will still work ?

I guess it depends on what you wnat the map to do - it gives you a map with enough atmoshere and general accuracy to build and fly convincing & immersive missions. It may not give you enough detailed accuracy to rebuild every actual historic mission that was ever flown, but the reality is for all your detailed historic recreation, the moment the MP community takes off (or your AI wingman), all resemblance to the historic mission disappears anyway...

You've seen no proof because it NEVER HAPPENED. E.D. have said that themselves. It is a 'fantasy' weapon added "because they wanted to" There have been pages and pages of "Might have been", "should have been", "was meant to be" ... but in the end it never was. Re your earlier post - It doesn't sit well with their stated hsitorical approach to me either, but I guess E.D. have to recoup the costs of developing the new model and cockpit for the Ka-50, and a BS-3 module will do much of this - if it's got enough new features to encourage people to buy it. As they did a pretty good job with the original there aren't that many useful real systems missing, so to get enough new features to make it atractive they have to dig into the 'might have been' bucket...