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Hello, the last couple of weeks ive flowen the UH 1 a lot... and i noticed that the graphics are not up to date and the crew could be substantially overhauled. I thought about crew coms when the door gunner pick something up etc... And i still want to see the flechette rockets with the orange smoke when they explode. The Uh1 would definitely benefit from new Graphics Lightning and shadows... Hope this catches EDs eyes and they work on that... Thanks

Overview Several months ago, @tobi and @Eight Ball released a little gem known as the OH-6A Cayuse. Immediately my small group of DCS friends downloaded and consumed it like someone was going to take it away. We already had a Marianas playground mission we used for all things Vietnam era and naturally dropped this helo down and started cruising through the jungle on make believe jungle ops missions in a multi-player scenario. It didn't take long for us to brainstorm a random environment providing unexpected encounters centered on the South portion of Guam simulating the jungles of Vietnam. From those early ideas, the original "Into The Jungle" mission concept was born. Since then, we've played this mission for 100's of hours and it remains fresh. No exaggeration. Over the past 10 months we've refined the experience and at this point, have something we're proud to share with the community. Anyone following @Devil5O5Youtube channel knows what I mean as he often posts videos our MP Jungle experiences. Download For those who want to jump right in, the TLDR experience is right here - Get the download here [https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3342301/] Required Mods OH-6A: by EightBall & Tobi - https://github.com/tobi-be/DCS-OH-6A Vietnam Assets Pack: by EightBall & Tobi - https://github.com/tobi-be/DCS-OH-6A Seaking: by EightBall - https://forum.dcs.world/topic/346587-ai-seaking-mod-sh-3h-mk48/ A-4E-C: by Community Project - https://08jne01.github.io/community-a4e-c/#installation OV-10A: by Split Air - https://splitair.gumroad.com/l/fwzxn Simple Mission Restart - https://forum.dcs.world/topic/308147-simple-mission-restart-smr-server-script-to-simplify-mission-restart/ [Required for your Dedicated Server, not Client installs] Details First and foremost, this is designed for MP. Yes, you can play this solo if you want and it’s pretty fun that way, but I highly recommend sharing it with friends on a local or public server. You'll have an absolute blast. If someone wants to toss this up on a public server, please do. Have fun with it, make changes, let us know how its received. From the beginning, we wanted to create a dynamic jungle environment where we could take off from a Jungle FARP and scout the surrounding area for "VC" soldiers and equipment. 8Ball's Vietnam Assets Pack (VAP) made an excellent source of period appropriate assets. Using the Cayuse to mark and attack these random groups drove collaborative cooperation – there’s nothing better than marking targets for your buddies coming in with firepower. Concentrating both helo and fast movers on targets in a real-time randomized environment just never gets old. This cooperation fueled our weekly MP experiences and fed our desire to improve the mission and ultimately share with the community. Currently, this mission supports 18 different "groups" ranging from some "VC" soldiers in the brush all the way up to village level camps. Each group has a probability of spawning at mission start. It is rare for back to back missions to start with same number of spawns which makes scouting an important element of this experience. More on spawning below. All the action is centered on the southern portion of Guam [inside the yellow box on the map below]. This box is roughly 85 square miles of territory making it large enough to require scouting, yet small enough to experience action almost immediately. Most of the activity takes place in the general vicinity of Fena Lake which is the only significant water landmark on the island. This results in an easy to reference directional aid for all players. Additionally, there are two significant spawn points on the lake. They are labeled Alpha Hill and Bunker Hill and again aide in MP coordination. You’ll hear ejecting pilots reference these landmarks further assisting players in finding them if they’re interested in CSAR. CSAR The more we played, the more we longed for the ability to perform CSAR on the map. This was mostly driven by us getting shot down and thinking it would be cool to go and rescue ourselves. It didn't take long for us to find @Ciribob's excellent CSAR script from all the way back in 2015. It still