A-6 Intruder Updates?

[Tank50us]

Since we have a Forrestal Update thread, why not one for the Intruder?

How is the development progressing? What versions will we get for the AI versions (as in which variants of the Intruder)? How is work on the player-controlled version going? What ordinance will we have access to at first (in either instance), and so on.

So... Heatblur.... how is the A-6 coming along?

[Silver_Dragon]

Some of them Heatblur has put them on your roadmap:
https://trello.com/b/HsMiJggJ/heatblur-public-roadmap

A-6E has the last of 3 modules incoming:
- A new module on 2022. (Some rumors talk about a F-4E)
- The Truegrit EF module with Heatblur colaboration.
- The A-6E module

AI versions coming the A-6E and KA-6D Intruders, no date of release yet.

Edited November 8, 2021 by Silver_Dragon

[Tank50us]

7 hours ago, Silver_Dragon said:

no date of release yet.

This I'm aware of, I'm just wondering how things are coming with what's being worked on is all.

[Chipwich]

On 11/8/2021 at 11:08 AM, Silver_Dragon said:

(Some rumors talk about a F-4E)

It's cruel to tease that way.

[Spurts]

@Chipwich your avatar is Phabulous!

 

[rkk01]

Nobody seen today’s Sunday Supplement…?

CVN-65, A-6E, F-14A… mention of A-7 and F-4

Edited December 12, 2021 by rkk01

[RaisedByWolves]

Maybe I am wrong but those Sunday supplements are someone’s imagination typed out with screenshots. Obviously the A-6 is coming sometime but the carrier was not the Enterprise and the A-7 pic was not from DCS.

[Silver_Dragon]

Maybe I am wrong but those Sunday supplements are someone’s imagination typed out with screenshots. Obviously the A-6 is coming sometime but the carrier was not the Enterprise and the A-7 pic was not from DCS.

A-7 has on develop by FliyingIron simulation 3rd Party. The article has centered of the istorical event in self and the A-6 AI was Show some mounts ago when ED release the new clouds video.

Enviado desde mi RNE-L21 mediante Tapatalk

[Oates76]

Eagle Dynamics does like to drop hints, so I'm hoping this little story focused on the A-6 means we'll be seeing the AI version from Heatblur soon.

[Andrew8604]

On 11/12/2021 at 1:27 PM, Chipwich said:

It's cruel to tease that way.

How about it's the RF-4B?  Ha ha.  All it does is take pictures!  No ordnance.  Wouldn't that be cruel?    Actually, I'd buy it.  What the heck...it's a Phantom II and lands on carriers!

Ok, nobody get the wrong impression.  I'm 99.99% sure (based on no information) it will not be the RF-4B.

[phant]

The clue about the F-4E in the 2022 AND BEYOND video looks HB style, with the noise of VHS ejection in the background.

 

Bye
Phant

Edited December 25, 2021 by phant

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

3 minutes ago, phant said:

The clue about the F-4E in the 2022 AND BEYOND video looks HB style, with the noise of VHS ejection in the background.

 

Bye
Phant

 

But, then that'd mean they were doing A-stan too.

[Stearmandriver]

Based on the 2022 vid, the Intruder seems a little further along than just a quick tease of a gunsight... 

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

2 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

Based on the 2022 vid, the Intruder seems a little further along than just a quick tease of a gunsight... 

I want to believe.

[Silver_Dragon]

on HB roadmap, to 2023 or more.
https://trello.com/b/HsMiJggJ/heatblur-public-roadmap

[toni]

I wonder if would make sense a HB E-2C/D HawkEye module, parallel to a Prowler ( variant of the A-6 ), given that ED stated their intention to focus on Electronic Warfare.

Merry Christmass to All.

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

3 hours ago, toni said:

I wonder if would make sense a HB E-2C/D HawkEye module, parallel to a Prowler ( variant of the A-6 ), given that ED stated their intention to focus on Electronic Warfare.

Merry Christmass to All.

I'd heard of no such intention to focus on EW. Where'd they state this?

[QuiGon]

16 hours ago, MiG21bisFishbedL said:

I'd heard of no such intention to focus on EW. Where'd they state this?

 

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

10 hours ago, QuiGon said:

 

Thanks for that. Still, I'm not sure that translates to EW birds. I'd love a Prowler and I'd sell someone else's kidney for one, but this just reads to me as "We're finally getting around to adding some complexity to ECM."

[FiveWire]

On 12/26/2021 at 6:55 AM, toni said:

I wonder if would make sense a HB E-2C/D HawkEye module, parallel to a Prowler ( variant of the A-6 ), given that ED stated their intention to focus on Electronic Warfare.

Merry Christmass to All.

the coordinates at the end of the 2022 and beyond video are a couple hundred feet away from an EA-6B in Afghanistan.... don't know if that is intentional, but it would not surprise me if the AI version of the A-6 is the prowler.

[MiG21bisFishbedL]

1 hour ago, FiveWire said:

the coordinates at the end of the 2022 and beyond video are a couple hundred feet away from an EA-6B in Afghanistan.... don't know if that is intentional, but it would not surprise me if the AI version of the A-6 is the prowler.

The A-6 we're getting as AI is not a Prowler, just an A-6. It'll be AI first, then module.

[Alpiinoo]

On 1/1/2022 at 7:30 AM, FiveWire said:

the coordinates at the end of the 2022 and beyond video are a couple hundred feet away from an EA-6B in Afghanistan.... don't know if that is intentional, but it would not surprise me if the AI version of the A-6 is the prowler.

AI version is KA-6

Edited January 9, 2022 by Alpiinoo

[Silver_Dragon]

1 hour ago, Alpiinoo said:

AI version is KA-6

 

AI versions will be A-6E and KA-6D. A-6 module coming apart.
https://trello.com/c/1ZtHMiUn/48-a-6-intruder-ai
https://trello.com/c/dpGne7dW/49-ka-6-tanker-ai

Edited January 9, 2022 by Silver_Dragon

[Stearmandriver]

So... Phantom just announced, but comes before flyable A-6, yes?  That's a bummer...   but I'm probably in the minority here. 

[todd022]

6 hours ago, Stearmandriver said:

So... Phantom just announced, but comes before flyable A-6, yes?  That's a bummer...   but I'm probably in the minority here. 

Nah, I'm with you homie. Love both, but the Intruder is way more exciting to me.