Eagle Dynamics are doing their usual Friday thing with some updates from the last week of DCS World news. We get a pretty good look at what is next on the roadmap for DCS: MiG-29. ED mentions Heatblur’s DCS: A-6 project again. Then there’s the tease for DCS World 2026 and Beyond. Let’s go!

Fulcrum presses on

DCS: MiG-29A came to us in reasonably good shape as an early access module but the module is still undergoing some serious development. Today’s update was focused a lot on what they are doing next for it.

One piece of that is the SPO-15LM RWR. To put it mildly, its not the world’s best radar warning system and it has a lot of limitations. It sounds like one of those limitations, the inability to receive signals from the forward hemisphere with the radar on, is being reexamined following a re-reading of the documentation and pilot testimony.

They are also adding some new data cartridge options which will let you force launch warnings from the RWR for specific threat combinations.

Coming up in the future are updates to the “command radio control line” (I assume this is the GCI datalink guidance that should make it easier to guide onto a target). There’s also refined track-while-scan logic, IRST sensitivity, and art updates. The art changes will include improved cockpit elements, pilot model, new service hatches, countermeasure dispensers, leading edge intakes, as well as new liveries. Once this is all done, a template is reportedly going to be made available.

IFF improvements are also on the way.

A-6 mentioned

Most of what we learned in today’s update is what we saw from Heatblur earlier in the week. You can read about that here. We did get a couple of new screenshots which is always nice!

DCS 2026 and Beyond

Every year we get a little bit extra excited about DCS World when the Beyond video comes out. A lot of it is what you expect from Eagle Dynamics trailer presentations – lots of great flypast shots, cinematic visuals, and a celebration of all things DCS World. Its fun, dramatic, and I usually end up watching them over and over again.

These videos are also usually great exercises in teasing us with stuff that’s coming up sometime in the next year or three. A little more cynically, these videos do hinge heavily on the “Beyond” part as some elements take many years to finally arrive. Nonetheless, I expect we’ll see a bit more of the Heatblur/TrueGrit DCS: Typhoon, Aerges’s DCS: F-104, AviaStorm’s Tornado, and going by the poster even Aerges Mirage F1 will get maybe more than the usual screentime (suggesting F1M is really indeed coming sooner than later). I also spot battleships from WWII Pacific as well as the unmistakable outline of the A6M5 Zero. The near future release of the updated Su-25 will also probably work it’s way in there.

Now if you want to keep the surprise going… do not read the next part.

Seriously.

Good?

Good! Ok!

More eagle-eyed members of the community spotted something a little out of place along the bottom of the teaser poster. And sure enough, if you look closely you can make out a fighter canopy and some of the nose section. Our best speculation is that this year we’ll get the reveal of DCS: Rafale. Its perhaps the worst kept secret in years but it does look like yet another modern fighter is joining the ranks.

We’ll see for sure January 30 when the trailer finally comes out.

Read the DCS World Weekend News update here.