CJS Super Hornet Community Mod v2.4 - Official Thread

[H60MTI]

On 7/5/2025 at 4:57 PM, SkateZilla said:

When choosing loadout stores, pay very close attention the the [ STA xx ] Prefix of each store's description.

Since the PSM of the Charlie is only modelled for 9 Pylons and 1 internal auxiliary store location (ie for Smoke Generators), There's a lot of offset or split stores in the list.

 

Do your tanks have engines in them or am I high?

[SkateZilla]

51 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

 

Do your tanks have engines in them or am I high?

They are AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Mid-Band Jammers.

[H60MTI]

Ohhhh...Just hit the old Google for them. Interesting design. Definitely looks like an external tank with a turbine engine in it Lol

[SkateZilla]

well the ASG-34 IRST21 is Technically a Tank w/ an Eyeball.

[H60MTI]

On 7/16/2025 at 1:22 PM, SkateZilla said:

well the ASG-34 IRST21 is Technically a Tank w/ an Eyeball.

That I also see. I like that idea. Granted, less fuel in that tank but the addition of an additional sensor usually outweighs that.

[SkateZilla]

19 hours ago, H60MTI said:

That I also see. I like that idea. Granted, less fuel in that tank but the addition of an additional sensor usually outweighs that.

that eyeball has a high maintenance and failure rate due to the design.

[H60MTI]

2 hours ago, SkateZilla said:

that eyeball has a high maintenance and failure rate due to the design.

Tell me how you really feel...Why do you say that, just out of curiosity? 

[H60MTI]

Can't run an ATFLIR and 2 wing tanks?

[SkateZilla]

3 hours ago, H60MTI said:

Tell me how you really feel...Why do you say that, just out of curiosity? 

While the fuel will be usable in DCS, the sensor wont. But that being said, even Block II of this pod has been a rough development,...

Ya know we told them not to put a sensitive optical sensor immediately behind the nose gear.... but do they listen? nope.

8 minutes ago, H60MTI said:

Can't run an ATFLIR and 2 wing tanks?

Pay Attention to the STA (Station) Prefix in the description.

 

[Archangel44]

Hey there SkateZilla,

I really like the mod and thank you.

A little issue I’m having and I thought I could figure it out but I couldn’t.

With the mod installed into Saved Games, after start up of DCS, I click on the missions icon, then select a mission, when the mission editor loads up, it stalls out at NG.5. It does this with any mission. When I remove the super bug mod, all is well.

I thought it might be a conflict with another mod so I removed all mods, clean up and deep repair of DCS and no joy. I then deleted the mod, downloaded the latest mod, IIRL, v2.42 and I get the same no load at mission editor.

Any advice I will greatly appreciate.

 

Thank you.

[DmanGIV]

I wonder why the Navy didn't design a chin sensor like the F-14 for the ASG-34 IRST21

[Ithronwise]

12 hours ago, Archangel44 said:

Hey there SkateZilla,

I really like the mod and thank you.

A little issue I’m having and I thought I could figure it out but I couldn’t.

With the mod installed into Saved Games, after start up of DCS, I click on the missions icon, then select a mission, when the mission editor loads up, it stalls out at NG.5. It does this with any mission. When I remove the super bug mod, all is well.

I thought it might be a conflict with another mod so I removed all mods, clean up and deep repair of DCS and no joy. I then deleted the mod, downloaded the latest mod, IIRL, v2.42 and I get the same no load at mission editor.

Any advice I will greatly appreciate.

I guess you have installed the C-130 mod by Anubis. This mod is outdated and uses an old weapontype declaration for its payload. This causes a conflict with the new weapontype declaration used for the superhornet mod. You have to remove the C-130 mod or you use this fix by SkateZilla:
 

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For the C-130 Mod, the Problem line in the loadout lua file is 180, reming this line by adding "--" to the front, will allow C-130 to work,
 

Ammo_Pallet_Contents({user_name = _("Ammo GBU-31V3B*6 [12949lb]"), clsid = "Herc_Ammo_GBU_31_V3B_bombs", contents = "{GBU-31V3B}", count = 6,  mass = 981, wstype = {4,    5,    36,    GBU_31_V_3B}})--GBU-31V3B

The Function calls for a wsType of either 4 Stage numbers or the new format of 3 stage definitions, this line calls for 3 stage numbers then a table name, which hasn't been allowed for a while now.

