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Su-33 for DCS World Coming Soon
Su-33 for DCS World is now available for pre-purchase! Normally priced at $14.99 USD, the Su-33 will be discounted to $11.99 while in pre-purchase, a 20% savings. The Early Access release is set for late-September 2017.
Other screenshots available here.
Pre-purchase Su-33 for DCS World
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DCS Su-33 Deck Landing Tests (WIP)
Su-33 mini demoOwners of DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3 will receive the Su-33 for FREE! Upon Early Access release of the Su-33 for DCS World, DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3 will be priced at $44.99 USD.
Features of this upcoming Su-33 update include:
- Professional Flight Model (PFM)
- More detailed and accurate simulation of the wing control surfaces that include the leading and trailing edge flaps and the differential ailerons. In addition to the conventional differential stabilizers, canard behavior has also been improved for more realistic behavior. The Flight Control System (FCS) will automatically reconfigure itself depending on the flight mode.
- The adaptations that make the Su-33 aircraft carrier-capable have been updated and improved to include the wing-fold mechanism, reinforced landing gear struts, and the inclusion of high-gain nose wheel steering for use on crowded carrier decks.
- The physical mechanisms by which the arrestor hook engages the aircraft carrier arrestor wire has been greatly improved. Correct physics have been applied to the arrestor wire and its’ interaction with the aircraft.
- The engines now have a "special mode" that adds up to 12,800 kg of thrust (instead of the normal 12,500 kg of thrust). This mode also includes realistic operating time restrictions.
- A new FCS mode used when aerial refueling has also been implemented. When in this mode and the control stick is released, the aircraft will automatically maintain level flight. This FCS mode allows fine-control and thus making it easier to make contact with the tanker within a pitch range of plus or minus 5 degrees and of a roll angle of plus or minus 10 degrees.
- The Auto-Thrust Control (ATC) is used for automatic speed holding and can be fine-tuned with a set speed switch. This can be useful with landing on the carrier.
- The automatic collision avoidance system ("Uvod" mode) is now included and allows safe nap-of-the-earth flying.
Announcing the P-51D: Charnwood Campaign
Created by the same team behind the Spitfire: Epsom Campaign, work is moving rapidly on this historically-based campaign for the P-51D over Normandy in July 1944. The Charnwood campaign reproduces missions P-51D missions flown in support of the allied breakout of Normandy. Given the Mustang’s combination of air-to-air and air-to-ground capabilities (bombs and rockets), this campaign will offer a wealth of mission types and challenges. Each mission is based on a real mission, down to weather, times, squadrons, mission tasks, and allied and axis unit placement.
Coming Autumn 2017.
Other screenshots available here.
DCS 1.5.7 Update 1 for Steam
This week we are updating the 1.5.7 version of DCS World for Steam and also offer two new campaigns:
Mi-8MTV2: The Border Campaign
Trailer Video: The Border Campaign by Armen
"The Border" is the storyline campaign of a Russian Air-Force pilot flying the Mi-8MTV2 helicopter inside DCS World.
The player serves as a helicopter commander in the South Ossetia border area. In the course of 15 missions you’ll have to fly day and night sorties, deliver cargo and military personnel to remote outposts, land and pick up ground forces by helicopter, participate in special-forces raids conducted at the territory of the Republic.
Features of The Border campaign:
- 15 adventurous single player missions.
- 206 voiced radio dialogues in the campaign's missions.
- Detailed mission briefings with flight plan pictures.
- Russian localization includes voiceovers and subtitles.
- English localization includes subtitles.
The DCS: Mi-8MTV2 is required to be installed.
A-10C: Stone Shield Campaign
Trailer Video: A-10C Stone Shield Campaign
A-10C: Stone Shield is a story-driven campaign that puts you in the cockpit of an A-10C Warthog as a USAF pilot assigned to the 445th Air Expeditionary Wing.
In 2015 Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Russia have announced the start of the "Caucasus-2015" military exercise. Intelligence analysis later reveals that the exercises is actually cover for Russia forces repositioning to the Abkhazian territory and further escalating tensions in the Caucasus region.
