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This. Mi-24V have seen a lot of real life combat serving in many countries. I woul like to have this model over any "close to prototype" one.

After Longbow Apache - for sure something not as modern as Longbow, Longbow is going to be a flying computer - very challenging to learn all the systems and procedure and requiring regular training to stay proficient. Next it could be I.e. Cold War AH-1 Cobra - a whole lot easier to learn and probably equally fun to use.

They will return. EF is just a spinoff, they did not choose it or have the data to make it, they are just assisting DCS-inexperienced TrueGrit company with EF pilot on board.

It doesn't matter it's out of inventory TODAY, because DCS doesn't simulate today's battlefield, but historical one. DCS Apache is going to simulate 2000s period, some 15 years ago, when Copperhead was still in use. It was i.e. used in combat during 2003 Iraq Freedom. Just saying.

Where you were wrong? You have written Hellfire missile is reaching the target at max range in 1 second (!) so the target is going to travel only 17 meters from the launch of the missile to the impact... It's not about any imperial system measure or anything, it's the lack of the most basic understanding or at least some common sense, and i don't want to sound rude. Without calculating anything the common sense should tell you crossing ~8km in 1 second at ~ground level is utterly impossible, it would require some extreme hypersonic flight ~Mach=24, close to Earth's escape velocity, in the most dense atmosphere. Let alone missile needs to accelerate and engine burn time is limited so the overall average speed on max distance is way smaller than missile's max speed.

It would be beneficial for both ED and customers to implement Supercarrier features to the Forrestal. Basic Forrestal is free for everyone, just like i.e. basic Stennis. Purchasing Supercarrier customer would receive feature upgrade for two carrier classes instead of one.

Note this are TODAY'S news and DCS has only historical aircrafts, not today's standard aircrafts. Even Hornet or Viper or Apache we have are ~15 years old historical variants and 15 years ago nothing interesting in Taiwan straight was happening. There are no F-35, F-22, AH-64E, F-15EX, B-2 Spirit etc in DCS so what would be the point of today's map not coherent with DCS aircrafts?

Why updating Wikipedia? Wikipedia is correct. AJ-37 (strike variant, not the one this topic is about) was introduced in 1971. Fighter variant JA-37 (which is the one in the title of this topic) has been delivered to the military in 1979. I don't see the mistake in Wikipedia.

The topic is about JA-37 (fighter variant), not slightly earlier AJ-37 (strike variant).

Falkland map, according to Razbam, is going to have two versions; original 1980s and "modern day". Original 1980s Falkland is going to be ok for A-6, A-7, F-14A Cold War naval aviation modules. (And it's going to be the very first Cold War map in DCS)

I understand your comment, but it has to be the other way around: All modules must be scaled properly by ED or 3rd party developers to have real size at one set "IPD/world scale". Common user absolutely shouldn't be forced to fiddle with IPD to, more or less, scale each and every module separately. After buying few modules it would be a big mess. Remember changing "IPD/world scale" you are changing not only the size of the cockpit, but the whole world around you as well, you would see i.e. some absolutely massive trees in one module or tiny toy soldiers running around in some other. Proper unified scaling must be obligatory for each developer.

Radar guided Hellfires didn't see much use because of the nature of the enemy. Radar Hellfires + FCR + Longbow link give great advantage in symmetrical combat against capable enemy in high threat enviroment, but not in war on terror. Soviet Union collapsed, Desert Storm ended, Cold War ended - by 1991 era of conventional WARS was over. Why using radar guided Hellfire missile if you need to kill a group of few helpless bad guys? Milimeter radar has definitely impressive resolution but probably not quite enough to reliably detect and hit a single guy - laser Hellfire does the job just well. Maybe you want to hit the specific window in a building? Still laser Hellfire can do the job very precisily, radar variant obviously not. Or maybe you want to hit specific car bad guys are driving, are you going to trust radar guided fire-and-forget missile with it's radar gates? And if you hit another car with family? Still laser variant is way better for the job as you have full aim control. And helpless non-symmetrical enemy is not going to detect your laser beam to fire laser-jamming smoke grenades or fire back with radar guided Shilkas or SAMs... Delta Apache with Longbow system and FCR + radar Hellfires design started when USSR still existed and it was meant to go all out war against hordes of Soviet armor in very high threat enviroment, radar guided AAA, SAM, interceptors - not to kill some terror guy, but in the meantime Soviets collapsed, threat ceased to exist and Apache Longbow has been used in "war on terror" - that's the only reason it didn't use radar Hellfires (maybe except for the first days of 2003 Iraq invasion when they still had some tanks like Raptor9 mentioned).

