NRG-Vampire

Exactly: a "naked" 20mm gun (without any cover) is above the skids, (that is clearly not a "pod", hard to describe a 6-barrel gatling gun as a "pod") IMHO most of the people thinking about the ammo box of the gun when you asking/mentioning a "pod" : that's why i posted a frontal view pic

We see Thank You for your work / contribution Those SurfaceDetail-object density/placement is controlled by the terrain-noise-splatlayers-RGBA-colors so it's up to the map developer what vegetation/rocks and how dense put these on a terrain base-texture. Visibility-Slider needed very much but that's an ED task.

Yeah, surprise to me: I was expecting both map (Normandy and Kola) at a later date: somewhere in November About: SurfaceDetail-SmallSh*t: those are the "spice" on the ground of the maps. All the maps have bushes/shrubs/flowers. except: Normandy, Caucasus and Modern-Marianas. Also hoping a slider for surfacedetail-visibility range in the Options. (then you will able to kill those SmallSh*ts if you don't like them)

Normandy and Kola map surprise updates In next time update: ED please add SurfaceDetail-SmallSh*t bushes/shrubs/flowers to the Caucasus and Modern-Marianas map(s)

http://www.anft.net/f-14/f14-serial.htm

Yeah baby: NEW: Added F-14A-135-GR (Early) variant, However it's dead sure you CANNOT call the "Early" variant 135-GR, must be call/name 70/75-GR.

3-4 hour late is not a big bang I can wait: maybe ED is waiting for HB to post/transmit the new F-14A-75-GR and the A-6 Intruder

time is still young tonight, 17:59 currently, Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

...or this patch will be huge - as DCS grows (the numbers of maps and modules) the patch compilation/coding will take more and more time. (encrypted files: .exe, .dll, .bin, edce), so, patience Agreed in what ? I don't know what is mentioned in the HB document section about "Modelled F-14 versions in DCS" but F-14-95-GR is not an "Early F-14A USN Tomcat". 95-GR is "Persian Cat" Eagle Dynamics\DCS World\CoreMods\aircraft\F14\Entry\F-14A.lua : ('F-14A-95-GR',_('F-14A-95-GR'),{"Iran"}))

ORBX would have already posted some preliminary comments/pics in this case on discord. So, I don't think Kola update is coming today, Afghanistan-North has slightly higher possibility, although ED didn't flash infos/screenshots either.

Yeah, I know: 135-GR missing Glove Vanes and wing root sensors: RWR & ECM fairings / "tumors" Early Tomcat needs old style gun vents beside the removed TCS and "Beaver-tail" ALR-67 RWR antenna if we refer to a new/updated "Early F-14A" 3D model

Got it, I know what HB posted/informed Unfotunately HeatBlur sometimes make mistakes Early F-14 means no TCS chin pod: usually means 70/75-GR but never meant 90/95-GR what is a different "animal" 90/95-GR always means Persian Cat Image: this is the latest Tomcat what Iran got: 3-6079, translated to US Bureau Number: add 300 minus 2 = 163077

Well, anyone who refers to 95-GR as Early F-14A is mistaken and misleading. 90/95-GR is the IIAF variant. Ordered 80 aircrafts, got 79. (160299 to 160378) Last BN:160378 went to NAWC (photo taken @ Top Gun - Miramar - 1994)

No, I meant USN 70/75-GR variant(s). 95-GR is the Persian Cat, pretty sure that's not coming anytime soon AFAIK ( images show BN:161440 120-GR before conversion, later converted to F-14B ) bottom pic: BN:159013 75-GR

Hopes of Normandy, Early F-14A-70/75-GR update ? AI A-6 Intruder, C-130, La-7 thunderstrucks out of the blue release(s) maybe ?