works brilliantly today! Immediately on insertion, we were getting CSAR missions spawned whenever we'd crash/die making the experience comical as we'd getting missions to rescue ourselves - often over very hostile areas. From there, we wanted the ability to ensure CSAR missions that didn't rely on us dying and creating one ourselves. This idea fostered the concept of random CSAR events similar to the random group spawns at the beginning of the mission. Now, along with CSAR being naturally triggered by players getting killed, we added random F4-E shootdowns occurring periodically over the first 2+ hours of gameplay. Once we got those working, we went back in and added custom voiceovers for any random spawned CSAR event to further liven up the mission experience. Lastly, along with the base CSAR text messages in Ciribob's script, we added pilot voiceovers for all relevant CSAR messages. With all these gameplay elements we've managed to create a darn compelling Jungle experience that hasn't gotten old – at least for us it hasn’t. We've had so much fun with this mission we felt obligated to share with you. But before doing so, we wanted to put a little more icing on the cake. That icing comes by way of assets. From our original hidden jungle FARP we expanded gameplay into 4 jungle FARPS, a militarized airstrip, a carrier strike group and Andersen AFB. Each is a spawn point and each is as authentic as we could go without overtaxing our PCs. With the exception of the VAP, all assets are base DCS. Lastly, with recent announcement on immersive weather and fog coming to DCS, we tested the legacy fog option and were pleasantly surprised/pleased with the results and included that as a final piece of eye candy for you. I sincerely hope you get many hours of fun out of this mission. My only ask, in return for this, is your feedback in this thread. We plan on building on this experience and would love to hear thoughts from folks who've played. Additional Details Performance The guys in our small group all play exclusively in VR (Pimax 8K, 8KX, Crystal) and are lucky to have fairly beefy machines including RTX4090s. We have not experienced any issues playing this mission (I host on a private dedicated server). If you experience performance issues, we'd appreciate hearing about it, so we can adjust accordingly for future updates. Supported Aircraft - A-4E-C Skyhawk - OV-10A Bronco - F-4E45MC Phantom II - F-5E-3 Tiger II - OH-58D Kiowa - OH-6A Cayuse - UH-1H Huey Contributors A huge thanks to my partners in crime here Devil505 and @Wulf103. This creation is the result of many different play sessions over many months. Couldn’t have happened without the three of us. Known Issues There are a handful of known “issues” or limitations in the mission. None are show stoppers. - Some [N.Jungle] spawns are blocked due to static placement. This happened late in the development and we've opted to leave it "as-is" until we get the ME grouping features in the next patch enabling a cleaner debugging environment. Hopefully this won't be too difficult to correct. - Not an issue per se, but something players should be aware of. Whenever a random CSAR spawn happens, I block future random CSAR events from triggering so we don't oversaturate the AO with downed pilots. When players return CSAR pilots to MASH locations, the mission resets the trigger allowing new random CSAR events. [see F10 Radio options] - A4 Tacan needs LUA update to work - https://forum.dcs.world/topic/290302-community-a-4e-c-v22-october-2023/page/41/#findComment-5556247 - OH-58D in state of limbo due to "half patch" release by ED. Should be fixed whenever official patch from PC released properly. MASH locations There are two MASH locations on the map. When rescuing downed CSAR pilots (random spawns or fellow players), the CSAR helo player must deliver the rescued pilot to one of these two locations to get credit for rescue (and resetting the CSAR trigger flag). After playing the mission a bit, you'll know exactly where these locations are on the map. Until then, use the map below for guidance (the 2 locations have ** after the name). Note: the MASH tents are identified by the + marking on the tent and is easily identified from the air. F10 Radio Menu There are a handful of player options available via the F10 radio menu. - Restart Mission: Using a handy script from @cfrag, this menu option restarts this mission on the server. This ONLY works in a dedicated server environment and requires his script on the server itself. See [Required Mods]. - How many groups: This is a handy way to see how many active groups exist on the map. This number is the real time count of groups remaining on