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Markindels Durance Class of Support Ship for 2.5.6


History: This Mod started life as one half of Marios' excellent De Gaulle Mod, she was permanently attached to De Gaulle by fuel cables etc.  She originated in the FSX community and Mario had permission to convert it to DCS, it was then withdrawn by ED during 'the great cull', and Mario quit the game. Before he did so I asked him to split the 2 ships, and we now have De Gaulle and Durance as 2 separate models.

When 2.5.5 arrived this mod, along with many others, did not work, so we set about resurrecting it for 2.5.5.  

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This mod is now been made available to all!
With thanks to Mario,
And crazyeddie for the permission to share it here.

In recognition of the Cuesta Brothers fine work, with the le Clem and Charles de Gaulle mods,

I thank you!

This ones for you!

And for Mario!

Salute!


Hawkeye60 - 1/30/2021

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Credits:  Hawkeye, who suffered all my arguing and bullying to convert the old edm into the 2.5.5 format.  I then created the 5 different liveries you can have with this ship:

French Somme - A631 - The default model
French Var     A608
French Marne   A630
ARA Patagonia  B1     Still in service
HMAS Success   OR304  Still in service, to be withdrawn 2019
RFA Tidewave   A135   Fictional

There are 2 different models of each ship, 1 with the centre crane, 1 without, with some slight variations in paintwork.
The crane appears to have been deleted on some ships later in life. Each ship has appropriate flags.

Put the Mod 'Durance Class' into your Saved Games/Mods/Tech Folder

Put the folders 'Classe_Durance_Flags' and 'Classe_Durance_nc' into your Saved Games/DCS.Liveries folder. If you dont have that now is the time to learn how to do it, create a folder and call it DCS.Liveries, place it in your Saved Games Folder, and thats it. Drop any new liveries in there, simples !!

Select Durance with Crane or Withour Crane then select the Skin from the Liveries Drop Down in he Mission Editor.

The Flight Deck is useable for helo's, watch the superstructure, it's not a big deck.  

This has been a labour of love, an undignified and troublesome labour at times, and its not perfect, we have yet to perfect perfect.


CrazyEddie and Hawkeye
(For Mario, our friend)

Aug 2019

 

Re-posted Jan 2021

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/acldjfs6xz3pdaq/Markindels Durance Class V 1.5.rar?dl=0

 

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Thanks a lot @Hawkeye60 .. lovely ship, and we can put it into Latin american service 👍

 

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Really nice .. thanks again for resurrecting these ships.

 

 

Eduardo

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Hello Hawkeye60,

Thank you for this beautiful ship which will accompany our Aircraft carriers and greetings to you my friends (Hawleye60 and Markindel)

[sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]Passion

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Hello,

A big thanks to you for this great refuelling ship. 😋

Together with the Clemenceau or Charles de Gaulle carriers, it makes an amazing naval airpower task force.

 Only missing is now the FREMM AA frigate, which was available in FSX, I think.

Thanks for sharing this amazing Mod !... 👏

Toan

 

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Posted
17 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Which carrier is that?

Its the A.R.A. 25 de Mayo (V2), back in the 80s. Its the ex HNLMS Karel Doorman (R81) .

 

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Extraordinarily Beautiful !!!!
thank you to the creators and to all those who participated in the refloating of this beautiful ship.

 

And Thanks again to "sushy73" who made me discover this beautiful Addon.

 

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Posted

 Does anyone have a fully updated version of the CDG that works with DCS 2.9, because all the ones available now, do not seem to work for me.

Please upload and link us in here, please.

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3 hours ago, RWC said:

 Does anyone have a fully updated version of the CDG that works with DCS 2.9, because all the ones available now, do not seem to work for me.

Please upload and link us in here, please.

 

I have v1.5 of this ship and it seems to work well, can you elaborate what problem are you having?

 

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Eduardo

 

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Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

I have v1.5 of this ship and it seems to work well, can you elaborate what problem are you having?

 

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Eduardo

 

Hi Rudel, Thanks for responding. It's absolutely not about the Durance, but more on the CHarles de Gaulle that was attached to this beauty. But only the link is now posted of the Durance, and i can't find a descend working model of the CDG that is fully updated for DCS 2.9 AND working !

There are 3 versions now available on here, all 3 outdated (2015 and 2018). Then there is the CHARLES DE GAULLE 004 2.7.10, which is only an update to the 003 version, which is no longer available ! So that file became useless without the 003 version to update, and doesn't function properly even when adding the 004 version, because it's missing files.

I was hoping to find a functional version of the CDG, really.

Kind Regards,

RWC.

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Posted
2 minutes ago, RWC said:

It's absolutely not about the Durance, but more on the CHarles de Gaulle that was attached to this beauty.

 

ahh ... ok, now I understand what CDG meant .. sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't have the carrier on my DCS, only the supply ship, which I employ on some of my South Atlantic Map missions.

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Posted (edited)
14 minutes ago, Rudel_chw said:

 

ahh ... ok, now I understand what CDG meant .. sorry for the misunderstanding. I don't have the carrier on my DCS, only the supply ship, which I employ on some of my South Atlantic Map missions.

hhhh Yes, I remember Beldin was once working on one, but never finished it. This is one of the biggest carriers of the French fleet, and a must-have addition, I think. 

There is of course the Clemenceau, but also this leaves some misfunctions trying to launch planes from its decks after the updates (which should be the Rafale btw and not the old F-8) that was used in the past yes from 1961 and so on.

So where do we go from here on the French navy, if we do not have a descent super carrier to take off from using modern type aircraft ?

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