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From the very little information we have on them we know the MICA missiles are outstanding. They are no slouches!

Getting any information on the MICA missiles will be impossible. The French don't even share data about the missile with NATO partners! RAZBAM probably would have done the -5 if they could.

All this talk of how well the Eurofighter would perform is irrelevant; the aircraft is far too classified. Even the one VEAO had their sights on was an early model with almost none of the systems that are on the current bird. A far better aircraft for consideration would be the Tornado. There's plenty of documentation out there on it, it's being retired from service as we speak and, well, it's a freakin Tornado! What more do you want?!

I've got this mod to pass IC and re-upped it to the user files. Mainstay if you want me to take it down just let me know, it's your work and I take no credit for it. I have had some issues getting texture 08 and 028 to work, the game refuses the image file no matter what format it is in so I've had to omit it from the description.lua. But the image file is still included in the files. https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2904055/

That seems like more effort than it's worth! I can bypass all that just by flying the Su-27!

CVN Flight / Hangar Deck NATOPS - https://mega.nz/#!nEVRnTBb!VUG_fzvj_FnE36bZWb954dkBIIXgm_WMoJgXRaL2LcE CV NATOPS - https://mega.nz/#!SZsx2azQ!uM7g0qxf0jWJz_yhIwqPSoLs5T9r1Sqvo3NRVooWWPg LHA & LHD NATOPS - https://mega.nz/#!DMskiQDY!Zsm77lr_lYKIAAk5ZrVRjTBNiYX6bpfxpiTrVAPL-2Q LSO NATOPS - https://mega.nz/#!6AFzEQyY!2i_UNt7MVu4LUbLWvSc_Ki37ZRCljofKis8IvbxlzbI Aircraft Signals NATOPS - https://mega.nz/#!CUkwkLDR!aZwXhBQTV2IpDYVNwVRmvKL4C2foOS953nofEk5gphc Cheers BIGNEWY for doing this.

That's true they are in the open but my point is they're still relatively close to the mountains. It doesn't take long at all to return to the safety of them following your attack - the time spent in the open is not long at all. Once in the mountains your odds of winning a fight are vastly increased. And I must admit balance doesn't appear to be an issue on the ACG missions. The missions are well designed as to negate player numbers I often find. But like I said I can't say I've seen it all, I've played no more than a handful of times on the new mission. I will certainly endeavor to get more hours whenever possible.

Some feedback for the new Ossetia mission. Everytime I've played this mission (no more than I can count on one hand) it results in the Blue side destroying the objective(s) in roughly 30 mins or less. Given the mountainous terrain between the Blue base and the objective it makes it rather easy for attackers to hide in the valleys, carry out a pop-up attack and then return to the safety of the valleys with relative ease. The same can be said for the F-5E's flying CAP. The MiG-21's radar is more a hindrance than a help at low altitude and in particular in valleys. If we combine this with the diabolical ability of the MiG-21 to dogfight I think we can say with a degree of certainty how most of the individual dogfights end! The Blue side has a tremendous advantage on this mission they really do. As for my suggestions; Perhaps extend the ground targets a little further from the hills as to force the attackers to fly in the exposed open for a while? Maybe add a CTLD script that enables Mi-8's to deploy MANPADS? This is just my $0.02 on the mission. Happy to hear thoughts of others who disagree.

RAZBAM are already making an A-6 guys.

I see this is now turning into a what's next hype train! Thus I must drop my 2 cents in - Please by god be a Tornado!! Even if it isn't I really hope HB do a British Tornado GR.x eventually, they're the best devs for it.

That aircraft is a national treasure!

Ahem; Tornado. https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p=2925744&postcount=84 British stuff matters too!

Keep the faith my good man!

And here are the rest! https://mega.nz/#F!vB8xQJDQ!HYdgKATtZbzoj_L2yZrj_A

Pics of what you're on about?

Just put a British skin on the RAZBAM AV-8B, you won't be able to tell the difference. You won't find a Harrier FA.2 or GR.7 / 9 for a long while. The Blue Vixen radar the FA.2 used was really advanced and not likely to be declassified within this decade. As for the GR.7 / 9's the RWR technology they had is still being used on Typhoon's and Tornado's. Absolutely no chance of them being declassified anytime soon. I think the AV-8B will satisfy your Harrier needs for the time being. And I'm a die hard Brit so I want muh British harrier as much as y'all do!

I think I see the point that Probad is outlining. If a lack of female voices is what's stopping you from playing the game then you're not really that interested and certainly not worth the developers devoting their time and effort towards your cause. BUT having said that I'm not opposed to having female voices. I don't see this as an equality or some farcical diversity / inclusiveness policy but instead I see it as an opportunity to add a bit more variation to the game. The same way FSX had female ATC voices, nobody complained and why would they. It felt natural and was. So on conclusion I'd give a +1 for this. But it certainly shouldn't be a priority issue at this point in time.

Almost certainly not. Would be a neat little feature but I can live with without it.

Good to see the correct ale is being consumed!

Mr BIGNEWY, you legend! I ran the cleanup function and it gave a huge list of files, I deleted them all to be safe and then ran the repair. That's cracked it. I believe I owe you a drink!

Yup, as I said in the OP all 4 files have been manually deleted and redownloaded via the DCS Updater.

This is the most up to date version of the manual I have found(my link) - https://mega.nz/#!2YsgFQJY!s8oOXLdoH7NhJTeFMdleGErcEJnMOCU2EsaXHqQ8ko4

SOLVED - Solution here - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/support/faq/709/ It seems with all the joys the new IC 'update' has brought to others, I've not been left out! My version of DCS OpenBeta fails the IC no matter what. I've removed all traces of mods from the game folders, deleted files that fail the IC and ran near on 100 repairs. All to no avail. What's interesting is when I initially view the server browser I'm presented with an IC pass, but upon attempting to join the 104th and being booted for a tainted client; I'm presented with an IC fail. I've attached an image of the apparently tainted files. All 4 of these files I've deleted and redownloaded, and even tried copying from the Steam version. Again to no avail. I really am at a loss at this point, I'm by result essentially barred from playing online. I've attatched both the DCS.log (in a zipped file) and a screenshot showing the 4 files causing my misery. dcs.zip

As Weta43 said, FM seems to be receiving updates but the guidance not so. I have seen mechanical energy graphs of the AIM-120B which show it lofting somewhat but post going pitbull the guidance is still poor. This leads to rapid energy loss in turn decreasing the range. With regards the original question posed, I haven't heard of any updates to the A2G weaponry myself but that isn't to say nothing has been done. ED seems to slip these things in under the radar.