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I think they were also interested in the Draken. In the end we went with the Mirage III - for the poorer imho.

The Viggen, and by and large, all swedish aircraft of the cold war are iconic. I Live in Australia and I knew of more Swedish jets than most other airforce's outside of AU, UK and US. With their appearance they are elegant yet highly functional and durable aircraft, the distinctive camouflage pattern and their roundel design was highly eye catching. When you would dig deeper you would see the aircraft were built highly specifically to deal with the localized conditions and threat - there was no unnecessary features on those aircraft. To top it all off, they were built "inhouse" and feature advanced technology at the time. Definitely iconic of the cold war period.

Thanks mate, It's what I kind of figured anyway. :thumbup: I'm in a first world country with the first world problem of disgraceful internet on our "national broadband network" - high speed and cheap for all the country** **except those in rural areas who will only be offered satellite at the rate of $100/month for 5GB....... :mad: Even though i have direct LOS to a tower 4km away - an installer (who never actually showed up at their promised times), listed my property as non-serviceable - after a 4 month wait for them to "come out and see". So now I have another 6 month wait for a "low priority" reassessment. This at the cost of $300 a shot. Hence my tightness - DCS 2.0 w/ NTTR would be roughly $600 lol on that plan. It's currently cheaper on mobile broadband :/ So i'm sticking with that at the present. Sorry for the massive whinge fest for anyone who had to read that. On a Viggen pre-order related note: Does anyone have any, more specific, dimensions of the T-shirts? They are (obviously) listed as S, M and L but that can vary globally. I couldn't find anything on the heatblur website. I will probably hedge my bets with a medium as I can always gain some weight if it's too big :P But I would hate to order a medium and find out that I will look like an 80's spandex tight clad rocker with it on lol

G'day Cobra! Does the Viggen support DCS 1.5 and 2.0? Or just 2.0? Moved house recently and out here in the sticks internet is extremely expensive - the size of DCS 2.0 (for example) is very cost prohibitive. Eyeballing the Viggen and T-shirt, need to plan what the outlay will be though :P

While A JA-37 would be nice... a Draken would be much cooler!

It's just gorgeous. The presentation of the Viggen looks amazing and we know LN can deliver on flight modelling and "the experience" this module is going to be the new yard stick I think. I cannot wait to get my hands on this puppy. Imagine the possibilities with the F-14 (and potentially the Draken :D )

Dear Lord that looks amazing Cobra. I love those missile launches over the sea. The detail is beautiful, I am going to love flying this bird.

The Gotland area would be my guess - plenty of sea for sinking ships and close enough for Cold War fireworks.

That trailer looks sensational! Fantastic job LN!

Nice! Will give me a good idea of what I should be doing rather than my soon to be patented "get-it-on-the-deck-let-maintenance-sort-it-out-belly-flop" that I will be predominantly using. So excited for this module.

Fumble with a start up, weave onto the runway, ramp up speed and then promptly crash prior to take off. So like every other module I have then :P Edit: In all seriousness - acrobatics probably.

Thanks for the update Cobra :) Looking forward to all your forthcoming modules, the Viggen and Tomcat are looking to be something special. I really want to see the Viggen though, we haven't seen anything of it yet and it sounds like it's going to be an interesting aircraft to operate. Love the fact that you guys are throwing in training missions/campaigns as well, so many DCS modules miss this sort of feature and I really enjoy getting into a good set of missions or a campaign.

VF-25. "Fist of the Fleet" Who never, ever, operated the Tomcat, they operated the F/A-18.

I hold my Rudder in the Dora, I do relax it though as speed picks up and to prevent veering off the runway. I use a twist stick so lack the usefulness of rudder pedals.

Maintenance vs actual benefit for flight. The performance difference was negligible and only for very high speed operation. Presumably the performance wasn't worth the cost or time of maintenance. And as stated, in later variants the weight and space was used for more important equipment.

Bloody oath it was. It's always fascinating to read about things like this that happened in the cold war. I'm impressed with the SH37 throwing that kind of maneveur at that altitude, probably more surprised that the Sukhoi followed him through! :joystick: For military personal during the Cold War it must of been a constant simmering tension, especially for those who would be in an immediate frontline. Leatherneck, please just release the Viggen already lol :cry:

I would love to see a Mig-29 PFM - as soon as I saw the banner I headed here to see if something had been announced..

You Sir, are a genius! :thumbup: What could possibly go wrong!!?!?!? :D In all seriousness I would love to build something like this as well, going to keep an eye on this thread with some interest.

Didn't feel like the appropriate word when I was typing it but couldn't come up with a better word that sort of covered all the misdirection. Appreciation the correction though. Also, going to have a look at that book too lunaticfringe, always interested about espionage stuff (mainly because of how wonderfully complex some of the schemes seem and scarily enough, how simple many are).

Well with the P-40 being modeled the a potential "China/Burma" map and these little hints, we could be seeing A6M's. Of course the Flying Tigers only flew P-40b's and e's, but still, a bloke can dream :P Could be a Ki-27 perhaps or Ki-43?..

Have to be careful there or it'll take your breath away. Maybe Jester AI will incorporate a hand gesture system - for the mundane; like signalling radio frequency/channel to a wingman or for flipping the bird to pesky Mig-28's.

Many a million has been spent on producing aircraft to counter aircraft with near mythical ability - the art of obfuscation is very much alive within military aircraft production. Always make your aircraft seem invincible, be a little vague on BVR capability and let the opposition expend dollars on trying to counter. Of course it all then becomes a game of counter-counter measures. Not to mention the risk of the opposition hitting on a goldmine of an aircraft that could counter what you misrepresented and is now much, MUCH better than the aircraft you have. Counter-intelligence is a complicated affair.:helpsmilie:

Loved the original Flanker, like many here, got a demo on a PC magazine cover then rushed out and purchased the full version. Flanker 2.0 was beautiful and 2.5 even more so, loved every second of them - much like I love playing DCS now - especially the Flanker and the WW2 birds.

Gotta admit I love all these new campaigns heading our way, I love a good single player experience for my flight sims so I can just enjoy the aircraft for what it is. Adding multiplayer stuff is just the icing on the cake!

An F-14 home pit would be sensational.... .. could possibly also lead to divorce though :P