Larc's Sea Dart and Plane Models mod
Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2025 8:50 am
Sea Dart aircraft development (jet floatplanes!) data contains versions compatible with More Realistic Cold War Aircraft Mod (https://nws-online.proboards.com/post/110301/thread) and Late Cold War Aircraft Mod (https://nws-online.proboards.com/post/110597/thread). The only difference is that in the LCWA version, floatplane development continues out to 1990, just as every other type does in that mod
Includes drop in replacements for Floatplane Scout3.acs (Sea Dart), Light Jet Fighter.acs (F8 Crusader), Heavy Jet Fighter.acs (vanilla F4H-1 Phantom so it can be accessed before 1970), and Heavy Jet Fighter3.acs (F-14A Tomcat), which replaces Heavy Jet Fighter.acs by default in Jan 1970
Specific installation instructions and timing recommendations are included in the file structure, as it'd look weird if your floatplane scout models got replaced by jets in the 30s when the 3.acs rollover happens.
Sea Dart Development:
The development stats switch between vanilla and Sea Dart in 1952.
Its stats are generally in between that of LJF and JA in speed, it has longer range than either (still less than vanilla floatplanes though, the range doesn't recover till 1988) while carrying the firepower and bombload of the prop-fighter (light bombload is unchanged from vanilla), maneuverability of the HJF, maneuverability of the vanilla floatplane (putting it above the JA but below the other jets), and toughness of the LJF.
Missile states are duplicated from the LJF but 2 years delayed.
Torpedo stats are unchanged from Late Cold War Aircraft Mod.
The Unknown line 12 is also duplicated from LJF, on the off chance that that's reliability or maintenance cost.
Includes drop in replacements for Floatplane Scout3.acs (Sea Dart), Light Jet Fighter.acs (F8 Crusader), Heavy Jet Fighter.acs (vanilla F4H-1 Phantom so it can be accessed before 1970), and Heavy Jet Fighter3.acs (F-14A Tomcat), which replaces Heavy Jet Fighter.acs by default in Jan 1970
Specific installation instructions and timing recommendations are included in the file structure, as it'd look weird if your floatplane scout models got replaced by jets in the 30s when the 3.acs rollover happens.
Sea Dart Development:
The development stats switch between vanilla and Sea Dart in 1952.
Its stats are generally in between that of LJF and JA in speed, it has longer range than either (still less than vanilla floatplanes though, the range doesn't recover till 1988) while carrying the firepower and bombload of the prop-fighter (light bombload is unchanged from vanilla), maneuverability of the HJF, maneuverability of the vanilla floatplane (putting it above the JA but below the other jets), and toughness of the LJF.
Missile states are duplicated from the LJF but 2 years delayed.
Torpedo stats are unchanged from Late Cold War Aircraft Mod.
The Unknown line 12 is also duplicated from LJF, on the off chance that that's reliability or maintenance cost.
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