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The Fly-By:

Highlights from this week’s news in 60 seconds or less (hopefully)

• DCS: The Mig-29A was officially announced with the “Warsaw Pact export” variant confirmed
• DCS: An Afghanistan map development update revealed the western half of the country will debut in Early Access with the eastern half of the country to follow later on
• Nuclear Option added TrackIR support and a new aircraft: The EW-25 Medusa which focuses on electronic warfare
• Winwing announced that they will be a releasing an Airbus 320 Flight Control Unit on Wednesday, March 27
• Virpil announced earlier today that they have taken legal action against FC technologies (formerly Flicon Tech)…as of recording, Flicon Tech’s web presence seems to be offline
• The FlightSimExpo announced their 2024 exhibitors including several hardware manufacturers such as Winwing and Virpil and, on the software front, the in-development WWII Pacific Theater Combat Pilot will make an appearance!

Developer News

DCS: MiG-29A Officially Announced

A full-fidelity, export variant supplied to Warsaw pact countries is making it’s way to DCS.

Air-to-air capable with a variety of radar- and infrared- guided missiles as well as a limited visual ground attack capability with 50 to 500 kg bombs, cluster bombs, and unguided rockets.

Other features include a Helmet-Mounted Sight (HMS) designation system.

Key features of the DCS module: MiG-29A Fulcrum