The 445th Air Expeditionary Wing and the 6th mechanized brigade have been deployed to Georgia as a response by NATO to counter Russia's military aggression against its peaceful neighbor.
Prepare yourself to face with the following tasks:
- Providing precision airstrikes against enemy targets
- Supporting Special Ops teams in tracking down and capturing dangerous militants
- Providing on-call close air support for friendly forces and much more
The A-10C: Stone Shield campaign offers you a variety of challenging missions in which you must not only act as a tank killer, but also operate as a sniper making one shot and one kill engagements.
The DCS: A-10C Warthog is required to be installed.
Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team-
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Seems very good quality to me - plenty of new systems to learn.
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Weekend Bundle Deals
This weekend we have three bundle deals that focus on the DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map and three great Belsimtek modules. Each bundle is $59.99 USD and will be available starting today at 1500 GMT and will last until 28 August at 0900 GMT.
- DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map + DCS: UH-1H Huey
- DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map + DCS: F-5E Tiger II
- DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map + DCS: Mi-8MTV2 Magnificent Eight
Find these and all special offers here.
New US Trains for DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map
Although we have inner-city commuter trains in the Nevada map, we’ve lacked the inclusion of long-haul trains. Our team has been working on resolving this absent feature. We’ve included three images of the new train cars and locomotive coming to the DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map.
These will also be useful for future DCS World maps based in the United States.
Purchase the DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map here.
DCS: Strait of Hormuz Map
In parallel with updating the Caucasus map, our map teams have been busy with the DCS: Strait of Hormuz Map. The team is making great progress with completing all of the airfields, adding additional details to the towns and cities, and refining the terrain details. Combined with the new lighting and rendering system, we are increasingly happy with the look and feel of this map. We continue to strive to make this map a close approximation of this region as possible.
Here are three images of the current state of this map.
Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team -
F-4 update
The developed modification F-4E is equipped with the DMAS (Digital Modular Avionics System) AN / ARN-101.
The Digital Modular Avionics System (DMAS) is an integrated navigation and weapon delivery system installed to enhance the all-weather capability of the aircraft. The DMAS replaces the existing navigation computer (AN/ ASN-46A), inertial navigation set (AN/ASN-63), and weapon release computer set (AN/ASQ-91). In addition, the DMAS provides a self-contained, automatic computer approach-to-landing-mode.
DMAS is integrated with the radar AN/APQ-120, optical sight AN/ASG-26.
The presence of an optoelectronic system AN/ASX-1 Target Identification System Electro – Optical (TISEO), which is installed in the leading edge of the left wing, allows to detect air targets at long distances.
Against air targets, the aircraft is armed with AIM-9, AIM-7 missiles and M61 Vulcan gun.
For ground strikes, the aircraft can use a large range of weapons that includes conventional and guided aircraft bombs, bomb containers, unguided rockets, gun (gun containers SUU-16/A), guided missiles AGM-65 Maverick and AGM-45 Shrike.
This modification is also able to use a guided bomb GBU-15.
For detection and target designation, an AN/AVQ-26 optical-electronic container can be suspended on the central pylon.
As a means of EW, up to two AN / ALQ-131 containers can be suspended.
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DCS: World War II Assets Pack Update
In parallel with other DCS World War II improvements to the Normandy map, aircraft, interface, and AI, we are also hard at work adding new assets to the World War II Assets Pack. Today, we’d like to share the following images with you of what is in store for you.
E-boat Schnellboot type S-130 - WIP
Sd.Kfz.2 Kettenkrad - WIP
Weekend Bundle Deal
For this week’s bundle deal, we are focusing on providing you the Red Flag experience. This 50% off bundle is only $59.99 and includes:
- DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map
- DCS: A-10C Warthog
- F-15C for DCS World
- A-10C: 16-2 Red Flag Campaign
- F-15C: 16-2 Red Flag Campaign
This bundle deal starts today 1500 GMT and will last until 14 August 2017 at 0900 GMT.