the map. Once all originally spawned groups are eliminated from the map, all remaining groups spawn. - Spawn all groups: The number of grous that spawn at the beginning of the mission is based on a probability calculation made for each group (18 total) in the mission. If, at any time, players want all possible groups on the map, this option brings them all in. - Reset CSAR spawns: As described in the Known Issues section, random CSAR spawning is turned off until a rescued pilot is returned to MASH. If, for any reason, a player can't return a pilot to MASH (most often due to death), this option resets the trigger and enables a new CSAR spawn chance - CSAR: This is the base CSAR menu from Ciribob Random Spawning All random spawn are handled in ME triggers (not LUA code). Within the mission itself, there are 2 types of spawns, enemy ground units and friendly ejecting pilots. Enemy Ground The probabilities of each group's spawn are handled in the initialization trigger in the ME. For example the probability of Group 1 [RANDO1] spawning is 50%. At the beginning of the mission each random unit is assigned a random number between 1-100. The group will spawn if that random number is greater than the probability percentage number. If you wish to change the probability of spawning, you simply have to change the spawn percentage number. Whenever an entire spawn group is destroyed the mission creates an explosion and smoke marker over the main unit of the group. This is an easy indication that the group is dead and to move onto other areas of the map. Ejecting Pilots Whenever a pilot survives an ejection, the CSAR script creates an event. Unlike the random ground units, this mission always spawns at least one downed pilot. This event always happens 25 minutes after the mission begins. There are 4 total downed pilot events that can trigger during gameplay but come with a degree of randomness to minimize redundancy. During play testing there were times when we had far too many pilots raining down on us and I added a governor to the trigger system to reduce the number of CSAR missions. Some features of the governor are: - Scripted downed pilots are paused until a pilot is rescued and delivered to MASH. - If players decide to leave downed pilots in the field and forego rescuing, the mission ceases generating downed pilots. Should players get shot down, the CSAR script will generate a rescue event regardless. - If a player dies while carrying a rescue pilot to the MASH and the death doesn’t trigger a CSAR event, there’s a chance the governor logic never triggers another random CSAR. There’s an F10 radio option allowing players to re-start CSAR events to cover this condition. Scripts included in mission - Splash Damage 2.0 by Grimm from Dec 2022 + small power nerf by me - MIST v.5.126 - CSAR v1.9.2 plus some changes by me. All my changes are mod marked and commented Installation Run it on a dedicated server like any other mission Future expansion(s) We have lots of ideas for future expansion which may or may not see the light of day. We’ll see where this goes and what type of feedback we receive. Below are some ideas we’ve discussed. -New Fog: When this is released, I want to revisit the fog settings and have the fog dissipate as the sun comes up. We can definitely make this happen along with re-appearing sometime in pre-dawn for those that keep the server up and running. -CAS on my location: We’ve kicked around this concept a time or two. When no one wants to hop into a fast mover and perform CAS, we imagine it’d be nice to spawn in an AI CAS flight to attack units near the helo that called for CAS on the F10 radio menu. I am no scripting guru, so this may be something beyond my skills and/or not worth the time and effort. -Logistics: If/When ED gets this into the base game, there might be value in resupplying weapons to FARPs. We’re thinking we could limit weapons stores at FARPs and require replenishment from Chinhooks from time to time. Might be an interesting gameplay element. - Further CSAR randomness + voiceovers: Depending on staying power of this mission, the spawned downed pilots might become redundant and while there is randomness to them, there’s only 12 possible outcomes. I may opt to add additional planes and appropriate voiceovers to expand replayability. - SEAD: We do have 2 SA-2 batteries up at Tinian if anyone wants to venture up there with Phantoms or Skyhawks. You can spawn up on Saipan if you want to engage via helo’s. There’s really nothing else up there which makes the experience pretty light. We’re considering expanding gameplay to those northern islands and may focus on SEAD for that expansion. Have fun!!

