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http://www.gamingshogun.com/Article/8965/DCS__A-10C_Warthog_Review_-_PC.html

 

3) Any hints on what aircraft you guys are planning to simulate next?

 

A) The next DCS aircraft will be a fixed wing US fighter.

 

I'm sure we all assumed it was a fighter, but it is nice to have some confirmation.

 

My bet is that we are getting a Viper. What do you guys think?

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I believe this was confirmed already in an interview some weeks ago.

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F-15E would be amazing and given the prevalence of air-to-ground warfare as well as the various nods towards the Strike Eagle in the game files (ridiculously detailed model, AGM-130 files)... it can also serve in the air-attack role and can utilize much of the assets already present in-game.

 

F/A-18 wouldn't be bad I suppose, but I find the aircraft to be vomitous to look at, and it carries laughably light payloads. The only real reason to prefer the F/A-18 over the F-15E is carrier ops or you have a thing for the Navy. Generally speaking everything the F/A-18 can do, the F-15E can do better.

 

What's more, the F/A-18 has been done before, far more recently (In fact it's an FS:X addon) and far higher quality than the F-15E which was last done in 1998 so the quality of that one goes without speaking.

 

The F-15E also has better toys and would be way more fun to play with: ICMS TEWS suite, iDLPs, Sniper Pods, Nav Pods / TF radar, Recce pods, sniper pods... the most excitement you get out of the F/A-18 is the crappy old pod it has and it shares A/G radar mapping ability with the F-15E. I guess the downsides here is that much of the F-15s capability and toys are still highly classified and marked as NOFORN and would be a hell of a lot of work to implement the avionics of it. At the same time, I thought I heard that the F/A-18 has the same problem because the Navy is far more tight-lipped.

 

F-15E would also be way more at home on the Nellis map :)


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My Guess: F/A-18E

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F-14 Tomcat er er the fixed wing type that i just made up. Nah i really hope it's the Viper but won't be disappointed with anything else. Just hope they make it to the high standards of the A-10. No backward steps and the cherry on top would be some type of dynamic campaign.


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So many possible options:

 

F/A-22

 

F-15 C/E

 

F-16 C

 

F/A-18E

 

I could see the potential for the DOD to contract ED for a DTS for all of the above platforms. The next few months are going to be a wild ride of speculation.

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Since I live within constant earshot of the Green Mountain Boys here in Vermont, I'd certainly be partial to a new Viper sim.

 

I mean, F4 AF is excellent, but shows its age.

 

And really, it's hard to beat the F-16 for aesthetics. With the Viper and the Hog, DCS can boast about having the full range of fixed-wing attractiveness. :)

 

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I guess F/A-18E or F-15C, but what do I know.

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Nooooo!!!!

.... Now we start with the likely lottery ..... :helpsmilie:

 

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What's more, the F/A-18 has been done before, far more recently (In fact it's an FS:X addon)

 

Any combat jet for FSX is a sad joke. You cannot deploy it in a tactical environment. And the tacpack is an even sadder JOKE. JF18 is 10 years old and the grafix are hideous, especially the unreadable HUD.

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STOP the Lottery!....PLEASE.......

 

ED please! .....Reveal the mystery and put an end to this pain .....:helpsmilie:

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... the most excitement you get out of the F/A-18 is the crappy old pod ...

And not to forget the really boring carrier landings... :lol:

 

As your're wishing the F-15E: Why not hoping for the EA-18G?

Perhaps as an "addon" to the stock F/A-18. That would be cool and I'm hoping for it - at least for the F/A-18.

 

I really would bet on that plane being the next one out of DCS' "Skunkworks". :thumbup:

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