DCS: F/A-18C Hornet Video
In our series of F/A-18C Hornet familiarization videos, we today have a tour of the Hornet cockpit:
Sincerely,
The Eagle Dynamics Team -
Life for British Phantom pilots was seldom boring. Whether it was training for near suicidal night attacks against the Soviet Navy, intercepting ‘Bear’s or performing low-level attacks. During the Cold War Chris Bolton flew the mighty F-4 for both the RAF and the Royal Navy. Hush-Kit met him to find out more.
https://hushkit.net/2017/07/31/flying-the-f-4-phantom-ii-british-style/
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Spitfire: Epsom Campaign
The Epsom campaign for our Spitfire is now available!
Download from DCS E-Shop
Fly the legendary Spitfire LF Mk. IX over Normandy in June 1944 as the allies attempt to break out of the D-Day landing beachheads. Battle German forces in the air and on the ground as the allies push south over 12 missions south of the Juno and Gold landing beaches. The missions consist of a combination of armed reconnaissance, intercepts, and directed ground attacks.
For this campaign, we teamed up with the greatly respected "Bunyap", who has created an amazing level of detail and content for the briefings and historical background. All missions and flights in the campaign are based on actual missions down to the squadrons, targets, locations, times, weather, flak locations, etc. We believe this will be the most historically accurate portrayal of World War II air combat in a PC flight simulation.
Key Features:
- 12 historic missions taken from detailed accounts of Operation Epsom
- Detailed briefing and briefing images, including separate PDF mission files
- Unique kneeboard graphics for each mission
- Hundreds of specially recorded voice-over messages to recreate the actual callsigns and accents
- A wide array of missions included armed reconnaissance, intercepts and ground attack
- Takes advantage of new AI features like Flak avoidance and authentic formations
Localization:
Voiceovers: English
Briefings/Subtitles: English
Documentation: EnglishNote: In addition to DCS: Spitfire LF Mk.IX, this campaign also requires the DCS: Normandy 1944 Map / DCS: World War II Assets Pack.
DCS World 2.1.1 Update 1 Available
To support the release of the Epsom Campaign and make some needed changes, we have also released the first update for
DCS World 2.1.1.
You can read the complete changelog here.
Weekend Bundle Deal
For those that want to jump into the Epsom Campaign but do not have the required assets, here is the perfect bundle for you! Get DCS: Spitfire LF Mk.IX + DCS: Normandy 1944 Map + DCS: World War II Assets Pack Bundle for a 40% off savings.
Find the bundle deal in the special section of DCS e-shop
This bundle deal starts today at 1500 GMT and will last until 7 August 2017 at 0900 GMT.
Have a great weekend over the skies of Normandy!
The Eagle Dynamics Team -
Is that for WOV or SF2V? sounds like a terrain issue.
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http://www.aircrewinterview.tv/#/arnulf-hartl-on-the-f104-starfighter/
Arnulf Hartl is a former German Air Force F-104 and F-4F Pilot. The main focus of the interview is his time on the F-104, which includes training, front line squadrons, stories and being an instructor.
He also chats about his time on the F-4F, where he spent 10 years on the mighty F-4. We get to hear about DACT with other European nations and also USAF F-15 Eagles.
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Summer Sale Bundle Deals
For the second week of our Summer Sale, we are adding three 60% off bundle deals!
- DCS: Combined Arms + DCS: Flaming Cliffs 3
- DCS: NEVADA Test and Training Range Map + DCS: A-10C Warthog + A-10C: 16-2 Red Flag Campaign
- DCS: A-10C Warthog + DCS: Black Shark
These bundle deals will last until 31 July 2017 at 0900 GMT.
Find them in special section of DCS E-Shop
DCS World Summer Sale, Just Three More Days
Our 2017 Summer Sale will last just three more days, until 24 July 2017 at 0900 GMT. Except for the DCS: Normandy 1944 Map, DCS: World War II Assets Pack, and campaigns, save 50% on all e-Shop purchases! We also recently added DCS: M-2000C to the sale.
Visit our e-Shop here:
DCS: F/A-18C Hornet Video
To prepare you for the upcoming DCS: F/A-18C Hornet, we are producing a series of videos that discuss the simulation and its features. This first video is an introduction to the DCS: F/A-18C Hornet and what we have planned for it.
See on the DCS YouTube channel
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Yes the online resource was called Thirdwire ( TK )......there is probably a load of info on those forums (down at the mo) still if not here.
