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The Virtual joint Strike Wing (Formally UK Navalops) is a UK based combat flight sim group for DCS World. The wing is made up of Squadrons from the Royal Navy Fleet Air Arm and the Royal Air Force. The group was formed as UK Navalops in March 2018 By Lenny and Gaz because of the lack of UK based Harrier Squadrons for DCS World The group has mainly been a Harrier group, however it was decided to re brand as Virtual Joint Strike Wing and add a F16 Squadron . We try to have our training and missions as close as possible to real life, we have former Royal Navy and Royal Air Force members in the group. Even though we do all this we still aim to have fun.

RAF Air UK formed 1(F) Squadron in October 2019 as a home to the RAF Air UK VA's Harrier pilots, since then it has led operations utilising the RAZBAM DCS AV8B NA for missions ranging from low level CAS, interdiction of attack helicopters, SEAD, medium to high level guided weapon strikes and COIN operations in all theatre's of operations within DCS World.

41 Sqn/OCU is a small group who are part of RAFAIRUK and we cater to the more serious end of the DCS F18 fraternity. We formed three years ago from the chance meeting of the retired Commanding Officer of 41 Sqn and an ex-Chief Technician ground crew. After flying together and the Boss teaching me the basics of real-world training, we decided that we should expand the Squadron and train others - and the OCU (Operational Conversion Unit) was formed. The OCU course is taken from the Boss' own logbook and is a simplified (for DCS) version of the real course adapted for the F18 as the nearest jet to the RAF Jaguar in DCS (although far more advanced!). The course is fairly in-depth and requires a solid commitment to complete, but you will be flying with like-minded people in low-level formation attacks in all weathers by the end. You will have the opportunity to learn under the guidance of a seasoned and decorated Sqn Commander, in an environment as close to real as DCS can offer, with a staff of personally trained ex-mil personnel. We ask that you do not come to us unless you have the time available to fly at least twice per week and are open to learning, from scratch, how the Air Force train fast jet pilots. We set no basic flight requirements beyond that you can do a full manual start, take off and land safely - and even then we are prepared to help you achieve this if you are close. Having Teamspeak and SRS up and working is also a necessity. Visit the RAFAIRUK website, select Sqn's and Operational Conversion Unit and scroll down for our video and syllabus, if that looks good to you, come and talk to us on Teamspeak and we'll go from there. Roon.