It may be one of two yet unannounced modules Heatblur is working on. It would be a ton of fun to use both SP and MP.

True. Even making i.e. F-16C from ~Desert Storm would take about half of the time compared to F-16C from 2007. F/A-18C in kind of 1980s/Desert Storm standard was released as early access after 2 years (Flight Model, 3D external model, fully interactive 3D cockpit, Sparrow, SIdewinder, Gun, dumb bombs CCIP/CCRP, unguided rockets, besic guided munitions, INS and TACAN navigation, carrier operations etc). Next 2-3 years was just adding 2000s weapons and avionics to it like JHMCS, GPS navigation and GPS guided munition, datalink, AMRAAM, AIM-9X, targeting pod etc.

I like Kamov helicopters as well, but this two, Ka-35 and Ka-226T are practically a prototypes produced just a few years ago. Not even serially produced standard. There is close to zero data available so they would heve to be totally unrealistic and use fictional systems. Ka-226T is civilian helicopter for now. Ka-35 is an early warning helicopter so it's whole electronic suite would have to be totally fictional or nonexsistent at all so it even wouldn't have real purpose in DCS without it. Classic Ka-25 or Ka-27 would be nice, used by Soviet and Russian Navy, but they would require the anti-submarine warfare to truly show their potential, just like SH-60 Seahawk.

It's a matter of preference so i'm not going to question that, but in how many real full blown wars Mi-28 took part? How many enemy tanks destroyed? How many has been lost due to enemy fire? How many books man can read about its action, how many videos, documentaries, crew interviews etc? Probably close to zero. Apache is catching imagination because it's a legendary helicopter, proven in many real wars, destroying hundreds of enemy tanks, AFV, soldiers also shoot down by the enemy, it generate all the videos on YT, TV documentaries, books, crew interviews, military reports etc. Mi-28 is practically a hangar queen prototype, nobody know how it would perform in real combat, all we know about its capabilities are what some Russian commercial brochure says and it doesn't have all this real life experience thus catching imagination aura. Me and you may buy such helicopter but it would be a fraction of Apache revenues plus it wouldn't be even close to Apache in terms of realism of systems modeling. Not even that, our FC3 F-15C can bug only 4 targets at once, one PDT and up to 3 SDT, just lke the MSIPII from mid 1980s. Let alone without AMRAAM it can't perform simultaneous shootings at all. So even the radar is modeled after the Cold War one capabilities. (2000s F-15C AN/APG-63(V)2 can track up to 14 targets at once according to publicly available data, and lets not forget everything regarding equipement more modern than ~Desert Storm may be intentionally false information, not to give any real information to the potential enemy)

Usually i'm rather picky when it comes to variants when i create SP or MP missions, but what is the one single capability non-AMRAAM armed FC3 F-15C has which the Cold War F-15C MSIPII from 1985 and Desert Storm did not have? In late 1980s it already had NCTR, built-in AN/ALQ-135, TWS mode, RAID mode, digital weapon panel, AN/ALR-56 RWR, overload warning system - this is all Cold War stuff on F-15C. It was even integrated with AMRAAM before Desert Storm, USAF tested short serie AIM-120A since 1986. Just capability, like i.e. Viggen has 1990s TERNAV which can't be disabled in editor or Mirage 2000 has 1990s NCTR device which can't be disabled as well. IIRC F-15C started to receive the new capabilities only in early-mid 2000s like AESA radar AN/APG-63(v)2, Link16 datalink, JHMCS - each of this would make it unsuitable for all my Cold War or Desert Storm scenarios, but not what our FC3 model has outside the Cold War or Desert Storm? Maybe i don't know something, but i wouldn't like to be super picky when it comes to FC3 simplified modules, i know our F-15 lacks even some Cold War stuff like Magnavox AN/ALQ-128 which is classified even today or some radar modes like velocity search and rudimentary A/G capabilities. But i can't find where our F-15C is more capable then the Cold War one.

Beta update of the SimShaker soft? IDK there is something like that, i just install automatic software updates.

I've seen Mi-24 doesn't work with the SimShaker. All the other modules works great but Mi-24 no, there is some error like "the index was outside the bounds of the table". It's Mi-24 implementation WiP or this is just me?

JA-37 entered service early 1980s, maybe Heatblur will have enough data to make it in the future. They said something about JA-37 sharing the datalink with the early Gripen and this was a big deal, not allowing them to make JA-37, but i don't remember the details. JA-37 fighters with Skyflash fighting MiG-21/23/29 escorting AJ-37 with bombs or anti-ship missiles attacking Soviet Navy on Baltic Sea would be great.

