Operation Columbus
We had a great time last weekend with our guests AMVI from Italy and BlackSheep Squadron from France. A nice 20 helicopters operation along the Iranian coast with some nice coordination required for the final assault between transports, attack and scouts helicopters.
DCS Syria on short final?
Ugra Media and ED recently announced the short final for this map, DCS Syria, which will actually covers part of Israel, Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. It's always challenging to guess what "approaching its final stages of development" really means in the mind of Ugra Media and ED since we have no idea how many stages it involves and the length of each of them. Our guess is that it will be certainly more than 2 weeks. Anyway, new screenshots emerged last week and needless to say that this map is likely to be on the first day buy list of most of our pilots, just at the same level than what the Persian Gulf one was when it came out.
Among those screenshot, one intriguing one was this shot of Palmyra with installations definitively restricted to helicopters only (and eventually Harriers). This will surely be a place of choice for every chopper missions we will have on this map.
Razbam is teasing some 3D renderings
Razbam, after taking a share in the completion of the BO-105 module, is now teasing some 3D renderings of helicopters. Lately, a Sea King air frame showed up on their twitter account.
It is kinda hard to say if Razbam is actually developing a full blown DCS level helicopter module of this chopper or just teasing some assets for their upcoming Falklands map. My guess is that is it just the latter. But it's just me.