DCS: F-100D Super Sabre Introducing the Hun We are thrilled to announce DCS: F-100D Super Sabre by Grinnelli Designs. The “Hun” is a single seat, single engine fighter designed by North American Aviation that was the original fighter in the legendary Century Series. The Super Sabre was the first USAF fighter capable of supersonic speeds in level flight. Flown extensively in Vietnam, its contribution was irreplaceable. The F-100D is an advanced version of the Super Sabre that features improved avionics, landing flaps, and larger wings and tail fin. The upgraded avionics include the AN/AJB-1B low-altitude bombing system and an AN/APR-25 radar homing and warning system. The F-100D has four 20 mm Pontiac M39A1 cannons, and it has six hardpoints capable of carrying AIM-9 Sidewinders, LAU-3/A unguided rocket pods, and conventional bombs. The Super Sabre fighter bomber flew extensively over Vietnam as the United States Air Force's primary close air support jet. The F-100 was in service for 17 years and flew over 360,000 combat sorties before it was retired in 1971. DCS: F-100D Super Sabre aspires to be the most faithful re-creation of the Hun ever produced for flight simulation. Working with veteran Hun pilots, the Grinnelli team is dedicated to simulating the avionics systems, weapons, performance, and unique flight model in high fidelity. Bye Phant

You may have seen some of the recent videos from my group when flying this mission. A mission we call "Into the Jungle". This is a MP Vietnam era mission using period proper aircraft on the Marianas Map. The mission has a focus on eliminating randomly generated VC troops in and around the lake area on the southern part of the Marianas map. The mission highlights the OH-6A Cayuse and A-4 Skyhawk and was originally put together in preparation for the F-4E (which is also in the mission). Also included are Hueys and F5s. I have been asked to post this mission from some of the folks who have watched the videos. I normally don't post missions with mods in them so be aware, this mission requires a few. You could always modify the mission and exclude anything you don't want, I suppose. Here's the link to the file - https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/3338197/ There are a couple of video links posted there as well for those interested. @Devil 505 posts a lot of our content on his YT channel for anyone interested. https://www.youtube.com/@Devil-mn3dc Hope you get some fun from this. My MP group has been flying this for weeks and it still feels fresh.

There are many maps in DCS, available and in developement, but except for WW2, they are all modeled like in civilian simulator as 2020 modern day timeframe - and this takes away some of the combat simulator atmosphere and makes DCS feel like cockpit simulator/civilian simulator/sandbox etc. when you fly historical aircrafts like 1944 Bf109, 1972 MiG-21bis or 2005 F/A-18 over 'modern day 2020 civilian map'. Other military simulators had maps modeled as particular warzones with proper timeframe. All the maps like 2020 Persian Gulf, Marianas, South Atlentic, Sinai, Kola Peninsula, Australia etc. are proper only for fictional scenarios - there were no wars over them in ~2020. What is more even "modern" modules like F/A-18, F-16, Apache etc. are modeled as year ~2005. 15-20 years old standard of second Iraq war, not 2020. Fictional scenarios are not exactly bad, but there is a problem when all scenarios have to be only fictional. My wish is to have e.g. 1950 Korea map, or 1967 Six-Day-War Syria map, 1960s Vietnam map, 1973 Yom Kippur Sinai map, 1980s Libyan map, 1980s Iraq/Iran border map, 1991 Gulf War map. As they would portray real all out conflicts and match aircrafts we have in DCS. Or when fictional - at least some plausible like 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis map of Cuba, Cold War Fulda Gap divided Germany map e.g. during Berlin Crysis, Arctic Crisis 1970s-1980s Kola Peninsula map etc. cheers

