Mr_Burns

You would be best asking this in the Input/Output Section.

Is anyone discussing building an S-3, they can even do VIP escorts: You can decide what VIP stands for!

Just want to agree here, I am not that interested in AAR to practice it and in some cases, not that interested in carrier landing. I like the mission in the middle! Get within 10 meters of the fueller and press "x" and it ports you onto the tanker until you let go, a bit like the way you attach to the catapult. Get within 300 meters of the carrier and fairly lines up, press "x" and it lands you.

Hey ED, any update on DC - dont mean like, release date kind of info, just interested in the kind of issues there are with creating DC. Assume you will be creating lots of Intellectual Property to crack this nut but would be trully interested in the kind of hurdles you come up against rather than an out and out progress report. Appreciate every programmer and their dog would have an opinion on how to overcome the hurdles but regardless of that I think some insight would be fantastic.

Probably more to do with their commercial customers?

Didnt you tick a box saying that due to the nature of this product a refund is not available?

If you leave a web browser open in the background you can alt/tab every time

Both pictures are of the Right Hand Glare Shield (RHGS), the first picture is what is on the front of the 'door' and as said, once you open it to the right, the Get You Home instruments appear below. Most of the fun is trying to see if they work with the door closed, a bit like a fridge light. I wont ruin your fun.

I would skip the start up for a hot start everyday, jet powered up in the Hangar with Scramble Scramble Scramble is as far as I want to go, on a Carrier, prefer already lined up but will taxi from hot. I agree with you Jeffham, in the A-10C you used to get launch hang ups and MFDD failures...flown all mission to pop off a Maverick and it hangs up.....wtf, im not even flying a dynamic mission where this makes a difference!!

Also, sorry didnt watch the track, you need to be pointing in the general direction (the right attitude, nose pointing towards target).

Cheers mate. DCS Tornado IDS for me!

Thanks QuiGon, so if you find a blip on the radar that looks like Armour for example, you can then slew the TGP to designate assuming the AG Radar doesnt have enough definition to say "its a T-80" ?

Can I ask, what does AG mode give the aircraft in terms of offensive capability that we dont get with the TGP and Laser / TOO modes? Anyone got any links to non-confidential data on its performance?

I think the French used Paratroops deployed via Parachute in Africa in 2018 https://www.thedefensepost.com/2018/09/27/france-troops-parachute-menaka-mali/

That brought back some memories, thanks @Spectre11. I left the project at the end of Tranche 1. The Development jets had CRT MHDDs and were heavy as hell, I remember when the nice new screens were delivered and we couldn't give any of the CRT assets away, all the Development Teams wanted the LCDs. I think DA2 only ever flew with 2 Displays anyway, probably additional instrumentation in its place.

Similar mate but the Typhoon is built using a block upgrade program (BUP) within the Tranches. The Partner nations signs up to a tranche of aircraft, in this case when Typhoon kicked off they all signed up for Tranche 1 Block (whatever) jets and then as the technology matures they say aircraft 20+ will all be Block 2 and so on until the number of jets signed up for in Tranche 1 are on the production line then with the maturity of the program I think they stated the last Block in Tranche 1 would be 5. They they upgrade/retrofit all past aircraft to the final block 5 standard, I think there are also some nation specific requirements in the blocks too. Between Tranche 1 and Tranche 2 IIRC there were some structural design changes, the one that springs to mind was the ability to add a conformal fuel tank. Now its not been done, but you couldn't upgrade T1 aircraft with conformal tanks without some pretty major structural changes (if at all). I am pretty sure that the UK Block 5 had some significant differences to the German ones as the UK needed Air to Ground to replace the Tonkas and leave the UK with just two types, F-35 and the Tiffy, which I believe only accelerated in Tranche 2 where the RAF aircraft are all weather multi-role aircraft, I think the Luftwaffe are primarily A2A with the Lufwaffe still operating the Tonkas for a number more years, so why spend on upgrades you have another platform assigned to that role. German T1 Block 5 I think would be type we get, Im not sure if it has Paveway capability in Germany. I would be dreaming if we get it in Tranche 2 with Brimstones and Stormshadow.

Hey, I have just received a house call from the USAF asking me to sign up because I am the best pilot they have seen! Apparently in an server match they sent 16 Top Guns against me and I nailed everyone with guns and Aim 9x even though they had modified their AMRAAMs to be as good as Meteor. I reminds me of the time my mate Jay was recruited by the Football Association. :music_whistling:

Italy designed a plane to fly in reverse so it didn't need to turn around to surrender. True dit.

The vote results say different however, as the numbers of the poll show, not everyone votes and those who want a heavy will vote here, those that dont probably dont pay too much attention to threads about heavies. In anycase, they decision would be up to ED and a Third Party wanting to do it, I dont see a heavy on their timeline, they are beefing up the platform.

Would like to know if there are any plans to look at the sub surface environment, and I mean a sub vs sub hunter not DCS: Worms.

There are only a few that are eagerly awaited, Apache, Tornado and the Tornache.

Here is one I made for those without a 3D printer: 5 discs from clear plastic Sanded Glued together, drilled and inserted a biro (temporary) I didnt photo the last version, dyed it with red pen ink (took forever to dry, like weeks!! There is an aerosol spray for car brakes but it was $$$) I also put an LED in it and bought some aluminum tube from fleabay.

Tornado, Lightning, Buccaneer, close thread.

Would probably have to be a GR2 as a lot of the weapons tech on the GR4 was moved to the Typhoon, not sure about the targeting pod. Also, as mentioned, the Tornado which the RAF used was closely aligned to the Saudi version which is still in use, I would imagine the Germans and Italians are still using GR1 or GR2 type aircraft, they dont like to pay for upgrades to meet changing technology. Then you get into the NETMA/PANAVIA politics, I could imagine it being a bloody nightmare to get information. Still want one in my Hangar though.

A-10A is the best by far