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


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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


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To whom it may concern,

I am an idiot, unfortunately for the world, I have a internet connection and a fondness for beer....apologies for that.

Thank you for you patience.

 

 

Many people don't want the truth, they want constant reassurance that whatever misconception/fallacies they believe in are true..

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To whom it may concern,

I am an idiot, unfortunately for the world, I have a internet connection and a fondness for beer....apologies for that.

Thank you for you patience.

 

 

Many people don't want the truth, they want constant reassurance that whatever misconception/fallacies they believe in are true..

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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


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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.

 

 

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

 

 

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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.

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