Slats go back a while before the 50's. In terms of combat aircraft the Bf-109 had them and as @JNelson has noted, these weren't driven by anything other than the airflow (Automatic Slats).
Yes I was trying to find a preference to only show the heading rather than a summary of the content in the post but haven't found it yet - prefer the old view
Have experienced the same thing - though it was air targets on a night mission (Interception of B-52s). As noted it’s connected to the moon and rendering distance but regardless of that, it’s still highly unrealistic and should be tuned
Hi Kotor - not all Bs had the sparrowhawk upgrade that added the modern HUD that you are referring to. As noted, we aren’t getting the Sparrowhawk version on the Tomcat.