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Here is another good fixed wing airplane that can serve double duty in DCS as either a surveillance aircraft or fire fighting. The P3 Orion! Surprisingly I found the P3 as being quite capable in military form. This may very well be a good candidate for DCS. Lockheed P-3C Orion Armament: Bombs: 20,000 lb (9,000 kg) Missiles: AGM-84 Harpoon, AGM-84E SLAM, the Standoff Land Attack Missile, AGM-65 Maverick Sonar-buoys: 48 Torpedoes: MK-46 and MK-50 Miscellaneous: mines and depth charges

While it would be good to have more variety of aircraft in DCS I don’t think the typical civilian aircraft would be an ideal fit for DCS’s uniqueness of tactical and mission planning anytime soon. However DCS would be ideal for another civilian sector, Firefighting! Instead of dropping munitions you could drop water and fire retardent’s on wildfires. That is something that would actually go along with DCS’s style of mission planning and accomplishing missions. I could already see using a firefighting version of the Heuy DCS already has to go drop water on a site and after the drop you fly to the nearest lake to refill and back again until the fire is out. Then it would be cool to use other fixed wing aircraft such as the C-130. I would imagine that DCS could potentially attract far more VR pilots if it featured firefighting aircraft and associated missions than just regular civilian flight of which there are already plenty of other competing sims for that. But next to none that I know of that feature fire fighting aviation.

There just so happens to be two great episodes of Dogfights that talk about the Mirage III in the Israeli 6 day war complete with interviews with the pilots that flew them. I am kind of surprised no one has mentioned them in this forum from what I have seen. Anyways I will always remember what Col. Giora Epstein ISF ACE with 17 kills said about the Mirage III vs modern combat jets (41:00). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRR7Kkw8NBA

Here is a great interview that was just published today on the War Zone about a former F-14 pilots experience going through training to learn to fly the Tomcat. It was very informative with some interesting insight about the F-14. http://www.thedrive.com/the-war-zone/9599/a-tomcat-pilots-early-struggles-to-tame-the-mighty-f-14

I just happened to find this great promotional film by Vought from 1975. It not only talks about the typical information about the A-7 but it goes into some detail of its various systems and how to operate them. This video will make a great resource for future DCS A-7 pilots.