An update of an old Super Hornet mod that I found laying around on my hard drive. Weapons configuration is mostly accurate, (albeit with gaps since no precision air to ground weapons can be carried). This mod uses the F-15C cockpit and avionics, although I may make a custom cockpit and air to ground version at some point.
Now all we need is for someone to make some Top Gun: Maverick skins! And maybe some others too, only two VFA-27 liveries (CAG and Line) are currently available.
V 1.1 fixes carrier launch issues.
Known issues: Player aircraft cannot operate from carriers.
This mod has existed for a while now, but wasn't readily available for download. The original developer seems to have ditched the project, so when I found this on my hard drive recently I decided to give it a facelift. Surprisingly it works with DCS 2.8 without any issues that I'm aware of, so all I had to do was change the cockpit from the Su-25T pit to the more fitting F-15C pit, and update the weapons a bit. I might one day do a custom cockpit for it, but for now F-15C cockpit and avionics it is.
This mod uses some of the same weapons as my F-15EX mod, notably the AMBER rack with 2 AIM-120C AMRAAMs. The Legion IRST Pod has been added as a dummy store pending development of an F/A-18 fuel tank with the IRST in the front. I have also implemented the AGM-88E AARGM, functionally the same as the AGM-88F HSCM found on my F-15EX mod. Up to 16 missiles can be carried if you choose to use the AMBER racks on the outer wing pylons (AMBER has not been added to the Super Hornet but it's possible that it will be). A more realistic loadout is 10x AIM-120C and 4x AIM-9X. The outer wing hardpoints can carry single AIM-120s, but they are shaped incorrectly so I used the LAU-115C launcher with LAU-127 rails and a single AMRAAM to make it look better. This is not realistic, the AMRAAM should be mounted to a single LAU-127 rail instead, but I haven't had a chance to fix this yet, so I used this temporary solution for the time being.
This mod has limited air to ground capability as well, with unguided bombs and rocket pods on the wing stations, and some bombs available on the center station as well.
The external model is not very good, but would look better if re-textured (I'm not a texture artist, hint hint).
I may add conformal fuel tanks later on if there is enough interest.
Installation is the same as VSN mods, just drag and drop the unzipped file into Saved Games/DCS/Mods/Aircraft.
Credit; DOL for the original mod.
