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The player mainly flies the F/A-18 Hornet, but the F-16 Fighting Falcon is also available for aerobatics, free flight and the first mission. Contrary to the title of the game, the real F/A-18 is not a true interceptor aircraft , having been designed instead as a multirole anti-ship strike fighter .
Since the LWF did not share the design requirements of the VFAX, the Navy asked McDonnell Douglas and Northrop to develop a new aircraft from the design and principles of the YF-17. On 1 March 1977, Secretary of the Navy W. Graham Claytor announced, that the F-18 would be named "Hornet", after the characteristics of the Hornet insect.
The first was DCS: Black Shark as a simulation of the Kamov Ka-50. [48] DCS: A-10C Warthog, a standalone simulation of the A-10C, was released in February 2011. [49] An upgrade for Black Shark, DCS: Black Shark 2, was released in November 2011 and allowed for network multiplayer with Warthog. [50] The open beta of DCS World was launched in May ...
Combat flight simulators are vehicle simulation games, amateur flight simulation computer programs used to simulate military aircraft and their operations. These are distinct from dedicated flight simulators used for professional pilot and military flight training which consist of realistic physical recreations of the actual aircraft cockpit, often with a full-motion platform.
Fluorine-18 (F-18), an unstable isotope of fluorine; Slip F-18, fictional anchorage for the houseboat in the novel series starting with The Deep Blue Good-by; Formula 18, a class of catamaran; F18, a block in chapter V of ICD-10 for "Mental and behavioural disorders due to use of volatile solvents"
Eagle Dynamics was founded in 1991 by Nick Grey and Igor Tishin, with offices in Moscow and the UK. The company teamed up with Jim Mackonochie of Mindscape [10] [11] and publisher Strategic Simulations to produce its first game, a combat flight simulator.
The DCS 400 series includes the 1.5-megapixel DCS 420, and the 6-megapixel Kodak DCS 460, which retailed for $28,000 on launch. [7] In common with Kodak's later 6-megapixel models, the DCS 460 used the award-winning APS-H Kodak M6 sensor. [8] A modified version of the DCS 420 was also sold by the Associated Press as the Associated Press NC2000. [9]
It has since appeared in the Ace Combat series [25] and is a study-level aircraft in the combat flight simulator DCS World. [26] In the 2005 film Jarhead, A-10s attack U.S. Marine forces in a friendly fire incident. [27] Most incarnations of the Autobot Powerglide, who first appeared in Hasbro's Transformers toy line in 1985, transform into an ...