Buy DCS World DCS: Su-33 Flaming Cliffs PC key

DCS: Su-33 Flaming Cliffs adds a flyable Su-33 to DCS World. Based on the Su-27 “Flanker”, this navalized, all-weather fighter is designed for operations from the Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier and can attack air and surface targets.

Aircraft and weapons

The Su-33 has strengthened landing gear, folding wings, more powerful engines and prominent canards. Its pulse-doppler radar and Infrared Search and Track (IRST) support aerial engagements with radar- and infrared-guided missiles, while an integral cannon, unguided bombs, rockets and cluster munitions provide options against surface targets. Its helmet-mounted sight and off-boresight missiles also support dogfighting.

Flight and carrier systems

The aircraft features a Professional Flight Model, a detailed external model and cockpit, and modeled electronic countermeasures and radar warning receiver. Its flight-control system automatically reconfigures for different flight modes, with detailed modeling of the leading- and trailing-edge flaps, differential ailerons, stabilizers and canards. The engines’ special mode raises thrust to up to 12,800 kg from the normal 12,500 kg, subject to realistic operating-time limits.

Carrier operations include a modeled landing approach system, wing-fold mechanism, reinforced landing gear struts, high-gain nose-wheel steering for crowded decks, and accurate arrestor-wire physics. Auto-Thrust Control holds a selected speed and can be fine-tuned with a set-speed switch, including for carrier landings. Aerial refueling has a special flight-control mode that maintains level flight when you release the stick, helping with fine control when approaching the tanker within a pitch range of plus or minus 5 degrees and a roll angle of plus or minus 10 degrees. The automatic collision avoidance system, called “Uvod” mode, supports safe nap-of-the-earth flying.

The module supports virtual reality. It contains the same Su-33 included in DCS Flaming Cliffs 3.