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Please add Beynes Thiverval Airfield. Located about 15km west of Versailles, it has existed since 1930 as a gliding hub and has seen use during the occupation and immediately after the war, being involved in the design and manufacturing of the CAP series of aerobatic airplanes among other things. In terms of the strip itself, it's a 1000*80m grass strip so it would fit most of the warbirds without issue. null https://www.anciens-aerodromes.com/?p=127040 historicaarp.pdf
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I'm going to preface this with a one-stop summary: This is a post arguing for already-made and available liveries for the Fw-190A8 to be added to DCS officially for broader usage to the playerbase in singleplayer and online, allowing other players to use and see them. Download options are available at the bottom of this post. Who: The skins are made by myself. I have been within the DCS community for a good number of years, since the Dogs of War server (when there was only the P51, Fw190D9, and Bf109K), and almost all of it was within the WWII side of DCS. Of mission makers and server runners today, like the 4YA Project Overlord server, one of the most reoccurring complaints from mission designers is that we do not have a historical livery selection for the Fw190. This has been noted by the player base of late. Having been around these complaints and criticisms for some time, within that context and that of the required time period and location, I've created a set of liveries for the Fw190A. What: We do not have a single historical and relevant livery for the Fw190A8 in DCS at this moment. Of all the chosen liveries from the Fw190A8's livery contest, none of them are historical, or relevant to France in 1944. Some of them do not have working bort numbers. A couple are Japanese Zero cosplays. And some are only relevant to earlier versions of the Anton. There is a big deficit in DCS for a historical livery set for the Anton 8. To attempt to remedy this, I have created liveries for JG26 and JG1 in their summer 1944 configuration. I'm proposing that Eagle Dynamics incorporate some of these liveries into DCS officially. This will give the simulator its first historical liveries for the Fw190A8. There are 6 liveries (different Staffeln) of the JG26 to choose from, and 4 from JG1. One may argue that an individual can install any liveries he may choose from the Userfiles and use those. However, this has some severe limitations: 1) Other players online cannot see your livery unless they, by pure coincidence, have that livery also installed. That is very rare. 2) Our most popular servers have the Liveries locked. They cannot be changed by the player, only the mission designer. So it benefits everyone more if these new liveries are added to the official DCS install. Then everyone has them as standard, and it can be used and seen by everyone. Historical Context: The Liveries: Here I have a livery for 2./JG26, 4./JG26 5./JG26, 6./JG26, 7./JG26, and 8./JG26, comprising of half of I./JG26, and all of II./JG26. For JG1, I have 1./JG1, 2./JG1, 3./JG1, and 6./JG1, consisting of most of I./JG1 and a Staffel from II./JG1. I made some special features for these liveries. 1) the camouflage tones, specifically RLM 70, were adjusted to be a more realistic darker color tone 2) each livery has a slightly different camouflage pattern on the fuselage. If you look closely you can see the differences between each livery 3) the bort numbers are custom drawn, and weathered to better suit the weather-worn nature of the aircraft First and second Gruppe, JG1. The JG1 identify themselves by their red tail band and unit emblem on the cowling. 1./JG1, which often included additional ID paint on the underside of the wing tips: 2./JG1: 3./JG1: 6./JG1: First and second Gruppe, JG26. The JG26 identify themselves by their yellow rudder, and the II./JG26 by the inclusion of a horizontal bar. The bar and ID numbers change depending on the Staffel within that Gruppe. 2./JG26: 4./JG26: 5./JG26: 6./JG26: 7./JG26: 8./JG26: Downloads: I have given these liveries a tiered choice to be included into DCS. A first top 5, and a second top 5. There are two options for how to download 1) Standard download. Each livery is individual, and individually includes all the textures it requires. This includes, due to the adjusted camouflage tones, the left and right wings. Disk space consumed for all 10 liveries: 666MB. Standard download HERE. 2) Reliant download. Each new livery is dependent on the 1./JG1 livery to acquire the left and right wing textures, instead of locally. This requires the 1./JG1 livery to be included, in order for other chosen liveries to work. However, this more smartly uses disk storage. Disk space consumed for all 10 liveries: 282MB. Reliant download HERE.- 30 replies
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We know the 95-GR was only produced 2 years after production started on the Aim-7F. Can we get any information on how these early variants were equipped? My initial research was lead by the fact that our later tomcats have the SP PD switch for pulse-doppler or cw use with Aim-7F and M. The F was only released into production by 1975. Our late 135 variant probably came from the factory with this switch and the ability to use aim-7F and possibly M to its full potential, but i cannot say the same for the 95. Because it's such an unnessecary switch, there is not a lot of information on the internet and most of that even assuptions.
