What year of jet is the DCS F/A-18C based on?

[Vampyr]

As with most military aircraft, I'm sure the F/A-18C has gone through various upgrades and modifications throughout its service life.

 

I am now searching through airliners.net's image library for photos of the same "version" of the F/A-18C modeled in this DCS module. Any thoughts as to what year and bureau number ranges I should be searching for?

 

Link: http://www.airliners.net/search?aircraft=33985&display=detail

Edited April 23, 2018 by Vampyr

[mvsgas]

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=168861

https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/planes/hornet/

Mid 2000 AFAIK, Lot 20, Block 51, 165399 thru 165408 (10 aircraft)

page I-1-5

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https%3A%2F%2Finfo.publicintelligence.net%2FF18-ABCD-000.pdf

Edited April 23, 2018 by mvsgas

[Vampyr]

Amazing. Thank you sir.

[mvsgas]

http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA-Navy/McDonnell-Douglas-F-A-18C-Hornet/1927343/L

http://imgproc.airliners.net/photos/airliners/9/9/2/1752299.jpg?v=v40

[Robert31178]

This will be a great fakey pairing with Harrier for the late 90's Kosovo campaign once Tomcat hits the streets!!

[Vampyr]

I noticed that some of the aircraft in the 165399 to 165408 range are Marines rather than Navy. Are there any differences between the Marines and Navy F/A-18C?

[backspace340]

It actually seems to be specifically 165407, it's visible in this cockpit screenshot bottom right (below the hook).

 

 

Looks like it's this one: http://www.airfighters.com/photosearch.php?reg=165407

Edited April 23, 2018 by backspace340

[wizav]

Do we know which one is that in RL?

[Kev2go]

This will be a great fakey pairing with Harrier for the late 90's Kosovo campaign once Tomcat hits the streets!!

 

Sure just rember that despite its production date this isn't a late 90s bird.

 

With upgrades it has its circa 2005 era hornet. Same goes for the harrier n/a. It's very obvious it is a 2000s harier since the displays are not Mpcd's but lcd display (ampcd) like the bottom lower display on the hornet

Edited April 23, 2018 by Kev2go

[Camelot101]

Do we know which one is that in RL?

 

Yep... It was with VFA-131, but as of Aug 17 it was unmarked with VFA-106 (AD-354)

[Hog_No32]

Awesome, looking at that loadout (Sparrow) it appears the photographer catched the early access version for us:smilewink:

Edited April 23, 2018 by Hog_No32
*“early access“ iso „early release“*

[Vampyr]

Awesome, looking at that loadout (Sparrow) it appers the photographer catched the early release version for us:smilewink:

 

Early release?

[Horns]

As with most military aircraft, I'm sure the F/A-18C has gone through various upgrades and modifications throughout its service life.

 

I am now searching through airliners.net's image library for photos of the same "version" of the F/A-18C modeled in this DCS module. Any thoughts as to what year and bureau number ranges I should be searching for?

 

Link: http://www.airliners.net/search?aircraft=33985&display=detail

 

I asked that here, the short answer seems to be that 1998 was the build year, with upgrades that bring it to mid-2000s.

[Hog_No32]

Early release?

 

Sorry, I meant the early access (EA) version.

[Vampyr]

Sorry, I meant the early access (EA) version.

 

I still don't get it. The F/A-18C can carry Sparrows too, can't it? Or do you mean that the early access version currently doesn't have anything besides Sparrows?

 

Once again excuse the dumb questions... I'm new to the Hornet. :P

[Revelation]

I still don't get it. The F/A-18C can carry Sparrows too, can't it? Or do you mean that the early access version currently doesn't have anything besides Sparrows?

 

Once again excuse the dumb questions... I'm new to the Hornet. :P

 

Yes, the EA version will only have AIM-9 and Aim-7. Later we will get AIM-9X and AIM-120B. I do not remember is the AIM-120C will be available or not.

 

This is due ED giving the AIM-120* some love in term of modeling. We do not know what that exactly entails and we will have to wait for further information.

[Vampyr]

Personally I can't wait to try out the Hornet's SEAD capability, but I guess I'm going to have to wait a while for that.

 

The first thing I want to do is kill a bunch of SA-11s with the AGM-88 because I hate the SA-11 with a passion.

[Horns]

Yes, the EA version will only have AIM-9 and Aim-7. Later we will get AIM-9X and AIM-120B. I do not remember is the AIM-120C will be available or not.

 

This is due ED giving the AIM-120* some love in term of modeling. We do not know what that exactly entails and we will have to wait for further information.

 

Wags says here that we will get the -C

[Bloodhound57]

I do not think we will have to wait that long for the SEAD capabilities to be added. Wags seems to be pretty excited about adding the HARM missile to the sim.