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Ok, so this whole business didn't leave me in peace so I asked about it in a Model Forum too and I got this interesting answer regarding my question: I find this quite interessting. So the F-14 DOES have a slight "double Bubble" canopy. Another member in that forum also mentioned that he sees the same thing on the twin seat Vipers and I noticed it again on the Su-30 I think its quite visible in these pictures: I wonder if this is something that ALL twin seat Jets have but I never noticed it before because its actually quite faint. Best wishes, Alex

Any chance @Heatblur?

True. Maybe Heatblur can help here? Maybe something you could see in the scans they did to the old Turkey. @Cobra847 @IronMike would it maybe be possible for you to ask your visual artists if they noticed anything mentioned here? Maybe this is one of those hidden curves you normally dont really notice in the Tomcat.

yeah I also have multiple books with side views and some books have it and some other dont. I looked through a great amount of pictures over the months and sometimes i see it and sometimes not. I wonder if its maybe an optical illusion? Or maybe there are different canopy types for the F-14?

Hi! So I have bit of a weird question regarding to Tomcats canopy... See I have a Hasegawa F-14A kit at home and when I checked the construction plan I noticed something rather weird with the canopy: The Canopy is kinda "double Bubble" or "Butt" Shaped with the RIOs part of the Canopy getting higher in its own weird bubble canopy: Now this ofc probably is some weird error in the plan but it kinda made me a bit restless so I looked at a bunch of Plans of the Tomcat online and in books and I also tried out the DCS model viewer and real life pictures but I didn't come to a conclusion regarding this. Sometimes when I look at the Tomcat in pictures it kinda looks like there is a "double bubble" canopy and sometimes it doesn't. Does anyone with any vast Tomcat knowledge, maybe SME or maybe someone even from Heatblur (or someone with better eyes then me :o) ) know/can check if the F-14 canopy actually is designed that way? I am almost 100 % certain that it isn't as pronounced as in this model plan drawing but it kinda looks like the Pilots part of the canopy slopes downwards to the frame and then slopes upwards for the RIOs part again on the real bird as well sometimes. Or maybe my eyes are just deceiving me. I know its a weird question but I have looking into this for some time now (thx COVID for the time for stuff like that I guess) Would be awesome if somebody could help me out here! Best wishes Alex

Wow awesome. Thank you very much, I guess its really just a bad drawing after all. Thank you!

thank you. So if the asymetry exists its not as pronounced as in this bad drawing, is it?

I know its a rather weird request but is there a chance you could ask @IronMike ?

Hello! I may have quite a weird request towards HB but this is something that is getting on my nerves for quite some time now. Over the years I have grown very fond of the A-6 Intruder and the prospect of seeing it joining DCS as a highly detailed model makes me really excited. Over the years I have been gathering as much information on the "Tadpole" as possible Including many Scale-drawings... now you see I have have found many problems with those drawings who all draw the canopy of the Intruder with the "bubble" on the Pilots side in a kinda "raised" position so that the canopy loses its symmetry and this is kinda driving me nuts: http://imgur.com/a/N8DYcts you can see the problem when you look at the refueling probe: http://imgur.com/a/3rDYqJH[ once I noticed this I saw this problem (or is it?) in in multiple books and articles. Some even had multiple drawings either with the "extended" pilots "bubble" or with a normal symmetrical canopy. Now it is actually quite hard to get to the truth regarding this, it could ofc just be a bad drawing, but then again how exactly could I check that? There are multiple drawings of it all with different interpretations regarding this. Photos don't really help either since you don't really often see an angle of the aircraft directly from the front.... now if only there was a studio out there who happen to have actually scanned a real life Intruder :shifty: It may sound like a weird request but could you maybe inquire this for me with your 3d artists? Or with the people who scanned it to check this for me? Is the canopy symmetrical or is the drivers position canopy part raised a bit like in the above drawing? Its a stupid thing I know but ever since I saw that it really annoys me hahaha Best wishes Alex

Yeah I saw some news from 2017 that also said that they are still in service pretty much still the 1/3 to 2/3 ratio so I guess they did not change that much

Hi folks! No matter where I am looking I can‘t really find any info regarding this. Is the Night Attack variant still in service or is it completely replaced with the + variant? If it is out of service does anybody know when it was retired? Wikipedia does not really go into the details which variant anybody uses besides „AV-8b“ and other sites don‘t really help either. Cheers!

ups. Thx!

