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To be honest, I am not 100% sure. You will need to reach out to the Split Air Team and ask. They are doing a phenomenal job it looks like with all their stuff so I have faith when they get back around to the Bronco it will be amazing. We fly it literally every week when we are tearing up our Vietnam experience. Really looking forward to hearing what their plans are for it.

This was the Cayuse flight following the Phantom CAS. Good times!!!!

NineLine, how do you intend to recreate the HMDS and what capabilities do you expect it to have given DCS's worlds current technology? There is a significant amount of data displayed within the helmet while you still have all the information being displayed in the glass cockpit. I remember the early days with the DCS Apache and its IHADSS system requiring a lot of optimization to run smoothly, especially at night with PNVS. The HMDS will far exceed the requirements to display information in the helmet and in cockpit for a simulator. Can you comment further? This has been a big request from the community for a long time. We have received the same answer in the past that it is under investigation. Respectfully, what is being investigated exactly? Put a VR headset on and fly into the sun in DCS and tell me it is not needed. Trying employing and any auto CCIP munition in the Hornet in VR while flying into the sun and convince the community you can see the bomb fall line pass the release point. I always have the HUD displayed in an MFD when flying into the sun for this exact reason. I am not attacking ED, but in a recent update you made a 3D model of the tinted visor coming down for the Viper and the Hornet. I was really hoping for it in that update. Is this a labor-intensive request or a community request that ED feels is not as important as others? Again, after 7 years of asking for it, I feel a valid reason should be provided.

It matters to those of us who are looking for accuracy and not fantasy. It's a fair question to ask ED when there is no open-source information on the HMDS. I will purchase the F-35A module, but I am curious what information they are substituting in for real world documentation to make the HMDS believable. I feel the community deserve an answer to this so it level sets the expectations, and we understand what we are purchasing. It also prevents misinterpretation of what is being developed. Some people on these forums actually know a thing or two about the HMDS and can confirm there is no open-source data on it available. Some people also know the real F-35 pilots will not be providing ED information on the HMDS that would jeopardize their careers or NDA's they have signed leaving the military.

I guess the real question would be, why do all fighter pilots have clear visors and tinted visors? That is a rhetorical question. The military would not issue tinted visors if it inhibited the pilot's ability to fly the aircraft or see the HUD.

Brother you are beyond awesome man! I will shoot a quick video later for you of her new home on our Into The Jungle Vietnam mission we have been continuing to work on. I have created an entire section for the Cobra pilots and their barracks/HQ next to their pads. It is right next to the Cayuse squadron. Really looking forward to when you get her complete or in a release state. Hopefully you release this on gethub or a platform where we can show you our appreciation by leaving donations. Thanks again for doing this for the community. Again, one of the best things coming to DCS this year (if it's this year).

Phantom CAS from tonight's flight. Great time minus my inability to hit anything on my first two bomb runs. Comms were great with the team tonight we got a lot of flight time in.

@Wags @NineLine Wags, NineLine, can you please let us know if or how you plan on recreating the HMDS for the F-35 and how you plan to model the displays inside? Especially for us VR players. The HMD is the heart and soul of any F-35 and a DCS module could not be considered accurate without it. I would like to know if you have open-source information on the helmet system and what you intend to recreate with the F-35 module specifically regarding the helmet and what its capabilities are. The second HUGE question I have has gone unanswered for years now. Will ED incorporate tinted visors that work for VR players that simulate a tinted visor coming down over the players face to dim the light? It 100% makes a difference when flying into the sun while in VR. It allows the players to see the HUD. I would debate it is essential for the F-35 given the nature of the aircraft being flown by its helmet and not a HUD. The tinted visor has been incorporated in many different 3rd party modules to include the F-15E, Mirage 2000, Kiowa, and the Cayuse mod to name a few. I may be leaving a couple third party modules out, but NO official ED module has incorporated this. Is this a hard request to implement or is there a reason we have not seen the tinted visor yet with any ED modules?

Agreed, but they cannot because the mod was lost in a software crash of some sort. They still have the 3D model I believe and intend on returning to the mod after they complete the project/s they are working on. Sounds like it might be a while before we see work on her again. I would love to see a little more functionality when they do to include troop transport/drops and more functionality in the radios and avionics similar to the A-4 mod.

@ViolentNomad HELL YEAH VN!!!!!!! Man, she sounds great!!!!! Absolutely the module I am waiting for the most this year. I would like to make a livery request in the humblest way possible if you have not already included them. Can we get the Marine liveries for the old girl. The Vietnam ones I am looking for are below. There were only a few. If you can swing it.

Finally did a video on my PC specs, Nvidia shader files, DCS shader files and what we do to maintain steady performance in VR. Hope this helps the community. This is my standard checklist after every DCS update. Time stamps included.

This would be awesome!!!

Cool B-52 shot at the end of the video from the jeep view.

@ViolentNomad Nomad, any chance we could get an update on your Cobra mod? Your mod is absolutely the most anticipated thing for me this year after seeing the 2025 and beyond video. Not saying there is nothing good coming, but Vietnam was confirmed years out and I would love to get my hands on your Cobra so we can bring her to out Vietnam scenario on the Marianas. Very fired up to see another round of photos or videos. Hope the project is progressing well. I have not seen much on discord lately.

