The difference is that aircraft are fully integrated in DCS.
But honestly i’d argue that the fun factor offsets some of the realism difference as with 1 premium aircraft, you can grind an entire tree in maybe 6 months if you’re pretty good and not grinding like Russia or the US. So you also gain a lot of variety.
As much as I love the realism, I prefer a Battlefield 3 ‘going hunting’ style game which is closer to war thunder, than a suped-up MFS style game-play that you get with DCS. (Please noone get offended at me for the comparisons)
I’m not sure, i’d only buy them on sales because I can’t justify spending that much on any game, DCS included.
That’s fair, in the end of the day we are playing a f2p game. With a couple of exceptions you can get at least some variant of every airframe without paying
F-5C got flares to justify being 10.3, no other reason.
Yak-141 got added cause it’s a cool naval jet that went in the naval line while we wait for Mig-29K & Su-33 to end the line; and it got added similar to VB1002, Kikka, etc.
The F-5C is a solid 10.3 without flares
They definitely gave it the flares so it would be more appealing and judging by how poorly the J35A, T-2 Early, Milan seem to have sold in comparison that trick obviously worked wonders. Hell, they didn’t even put a discount on it for this years anniversary sale
No, without flares we see similar vehicles at 9.7 & 10.0.
Milan being one of those, literally just a delta wing F-5C without flares that has a superior engine.
Where did you get the missile range data?
You also provide data on Soviet\Russian missiles of the initial versions of the 1980s in comparison with modern versions of other missiles …