09 June 2023

Dear Fighter Pilots, Partners and Friends,

We are excited to launch the Sinai map with a 20% early access discount. This stunning new terrain for DCS is of huge historical importance and offers an incredibly diverse and challenging battlefield for you to explore and dominate. Watch the video!

The DCS: Sinai map spans from Egypt to southern Israel. It is a strategic location, rich in resources, nature, religion and history. This huge map includes all highly detailed airports, military airbases, towns, cities, deserts, fertile farm lands, oases and coastlines. The Suez Canal waterway connects the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea and provides a shorter route between Europe and Asia. This significant trade route is of immense economic value and regional security and stability are essential for global business. 18’000 plus vessels transit through the canal per annum and with a value in excess of 3 trillion USD or 12% of global trade, it is fair to say that Sinai is a big deal. Enjoy!

Please check out the first part of our Radar White Paper. This first paper discusses our work on F/A-18C radar enhancements and how radar detection range is simulated based on several factors. 

Next week, the vast majority of our staff will be on a global team offsite and therefore support and updates may be somewhat less active. We apologise for this and thank you for your understanding.

Thank you for your passion and support.

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics

Sinai

Early Access

This new map territory includes the entire Sinai Peninsula, eastern Egypt, the Nile Delta, southern Israel, western Jordan and Saudi Arabia. It also includes the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. The total size of the map is 1500 x 1000 km, and the detailed section is 700 x 700 km. This is the first phase of this map and later phases will add additional detail, airfields, and other map content.

In modern times, it is associated with the Arab-Israeli wars, during which it repeatedly became the subject of disputes. This includes the Suez Crisis of 1956, the Six Day War of 1967, and the Yom Kippur War of 1973. We truly hope you enjoy this fantastic addition.

The map contains many military bases and strategic seaports, emplacements for air defense systems, and helipads. This will allow you to create interesting missions in both the air and on the ground. A large number of military facilities and bases will help to reenact the Arab-Israeli wars, as well as modern missions and campaigns based on fictional scenarios.

Key Features:

• 20 Egyptian airfields and 9 Israeli airfields. Airfields are accurately modeled and include lighting, approach lights, PAPI, TACAN, and VOR systems.
• City lighting using Eagle Dynamics Graphics Engine (EDGE).
• Major cities like Cairo, Ismail, Alexandria, Suez, Port Said, and Tel Aviv.
• Close to 100 unique objects; airfield facilities and monuments including the famous Giza pyramids. All objects and assets are divided into territories.
• The coastline of the Suez Canal, the Gulf of Suez, and the Gulf of Aqaba
• Implementation of new procedural generation technology of land textures and normal map textures for mountains. 
• Improved height maps that result in an accurate surface mesh.
• Unique tree models.

We believe that the DCS: Sinai map will enhance your gameplay experience and attract new pilots to the world of DCS. Whether you are an experienced flight simmer or a newcomer, the DCS: Sinai map offers endless opportunities for thrilling missions and challenges.

Radar

White Paper

The F-16C and F/A-18C radars are undergoing significant refactoring to provide a more accurate and realistic accounting of their detection capabilities. This includes a wide array of real-world factors that were previously unaccounted for. This first Radar White Paper discusses our modeling logic of the F/A-18C radar. A later Radar White Paper will discuss the F-16C radar and how we calculate its detection capabilities. Please read the in depth Radar White Paper.

Thank you again for your passion and support,

Yours sincerely,

Eagle Dynamics