DCS La-7 and MiG-29 status updates with new details and release dates

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The La-7 and MiG-29 are the focus of the latest developer updates from the DCS World Weekend News. We learn more about what is done and what is still in progress on the DCS: La-7 while we get an interesting status update on some extra model work on the MiG-29 plus new liveries.

The latest from Octopus G and the La-7

A lengthy status update in the latest DCS World Weekend News update. The report indicates that electrical, pneumatic, oxygen, and mechanical systems are all in and are in the process of being tested. The aircraft is coming with a detailed damage and failure system including overheating, flutter, and structural damage from G-loads. The damage animations are currently in progress.

Liveries include USSR, Czechoslovakia, North Korea, and United Kingdom.

Still in progress is the manual, the training missions and the instant action missions. Eagle Dynamics reports here that the aircraft is expected to launch in early 2026.

Fulcrum status

Meanwhile the DCS: MiG-29 is seeing updates too. The external model, already quite impressive, is apparently being further improved and the work in progress image above shows some interior modeling being done.

The interior is being adjusted and the HUD projection glass has been worked over to more accurately match the real world aircraft.

These updates, or at least some, will be in the next update. Also in that update is a new set of liveries including: Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Slovenia, and an additional Polish skin.

More news and information here.

8 responses to “DCS La-7 and MiG-29 status updates with new details and release dates”

  1. PaperPilot Avatar
    PaperPilot

    I would like to see a Ukrainian map a few years down the track. A DCS map of Ukraine would make the perfect setting to use the MiG-29A as well as the F-16C.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      We used to have a Crimea map back in the Flanker and Lock-On: Modern Air Combat days but it was taken out of the series. I don’t think we’ll see Ukraine as a DCS map for quite some time.

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      1. Petrel76 Avatar
        Petrel76

        You can still fly over Crimea, but now it’s a flat, empty terrain. I think it will not change until ED releases updated (or rather made from scratch) version of the Caucasus map.

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      2. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
        ShamrockOneFive

        Yeah they removed all of the detail and shifted south east. I’m not sure if we’ll see the region get attention again or not.

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      3. PaperPilot Avatar
        PaperPilot

        I hope we do. I know it sounds too controversial to do a map based on a conflict that condemned Russia by the western world, where a large fraction of DCS players come from though I think it’s relevant to do. Maybe if they did a Ukraine map for free, maybe that would avoid most of the controversy.

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  2. PaperPilot Avatar
    PaperPilot

    I really want ED to do a Dassault Mirage 2000 for the DCS platform on day.

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    1. ShamrockOneFive Avatar
      ShamrockOneFive

      I have been considering the possibility of backfilling modules that we’re likely to lose. The M2000 is a good candidate, so is the F-15E, so is the AV-8B… I don’t think they are as interested in the MiG-19 (though I think that aircraft is very cool). There have been comments made over the years that there may be a 2000-5 or 2000D in one of their professional offerings. Perhaps the basis for a commercial offering someday.

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      1. PaperPilot Avatar
        PaperPilot

        I think the Mirage 2000, F-15E and the AV-8B need to be remade for DCS and I think they need to be by Eagle Dynamics so we can be sure they would never be lost again. Hardware has been made for these modules that are no longer there. And weren’t they all very much beloved aircraft by the community?

        The AV-8B could be used in many of the maps in DCS, particularly in the Middle Eastern maps like Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf, places where units were operational in or were stationed at. the AV-8B would be suitable for carrier ops from the Nimitz as well at the Marianas in fictional scenarios with Chinese Forces.

        The F-15E is an aircraft I had waited for years for RAZBAM to make, and not long after RAZBAM submitted the strike fighter they took it off the shelf. I know the F-15C is coming but it is not the same as the Strike Eagle. I don’t think the F-15C is as good of a job at ground attack roles as the F-15E.

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