Dear god what a great call!!!!! I was around as a young kid when Boeing started working this. The exhaust system was phenomenal to prevent heat signatures. They ran it through the tail boom and it was dispersed downward after passing through a bunch of baffle like slats similar to a suppressor. The internal stores along with detachable pylons made it a very versatile platform. I saw one of its flight tests and god did that thing fly fast and smooth. I still feel this would have hands down smoked the Apache if it had not been so expensive. Tell me this is not one sexy A** B***H

LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is a screen shot from the Devs back on 11/7 from their Century-Series discord page. It is under the F-105 thread.

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@NineLine My friend I am not taking jabs at you or ED, I am just trying to understand how you can possibly convince the community you can make a "realistic" F-35 with no official or approved data on the aircraft from Lockheed Martin, the US Military, or any foreign F-35 customer, but you cannot make a realistic modelled Me-262. The amount of open-source data from Germany, the United States, historical records/museums and photos/videos of the Me-262 FAR exceed any opinionated nonfactual data you have gathered on the F-35. If I read the post above correctly, maybe you have all the data and research completed, but opted not to build the module. ED has absolutely promised the Me-262 to the community for years. Again, why back out on your commitment? Be transparent. If you think it will not sell well and financially it's a bad call, just be honest. Say we F***ed up telling you we were going to make this, but it's just a bad call right now. Let me go on record stating I LOVE the F-35, and we share a close relationship together. It is not that I do not want to see this aircraft in DCS. I want DCS world to expand, see new content, and continue making our aviation nerd dreams come true. I truly want to see you and ED's success and revenue increase 10-fold. I want this company successful and making stuff until I am too old to play on the computer anymore. I do not want to see it grow by dishonesty or by treating your customers as if they do not know what they are talking about. Your standards and commitments to authenticity and accuracy are what have attracted the moth to the flame with all of us former or active military personnel, or anyone else who grew up around these flying legends. We want confirmation this accuracy, authenticity, and commitment is not being sacrificed to push out less authentic aircraft. I want Eagle Dynamics to come out and state/admit the honest truth to the community without fear of backlash or trash talk. You have clearly taken a lot of that over the past 48 hours, to include a lot by me. I want you to acknowledge you are doing the best you can to produce an F-35A model to the standard between FC3 and the current standards of every other module. I want you to admit it will be somewhere in between because you honestly are going to have to do your best at guessing what this aircraft can do, not know what it can truly do. I want you to admit you do not have secret resources feeding you information about the aircraft when that cannot be possibly true without federal law being violated. I will go on record saying yes, I will try the F-35 out and absolutely believe you will make a beautiful recreation of the jet, authentic and realistic, not a chance. But I will absolutely be purchasing this module knowing you have NOTHING official on the aircraft and the open-source material you have on the aircraft is 100% something anyone of your customers could go find and read right now. I too could have spent the last 2 years pulling data off open-source military websites, Lockheed Martin videos released to the public, and airshow accounts to include photos, videos, and sound effects. In the US the F-35 has a Lightning demo team that performs every year. Again, does not get you close to knowing how the aircraft operates and what its capabilities truly are. For the sake of shutting down the backlash, just be honest with how you are developing the aircraft and stop misleading people into believing the F-35 is being built to the standards of say the Viper or the Hornet. It will only help people go "Ok, I am buying a quality product that will still be bad ass, but it will be somewhere between FC3 standards and the Hornet. I am ok with that. Take my money." Being humble brother goes a long way. This will be my last post to you on the subject. I will shut it down after this and wish you gent's luck. Again, still a VERY AVID supporter of ED and DCS world. That will not change. This was just a small family domestic between us two. One more thing, since you are promising us the world, I want to see an SR-71 and F-105 in DCS world now.

Just for everyone's awareness, VSN is working on a cockpit for the F-105. I believe they were prioritizing finishing something else up and then were going to redirect efforts to the F-105. They are pretty good about updates and answering questions on their discord page.

@Mistermann Kandy, we need to find this for our ITDS idea we were discussing this morning! Loads of content we can do with this.

I would have no issues with this if that was the way their fact page presented the module. But it is not. Go read what they are claiming to produce. Not a FC3 module.

This comment is another example of misleading the community. You suggest by default with this statement you are making an earlier version of the F-35, not a new LRIP production. This is beyond misleading to your customers. You could tell us you were making an Alpha variant pre-IOC and it would still be just as classified as one rolling off the line today. There is NOTHING Eagle Dynamics has that can they have obtained that is remotely close to providing real details about this aircraft. All material including the video above that is promotional and released by Lockheed Martin is vetted and goes through a rigorous process before release to ensure nothing is being provided to the media that is going to give away trade secrets. Again, build the module, but don't proclaim to be building something off real world data you have obtained about the aircraft. It's not. Plain and simple. Comments like this lead those people who are not around these aircraft or have worked with them to believe somehow ED has obtained rights or privileges to produce parts of the F-35 when you have not. This by definition is false advertising. Something I never thought I would see ED step down to.

Not arguing with you here and the USAF does implement some of ED's aircraft in a classroom environment with VR to avoid sim time for a multitude of reasons. This does not equate to the USAF providing ED unclassified material on the F-35 in return for ED making them an F-35 module. The reason why? THERE IS NO UNLASSIFIED MATERIAL out there!