Vampyre

I'm pretty sure you didn't really read my post thoroughly and understand it. Read it again. I want both options.

It is because they simply don't know about the history. They see a big screaming piece of metal ripping through the air and sowing death and destruction to everything in its path and that is exciting. A lot of these guys are coming from backgrounds that are non military, and are really just becoming really interested in aviation. They know the very basic facts and that is about it. The good thing is that they are learning and that is of key importance to our hobby. I too get kind of frustrated sometimes (like when people say the blurry LN Tomcat photo is something other than a Tomcat, or a Bis is pretty much the same as a PFM). This being an internet forum... well... it comes with the territory so the goal is to educate and help them learn the history. There will always be knuckleheads out there who don't want to learn but there are fewer of them than there are of the people who truly want to learn and understand. Nobody knows everything but most are willing to learn and that is very good for our community.

What I would like to see is a way to assign in service and out of service dates by country that used it assigned to each and every weapon system in the sim. That way the option to force realistic scenarios will exist. It could be an option to click in the Mission Editor (Sandbox/Realistic Timeline). That way realistic scenarios could be set up with the mission designer having little to no knowledge of what the timelines weapons were used in. I do like the way aircraft are broken down by what country uses them in DCS but I wish the player controlled planes would stick to the countries that actually operated them... a Russian A-10C...:doh:. The problem with this right now is the limited amount of countries in DCS World and the fact that there are only a very limited amount of player flyables developed. As DCS grows my hope is that this feature will be implemented for historical realism.

Exactly! The Jag would be a day one purchase for me.

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=127100

Bucc's used the Pave Spike in 91 to buddy lase for the Tornado's. Pave Spike was a generation older than the Pave Tack and had no night time capability. TIALD was in testing at the time with only two pods built. Looking forward to a western ARM shooter so we can finally hang up the Su-25T for that mission. Looking forward to Exocet as well.

I'm totally stoked about a Mi-24P... I love watching video of that massive GSh-30-2K cannon fireing.:thumbup: I hope they get the muzzle flash right. Of course I would have been equally happy with a Mi-24A as well. Go to 37:07 to watch the cannon in action. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55LuPlmgeiw#t=2240

It will be of the utmost importance when we get DCS: NASCAR.:thumbup:

Wait, Wait... you haven't even seen the movie?

But then we would only be competing with Iran on a photoshop proxy war.:music_whistling:

I remember seeing the icon but the plane looked a lot more like a J2M Raiden to me.

The F4U-4B/C/P, F4U-5N/NL and AU-1 Corsairs were used in Korea.:smilewink:

The future seems bright for DCS Naval Aviation. And hopefully the MiG-23BN as well.

In the mid-to late 90's all Navy Tomcats were given an air to ground capability. Here's a VF-14 F-14A.

That's how I'm leaning as well. F4U-1A Corsair F-14A Tomcat MiG-23BN Flogger H I was eyeballing Rudel's avatar for a while now... it was either a F4U or a AV-8B hint but after seeing the cockpit I'm almost certain its a Corsair. I'm hoping for the announcement of a Solomon Island/New Britain Map as well

F-104G would be awesome... especially if it came with a Kormoran or two.:thumbup:

You're such a tease Rudel! :thumbup:

The MiG-29KUB is being built for India so it makes sense that the images would be in English.

Quite true... I had to stop when I read about the Kevlar armored cockpit tub... on the second comment I was reading.:doh:

SMS Kormoran and Toki Maru. Kormoran was scuttled by her crew right after America entered World War I and the Toki Maru, which was anchored above Kormoran was sunk by an American submarine in World War II settling on top of it before sliding off. I dove that site back in 2001. Awesome dive. Congrats on your Advanced Open Water.

Yes, and somewhat less than a MiG-27.

