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Hi Admiral, Thanks for the good news concerning the USS Kidd. I currently have an expeditionary force training in the Persian Gulf, with your excellent Oak Hill, San Antonio, along with several LCAC, all escorted by Duncan class frigates with several transport and support helicopters on board. I'm just waiting for the USS Kidd to provide a deterrent AA protection.... Concerning the French ships, a multi-purpose FREMM frigate "Aquitaine" was available for FSX, and I think one also for DCS 1.5.x. Maybe a model could be reworked from these. This would make an interesting carrier group with the Charles de Gaulle and the Durance supply ship that are already available for DCS 2.5.6. Thanks for your superb ships. Toan

Hi Evan, It should work fine with the new version 002 of the Mirage F1 and F1CT. Check the update (January 6, 2021), here : Fly safe, Toan

Superb ship Admiral. I'm looking forward to include it in my armada. Thanks for all your excellent Mods.

Hi, I was recently busy with my night trap qualification on the Clemenceau, flying the SEM. So, I missed the launch of the new Charles de Gaulle carrier, sorry. Excellent Mod, thanks for the new lighting and details. Superb ! You shoot faster than your own shade !... Double refueling ops below... Merci beaucoup les Cuesta Bros, vous tirez plus vite que votre ombre, j'ai du mal à suivre ! Merci pour les feux et la rampe lumineuse et tous les détails. Excellent travail.

Rencontre F1-SEM... Mirage F1 - Super Etendard Modernisé encounter.... Great Mods ! Thanls !

Double refueling op readiness in the Persian Gulf.... Thanks to all the Moders for all their great work ! Fly safe Double RAM dans le Golfe Persique Merci à tous les Moddders pour leur super boulot ! Fly safe

Merci beaucoup Sushy. Superbe travail.

Yes, pleae, of course Thanks

Bravo Sushy, Tu es un Maitre es Textures

Hi all, I have since 06.00 pm UTC+1 (Europe) a message "DCS web site not available at the moment". And the local execution just doesn't work either (no login asked for). I'm running DCS 2.5.6.59625. Any clue ? Thanks Toan

Hi Zukov, your video is of professional quality ! Congratulations. Toan

Hello, A big thanks to you for this great refuelling ship. Together with the Clemenceau or Charles de Gaulle carriers, it makes an amazing naval airpower task force. Only missing is now the FREMM AA frigate, which was available in FSX, I think. Thanks for sharing this amazing Mod !... Toan

Thanks ggrewe and Admiral for your help, Indeed, I think this is due to other Mods I'm currently using. I'll try to figure that out. All the Admiral's other Mods work perfectly, by the way. Thanks for all your excellent work, Toan

Thanks GAE, Excellent video, showing the SEM at its best !.... A scenario that really happened during the Falklands (aka Malvinas) war... There was a thrilling record from one of the pilots that flew the real attack and who severely damaged the Sheffield. The Atlantic Conveyor, a cargo ship that had important supplies, was also sunk during a similar raid. Nice recollection. Fly low and fast, Toan

Hi Admiral, Which version of DCS are you using, please ? Mine is the stable 2.5.6.59625. Seems to me that this might be the problem for me concerning the LCU-1627. I just downloaded it using the new link and reinstalled it with no success... Thanks for your help, Toan

Hi Admiral, Thanks for all your work, your great models and ships, they are really amazing. I'm looking forward for the USS Kidd and the FFG. I'm using the Duncan, the San Antonio, LCAC and Oak Hill. They are absolutely great. So far, I have just one problem, i.e., with the LCU-1627, which doesn't appear in the list of available ships in the Mission Editor. I know this problem was already mentioned previously, but I can't figure out how to solve it, although I've tried several alternatives. The LCU is correctly inside my ....../Saved Games/DCS/Mod/Tech folder. I currently use the DCS stable version 2.5.6.59625. Thanks for your help, Toan

Pour les Exocet : une fois le carré affiché dans le HUD, il faut le déplacer sur la cible ET verrouiller (commande clavier Enter, p.ex). Un peu d'entrainement, et ça se passe bien. Il vaut mieux faire une approche au ras des flots pour échapper aux radars adverses (les argentins faisaient ça très très bas, à 50 ft...), et prendre de l'altitude à distance de tir (500-1000 ft), mettre le radar, locker et tirer. Et ensuite redescendre très vite au ras des flots pour s'échapper... C'est comme ça que le Sheffield a été perdu par les anglais aux Malouines... Petite précision historique : lorsque la flotte anglaise a appareillé pour les Malouines, les Harrier britanniques se sont entrainés au large des cotes françaises avec les Super Etendard français pour évaluer leur performances et capacités respectives.... To fire the Exocet, once the square (aka diamond) is visible in the HUD, you must move it on the target, THEN lock the target (Enter key, or whatever stick button is assigned) to be able to fire. Training is the key, as is for every aspect of flying... You'd better have a very low ingress profile to avoid detection by enemy radars (Argentina pilots flew at around 50 ft above sea level...), go up to 500-1000 ft at firing distance, switch the radar on, lock the target and then fire the Exocet. Next, you must fly fast and low to egress... That's how the Argentina pilots damaged the British Sheffield during the Malvinas (aka Falklands) war. The boat was so severly damaged that it was sunk later on, being un-repairable. Now to be historically exact, when the Royal Navy fleet sailed from England to the Falklands, their Harrier aircraft had combat training with the French Navy Super Etndard, off the French coast, to experiment with the respective aircraft performance and abilities....

