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Here is the link to the original crowdfunding campaign from 2012. It was shortly after DCS World as an open, modular system was announced/released. I was super hyped for the future of DCS and a full fidelity MiG-21. Orignally, things like DCS A-10C, FC2, Black Shark were separate installs with some multiplayer compatibility. At the end it took 2 more years of development until the MiG was released, but back then everything looked imminent. https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/dcs-mig-21bis-fishbed

Interesting how the times are changing. 20 years ago WW2 sims were dominating the market, while Lock On (and modded 90ties sims) were almost the only offerings for modern jets. Guess, the interest in WW2 aviation withers more and more away, with each year that passes, seperating us from this war.

Hopefully, we can do this with the Corsair "soon"(TM)!

The japanese had extensive sugarcane plantations and supporting industry on their part of the Marianas.

C-47 was added a long time ago, just the paratroopers shown in videos years ago are still MIA. But yes, more AI planes would add a lot, especially ubiqous types like the Bf-110, Ju-87 or Ju 52. Then we could built missions for the I-16 or La-7 in the wilderness of Kola or Caucasus maps. Or even the once already announced ground attack variants of the FW-190A.

Dito. Still my favourite model. Hope it will be alive at least until the F-35B is here to replace it.

Luftfahrt Archiv Hafner has the most comprehensive collection of scanned German WW2 era manuals for sale (all in German). What you are looking for is called "Bedienungs-Vorschrift Flugzeugführer" or "Bedienungs-Karte für den Flugzeugführer", the short version. This are the equivalentgs to English Pilot's manuals. As you have noticed German aircraft manuals, Flugzeughandbuch, are for maintenance stuff. https://luftfahrt-archiv-hafner.de

Of the entire map? A lot of work. Germany changed tremendously between 1945 and 85. To a greater or lesser degree the cities destroyed by the bombing campaign were mostly rebuilt with a new, car friendly, layout and buildings in very different styles. The infrastructure changed, countless new roads were constructed, bypassing the old town centers. In more rural areas many of the old farms disappeared and countless single family homes were built. As a consequence the built up area of smaller towns greatly expanded, with many new neighborhoods and commercial areas. Also the general look from the air did change, with an increasing average size of fields.

I hope the highway strips will be modelled. A lot of them would still be useable today.

It's correct. Just did the measurement myself with Google Earth. Israel is about 420 km from north to south, same distance as from central Switzerland to the north of Frankfurt.

It will be interesting to see how they model such a huge high density area in an era decades past. I fully expect a loose approach to layout- and historic accuracy, that they will use freely available vector data as a base, such as from Open Streetmap, to auto generate the towns and villages and then manually change critical areas, such as the inner German border, to their Cold War state. Although period highly detailed topographic maps for Germany are freely availalble (link below for the state of Hesse with Fulda for example), Germany as a whole has over 10.000 municipalities and make them all look like they did 40 years ago should be prohibitive for a map of this size. At least if they don't have means to automatisize large parts of their workflow. https://www.lagis-hessen.de/maps/topografische-karten/

My guess would be that Berlin is in the north eastern part of the map, Fulda close to the center and the Frankfurt / Rhein-Main area in the south. In the west all the way to the to French and Belgian border to include the concentration of NATO airbases around the Eifel region.

This. It's a bold move, but I needed one. Just with remastered modules and increasingly obscure aircraft modules DCS can't stay afloat.

Bignewy said so in the Discord chat.

Me too. Very happy indeed. Hope we will see the B eventually.

If you don't like, then don't buy it. At the end money speaks. For me it's a very welcomed surprise. I am glad I can fly the F-35 in DCS as well simulated as currently possible before I am dead.

The update from Facebook, haven't seen it anywhere else: https://www.facebook.com/magnitude3llc

So say we all. Let's hope we won't have to celebrate the 10th anniversary of this thread.

Map from DCS discord:

The, once planned, Fw-190F8 and G8 ground attack variants would be the low hanging fruit

The original team were 4 people when the MiG-21 was released: Michael Carter II (AKA “-Rudel-”), Nicholas Dackard (AKA “Cobra847”), Novak Djordjijevic (AKA “Dolphin887”) and Radu Manole (AKA “Roland”). Later Cobra left with some new hirings when they split into heatlblur and M3L. Thereafter, for a few years, Hiromachi joined them as researcher and community manager. Their previous FM coder Dolphin887 was/or still is an active duty pilot in the Serbian airforce. A position which I doubt left him much spare time for DCS development. Now we indeed only see Rudel as the last active member of the original team, but they hired an new aerodynamics engineer this February, thus there should be at least 2 devs now.

Maybe simply nobody is working at the F4U currently, thus there is nothing to report. From the erratic periods of frequent updates in the past and long draughts in between, it seems the devs are doing this part time as a passion project, whenever they find the time.

The fighter bomber F8 and G8 variants, that were once planned, would be a good start.

All of the RN FAA air attacks against the Tirpitz were planed and carried out with the element of surprise as a crucial part of the plan. Once the smokescreen obscured the Tirpitz in the narrow fjord the probability to hit the ship was far to low. There was no time for the Germans to scramble fighters and intercept the raids except by chance.