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Hi Everyone, After the completion of the F-16CM Block 50, I'd like to request another F-16 variant; the F-16CG Block 40 circa late 80s/90s, before the CCIP (F-16CM) standard. I've chosen this F-16 variant in particular, because it is both a.) a historical variant suitable for a Balkans/Kosovo conflict (if we ever get an appropriate map for it), but also because the workload required to deliver such a variant should be fairly low at least in comparison to say, an F-16A (though I'd love that one too). Largely identical external model - the only differences being the removal of the JHMCS sensor and a different HUD, there'd also probably have to be a different pilot model. The only other difference that I can think of are the IFF antennae forward of the canopy, but don't hold me to that (AFAIK AIFF came with CCIP, though it's not like DCS models IFF with much fidelity anyway). Identical RADAR, as well as most other avionics: it has the exact same APG-68(V)5 FCR we have currently it has the same RWR (or at least a minor difference (ALR-56/ALR-56M, compared to the ALR-56M we have currently). The main difference would be no Link 16 and no MIDS, it also might have a different IFF system, though again, it's not like that is simulated with much fidelity anyway (though hopefully it will in the future). Identical FLCS and FDM; the only differences being the slightly lower thrust (but only by very little) F110-GE-100 on the Block 40, compared to the F110-GE-129 on our Block 50. AFAIK the F110-GE-400 on the F-14B, is essentially just an F110-GE-100 with a tailpipe extension. Pretty much identical cockpit, apart from the obviously the larger holographic HUD (with the ability to project NAVFLIR imagery from LANTIRN) and monochromatic MFDs though they have identical symbology AFAIK (just its all green, like that Tomcat's TID, instead of being mostly white). There are some other minor differences, namely the removal of the JHMCS sensor and control knob; as well as the removal of the DL and MIDS switches from the avionics power panel, the EHSI is replaced by mechanical one (identical to the one in the F-5E-3 AFAIK, with a control knob to the left instead of the single mode button). The rest of the cockpit is largely completely identical in form and function, the only other thing I can think of is that maybe the location of the oxygen control panel might have moved to be in between the avionics power and anti-ice panels, though the function and switches will be identical. We already have most of the stores and weapons already; just no LITENING, no AIM-9X and depending on the exact year you choose, you might not have AMRAAMs (AIM-120A was in service in 1991, B in 1994/1995 and C in 1996/1997). There would also be no JSOWs. The only other things we're missing are more fleshed out modes for the HARM, it doesn't have HTS compatibility AFAIK, but it would have GBU-24 (+ variants, at least the base GBU-24/B with a Mk84 warhead and the GBU-24A/B with the BLU-109 penetrating warhead). The main addition would be the inclusion of LANTIRN, including the AN/AAQ-13 navigation and AN/AAQ-14 targeting pods; the former includes a terrain-following RADAR (TFR), which can be coupled to the F-16s autopilot, allowing for automatic NOE flight at high speeds, its imagery can also be displayed on one of the MFDs (TFR page); it also includes a navigation FLIR (NAVFLIR), which can be projected onto the HUD or on the MFDs (FLIR page AFAIK); the latter TGP is broadly identical to the one currently present on the Tomcat, with only FLIR (which is lower resolution, with 2 FOVs + a digital zoom level) and a LTD/R (no TV or LST). The one in the Tomcat though is modified (known as LTS) to have an integral GPS/IMU and a ballistics computer, to generate coordinates and provide weapon release cues; now I'm not sure if the base AN/AAQ-14 can do this, though in any case the aircraft's native systems are able to provide this information (which isn't the case in the Tomcat).
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Hi everyone, A somewhat minor issue - the Su-24MR isn't available for the USSR. I'm not entirely sure when it was introduced, but ww2.dk has it present for the 39th ORAP (potentially relevant for the Afghanistan map) from circa 1986. Several other results for the Su-24MR on the same website has it present through the mid to late 1980s. According to this and this though, the first unit to perform operational testing in 1987-1988. Regardless of which date is accurate, they're both within the period where the Soviet Union was around.
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The newly added German Mammut radar sites are an awesome addition, they look nice! However, it is a bit unfortunate that they were not placed at the historical location of German radar sites. There are many radar sites for which the exact historical location is known, we have actually research these precise positions for many of them for our missions. I'd love for the radar sites on the map to be moved to the correct locations. As an example below is Douvres radar station. This one is very famous, since it was held for a long time by the Germans after they were encircled at the first day of the landing. Today, there is a museum there, and most bunkers that had the radar antennas are still visible, even on google earth. Yet on the DCS map, the radar was placed on the nearby coast, 5 km from the correct site. See the pictures below for an illustration:
