Some interesting news coming in this week! DCS: F4U Corsair and one of its more unique munitions is in the spotlight. There’s also word that DCS: Kola will be exiting early access by the end of July with some additional content additions planned to be coming in soon. Let’s have a look!

Corsair development in the spotlight again

I’m a bit surprised but DCS: F4U Corsair is once again in the spotlight for a second week in a row. This time its focused on one of the aircraft’s more unique weapons and the development behind it.

ASM-N-2 Bat was the first operational radar guided glide bomb (note: not the first guided bomb as Germany used several during the war) with a Bendix autopilot, gyro stabilization, plywood construction, and a small wind-driven generator to power the S-band radar in the nose.

The weapons is planned to be part of the DCS: F4U Corsair release though we don’t know if its going to be part of the early access initially or come a little later.

Meanwhile, the update is painting a picture of the DCS: F4U being relative complete with them saying the following:

June 1944. Dawn slides across the Pacific and glints off the blue-black wings of the brand-new F4U-1D Corsair as she taxis onto the deck of USS Essex. Below, a seething amphibious armada is already closing in on Saipan’s coral beaches. Flight-lead Lieutenant “Duke” Klein pulls his canopy shut, opens the cowl flaps, and spools the mighty R-2800 to life. The gull-winged fighter shudders like a thoroughbred straining against the blocks. One last magneto check, a green flag from the deck officer, and the Bent-Wing Bird is hurled into the humid morning sky.

That take-off sequence is exactly what you’ll feel in DCS with the DCS: F4U-1D Corsair by Magnitude 3 LLC. The module is confidently approaching finals with our recent tests showing promising results for an early access launch. Stay tuned!

The Corsair project may leap ahead of the DCS: MiG-29 for release at this rate. We’ll have to see how quickly this progresses.

Kola to exit early access

The other big interesting story in this week’s update is DCS: Kola which they report will exit early access on July 22nd of this year. Development is reportedly going to continue with Orbx and the team behind it planning additional updates.

New content has been laid out as well:

Scheduled New Content for June 2025 Release:

• Kilpyavr (XLMW)
• Luostari (XLML)
• Koshka Yavr (XLMY)
• Kalevala (ULPK)
• Poduzhemye (XLPU)
• Afrikanda (XLMF)

• Coming Over the Next 3-6 Months:
• Airfields & surrounding infrastructure
• ESPG, ESNG, ENKA, ENVR, and EFRU
• Enhanced ground textures for low-level flight
• Continued VRAM and rendering performance updates

Orbx is actively encouraging users to give them suggestions and feedback on the product on their Kola specific website.

Read all of this and more over on the DCS World Weekend News update.