Military Assets for DCS by Currenthill

[tripod3]

In modern conflicts, new weapons often run out and the country gets old stocks. Or a modern army collides with a backward army. It would be interesting to see such Cold War artifacts as Tochka-U, P-40 Radar and Redut Antiship missile systrm. Some of them were widely exported and in service nowadays.

[Razorback]

The "Long track" radar 

[Tomy10]

Hi @currenthill

 

regarding the Pansir S1/S2, I'm experiencing a strange behiviours.

I was testing there capabilities to intercepetd missles. While the turret is tracking the missile and shoot, sometimes, the turret does a 180° rotation, shoot, and track back the incoming  missile.

Here's the .miz and a video

PANTSIR ATGM.miz

[SuPe7]

I got a question CH! Are you planning to make the Sky Sabre air defence system? Since you got the Sea Ceptor(CAMM)missiles already done.
Also, i have found a strange picture from a Type 45 with the Sea Ceptors already installed. I will send you the pictures in DM and the website where I found it. Looks kinda real for me but maybe it is just an imagination how it will look like.

Edited May 23, 2023 by SuPe7

[tripod3]

Fun fact, I wanted to check if the glass in the cockpit of the B-21 has transparency or not. I suspected that CH was attentive to details and made it a bit transparent. But how surprised I was when I discovered cabin elements inside!

Edited May 23, 2023 by tripod3

[currenthill]

23 minutes ago, tripod3 said:

Fun fact, I wanted to check if the glass in the cockpit of the B-21 has transparency or not. I suspected that CH was attentive to details and made it a bit transparent. But how surprised I was when I discovered cabin elements inside!

 

Haha, do you have security clearance for that?

[crazyeddie]

A couple of 'possibly fictional' Liveries for the Type 26 - 4 x UK, 1 x RAN, 1 x RCN - British names are known, Pennant Numbers are yet to be divulged officially so I'm going with Wikiwatsit for now F88, F89, F90, F91 !!!, Australia is suggesting HMAS Hunter 101, Canada has not even committed to a purchase yet so I have taken a guess at HMCS Thunder Bay F344.

Deck marking etc are based on the current style for each country, the actual markings are not known yet, HMS Glasgow isnt in service and hasnt had her deck painted yet. So it's a lot of guesswork. 

Link deleted - see below for new link.

Edited May 24, 2023 by crazyeddie

[Hawkeye60]

@crazyeddie

You never cease to amaze and delight me with your work.

Makes a great mod better!

Thanks Mate!

Great work indeed!

[Mapi]

58 minutes ago, tripod3 said:

Fun fact, I wanted to check if the glass in the cockpit of the B-21 has transparency or not. I suspected that CH was attentive to details and made it a bit transparent. But how surprised I was when I discovered cabin elements inside!

 

hehehe me too

[Hawkeye60]

One question. Can you make the lower hulls a dark grey or black?

And, did they ever use blue?

Thanks again!

I wondered how long it would take for someone to make it flyable!

LOL

I NEED this! Dropping those Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will be fun!

Massive Ordnance Penetrator > Air Force > Fact Sheet Display (af.mil)

[Mapi]

On 5/21/2023 at 11:05 AM, currenthill said:

B-21 Stealth Bomber 1.0.0 released!
Changelog Version 1.0.0

• Release version

Big shout-out to @EA-18G_BlockII for donating the B-21 3d model!

 

is it 1021 or 1020 ? check the Gearnumber!

no prob, it is 4 me 1021.

i have made the LIV: 1022 to 1026, and all tex scaled down to 2048x2048

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Edited May 23, 2023 by Mapi

[crazyeddie]

1 hour ago, Hawkeye60 said:

One question. Can you make the lower hulls a dark grey or black?

And, did they ever use blue?

Thanks again!

I wondered how long it would take for someone to make it flyable!

LOL

I NEED this! Dropping those Massive Ordnance Penetrator Will be fun!

Massive Ordnance Penetrator > Air Force > Fact Sheet Display (af.mil)

I take it you  mean the Type 26 hull - I'll try making one black and see how it goes.  That's the trouble with DCS water, it so bloody transparent !!   (Every ship in the game looks like its floating in crystal clear water, and we all know the sea is full of sh*t - certainly all the seas that I have sailed in, and that's most of them !!)

The only blue hulls I know of, or have seen, are Canadian, and that wasnt very many. Anti fouling is usually red, hence the red hulls. 

Edited May 23, 2023 by crazyeddie

[currenthill]

7 hours ago, Tomy10 said:

Hi @currenthill

 

regarding the Pansir S1/S2, I'm experiencing a strange behiviours.

I was testing there capabilities to intercepetd missles. While the turret is tracking the missile and shoot, sometimes, the turret does a 180° rotation, shoot, and track back the incoming  missile.

Here's the .miz and a video

PANTSIR ATGM.miz 8.63 kB · 1 download

Thank you for this finding!

I've pinpointed the issue and will add a fix for the next release. It was a ranging issue, and that is also why the Pantsir's did so badly at taking out the Humvee. After I applied the fix I needed more than one Humvee for it to have the time to launch the TOW before it gets destroyed. But, the Pantsir's won't be able to take out the actual TOW, that would be almost impossible IRL. 

[crazyeddie]

Black Hulls, with a very slight hint of red, look better - MUCH better.

I will do another set of the Type 26 and the Type 45's with black hulls and post them here in a day or two. - Done - see below.

The ship on the left is a red hull, the other 2 are a type 26 and a type 45 with black hulls. You decide !

