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F/A-18 night capabilities - how good are they?


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Hi,

 

What night capabilities the Hornet possess? Wags wrote it will have NVGs but is there a FLIR pod? A TFR capability? How good was the real F-18C in the night times?

 

Thanks

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1. Night capabilities currently in the mod? Virtually none at this stage.

2. The ATFLIR pod is under development and will be added to the F/A-18C mod in the future.

3. Ground radar capabilities are still being developed, and will be added at a later date.

4. How do you define "good"? The FA-18C certainly operates successfully at night.

Very Respectfully,

Kurt "Yoda" Kalbfleisch

San Diego, California

"In my private manual I firmly believed the only time there was too much fuel aboard any aircraft was if it was fire." --Ernest K. Gann

 

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When it is completed it'll be as good as the Harrier / A10C

 

It’ll be way better than the Harrier/A-10C. Terrain avoidance radar, TFR, ATFLIR (which includes both the targeting pod AND a navflir on the mount, projectable on the HUD like the Harrier), ground moving target track radar, ground mapping and synthetic aperture radar...

 

The capabilities of the Hornet at night will be far better than what we have known before in DCS.

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