FC3 F-15 AN/APG-63V)1 is just 1990s maintenance/reliability upgrade of the 1980s radar, not even close to 2000s (V)2 radars. For FC3 simplified standard it's identical to the 1980s/Desert Storm radars, it's even missing few modes compared to the Cold War one from MSIPII. Heatblur themselves states their F-14 varisnts simulate aircrafts from late 1970s to early 2000s. Heatblur say even F-14B is proper for the Cold War scenarios without the LANTIRN. ALR-67 is an old 1980s RWR. ALR-45 is even older, in use since early 1970s. Mirage 2000 and Viggen i agree. If you are suggesting Hornet and Viper, I think the demand for the earlier variants will grow only after all this 1980s modules start to show up in numbers and catch the imagination more. Like early 1980s carrier air wing with Forrestal carrier, F-14A fighters, A-6E bombers and A-7E attackers from the Mediterranean campaign. Plus who knows which two modules Heatblur is releasing before the Intruder. Mi-28 from 2010 is a pipe dream, especially now. It entered service just few years ago, together with "Guardian Apache" AH-64E. And sad thing is it entered service so late not because it is so modern, but because Russia doesn't have money to buy the modern equipment.

F-14A (and B without LANTIRN), Mirage F.1, F-5E, A-6 Intruder, A-7 Corsair, Huey, Gazelle, FC3 F-15C and A-10A. To some extend Mirage 2000 and Viggen but this are a bit more recent variants. All quite close in capabilities.

Soviets incoming! In the near future we are going to have nearly all 1980s Soviet tactical aviation in DCS. Mi-24P, Mi-8, MiG-21bis, MiG-23MLA, MiG-29 9.12, Su-17M and low fidelity Su-27S, Su-25A. Only Su-24 will be missing.

I adore the legend of the Eagle and the aircraft itself and it makles me sad to be forced to be this guy, but Eurofighter with better kinematic performance, supercruise, better acceleration, climb, better supersonic and subsonic maneuverability, unstable design trim drag, carefree FBW flight control, smaller RCS, smaller IR signature, passive integrated with airframe advanced IR sensor etc. eats Eagle alive BVR and VVR. Let alone Meteor missile. It's not a shame for the Eagle since its production started in year 1972 with Vietnam war still going with Vietnam-era aerodynamics, engine, sensors knowledge. The one and only reason F-15C is even still in service today is the fall of the Soviet empire - F-22 Raptor was ordered to replece F-15C, 1 to 1, with 700 airframes operational in early 2000s. The sole reason this hasn't been finished was the fall of the only real enemy with A/A capabilities. And F-22 vs F-15 is just another league in every department. That being said personally i would prefer full fidelity F-15A or C over the Eurofighter in DCS. Just not from the time when proud Eagle was only a cheap second grade substitute to the F-22. And having all the real air combat 20-30 years behind, just partolling an empty sky for decades without any real purpose. F-15 A and C forging its legend during late 1970s to early 1990s against Syria and Iraq, when there was no AMRAAMs or secure datalinks. Operation Opera, Lebanon war, Bekaa Valley battle, operation Desert Storm when despite of the US advantage Eagles still were forced to dogfight MiG-25s and MiG-29 in close maneuver air combat. (another thing is realism - all the electronic gizmos connected to its radar, EW suite, ECM, ECCM etc. which F-15 received post Desert Storm would be missing in DCS anyway being strictly classified or changed on purpose not to reveal how the real air combat would be fought)

F-15 overall is a museum tech designed ~55 years ago by our grandparents. With requirements from totally different era, no supercruise, no RCS reduction, no internal weapon bay, no thrust vectoring, no IR signature reduction, previous generation era engines, late 1960s aerodynamics knowledge etc. There is literally nothing "modern" in the F-15. During 1970s it was a super-fighter like an F-22 was 15 years ago. It ruled the sky during the Cold War. Then being replaced by the F-22 by 2000s (not completely because the only enemy able to threat their domination disappeared and budget shrinked drastically). Today it's just an outdated cheap missile truck to release it's weapon and run when F-22 or F-35 guide them to the targets. (Or simply a way to keep Boeing company afloat during the crisis.) Still the most fascinating aircraft, arguably the most successful jet fighter of the previous century. One of the last fighters having an opportunity to perform serious air combat in history, from late 1970s to early 1990s ~30-40 years ago.