I don't have much of the detail and cannot remember exactly.
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Haha...........no idea if it was true.....things have changed a bit.....you can now get cold beer!
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DCS World e-Shop Summer Sale
We are delighted to announce the DCS World e-Shop Summer Sale that starts today at 1500 GMT and will last until 24 July at 0900 GMT. Except for the DCS: Normandy 1944 Map, DCS: World War II Assets Pack and DCS M-2000 save 50% on all e-Shop purchases!
Visit our e-Shop here:
A-10C: Tactical Training Qualification Campaign - Now Available
The A-10C: Tactical Training Qualification Campaign is now available from our e-Shop
The A-10C Tactical Training Qualification campaign puts you in the cockpit of an A-10C Warthog, and tests your ability to interact with JTACs, Airborne FACs, AC-130 Gunships and manage Close Air Support (CAS) assets. Based on real world qualification requirements, you will fly 15 performance check rides to execute against pre-defined performance objectives. If successful, you will rate a Qualified rating and proceed to the next performance objective.
The campaign covers a number of key areas including FAC & JTAC Coordination, Stationary and Moving Target Tasking, Danger Close Tasking, SEAD Tasking, Deep Interdiction Tasking Day & Night, and Deep Interdiction Special Forces Coordination. In addition, you will work with additional CAS assets and cover SADL Datalink Engagement, CAS Mission Management Day & Night, Battlefield Air Interdiction Mission Management Day & Night, and Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) Mission Management Day & Night culminating in a final Simulated Combat Mission using everything you have learned in the previous missions.
Additionally, 15 single player practice missions are provided so you can perfect your tactics, techniques and procedures. There are over 1,300 voiceovers and over 470 pages of briefing material including the A-10C Amplified Checklist, Blue Force In-Flight Guide, Operation Agile Spirit SPINS, Maps, Target Diagrams, Mission Data Cards and Custom Kneeboards.
The Museum Relic Campaign - Available on Steam
The Museum Relic Campaign is now available on Steam and is a great experience for both the F-86F and MiG-15bis.
"The Museum Relic" is a story driven campaign that takes place between the two small fictional countries of Matova and Obristen. As their war stretches on into its fifth year, both nations are feeling the strain of not being able to replenish any of their lost vehicles. You will fly as a character who, at the beginning of the war, was just a civilian. But after seeing the dire situation his country is facing, decides to enlist in the Matova Army Air Corp. With his enlistment papers, he also brings with him his personal aircraft which he had donated to the Museum years ago.
The DCS: MiG-15bis or DCS: F-86F Sabre are required to be installed and activated into the DCS World 1.5 for the campaign.
Please note that the Steam purchases uses Steam keys that cannot be used with the DCS World e-Shop version.
Visit our DCS World page on Steam
Sincerely,
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...................the Battleship toting super flotilla that USS Ranger was a part of in 1987, but around that same time Ranger sported a unique air wing of its own.
Dubbed unofficially the "Grumman Air Wing," Carrier Air Wing Two (CVW-2) deployed aboard the Ranger in mid 1986 with mostly Grumman-built aircraft, and no light attack squadrons whatsoever.
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The F-5E / MiG-15bis & F-86F are top quality modules so I expect justice will be done.
Slatted Rivet Haste USAF F-4E with TISEO might be cool.
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LOL..........dont laugh too hard because the last one we rolled out appeared to be not much more than a twin engined F-16...........<cough>.........rolling into squadrons the same time as the Raptor.
Still at least that one started with radar...........I remember the one before (Tornado F.2) starting life with Ballast in the nose.
If it is gong to emulate the F-35 program I can only see smooth sailing all the way
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http://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-germany-defence-idUSKBN19Y1FJ?il=0
PARIS (Reuters) - France and Germany unveiled plans on Thursday to develop a European fighter jet, burying past rivalries as part of a raft of measures to tighten defense and security cooperation.
The complete Franco-German fighter jet plan reportedly calls for a combination of manned and unmanned aircraft to ultimately replace France’s Dassault Rafales and Germany’s Eurofighter Typhoons. The two countries will come up with a shared “roadmap” by the middle of 2018, but there is not a clear time frame for when the new aircraft could or should enter production or be ready for combat.