When it comes to the A-6 being playable I always remember this quote by HB themselves: "The A-6’s are built to our extremely exacting standards, with laser scanning forming the basis of our core workflow and ensuring complete accuracy in shape and dimensions. The Intruder is an aircraft that has been under active development at Heatblur Simulations for some time, and subject to a license agreement, we hope to eventually introduce it into DCS world as a full, playable module - and we are developing it with this intent in mind." https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.p...05#post3612905 Ofc things can change, nothing really is certain and who really knows what the future holds but imo I think HB will make an A-6 module if they put that much work into it already. Besides I think RAZBAM said "it seems like some other 3rd party dev is doing the Intruder" IIRC. It would be an instant buy by me cause the quality of their modules is beyond excellent.

Okay that is good to know but that was not really my question. Or am I missing something?

Hello guys, For some time now I am looking for some basic information on the Rafales Optronique Secteur Frontal System but since I don't speak french it is very hard for me to find any hard data or footage of what I am looking for to me the left ball shaped IRST looks kinda like it could pan and tilt like a FLIR camera. Does anybody know if the OSF can move by panning and tilting like a turret so that you can "look around" with it? Like a FLIR system ball turret does for example: I am looking for quite some time now for information regarding this but sadly I could not find any footage or any written source that says this. Has anybody some info regarding this or some video footage of it moving? Cheers.

Ofc its the next module by popular belief. Thats because its the only module to have any real evidence of being made. Everything else are planes that people want without any basis for their development while we know that HB are making a highly detailed A-6 and we know that they want to make it a full module.

Heatblur has made exactly 2 modules since it's existence and the first one literally was a Swedish plane so whats your point exactly? The reason why ppl choose the Tadpole is because its really well liked and because this thread is about what we believe HB will release next not what we wish to be released next. The A-6 hits every point of the requirements set out by the thread being a: (1) complex (2) twin engine jet. + we have a direct quote from HB regarding this: It also fits extremely well with 2 other products from Heatblur, their Tomcat and their Forrestal class Super-carrier. Making an Aircraft with as much detail as a playable module and then not making it the next module would be a waste

Hey guys, so this might be a dumb question. I've often read online that the Mudhen is just a C Eagle with a second seat in it and different engines. I always thought that the Strike Eagle had a completley different canopy from the normal Eagle but I've read this claim that its pretty much the same just with a second seat plastered behind the driver that I'm pretty unsure now. Does the Strike Eagle use a different canopy than the F-15C? Like it would be pretty logical because of the space requirements but I don't really know all to much about this tbh. Cheers

C-130, B-52, B-1, TU-95 whatever gimme them big girls.

"The Intruder is an aircraft that has been under active development at Heatblur Simulations for some time, and subject to a license agreement, we hope to eventually introduce it into DCS world as a full, playable module - and we are developing it with this intent in mind." literal quote from HB. It's a complicated twin engined, dual seat aircraft. Fits perfectly together with the Tomcat and the Forrestal class Aircraft Carrier

this quote from the announcement back then makes me personally expect the A-6 Intruder the most out of that list and is the one I want the most. It was originally on RAZBAMs list and if I remember correctly they already said someone else got the License which also strongly implies HB. Would be a waste to not make the AI A-6 playable imo if its already so super detailed

Hi! I'm reading up a bit on the Super Hornet and I got a question that I can't seem to find an answer to. There are currently 11 Squadrons in the Navy fully equipped with the twin seat F Rhino. My question would be why exactly are the 11 Squadrons of 2 seat super bugs? From hoggit I know that the second seat allows the Rhino to do JTAC work. The Hornet is already an "easy" aircraft which can do pretty much everythig so why are there that many 2 seat squadrons? Do they do all missions the single seat super bug does like normal strike/CAP missions or are those 11 Squadrons only there to do JTAC work and buddy refueling? Cheers!

The TRAM was the most common variant during the Time "our" F-14B is modelled. There where like 2 Squadrons who had a few SWIP Intruders during Desert Storm so I think the TRAM version is more fitting. But it does not matter cause I want both

In what way does the Sparrowhawk surpass the AN/AVG-12? Where do you get this info from? The last thing I heard about the Intruder was the initial annoucement that we will get an AI A-6E and KA-6 and if they get the Lisence they'll make a flyable variant as they are already making it with that in mind. +1 for the Super Tomcat. No Idea why people are against more awesome stuff from HB :doh: They already said they'd love to make it buuuut it looks like we wont get it as much of the plane is still (extremly stupidly imo) classified af.

Lol we don't even have enough official data on the Super Tomcat because its classified af doubt we'll see a Rhino in the next decade