CAS on a scale required to win the battlefield will not be a priority in contested airspace with an aircraft designed for multiple missions. The maximum effort will be devoted to winning dominance over the aerial battlefield through attrition of enemy aircraft, air defenses and C3I targets. Once a permissive environment is established, only then will the CAS missions will become more of a priority for the air commanders. Only a dedicated CAS platform will be doing CAS before complete dominance is achieved simply because it has no other role to fill. Logically, the F-35 variety of CAS involves flying circles at 20k feet or higher and dropping a couple of JDAM's to avoid low level optically aimed point and shoot weapons systems. Even an aircraft equipped with stealth by design is not totally invisible to radars from all angles plus, it can still be seen with the Mk 1 Eyeball. The A-10 has a combat persistence that is much higher than the F-35 by virtue of its loiter capability (which can be translated into multiple unrefueled weapons loading evolutions in a peer vs. peer scenario), heavy war load, and ability to operate from austere forward locations with a minimal amount of ground support. What is the projected unit cost of an F-35 right now? $100-$150 million...ish. The A-10 unit cost is around $20 million right now and they are already paid for. We could lose five to eight A-10's for the cost of one F-35. The peer vs. peer conflict will be a short and bloody affair and the winner will be determined by who can attrite whom the quickest and still maintain the advantage on the battlefield. This type of conflict will likely last less than two months (I believe far less, possibly only weeks). World War Two was the last true peer vs. peer conflict fought and was won by the superior numbers of the allied side. Quantity has a quality all of its own and the country with significantly higher numbers will win regardless of the advanced technology fielded by either one of the sides. Right now the US has the numbers and the technology but that could change in 10 years. The cost of the F-35 means that they will probably be limited in number and losses of them will be unacceptable whilst losses of a cheaper, lower technology aircraft that are designed to take damage and make it back to base will be much more acceptable. I think the US was on the correct track in the late 70's with the concept of the high/low cost mix. The F-35 was an attempt at that high/low cost mix but the concept is turning out to be a high/higher cost mix. For low intensity conflicts the F-35 makes even less sense as an A-10 replacement... It's like using a Bugatti Veyron to run out and get groceries from the local supermarket... wrong tool for the wrong job. A low cost, dedicated CAS platform has a place in our order of battle. On call CAS is a game changer on the front lines of battlefields and has the ability to instantly change the tempo of a ground fight. Most other aerial missions (Strike, BAI, CAP, Sweep, ISR) over and just behind the front lines are fragged to support that front line fight. Having a less effective CAS aircraft flown by aircrew who have to learn many more mission set's filling the CAS role is a less than adequate solution. While the F-35 seems to be a poor CAS aircraft it looks like it will excel at short range Strike and will be a worthy replacement for the F-117 for sure. Everything else... well, I just don't know. From what I have read of the F-35 both pro and con, the F-35/A-10 replacement plan seems very poorly thought out. Perhaps more A-10's or a similar dedicated CAS platform would be a better investment... we could afford another 60-90 units of a low cost ($20 Million) CAS aircraft by simply not purchasing 12 F-35's.

My speculation is 1- F-14 Tomcat 2- MiG-23BN Flogger H 3- F6F-5 Hellcat Cats and Duck...s...:smilewink:

Great Idea! Then we could expand that map to the west until we hit Europe!;)

Being a huge fan of the F4U Corsair, my true desire lies with the Pacific Theatre of Operations... specifically the Solomon Islands campaign. That is still a number of years away as there are no aircraft or maps being made yet for the time period but the F4F Wildcat is on VEAO's roadmap. Seeing as the kickstarter campaign was the catalyst for DCS:WWII with the concentration on the Western European air war in 1944, I submit that the era already being worked on will be expanded upon to include early to mid war aircraft and maps in time. There are many people out there who thoroughly enjoy the simpler aircraft and very close combat that typifies the fighting in the WWII time period. Hopefully VEAO's negotiations with the BBMF will result in numerous early to mid war British aircraft that will enhance the incentive for other third parties to focus more on the early to mid war periods. I too would like to see the maps expanded once the hoped for performance benefits of DCS2.0/EDGE are explored. I'd really like to have flyable German, British and American Twins like the Bf-110 series, He-219, Me-210, Me-410, Hs-129B, Mosquito FBVI, B-26 Marauder, P-61 Black Widow and A-20 Havoc. An expanded map to include Germany will enable the full use of these types of aircraft. Western Europe is my number two want for the WWII time period.