Don’t be too harsh. I think the footage is from booth visitors from the Expo. Some of them never flew in a sim pit.
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Uhm ok, in that optic it makes sense I guess.
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no it doesnt 
… maybe only a little in case they wanted to produce a personalized gift video for the visitors 
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They actually did that
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A highly anticipated module for me. I really think that the early to mid cold-war era is the sweet spot for the baseline of DCS simulation fidelity. Mechanically complex aircraft to keep the button pushers happy, with unique and quirky flight models, and the base line EMW modeling of DCS isn’t stretched beyond the breaking point or showing off where it just doesn’t work.
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Booooyz… We are in Deep Doo Doo now.
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Woof Woof that is one pornaliciously sexy video!
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It’s got Heatblur Vibes Ooooozzzing out of it!!! 
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And the Simmers Prayed, And the skys opened up on the eighth day, and upon them a new developer decended. GD.
Could this be the beginning of a new DCS era?
Nobody ever said that competition was not healthy.
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All We need is that F-14 Countdown Clock…That brought back the little kid"Christmas Time" Excitement in me 
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I was thinking the same thing. The F-100 at this level of fidelity will fit in very nicely with Heatblur’s F-4.
We will only know for certain until they post a screenie of the pilot with his helmet set on the side of the opened pit sporting a magnificent moustache. Because otherwise the bar just isn’t met.
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The obvious one to me:
not a Hun but what are the odds he he didn’t fly one at some pint?
Chappie James?
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Until the flight lead calls for mach 1.5 and the F-100s AB fails to light.
Dad served under him and Olds at Ubon, never had a bad word to say about him.
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The things I would do for a Chappie James pilot skin…
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For those curious about how the F-100 fits into DCS, I intend to make a video explaining just that, based on historical operations involving the Hun. In short?
In Northern and Central Europe, USAF Huns saw a lot of mileage. It was also not uncommon to see US ANG Huns deployed on exercises in the mid to late 70s. Here, they would have fulfilled their tried and true fighter-bomber mission as they brilliantly demonstrated in Southeast Asia.
However, the really interesting Hun operations don’t occur with the USAF, but rather the RDAF. Yeah, the Danes! The Danes loved the Hun. They had so much confidence in the aircraft, it became their first strike option and stayed that until '82.
A Danish strike package consisted of 8 to 12 ships with the last two ships in the formation being called the “dogs.” More on that soon. The formation would fly to an initial point at which time it’d split up into 2-3 smaller groups that’d attack a target at different angles at a previously determined time. In total, the formation would spend 2 minutes unleashing up to 48 bombs on a target. What kind of target? They were very ambitious and would’ve struck at something really valuable like Damgarten on the Northern shore.
Now, about those last two Huns, the so-called “Dogs.” While very other F-100D in the formation were loaded down with bombs, the Dogs carried an asymmetric load that saw them carry bombs on one pylon and AIM-9s on the other. Think “Sheepdogs.” They’d basically shepherd the pack of bomb-laden F-100s to their targets, drop their own bombs, and keep their head on a swivel for any defensive airborne hostiles.
The Danes also used the Dogs as part of their DEAD tactics. The Dogs would be leading the formation and fly a heading that took them directly to a radar. Now, keep in mind, the RDAF Huns lacked the AN/APR-25 RHAW. They would only be able to detect the site when they spotted smoke trails. Upon sighting them, the Dogs with bank hard and divert 90 degrees so they were perpendicular to the SAM site. While the SAM crew is busy trying to re-establish lock, the rest of the fleet proceeds to pound the SAM sight with everything they got.
The Danes really put a lot of faith in, what was, an absolutely ancient airframe for its era. And, from what I can tell, their Hun cadre lived, breathed, and ate F-100D. So, I have little doubt that these guys would’ve been some of the best Hun riders in the Western allies.
Evidence of their confidence in the F-100D is best illustrated here. This is a Danish F-100D with the P-23 exhaust. Until I started doing this deep dive, I figured the P-23 exhaust was something exclusive to ANG units looking to squeeze a few more years out of their old fighter-bombers. But, nope. Here’s a Danish one with that tailpipe. Now, yes, the Danes received attrition replacements at one point, but they were all F-100F two seaters. So, G-177 here? They had to have purchased and fitted the P-23 tail pipe themselves or had someone fit it for them.
That kind of work for such an old warhorse for the time is a huge vote of confidence in the community around the fighter and the fighter itself. I mean, this thing was replaced by Vipers. They just decided “Nah, let’s actually upgrade.”
The French experience with the F-100D is one of needs.
They needed a supersonic combat aircraft to replace their F-84Gs/Fs.
As the first foreign adopter F-100D, they got just that. French pilots loved the performance, comfortable cockpit, and its ability to double as an interceptor (a role it would, sadly, be outmoded in pretty soon).
They needed a quick, deep-strike platform that allowed them to forward deploy into Germany and be able to deploy a nuclear weapon.
They got just that. In fact, it’s this capability that kept the F-100D in French service until 1978. Partially, at least. The F-100D’s AAR capabilities kept it in French stocks for a respectable amount of time. Well into the 70s, the French depended on it for that deep strike.
They needed a good fighter-bomber that could be used in CAS roles.
They got one of the best. In fact, the F-100D saw it being used to that end during the French involvement in Djibouti, which would also see it be the last F-100D flight in French history. It would be replaced in this role by the SEPECAT Jaguar.
The French tale of the F-100D is one of a stopgap, but a damn good one. They needed it to cover bases during their own efforts to develop suitable and superior domestic solutions, like the Jaguar and Mirages.
In all of my current research, I find nothing but affection for the F-100. It’s the same wistful outlook I saw from RAAF pilots after their 2 years with leased F-4Es were up. They understood that it was time for their aircraft to move on. It was no longer fit for purpose and a superior replacement had been found. But, while they don’t disagree with the change on a logical level, they certainly lament the end of their time with the Hun.
Leaving the temperate lands of Central Europe and the frozen reaches of the North, we now arrive in Anatolia, the home of amazing moustaches, rich history, and the birthplace of the Emperor of Mankind!
The Turks used the F-100 in some of the most intense combat operations outside of the type’s involvement in Southeast Asia. In 1964, The Turks used the F-100D to bomb Cypriot targets. During the 1974 Invasion of Cyprus, F-100Ds were used to strike Cypriot National Guard positions.
I’m guessing, they probably used M117s as opposed to Mk.82s as a note.
The Turks were the largest foreign operator of the F-100 and actually proved to be a pain in the ass for the PVO. Throughout the F-100’s career in Turkey, it was used to frequently test the reaction times and tactics of Soviet defenses. In the one time that the Soviets were able to down a Turkish F-100, the wreckage and pilot landed back on Turkish land. This allowed the Turkish government to raise absolute hell about the “unjustified destruction” of one of their fighters which was CLEARLY over their own territory.
The Air Force of the Republic of China is the odd-man out here. They’re the only foreign operator of the F-100A. The closest thing they had to the F-100D were their F-100Fs and the modifications their A’s received. Their F-100As received the taller vertical stab of the F-100D, the AN/APS-54 tail warning radar, and AIM-9s.
These were the longest operated F-100s, period, with the last examples retiring in 1988. They fulfilled the role of air defense fighter and CAS platform for the Nationalist Chinese.
There’s always one throughline with all F-100 Operators: Their pilots acknowledge the F-100’s issues, but profess a love for the fighter regardless.
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