Here is the updated link with black and red hulls for both the Type 26 and the type 45 - you can have any colour you like - as long as it's black, or red. You can mix and match, simply drop the folders into your liveries folders for each type.  All that is different is the hull colour, the rest of the ships are the same for each hull color.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/kpk0g9getegkguc/CrazyEddies Type 26 and Type 45 Liveries.zip?dl=0

 

Edited May 24, 2023 by crazyeddie

[currenthill]

On 5/23/2023 at 7:38 AM, Razorback said:

Hi,

Everytime than I am looking on your production I am really impressed!!
For sure your mods are a real game changer for DCS and ED would do well to learn from it! As long as you have the right person, you can see that anything is possible...
You have produced more IA assets in a few months than ED in 10 years!
So....my question (and sorry if this subject was already mentionned) but did you had any contact with ED to implement all this in DCS instead of just having your work via mods?

In any case, a big congratulations and thanks again for the time and work spent to make these assets which are all really interesting!
When I see how slowly ED works on new assets, it's really sad (SA-22 announced 02 years ago but we still haven't seen anything, C-RAM system...nothing for months and so on...)
I will continue to follow your productions with great interest!
Thx again for your great work!!

 

Thank you very much, I really appreciate the kind words! 

In regards to making them official, it's a double-edged sword. The upside would obviously be getting my hands on official documentation and the increment update nature of DCS. The downside would be less control over my work, not being able to implement the weapons/assets I want, coordinating with a much larger organization (development gets slower), a much slower update cycle etc. 

So at the moment I'm pretty with how it is, weighing all the pros and cons. Especially since this is a hobby of mine, I already have a full time job.

On 5/23/2023 at 10:31 AM, tripod3 said:

In modern conflicts, new weapons often run out and the country gets old stocks. Or a modern army collides with a backward army. It would be interesting to see such Cold War artifacts as Tochka-U, P-40 Radar and Redut Antiship missile systrm. Some of them were widely exported and in service nowadays.

I could definitely be interested in adding these kind of assets, the issue is getting good enough models. 

[Chris22]

Can you make S-350 it would be awesome

[currenthill]

6 minutes ago, Chris22 said:

Can you make S-350 it would be awesome

It's on my list. But I have to collect all the different units for the complete set before I can make it. I have the launcher at the moment, but I'm missing the command post and the radar.

[currenthill]

Pantsir SPAAGM 1.4.0 released!
Changelog Version 1.4.0

• Added desert livery
• Fixed autocannons ranging issue

[Fuzy56]

Well I don't know if any models for the US Army Typhoon (MRC) Similar to Russian Iskandar-K. 

[SouthernThunder]

The US Army Typhon would actually be an awesome system to implement, being the US's future mid range fires capability. The system consists of containerised Mk.41 VLS launcher mounted on trailers and towed by HEMTTs, and able to act as a long range air defence and ballistic missile defence system using the SM-6 and a standoff LACM platform with the Tomahawk.

It's also designed to be used within a larger, coordinated battle network and as such features a Battery Operations command centre (BOC) but no organic radar, using datalinks with other platforms for SAM guidance - not sure if this would make it difficult to implement in DCS but maybe something worth looking into nonetheless.

[HighMaintenanceB]

8 hours ago, currenthill said:

It's on my list. But I have to collect all the different units for the complete set before I can make it. I have the launcher at the moment, but I'm missing the command post and the radar.

I think you are in luck because I've found some pretty high-poly 3D models of the command truck and radar truck.  Ignore the description - the 3d developer probably made a mistake or some such.

https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/961782

However, it's a bit pricy, at US$ 84, which is about 80 Euro or 900 SEK.  

[christopher m]

8 hours ago, currenthill said:

Pantsir SPAAGM 1.4.0 released!
Changelog Version 1.4.0

• Added desert livery
• Fixed autocannons ranging issue

SUPER THNX for this on the fly .... Fly Swatter, LOVE it!

The S - 350 Vityaz would be TOO MUCH FUN also another on the fly CA, AD, BEAST

 

[currenthill]

6 hours ago, SouthernThunder said:

The US Army Typhon would actually be an awesome system to implement, being the US's future mid range fires capability. The system consists of containerised Mk.41 VLS launcher mounted on trailers and towed by HEMTTs, and able to act as a long range air defence and ballistic missile defence system using the SM-6 and a standoff LACM platform with the Tomahawk.

It's also designed to be used within a larger, coordinated battle network and as such features a Battery Operations command centre (BOC) but no organic radar, using datalinks with other platforms for SAM guidance - not sure if this would make it difficult to implement in DCS but maybe something worth looking into nonetheless.

That would be a nice asset, do we know if it's operational yet?

5 hours ago, HighMaintenanceB said:

I think you are in luck because I've found some pretty high-poly 3D models of the command truck and radar truck.  Ignore the description - the 3d developer probably made a mistake or some such.

https://www.turbosquid.com/FullPreview/961782

However, it's a bit pricy, at US$ 84, which is about 80 Euro or 900 SEK.  

Thanks!

4 hours ago, christopher m said:

SUPER THNX for this on the fly .... Fly Swatter, LOVE it!

The S - 350 Vityaz would be TOO MUCH FUN also another on the fly CA, AD, BEAST

 

Thank you!

[SouthernThunder]

According to the Warzone, the first Typhon prototype has been delivered to the US army and it's expected to become operational around the end of next year / the beginning of next year, so not quite fully operational yet but a bit closer than the B-21 

 

[tomc1611]

Hey Currenthill,

I am having trouble with spawning in some of your assets in the mission editor, when loading the mission only some appear.

For reference I only have your assets in the tech mods folder and I am on the latest beta.

Thanks for your hard work!