Results in 30 years...................!-
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There are a few for the Nevada map now albeit for study level modules : https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/products/campaigns/
There hopefully will be other maps in the coming Years.
The free Su-25T and the Flaming Cliffs 3 module are not study level.
Some of the modules e.g. F-86F/MiG-15bis are relatively simple and include good training missions to step through things, and the clickable pits are really easy to use compared to all that remembering keystroke crap from years back.
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I do like both kinds although the answer to this is probably the campaign type with enough gaming features to keep the player occupied. Falcon 4 hails from the 90s era and way of thinking so its campaign is excellent, and of course reality is generally dynamic with a high degree of uncertainty and that is part of the challenge.
DCS story based campaigns are pretty good if you only play them once.......which is about all I get time for anyway. Did The Museum relic in the MiG-15bis......was very good attempting all the different challenges......and if you screw up like stall the thing in the clouds by a Mountain, then you can do it again but have a higher chance to complete it because it is essentially Ground Hog Day / Edge of Tomorrow.
SF2 campaigns can be good but getting engaged with them can be difficult for example:
SF2V (RT/LB1) you get stuck in a long drawn out thing that seems like single missions that seems to drag on and often you get to hit similar targets..........so although might be a bit like the real thing was as a player you don't seem engaged in what is going on.
SF2I.........the best IMO often short distances to fly, some of the best jets, best scenery, challenging, dynamic differences being surrounded by enemy countries, because of the short time frame you see previous damage.
SF2NA..totally different to previous runs more like a story based campaign to some degree and once you work out how to do it the challenge and interest drops off.
There are actually a lot of differences between campaign and single missions in SF2 the players don't see outside of managing your pilots & Weapons, e.g. large flights all performing different roles, destroying parked a/c will affect their numbers etc etc.
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News of Su-33 for DCS World
Currently in the Eagle Dynamics update hangar is our Su-33 for DCS World / Flaming Cliffs 3. This carrier-borne aircraft is in the final stages of receiving a big, FREE update that includes much improved flight dynamics and the addition of several new systems. This will bring our Su-33 much more aligned with its real-world counterpart.
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Features of this upcoming Su-33 update include:- More detailed and accurate simulation of the wing control surfaces that include the leading and trailing edge flaps and the differential ailerons. In addition to the conventional differential stabilizers, canard behavior has also been improved for more realistic behavior. The Flight Control System (FCS) will automatically reconfigure itself depending on the flight mode.
- The adaptations that make the Su-33 aircraft-capable have been updated and improved to include the wing-fold mechanism, reinforced landing gear struts, and the inclusion of high-gain nose wheel steering for use on crowded carrier decks.
- The physical mechanisms by which the arrestor hook engages the aircraft carrier arrestor wire has been greatly improved. Correct physics have been applied to the arrestor wire and its’ interaction with the aircraft.
- The engines now have a “special mode” that adds up to 12,800 kg of thrust (instead of the normal 12,500 kg of thrust). This mode also includes realistic operating time restrictions.
- A new FCS mode used when aerial refueling has also been implemented. When in this mode and the control stick is released, the aircraft will automatically maintain level flight. This FCS mode allows fine-control and thus making it easier to make contact with the tanker within a pitch range of plus or minus 5 degrees and of a roll angle of plus or minus 10 degrees.
- The Auto-Thrust Control (ATC) is used for automatic speed holding and can be fine-tuned with a set speed switch. This can be useful with landing on the carrier.
- The automatic collision avoidance system (“Uvod” mode) is now included and allows safe nap-of-the-earth flying.
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Agree with the above....would also add that available aircraft for SF2 is still better than both.
Because of the effort it takes to do a single model in DCS you do get the quality but may not see many sub types of each aircraft e.g. the F-86A / E to go with the F..which of course most wont give a toss about.
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Um right click on desktop -> view.......... is it gone in that update.have not got to that yet?
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Bleeds energy in a turn - that is about it I think
https://hushkit.net/2016/10/13/mirage-2000-pilot-interview-cutting-it-in-the-electric-cakeslice/
More seriously the cockpit layout reminds me a bit of the F-16A and there are a few switch functions similar to that.