Bell UH-1M (Huey Hog) Helicopter gunship ..... flyable, clcikable, standalone, startup procedure, EFM, fully armed..... etc etc.... Vietcong added to the infantry list in Mission Editor.... for the Vietnam War. CREDITS : see credit text in folder (Cockpit by Yakarov) This is a Hi-res cockpit of the Bell UH-1M, with a simpler startup. It is not my intention to replace the UH-1H module by Belsimtek or replicate it in anyway; however there was a perceived desire in the modding community for a fully fledged Vietnam War era helicopter gunship; and so I did the UH1C, then realised that infact the UH1M was a better configuration and carried more weapons......so..... here we have the Bell UH-1M. Startup : look in folder for "UH-1M startup procedure.txt"....... there is a switch to turn on/off hints.... If you want a HiRes cockpit with all the bells and whistles working, please consider buying the UH-1H Huey by Belsimtek, that is an excellent module and gives you the full immersion experience. This project (UH-1M) was drawn together and completed by Freddy. DOWNLOAD THE UH-1M HERE NEW LINK...... 3 March 2022 Fixed landing on moving ships ...... credit and thanks to NoCallsign for testing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dglZauqLl1oXjf6FmsvJSua5qW-jpjdk/view?usp=sharing installation : : C:\Users\XXXXXX\Saved Games\DCS\Mods\aircraft\Bell UH-1M

2022-09-23: ENGINEERING DATA DUMP - WEAPONS MANUAL SENT TO THE MOD TEAM F-105 ENGINEERING DATA DUMP: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vX0tQbzGLVIf5VVtqHsQDxcY-mcLQaq9/view?usp=sharing I'd like to add in the F-105D as a module to DCS World. A hundred missions to be flown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* A hundred targets still unknown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* But it's my belief that my Thunderchief strikes a telling blow for the GI Joe. Still a hundred missions I my self have flown. A hundred missions to be flown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* A hundred bridges to be blown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* If the shrapnel stuck I'll be out of luck and Jolly Green will pick me up. Still a hundred missions I my self have flown. A hundred missions to be flown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* A hundred targets still unknown. *uh-hmm, uh-hmm* On my left my right the rest of flight help keep me alive in my 105............... Still a hundred missions I my self have flown. (song is as best as I can recreate it from clips. Order of lyrics is unknown)

Hi Guys I have been busy working on the My previous skin for VPAF MiG21 '5015' of 921st FR 'Sao Do' flown by Nguyen Van Coc 1968 as it wasn't compatible with DCS World 2.9. The Skin has been Completely Re-Worked also the Pilot has been changed to have a more Vietnamese appearance. I tried upscaling from the original but it just didn't fit or look right with the new Template layout. Here are some Screeshots and the Link Kind Regards Keith DOWNLOAD VPAF '5015' of 921st Fighter Regiment Sao Do flown by Nguyễn Văn Cốc 1968 (digitalcombatsimulator.com)

There were pilots in those days. Saved his friend - .. and btw... Let's not forget that warbirds had their place in Vietnam. pilots in those days

Hi Guys Updated version of My original VPAF Mig-21 of the 921st 'Sao Do' Skin Packs Part 1 & Part 2 Skins for DCS World 2.9. The Skins has been Completely Re-Worked also the Pilot has been changed to have a more Vietnamese appearance. I have included a 'No Codes' option with Bort Numbers enabled so You can code it as You wish in the Mission Builder. Kind Regards Keith Skin Pack 1: VPAF Mig-21 of the 921st Sao Do. Skinpack Part 1 (digitalcombatsimulator.com) 4128 Flown By Dong Van De 4324 Flown by Nguyễn Đăng Kính 4326 Flown By Nguyễn Văn Cốc ------------------------------------------------------------ Skin Pack 2: VPAF Mig-21 of the 921st 'Sao Do' Skinpack Part 2 (digitalcombatsimulator.com) 5033 Flown by Tran Viet 5121 Flown by Phạm Tuân 0000 No Codes (Enable Bort Numbers in Mission Builder)

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If you looking for a cold war era focused squadron look no further than the 69th FW! Flying the F-5 and A-4 https://discord.gg/JCs2GNN6