Interview with Leatherneck Studios

[ff4life4]

At least it has 3 gears and a tilt, some rivets, a few fasteners, and paint. There could be a button or two, but who needs those in 1918?

 

What..

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

At least it has 3 gears and a tilt, some rivets, a few fasteners, and paint. There could be a button or two, but who needs those in 1918?

Buttons are soooooo 19th century.

 

Velcro is where it's at.

[Charly_Owl]

Two words: duct tape.

 

[26-J39]

^^^ Is that Obama in a F-14 G-suit?

[WolfK33]

At least it has 3 gears and a tilt, some rivets, a few fasteners, and paint. There could be a button or two, but who needs those in 1918?

 

It´s 6AM here, I´m just getting up getting ready for work and only had a few sips of my morning coffee.

 

So I wrote "Tilt" in Google as I don´t know what it means in this context.

 

Please do this (in Google) and see why it made me all messed up somehow this early morning, a real "WTF..!" moment lol :helpsmilie::lol:

 

PS I still don´t know what it means in context to aircraft :)

[kontiuka]

It´s 6AM here, I´m just getting up getting ready for work and only had a few sips of my morning coffee.

 

So I wrote "Tilt" in Google as I don´t know what it means in this context.

 

Please do this (in Google) and see why it made me all messed up somehow this early morning, a real "WTF..!" moment lol :helpsmilie::lol:

 

PS I still don´t know what it means in context to aircraft :)

Tilt wing maybe?

 

http://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675072951_biplane_tilt-wings_Merrill_taxis-and-takes-off_flies-over-city

[Cedaway]

Marines + "Tilt"? OK, V-22 Osprey confirmed!!! :doh: :lol: 1918? Oh, wait...

Edited October 29, 2014 by Cedaway

[Buren]

Regarding the Tomcat-USMC connection:

 

Also; I managed to bork the "marine" part of our next project, it was actually not flown by the USMC. It is an aircraft you'd expect to have been; but wasn't. ;)

 

"Marine F-14A

The Marine Corps was scheduled to receive 190 F14As starting with the FY74 procurement. Due to development delays with the F-14, plus its shift away from the ground attack role, the Marine Corps decided to produce 138 McDonnell Douglas F-4Js at a total cost of approximately $1.73 billion as an alternative. As late as 1976 it was still thought probable that the Marines would purchase some number of F-14s, but this never happened, the Marines purchasing McDonnell Douglas AV-8 Harriers and F/A-18 Hornets instead. No Marine F-14 aircraft were ever produced, although Grumman issued decals and press packages depicting the aircraft."

 

Dennis R. Jenkins: Grumman F-14 Tomcat (London: Aerofax, 1997.) p. 24.

 

 

Probably this is one example from those "press packages":

 

Grumman had a tendency to make patches depicting every potential customer....

 

 

Regarding which variant should be made (if all this teasing is true...) -- I think definitely the original "-A". With that, one could simulate scenarios from the '70s up to the 2003 Iraqi War. Frankly, I'm a bit rusty on the incremental updates the '-A' got in its lifetime, but it would be a good base. There were only a limited number of "-B"s and especially of the "-D"s, although the "-B" would be a good compromise between "retro" (I'm biased - the original cockpit design is one of my favorites) and higher combat value (it had the "-D"s engine, plus upgraded RWR). Leave the ground-pounding to the Bugs. ;)

 

Plus, don't forget the up-and-coming Hormuz map with Iran as an added side. The F-14A would be a pretty interesting OPFOR aircraft.... (Although I'm pretty sure today's surviving persian Tomcats don't really retain their original capabilities with all that tinkering, but hey, I'm no intelligence agency)

 

 

aaand...

 

inb4 DCS: Montgolfier Hot-Air Balloon

Edited October 29, 2014 by Buren

[MBot]

Thanks Buren, I didn't know this piece of Tomcat history.

 

It has been already said somewhere else, if after all this F-14 teasing they will end up announcing an F4F, I think the wrath of the internet will fall upon them :)

[Buren]

It has been already said somewhere else, if after all this F-14 teasing they will end up announcing an F4F, I think the wrath of the internet will fall upon them :)

 

The Wildcat was very famously used by the USMC. (Think of Guadalcanal/Cactus Air Force)

 

The only aircraft that I can of think of, which was curiously not used -- but could be easily imagined to have been -- by the Marines (as already stated above), was the A-7.

 

On the other hand, every little clue points towards the Tomcat.

