JediMaster

That's a 3rd party. It's not ED. It was done because the originator (who since broke off from the group he started!) already had done a flyable MiG-21 mod for FC2 before. It was supposed to be a low-risk migration of that to DCS World, instead it seems everything was redone from scratch over the last 2 years. The entire idea of DCS World was ED opening it up to other groups to make planes they wanted to build, no "vision" required. You can question the P-51, because ED did that one, but that's it.

I guess no one remembers the loss of the YF-22 prototype on landing?

Nope, I'm not surprised at all. So much for Oleg's involvement, must've been no more than occasional emails.

Hmmm. So $16 for the full BS2? I want to get it to eliminate the hassle of having the upgrade version, but I was hoping for a little less. I guess I'll wait for now, if I don't have to reinstall it's a non-issue.

I honestly never doubted you would beat it. It never had a chance.

It's a modern combat aircraft. Things have progressed so that the pilot can dedicate time to the combat and not the flying. Because when you're dodging AAA, SAMs, and enemy aircraft, manifold pressure is the furthest thing from your mind. Now it's usually the enemy who kills the pilot, not the plane because the pilot didn't notice that gauge X went beyond value Y.

Message received by Il from Su: "thanks for making our Grach look lovely in comparison!"

"Join Duty!"

There are other maps in development by others who are waiting for EDGE's release to come out, or at least to progress to a point where their release will be practical. ED itself is only doing Nevada right now (that they've announced), but Normandy at a minimum is in the works.

That's not the point. The point is that once you hang it on a regular-sized pylon you lose most of the stealth advantage of just having stores on pylons under the wing in the first place. So it becomes pointless. The only place you can practically do a stealthy external stores pod on a fighter-sized aircraft is on the fuselage, either underneath as this example or on the sides like the Silent Eagle proposal. Under the wings you either mess up your aero or the stealth.

There is no place for egos in our modding community. So those who had them have hidden behind walls of their own design.

I'll be renting it later this year.

That's so small it's effectively not a pylon. Transpose that to underneath the wing and look at how much clearance it would have. That pylon is shorter than his forearm!

Too late. http://www.cnn.com/2014/06/01/showbiz/justin-bieber-racist-joke/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Inconvenience is a bit of an understatement, but I know they've experienced even more inconvenience, so I'm not too put out. As long as I can get into my backer page, that is. I've not logged into Indiegogo in a long time.

The pod is mounted conformally underneath the fuselage, but you can't do that on a wing. It would have to be pylon mounted, and that could create extra drag at a minimum and also non-stealthy interfaces.

You should say "I don't want to be on Putin's guard detail" next and see what happens...

Finally a price I was willing to pay for BF3.

Wasn't this the game I just saw rated as one of the most awful games ever?

That actor also played the head of the FSB in Sum of All Fears, so he gets around.

That may take a lot longer.

The only point I can agree on is that of every promise made about the F-35 program, the one it has consistently failed to deliver on (and most likely never will) is price. I remember the "$30 million/each" estimates back when the F-22 was going to be $100m/each. For various reasons, not least of them being gov't incompetence and corporate greed taking advantage of that, the F-35 is way too expensive for what it was supposed to cost. Of course, it's new. The price per unit is still declining. The Super Hornet is not new, and like the F-16 and many other planes before it costs more now than it did after it started production because there are no more efficiencies left to find, orders are not increasing anymore, and they entered production decades ago! Now, does every nation looking to buy one actually need this plane? That's up to them to decide. Your statement about the Bugatti is not incorrect. What is incorrect is your assumption that the mission is just to haul a family of 5 and their luggage. Even if that's the mission 75% of the time, what about the other 25%? That Toyota Sienna looked a bargain until you try to win the auto show, or race a car from the stop light, or any of a dozen other possible scenarios where a Bugatti will come out on top. Now fighter jets aren't civilian cars, so the analogy quickly breaks down because frankly there is nothing a Bugatti can do that a minivan can't do, because while the Bugatti costs extra just to look and ride nice, it doesn't actually do anything else. If it's a Ford Pinto or a Model T or a Ferrari F40, they all just take people from A to B. A combat aircraft has a far wider range of possible missions, and each candidate can do different ones to differing degrees, but just because there are 10 choices that CAN drop a bomb on a given target, they are not all equally capable in a given threat environment and theater of doing it successfully. Again, that's up to the country using them to decide.

Well, I'm confused then, because I thought LP was the one who had the rights to do it? So if LP is gone, doesn't that mean it's done? I don't know what they might have gotten done beforehand, but if it was selling well it does make you wonder what happened behind the scenes that resulted in years without an update (not one screenshot) and the subsequent disintegration of the only new Western flight sim maker in the 21st century with nary a peep. Whatever they managed to get done must not have been even close to finishing, especially if 4 years later someone claims to still be working on it with, again, not a word or picture.

Supposition. There is no proof of this. What stealth planes have performed against a modern SAM system in combat to date? If it has happened, no one is telling. So how can you sit there and say "this is what will happen"? The F-117 shoot down is not relevant because it was an usual set of circumstances combined with poor planning and there are no other instances on unclassified record. By your logic, no one ever need to go to war again because we can plot out on paper exactly how things will go, so when tensions rise one side can just say "hey, I clearly win" and call it a day. The US can just retire its entire military because we have the most money to spend and say "hey, should we fight you, we can afford to make more and better stuff, so just give up now" and the other side will obviously have no choice but to go along with this.