Nealius Posted February 9, 2021 Posted February 9, 2021 (edited) I was going through BuNos on our default F-14B liveries and two of them share an A-6E BuNo: VF-74 "Adversary" and VF-21 have BuNo 162192. This comes back as an A-6E, not an F-14 of any type. Was this an intentional easter egg of sorts? Edited February 9, 2021 by Nealius 4
turkeydriver Posted February 11, 2021 Posted February 11, 2021 Well done. VF-2 Bounty Hunters https://www.csg-1.com/ DCS F-14 Pilot/RIO Discord: https://discord.gg/6bbthxk
BreaKKer Posted February 27, 2021 Posted February 27, 2021 On 2/8/2021 at 10:28 PM, Nealius said: I was going through BuNos on our default F-14B liveries and two of them share an A-6E BuNo: VF-74 "Adversary" and VF-21 have BuNo 162192. This comes back as an A-6E, not an F-14 of any type. Was this an intentional easter egg of sorts? BuNos are not airframe specific. There can be 12345 on a tomcat, and 12345 on an A-6. BreaKKer CAG and Commanding Officer of: Carrier Air Wing Five // VF-154 Black Knights
Vampyre Posted February 27, 2021 Posted February 27, 2021 6 hours ago, BreaKKer said: BuNos are not airframe specific. There can be 12345 on a tomcat, and 12345 on an A-6. BUNO's are assigned to individual airframes so the Navy and Marines can keep track of that individual airframe over its lifetime. Think of the BUNO as a serial number. MODEX's are not airframe specific as they are assigned by the type wing or squadron. Truly superior pilots are those that use their superior judgment to avoid those situations where they might have to use their superior skills. If you ever find yourself in a fair fight, your tactics suck! "If at first you don't succeed, Carrier Landings are not for you!"
Home Fries Posted June 29, 2021 Posted June 29, 2021 (edited) On 2/27/2021 at 11:02 AM, BreaKKer said: BuNos are not airframe specific. There can be 12345 on a tomcat, and 12345 on an A-6. BuNos are unique, they're just not specific to airframes. For instance, you could have 123456 on a Tomcat and 123457 on an A-6. Usually you see them grouped together by airframe type because a number of airframes will leave the factory at once, and they will get sequential BuNos. But you will never see the same BuNo on different airframes. Edited June 29, 2021 by Home Fries -Home Fries My DCS Files and Skins My DCS TARGET Profile for Cougar or Warthog and MFDs F-14B LANTIRN Guide
LanceCriminal86 Posted June 30, 2021 Posted June 30, 2021 At some point here they'll get fixed. The jet in question should have been 163221. The VF-24 skin also should have been 162911. With the new pilot models and some of the fixes/additions like ALQ-126, all of the skins should be getting reworked anyways. And yeah, BuNos were unique, but in the case of the F-14 there was at least one "oops" where a jet was painted with the wrong BuNo and then entered into USN records. 158630 and 159630 got mixed up. 159630 got painted as 158630 for something like 2 years from 78-80. 158630 was a Block 65 jet used in tests, later rebuilt as a Block 135 and sent to VF-201. This is 163221: Apparently before being with VF-11 through the GWOT 162911 was an aggressor at Topgun, by some commentary the only B model to do so. Heatblur Rivet Counting Squad™ VF-11 and VF-31 1988 [WIP] VF-201 & VF-202 [WIP]
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