• Cobra's avatars... (detail of AWG-9 radar dish; a goose [reference to the Top Gun character])
  
• Rudel's current avatar -- REDACTED. See this post. Thanks MiG21bisFishbedL!
  
• The dismissal of the now obsolete comments on how difficult is to make complex (e.g.: multi-crew) aircraft.
  
• Official code/support for multi-crew (L-39) and carrier ops (F/A-18C) coming from ED themselves... (the 'cat would be a perfect companion to the Hornet btw) + Hormuz (IRIAF)
  
• It is a very famous, popular and important aircraft (e.g.: cultural icon, unique and powerful combat capability, variable geometry wings etc.) [it was/is second in a particular wishlist/poll, and now that both Hornets are in production...] -- it ought to be lucrative.
  

 

Or all this is the trolling of the century.

Edited October 29, 2014 by Buren

[Slipp]

Yeah, it just has to be Tomcat now. :)

 

 

 

Cmon, Leatherneck, you know you wanna take it to the Danger zone.

 

[Cedaway]

The avatar image of Cobra is one that pop-up straight if you type 'goose' in google image...

Is that a hint or a total confusion?

Cobra, you like playing with us, uh?

OK, with this such particular community, it's fair... ... ...

[grifo]

-What about developing time?

-Developing is undergoing, Sir.

-How long?

-It will be ready in 10 months.

-Bulls**t 10 months! Hormuz map will be over in 2 months! Get on it!

 

:megalol::megalol:

Edited October 29, 2014 by grifo

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

On the other hand, every little clue points towards the Tomcat.

• 
   
  
• Rudel's current avatar -- very possibly a reference to (or even an actual patch of?) the VF-101 "Grim Reapers" (famous for being the F-14 training/replacement squadron)
   
  

 

 

That's a negative, partially. That particular patch belongs to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 AKA the Grey Ghosts. VMFA 531. The last two aircraft it flew were the F-4N Phantom II and the F/A-18C Hornet. The unit was deactivated in 1992.

 

However,

in 1975, VMFA 531 became the second USMC Squadron selected to receive the F-14 in the Marine Corps program. The cancellation saw them being fitted with the F-4Ns.

 

[Buren]

Wow... really interesting. Thank you!

 

(It is way more subtle hint than Cobra's :) )

[Flycat]

maybe he just want to make a joke,than they release a WWI roater fan.

STOP IMAGEINE,PARPARE TO FLIGHT.

[Flycat]

anyone want to fly wwi aircraft?

if some studio work on them and each one is only 10doller,that will be more passion and fan to play it.

LOL

[NaCH]

Still hoping this is the trolling of year for the Sim community.

 

 

:D

 

I want something that I can fight online with my mig 21

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

Still hoping this is the trolling of year for the Sim community.

 

 

:D

 

I want something that I can fight online with my mig 21

 

Either way, it'll produce something legendary. They'll either print money with an F-14, or make me laugh off such a masterful joke and totally not attempt to build a doomsday device.

[WolfK33]

...if after all this F-14 teasing they will end up announcing an F4F...

 

 

Well, I don´t care much if they do the Phantom first and the Tomcat immediately after it or the other way around :music_whistling::D

[ff4life4]

Well, I don´t care much if they do the Phantom first and the Tomcat immediately after it or the other way around :music_whistling::D

 

F4F

 

[WolfK33]

Dang, what a difference that little "-" can make lol

 

[NaCH]

Well, I don´t care much if they do the Phantom first and the Tomcat immediately after it or the other way around :music_whistling::D

 

If the next project is the F14 the next one needs to be and opponent.

I know most of the ppl here like SP so they don't care but to me MP is everything.

[Buckeye]

Interview with Leatherneck Studios

 

If the next project is the F14 the next one needs to be and opponent.

 

I know most of the ppl here like SP so they don't care but to me MP is everything.

 

 

There are already plenty of opponents for the Tomcat in the game. Eagle, Flanker, Fulcrum, upcoming Hornet. The Tomcat can use the AIM-54's long range as an advantage to get it's driver into the position they want to be in, it has a very strong radar, and it's got plenty of power.

[Aginor]

I feel really bad for actually not wanting a Tomcat.

 

- fourty-five gazillion Youtube videos with the same f***ing music

- Call me a pessimist, but I can't imagine a good AI RIO (not too good and not too bad) is possible in DCS.

- So if there isn't a RIO at all, it will be very disappointing (well, Cobra said there will be many disappointed people) since it basically says SP-incompatible.

 

I'd still prefer something else. I love the Tomcat, but I can't imagine it properly in DCSW. Of course I would love to be surprised by LN with a perfectly working one.