wilbur81

100% correct.

Ditto. "While the USMC outlined in its 2022 Aviation Plan that it will sundown the Hornet fleet by 2030, the last major planned upgrade for its fleet is SCS-31C – 2024. This upgrade plan includes AESA radar integration, improved navigation, electronic warfare enhancements, and new networked-enabled and extended-range weaponry. Aside from JASSM, the weaponry integration includes upgraded variants of the Harpoon anti-ship missile and AGM-154 Joint Standoff Weapon C-1. " taken from the following: https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/u-s-marines-begin-jassm-integration-into-f-a-18-hornet-fleet/

What are you talking about? Iraq and Afghanistan (the parts that have been completed so far) look absolutely stunning...

Here's some nice Legacy Hornet gun-cam footage against the Mig-29.

"Spook," former USMC Hornet pilot, hits 63,000ft in a slick RAAF F/A-18A and a blistering Mach 1.91 on the decent.

100% agree!

This would be the ultimate, for sure. For my regular VR users: do you not find HB's giant Comm's wheel popping up in front of your face mildly immersion breaking? I've done VR, and it was for me.

Same here.

Can't really read the altitude on that HAFU, but it looks to me (as stated above) that the bandit is in double-digit altitudes while your radar is only looking up to 4k. Radar Elev, up, and your there. As to being directly behind the bandit, if there's negative closure, you likely will need Medium-only PRF to lock him up...your in Interleave in your screenshot.

Dear Devs, After a certain new trailer was recently released, it just occurred to me: I LOVE the simple, out-of-the-way, low-key comms menu we have in DCS. Please keep it that way and don't ever change! Just say "no" to the giant, flashy, "center-stage" comms menus.

My friends. It just must be said, so I'll say it: DCS has never looked more beautiful and run so well on my modest (by DCS standards) system! Well done to the whole team! With so many modules and features, both current and upcoming, it's easy to miss the incredible progress they've made over the past several years. Seriously, I was flying around the Iraq map on a mission at sunset the other day... Absolutely stunning! Thanks for all the work, team! You are the golden age of military flight sim, PERIOD.

Many days have passed in this thread, but here's some video of "our" DCS Hornet in motion with the 404 Tail flash (BUNO 165407) -

I'm seeing the same.

No, I'm with you as well. In a realistic combat sim, I'm interested in realistic (historical or future-likely) scenarios. But most importantly for me is this: The map structures need to be susceptible to damage and alteration. MSFSim looks pretty from above, but for a combat sim, the environment is unalterable. I have near-zero interest in a whole-earth-DCS-map.

I wholeheartedly agree.