Vampyre

What exactly are you thinking with the general period grouping? How would you imagine the periods be broken down?

The price issue is moot in my opinion. The recommendation is for a core game update to include a timeline that is selectable in the ME. Yes, it will take some initial work to update the limited amount of units currently in the FREE sim but after that it will be a part of each module from the get go and could be implemented in a simple manner. The whole point of having the ME is to make it easy to put together missions. I'd rather have that than have to rely on everyone making a mission being knowledgeable on each and every weapon/platform in the sim. The developers of the modules are the experts and have already done that research.

What other airplane would that be?

Yes it was the fleet defender. But it was also designed to go toe to toe with the best land based fighters of the time as well. That is a big part of the reason the F-111B was killed off so spectacularly which led to the Tomcats actual name. The Iranians proved the Tomcat to be a very capable air superiority fighter during the Iran/Iraq war. It has not been proven (thankfully) how effective the Tomcat would have been against the Long Range Bomber/Cruise Missile threat.

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.