Heatblur A-6 Intruder

The main attraction of the Intruder for me will be its powerful A-G radar (hopefully the APQ-156) plus its night and poor-weather capabilities. That and its shear bomb load capability. :D

A6E is Heatblurs next project.

This jet was known as 'Death from the night sky' in Vietnam. The F111 was another Devil that they worried about at the time (later).

The main attraction of the Intruder for me will be its powerful A-G radar (hopefully the APQ-156) plus its night and poor-weather capabilities. That and its shear bomb load capability. :D

Agree – I look forward to the mental challenge of trying to fly low thru’ the Caucasus valleys in Blind(IMC) conditions heads down on my instruments. However I think the real A-6 had the BN work the radar and provide the steers whereas us DCS players obviously fly “solo” so unless there is something similar to Heatblurs F-14 “smart” RIO to help us, there will presumably have to be some clever “cheats” in the HOTAS switches..

The B/N did run the radars and steer points, hence the N in B/N....navigator:-) The steer points were displayed to the pilot on the VDI on the older models, not familiar enough with the E/TRAM to know if they had moving maps or anything.

I have a feeling that the BiNi job would be super critical in MP, as all targeting stuff went through him

^yes

Ill add a yes to that

i already bough the buddy pack for the tomcat.. im ready to do it again for the intruder!

i think that will be AMAZING that the intruder multiseat will be side by side like the gaz.

The main attraction of the Intruder for me will be its powerful A-G radar (hopefully the APQ-156) plus its night and poor-weather capabilities. That and its shear bomb load capability. :D

relative for its time i suppose.

Was hoping for an F-111, but maybe getting an Intruder, that's not a bad deal at all.

I have a love hate relationship with the A6... while in the Sand Box I was coming out from a building and we had shelter and sniper net up but I could hear the sound of a large rocket coming down and with no chance to reach a bunker in time realized this was going to be the end. Then I caught sight of an A6E through a gap in the nets. First time I ever heard one, radically different sound. I guess what doesn't kill you makes you want to play it? I was excited as hell when I saw this module could make its way in.

Radars aside - I would be interested to see this come in as a jamming bird - would bring a whole new world to deep strike missions!

Radars aside - I would be interested to see this come in as a jamming bird - would bring a whole new world to deep strike missions!

A Prowler would be cool but IDK how well they could model Electronic Warfare in DCS World. Especially since I'd assume that sort of stuff is classified.

I would have a love hate relationship with the A6 but for toally different reasons. Whilst id certainly appreciate what it offers for strike missions with its large payload, and High tech Radar ( at least for its Time period ) , the hate woukd the feeling of helplessness knowing your need to be babysat like A10's by fighters escorts, difference is your way way behind enemy lines.

A6 has got no guns, and can at best carry only 2 older generation sidewinders sacrificing 2 pylons which could have been used for either more bombs, or for AGM45's instead. I think id feel less paranoid in an A7E.

You have a point Kev but back in the time period it was developed, and for most of it's service life, the environment it was designed to operate in (night all weather) they were fairly well protected from enemy fighters. I would gladly fly it anywhere and anytime, even if I had to have an escort along to watch my back.

Agreed, Razor - plus, you're a lot faster than the A-10! Besides, later A-6E could carry Sidewinders, not sure if this is the one Heatblur are planning on doing, but if so we son't be entirely toothless. I'd go as far as to say we'd be a much more dangerous target than a Hog!

Heatblur A-6 Intruder

Agree , no need to be scared of MiG 15s when you fly at night

And for a Day Alpha strike ? Do your Mission! And let the fighters do their job. A F-4 with A-A configurations is better for fighting migs than a intruder with guns .

Multirole kills diversity ;)

And the most compelling reason of them all for wanting to fly the Intruder.....it comes with a HOOK!! :thumbup:

And the most compelling reason of them all for wanting to fly the Intruder.....it comes with a HOOK!! :thumbup:

Bomb truck baby.

A Prowler would be cool but IDK how well they could model Electronic Warfare in DCS World. Especially since I'd assume that sort of stuff is classified.

Hadn't thought of the classification issue, though we do have jamming pods and while the nuts and bolts are classified the general concept isn't. Oh well, I can dream right! Besides, probably not the most commercially viable module to make - not only would you have to develop an RIO like the F14 but I don't see a whole lot of players salivating at the idea of leading a strike mission deep into enemy territory with heavy SAM and fighter cover to fly around jamming while everyone else has the fun of putting warheads on foreheads.

Hadn't thought of the classification issue, though we do have jamming pods and while the nuts and bolts are classified the general concept isn't. Oh well, I can dream right! Besides, probably not the most commercially viable module to make - not only would you have to develop an RIO like the F14 but I don't see a whole lot of players salivating at the idea of leading a strike mission deep into enemy territory with heavy SAM and fighter cover to fly around jamming while everyone else has the fun of putting warheads on foreheads.

I'd be into them adding electronic warfare platforms as AI. Increasing the effect of the current in game ECM so one plane can mask a whole flight in group close formation.

Sooooo... Where it is?! If got money left to burn..:pilotfly:

Sooooo... Where it is?! If got money left to burn..:pilotfly:

They said they would release it AI ONLY with the F-14, then later release a full module, so we have a bit of a wait.

Hadn't thought of the classification issue, though we do have jamming pods and while the nuts and bolts are classified the general concept isn't. Oh well, I can dream right! Besides, probably not the most commercially viable module to make - not only would you have to develop an RIO like the F14 but I don't see a whole lot of players salivating at the idea of leading a strike mission deep into enemy territory with heavy SAM and fighter cover to fly around jamming while everyone else has the fun of putting warheads on foreheads.

Obviously you've never flown with me, the guy who once spent an online mission with a Viggen armed only with a jamming pod, a countermeasures pod, and two Rb-74s, making runs alongside friendly jets to jam enemy radars.

I get off on stuff like that, because I'm weird. There's probably not enough of us to necessitate a module, but there are more of us than you'd expect.

I certainly see a subset of players who would love to use the EA-6B Prowler but I dont know if the equipment can be simulated well enough to really work well. Depends how ED is re-working the radar system too I would imagine.

I would so love this, during my days in the Operation Desert Storm and Southern Watch days, I was attached to 2 A-6E Intruder squadrons.

Needless to say, this bird could carry a metric ###-ton of ordnance. I should know... I loaded damn near everything that bird could carry.

This was also an interesting aircraft because the B/N (Bombardier/Navigator) sat next to the pilot instead of behind. This was also the first all weather attack aircraft in the Navy to utilize Night Vision technology.

Heatblur, if you need some ordnance information (non-classified of course) on the bird, let me know, I still have some of that information rattling around in my head, somewhere in there.

Oh the stories I could tell you from my time in the Persian Gulf...