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Your rate of progress continues to impress :thumbup::thumbup:

Imho 20% is significant when we are talking about safety margins for a ~70$ million aircraft with one or two live pilots :). But I could have used a different word, sure.

I think they'd be justified in raising the price from 50 to 60$. Most people here will pre-order at a discount anyway.

Maybe you should have skimmed the past 10 pages of this thread before making such an uninformed post.

Yes, "tufted duck" is the dictionary definition of "vigg" (the word for "thunderbolt" is actually "åskvigg"), I guess I misread your post because when I read this: , I thought you meant to say they use the common Swedish word for "duck" (which is "anka") when referring to the aircraft, like how the F-16 is unofficially called the Viper.

30 000 people, "practically nobody". Yup.

Lived in Sweden for a decade, never heard the Viggen referred to as "ankan" which is Swedish for "the duck". But you are not wrong that it may be a hint.

Hornets qualifying on C-d-Gaulle. Well done to the pilots, deck is much smaller than what they're used to.

The first production version in ~1971 had A2G radar/avionics/role (even though the airframe was developed as an interceptor) because the need for new strikers was more urgent than for interceptors.

That's how I read it as well. But anyway this update seems to mainly deploy patches and installers made by 3rd party devs or partners, plus a few texture and lighting tweaks. Armchair conclusion: ED's focus is still 98.2% on DCS2.0. :D

More complex than the Tu-160 systems? I guess it could be regarded as a post-Soviet aircraft.

Looks super! Question: I have no idea how licensing works, but if you were not allowed to use the name BO 105, would you still be allowed to use a foreign designation, like Hkp 9? (Swedish designation.) Maybe you would have to contact the Swedish MoD for this?

It's pretty common to use "semi-AP" multipurpose rounds, like the standard USAF 20mm ammo called PGU-28/B. It's like a normal HE-I round but with a thick, pointy nose cone (there's no sabot penetrator) and the fuze is delayed so the round has time to penetrate before it explodes. So impact energy is more relevant for this round, than for a "pure" thin-skinned HE shell exploding on contact or by proximity fuze. There's also a newish ammo type called PELE or FAP(...) or FAPDS, basically a shell containing a sabot penetrator followed by metal balls/shrapnel like in a claymore. No explosives, uses impact energy to spread hot shrapnel. Some of the Gripen nations use it as their standard ammo for a2a and a2g.

They still issue armor-piercing / semi-AP rounds to 20/25/27/30mm fighter guns, so you still want the rounds to have some kinetic energy when they hit the target.

Black choppers over Brisbane tonight.

Not sure if post is serious.

I'd speculate this = no advanced avionics for them to program. And they did tease what looked a US WW2 carrier.

Cool info, thanks for sharing :)

That model :censored: looks fantastic!

Top quality.

:thumbup::pilotfly:

Eurofighter also claims supercruise with 4 + 2 missiles (fuselage recess & wingtip.)

Cobra said in january they have a new "permanent office location in Swinoujscie." So I guess its' like a physical corporate HQ.