User Files

This skin pack includes a line bird and CAG bird for VFA-136 ca. 2006-7.  While the skins use the dynamic MODEXes (side numbers), the MODEXes for these skins were historically in the 300 series (300 for CAG).  Each skin has a "normal" version and a weathered version.  Weathered skins have a bleached effect as if the aircraft were heavily exposed to the sun for months on end.  Normal skins include pilots with green flightsuits, while weathered skins include pilots with desert flightsuits.  Note: this skin pack is distributed as an EXE installer.

IMPORTANT: For compact installations, do not delete Saved Games\DCS, even if you exclusively use Saved Games\DCS.OpenBeta!

A fictional Australian aircraft carrier based on the Forrestal,
this is a Livery file and does NOT require modifying the main DCS folder.

It is a basic livery for the Forrestal, brightening lots of the deck markings, changing the Island to gray, and adding some Canadian touches to the Default Heatblur USS Forrestal.

In an alternate world under a lease agreement with the US Navy, Canada would once again have an aircraft carrier. With a strained budget, a single Forrestal-Class aircraft carrier was chosen. Not long after, the vessel was commissioned into the Canadian Armed Forces as HMCS Forrestal (CV-59).

Operation Longsword is inspired by the events of the 1983 evacuation of the US Embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.

The player will fly CAP in his F-14A Tomcat off the coast of Lebanon and ensure that the evacuation helicopters get in and out of Lebanon safely.
The mission provides an own AWACS, callsign Wizard who will provide all mission relevant data to the player.
Mission uses a lot of randomizations, so the experience will be different when flying the mission a second, third or even fourth time.

For a better immersion of the set time frame, the mission uses Heatblur's Forrestal carrier.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01. Due to some inaccuracies pointed out to me, I have completely redone all three liveries and updated them to a new standard, and added in three new bonus liveries depicting them later in their lives.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Prince of Wales R03.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Duke of Edinburgh R02.

A British Royal Navy livery for Heatblur's USS Forrestal, depicting the carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth R01.

Brighter paint for the USS Forrestal.

Here are two skins for the VSN EA-6B Prowler mod to bring immersion to your flight decks! Included are two birds of VAQ-132 Scorpions in high visibility paint schemes. Both are from the 1980s, one was deployed on USS Forrestal, the other one on USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.