Alternatively, if you reeeeaaaalllly want that specific Ammo Pallet, you can update it to use the new weapon wsType format:
 

Ammo_Pallet_Contents({user_name = _("Ammo GBU-31V3B*6 [12949lb]"), clsid = "Herc_Ammo_GBU_31_V3B_bombs", contents = "{GBU-31V3B}", count = 6,  mass = 981, wstype = "weapons.bombs.GBU_31_V_3B"})--GBU-31V3B

 

 

Edited Monday at 11:50 AM by Ithronwise

[EricJ]

9 hours ago, DmanGIV said:

I wonder why the Navy didn't design a chin sensor like the F-14 for the ASG-34 IRST21

There was a chin sensor proposed, but for some weird reason they went with the tank. Military logic didn't logic this time I feel.

[Ithronwise]

9 hours ago, DmanGIV said:

I wonder why the Navy didn't design a chin sensor like the F-14 for the ASG-34 IRST21

Maybe a question of costs? You don't need an IRST for every mission, so whether you upgrade all of your planes with an IRST (hight costs, more maintenance) or just some of them, but then you have to be sure that these planes are available when they are needed. With an IRST in a fuel tank you only need a limited amount of this system and it is possible to equip any available plane with it if needed. You only has to upgrade all of them with necessary wiring (much cheaper).

[Archangel44]

On 7/21/2025 at 7:50 AM, Ithronwise said:

I guess you have installed the C-130 mod by Anubis. This mod is outdated and uses an old weapontype declaration for its payload. This causes a conflict with the new weapontype declaration used for the superhornet mod. You have to remove the C-130 mod or you use this fix by SkateZilla:
 

 

Yes I have, however I uninstalled it.

I’ll dig some more and perhaps something from the C-130 is still hanging around and will try the fix.

Thank you

[Archangel44]

On 7/21/2025 at 7:50 AM, Ithronwise said:

I guess you have installed the C-130 mod by Anubis. This mod is outdated and uses an old weapontype declaration for its payload. This causes a conflict with the new weapontype declaration used for the superhornet mod. You have to remove the C-130 mod or you use this fix by SkateZilla:
 

 

 

Earlier when I used OvGME to remove all my mods and the game still hung up,I did some digging. I found the Hercules mod sitting in plain sight there in my aircraft folder and also had it in another folder, on a different drive, that I use OvGME. So after removing all traces of the Hercules, the Superbug mod now works. 

Just being curious, I removed lines 179 and 180 from the Hercules loadout lua and went back into DCS. The Superbug flies, as well as the Hercules. I didn't have the time to go through and test the weapons and such or have both planes in the same mission but at least now I can fly the SuperBug.

Thank you for your help.

Edited 11 hours ago by Archangel44

[Raffi75]

2 hours ago, Archangel44 said:

Earlier when I used OvGME to remove all my mods and the game still hung up,I did some digging. I found the Hercules mod sitting in plain sight there in my aircraft folder and also had it in another folder, on a different drive, that I use OvGME. So after removing all traces of the Hercules, the Superbug mod now works. 

Just being curious, I removed lines 179 and 180 from the Hercules loadout lua and went back into DCS. The Superbug flies, as well as the Hercules. I didn't have the time to go through and test the weapons and such or have both planes in the same mission but at least now I can fly the SuperBug.

Thank you for your help.

I stopped using OvGME and went back to JSGME. OvG didn't back up the original files or delete the loaded ones when I tried to disable a mod, which prevented me from joining a multiplayer server several times. When I checked the DCS integrity, I usually got a message that the game files were missing, and I had to re-download them. It's actually quite strange. I don't have these problems with JSG. Everything works perfectly; I can enable and disable mods without any errors, both in the savegames folder and in the DCS root folder.