C-130J release date speculation

troberts2009 · November 1

yeah we don't care about a FARP, just give plane

GUCCI · November 2

20 hours ago, troberts2009 said:

yeah we don't care about a FARP, just give plane

Speak for yourself, I think that's one of the coolest announcements for the plane so far. Mobile FARP is something we desperately needed for MP ops,

Having the C-130 mobile FARP with refueling and re-arming other players will be awesome.

dahui · November 2

9 hours ago, GUCCI said:

Speak for yourself, I think that's one of the coolest announcements for the plane so far. Mobile FARP is something we desperately needed for MP ops,

Having the C-130 mobile FARP with refueling and re-arming other players will be awesome.

Definetly!

I just hope they will release the Plane regardless of the progress of the Mobile FARP

JimmyAus · November 15

Am pretty keen to get this aircraft into DCS, not asking when however do they expect a release before Christmas, Im really hoping we get some flight time over xmas

Rudel_chw · November 15

I’d rather have the developer take as much time as needed … in the meantime I’m flying the Mirage 2000 while I still can, before the inexorable dcs progress renders it unusable.

rob10 · November 15

2 hours ago, JimmyAus said:

Am pretty keen to get this aircraft into DCS, not asking when however do they expect a release before Christmas, Im really hoping we get some flight time over xmas

The dev has made it pretty clear that he did not expect it to slip to Dec and he'd be surprised if it did, and promised to delete his account on the ASC discord if it did. And he said NO WAY to a January release, so very high probability (barring any other ED rather than ASC issues) I'd be pretty confident it's still coming by end of Nov (note that I have been over-optimistic before, but this time I'm really, really sure).

dahui · November 15

58 minutes ago, rob10 said:

The dev has made it pretty clear that he did not expect it to slip to Dec and he'd be surprised if it did, and promised to delete his account on the ASC discord if it did. And he said NO WAY to a January release, so very high probability (barring any other ED rather than ASC issues) I'd be pretty confident it's still coming by end of Nov (note that I have been over-optimistic before, but this time I'm really, really sure).

It has been released to the Closed Beta Group within DCS since a few Weeks now. The Problem is more, the lack of Communication of ED's Side (in my Opinion) and thats why people are going nuts. The Users are waiting every Friday for news in the newsletter regarding the 130 and nothing new is coming. So im not surprised about everyone is getting slowly impatient.

AhSoul · November 17

On 11/15/2025 at 3:49 AM, Rudel_chw said:

I’d rather have the developer take as much time as needed … in the meantime I’m flying the Mirage 2000 while I still can, before the inexorable dcs progress renders it unusable.

I find myself in the F-15E a lot more for similar reasons

Mr_Burns · November 18

On 11/15/2025 at 4:16 PM, rob10 said:

The dev has made it pretty clear that he did not expect it to slip to Dec and he'd be surprised if it did, and promised to delete his account on the ASC discord if it did. And he said NO WAY to a January release, so very high probability (barring any other ED rather than ASC issues) I'd be pretty confident it's still coming by end of Nov (note that I have been over-optimistic before, but this time I'm really, really sure).

I am of a similar opinion and no discredit to DCS, I feel that DCS update things so quickly every developer is in a fight, a fight that was not considered when pricing their part.

I don’t want to spread ‘rumoured bar talk’ but everything is a complex beast to make this sim the best ever (well once we get dynamic campaigns it will be) and the reason I only fly here is its detail.

But since the Hawk issue (although ISTR they tried their own way) my feelings were the constant improvement in the DCS engine made it hard for developers to meet the level DCS demands.

Obviously I am talking out of my hoop but it’s definitely a complex machine to make it all great and fair.

mondo · Thursday at 12:11 AM

On 11/18/2025 at 6:48 AM, Mr_Burns said:

I am of a similar opinion and no discredit to DCS, I feel that DCS update things so quickly every developer is in a fight, a fight that was not considered when pricing their part.

I don’t want to spread ‘rumoured bar talk’ but everything is a complex beast to make this sim the best ever (well once we get dynamic campaigns it will be) and the reason I only fly here is its detail.

But since the Hawk issue (although ISTR they tried their own way) my feelings were the constant improvement in the DCS engine made it hard for developers to meet the level DCS demands.

Obviously I am talking out of my hoop but it’s definitely a complex machine to make it all great and fair.

Small, incremental and frequent updates is actually best practice for development.