Tout à fait d'accord. J'aimerais bien faire voler "Pedro" pendant les opérations aériennes à bord du Clem.... Mais à part MFS, je ne sais pas si ces hélicos sont dispo quelque part. En attendant, entrainement en vue de la qualif appontage de nuit... Bons vols, Toan I agree. I'd like to have the rescue helicopter fly during carrier air ops. But I don't know if these helos are available anywhere, except MFS. Meanwhile, training for night traps are going on... Fly safe, Toan

Lien vers le C130J de Anubis : https://www.mediafire.com/file/w7oi63gdnwptujm/Hercules_ver_6.1.zip/file Lien vers les textures, dont 2 pour l'AdA : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3313169/?sphrase_id=1527144 On s'écarte du sujet... Toan

L'A400M est dispo dans le Military Aircraft Mod, qui contient d'autres avions intéressants. Voir : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3307071/ Mais il est AI uniquement. Par contre, il y a un Hercules C130J qui est pilotable, et qui peut larguer des charges et des paras, etre une plateforme de tir, etc... Il y a aussi une superbe déco de l'AdA (voir ci-dessous). Toan

Below is a copy of a photo given to me by a friend who served on board the Foch carrier (R99) during the Yougolavia war. The Foch was the sister-ship of the Clemenceau. The carrier landing shows the night lights of the ramp. Still, this is not a full night carrier trap... Toan

Belles images, merci Sushy.... A quand le pod Reco NG pour tous ?..... Toan

Oui, les moyens mobilisés pour essayer de retrouver la Minerve étaient énormes... Terrible...

I totally agree: with the F-8 Crusader, the Alizé and the Breguet Atlantic, we would have the whole French Navy air fleet in the '70-80s. But for that, we need to ask Santa Claus for several years... Now, concerning the surface vessels, there is a huge gap concerning the escort and supply ships to form a realistic naval airpower group. There used to be a detailed frigate FREMM and supply ship to escort the Charles de Gaulle carrier in previous versions of DCS (1.5.x ?). But they havn't been updated and don't work anymore. And so far, nothing for the Clemenceau carrier. Currently, I form its escort with Australian Daring class destroyers using the available Mod for DCS. And the escort for the Charles de Gaulle consists in modern Spanish frigates of the Cristofo Colombo class (Mod for DCS also). These make nice multinational fleet operating in the Persian Gulf ! Bon, tout à fait d'accord, avec le Cruz, l'Alizé et le Bréguet Atlantic, on aurait la panoplie complète !.... Il faut passer commande au Père Noel, pendant plusieurs années.... Maintenant, coté surface, il manque cruellement des navires d'escorte et de ravitaillement pour former un vrai groupe aéronaval. Il n'y a plus de frégate ni d'escorteur tricolore disponibles. Il existait pour des versions antérieures de DCS (1.5.x ?), je crois, une FREMM et un ravitailleur, très bien faits avec moultes détails, pour accompagner le CDG. Mais ils n'ont pas été mis à jour et ne fonctionnent plus. Mais rien pour le Clem. Par défaut, je le fais escorter par des destroyers australiens de la classe Daring (Mod dispo dans DCS), qui sont d'époque ! Quant au CDG, il est escorté dans mes missions par des frégates espagnoles modernes de la classe Cristofo Colombo (Mod DCS également). Cela crée des forces navales multinationales dans le Golfe Persique.... Toan

Superb mod update ! Even the long range air radar antenna of the Clemenceau has been updated to correspond to the real large square-shaped one.... All the five radar antennas are now rotating, and the AA turrets are now correctly positioned below the deck. Their firing rate correspond also to the real one, i.e., 60 rounds/minute.... Given that some of this was mentioned to them less than 10 days ago, congratulations ! The Cuesta Bros deserve some kind of a Medal for their outstanding work ! Really ! Awesome ! Toan Superbe Mod ! Meme le radar air à longue portée a été modifié pour correspondre à sa forme réelle (un grand carré derrière la mature)... Les 5 antennes radar tournent maintenant (un navigation, un surface, un longue portée air, deux 3D air). Les 8 tourelles AA de 100 mm sont bien positionnées sous le pont d'envol. Leur cadence de tir correspond à la réalité (60 coups /minute). Tout cela réalisé en moins de 10 jours !... Les Cuesta Bros méritent largement une médaille ! Bavo, félicitations et merci encore pour tout ce travail. Toan