Hiromachi

Dont forget about "5th Gen" Bison and Lancer :vertag: They are almost stealthy!

Well, it differs in design, equipment, avionics and even engine. MiG-21PF for instance was equipped with: - RP-21 radar station allowing to employ RS-2US missiles - R-11F-2 engine - SPO-2 RWR - old style one piece canopy - no internal gun, only late PFs gained ability to utilize GP-9 gondola So it is a lot less capable than MiG-21bis.

Yeah, I will bring this up mate.

Yes. Nothing has changed since the last time mentioned. Rudel is adjusting model and textures. Once done with that he will look into liveries to see what can be done.

I dont see any patch being listed ?

Bother Rudel with lights :) As for jammer. I managed to obtain complete documentation on its operation. Unfortunately DCS implementation of ecm is not giving us room to do much with it. But it sure is cool reading something one has no idea about :)

I'm sorry but despite seeing for over two decades descriptions like "on rails" or "scripted" I still don't understand their meaning in such context. Could you define phrase on rails ? Quite frankly, of the two of us, neither has actually flown MiG-21bis. Dolphin who made the FM however did and is still active duty pilot, albeit flying now on MiG-29. I know that it was pointed for instance that stall and spin lack in "feeling" department but having researched that, I went to Central Military Library in Warsaw and studied Flying Characteristics manual for the bis, where I have found nothing on stalls. Nothing except for single sentence that stalls and spins are strictly prohibited. So the only people who know how it might behave are those who either tested 21 in 60s or 70s or flew it. As for the damage model. We await the moment ED releases updated damage models. Perhaps with an insight into their making we will be able to improve MiG-21. Also, our second coder is working on CE2 issue with pilots head. Once done with it, he mentioned desire to release updates to the SPO. Once this will get close to happening, I will make a separate post since some testing will be necessary so we will ask for help.

There will be progress and updates. We've said time and time again that support will not be dropped for it. Rudel is working on cockpit and external fixes around the clock, I can assure you of that since I bother him every evening about that on comms :)

We are currently testing a fix to this, if it will solve the issue and wont creat any negative side effects, than we will submit it to ED for release.

Like Rudel_chw said, I'm not sure whats honest behind such plea... In any event, release of the of the source code is not going to happen ever. It is not only part of Company's intellectual property but first and foremost would be a breach of our agreement as a 3rd Party. Due to the nature of the product and all security measures implemented by Eagle Dynamics, editing of some files would be futile anyway.

I mentioned already elsewhere that it's most likely going to be autumn update. I was hoping to bring some news earlier than later, but this time news will be pushed to a bit later date.

There was last time I checked.

Depends. To me it's the Navy F-4 that's more iconic. The introduction, rivalry with Crusader, creation of Top Gun (and all the names associated with it). To each his own I guess.

All I can say is that work is progressing.

We're not going to provide any date because at this point it makes no sense. It's simply too early.

I can forward your suggestion mate, but I personally would recommend you to put it also into our Mantis: https://leatherneck-sim.mantishub.io/my_view_page.php That way Dolphin will notice it faster.

It looks like this: But only at certain view due to DCS lightning limitations, whereas in external program it can look as in quoted picture. Which is why released look is still labeled as WIP.

Eekz, your website is not updating now for more than 24 hours.

Oh I know it. Believe me. Where is my Crusader :)

I think its going to be more an Autumn news. We will see. Rudel is perfectionist and only when its done, I'll be able to post something.

When we're ready. I was hoping to show something sooner, but Rudel is still working on some things and so we've opted to wait and show a more complete picture.

Im still waiting for my 3900X to arrive. Hope it will be one of those that can reach 4.6 Ghz :/

If you're left with a piece of that pie, feel free to share. I always accept sugar in any available doses :)

I'm not sure how simpler to write it. Rudel posted changelog on 22nd August, meaning that at the same time fixes were submitted to ED. Last Open Beta update was released on 21st August, thus this fixes were too late to make it to previous test version, but still have to be released and tested in Open Beta. OB will be updated next week if everything goes according to the plan, since thats EDs competence to release patches. Week after that they should transition to stable.