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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!

So, this is a confirmation for the reason ED is going with the F-35A. Not to recreate an authentic aircraft, but to keep DCS funds flowing at a steady pace and entice an audience that is not as much milsim as the current. I understand that. I would actually support you guys with the F-35 if that was the message being driven. But is not. Just be honest with the community and say a less authentic representation of a 5th Gen Fighter you think will sell better than say an older aircraft produced at the current authenticity level. It is the presentation ED is putting out there that insinuates this module will be done to the standards of the previous modules when it is not possible. Again, HONESTY with the community goes a long way.

Then why are you waiting on this module to come out if authenticity and realism do not mean much to you? There is a free F-35 mod out there now for DCS world. Why is that any different from what ED is developing now if standards for DCS world are not applicable.

From a civilian perspective who just plays DCS, this makes logical sense. I can tell you ED is not making F-35 simulators for the government. The first thing that would be placed in that contract between the DOD and ED is NONE of what they are working on goes to DCS world. Not to mention, Lockheed Martin is still utilizing prepar3D for their simulation platform. It is wrong for ED to remotely imply "I do not think they have yet" that they are working with someone in the background to simulate the F-35. It would be an absolute breach of their contract to take any of that data and apply it to DCS world.

Thank you for being another voice my friend! I hope more people who have been around this aircraft come out and say this is a bad call for ED!

It's not going to be 15% accurate. Plain and simple. I am not knocking you for not wanting the most realistic sim. I come to DCS for the most realistic sim. I am fully aware after growing up around the vast inventory of aircraft in DCS that it will never be 100% spot on, but they have come very close with their products to date. I would safely say a solid 80 maybe even 85% with things like the legacy Hornet and A-10. They are spot on with startup procedures, cockpit layout ect.... There is no way possible to do that with the F-35, not even close. People come to DCS for that authentic feel, realism. If I wanted an F-35, your right, I would go fly it in MSFS where they have a beautiful "representation" of that aircraft. DCS is a simulator priding themselves on accuracy. You will not even come close to simulating the F-35, which again in my opinion, degrades the company in what they pride themselves on. Again, the criticism is on ED's honesty about the data they claim to have and their core values of providing and authentic representation of a military aircraft as close as they can get. If 5 or 10% is as close as they can get, why is it even an option on the table for the next module?