Thanks for the 77 Sq skin Tom, it looks great in action, especially the red white and blue spinner.





Yes it does take some imagination - even more so in the next mission which will include air combat, but it is not too much of a stretch. The reason I picked Korea is that the Mustangs there were mostly used in ground attack role, so the lack of an aircraft opponent for the Mustang in DCS World becomes less important, as the 77 Sq Mustang's targets were mostly soft skinned (vehicles, logistics, supply depots and infrastructure) and the biggest threat they faced were Mig 15s, even after they had transitioned to Meteor jets.

Flying in a Mustang against a jet such as eg the Su 17 (cannon armed only) can't have been much different to what the Mustang pilot faced going up against the Mig 15.

Specs for both the Mig 15 and Su 17 aren't really comparable in terms of max speed and rate of climb, but they are close in armament in cannon only loadout and as far as speed/climb - a jet is a jet. It doesn't matter much to a snail whether it is racing against a horse or a cheetah:

Mig 15:

Maximum speed: 1,075 km/h (668 mph)
Rate of climb: 50 m/s (9,840 ft/min)
Armament
2x NR-23 23mm cannons in lower left fuselage (80 rounds per gun, 160 rounds total)
1x Nudelman N-37 37 mm cannon in lower right fuselage (40 rounds total)

Su 17

Maximum speed at sea level: 1,400 km/h (755 knots, 870 mph)
Rate of climb: 230 m/s (45,275 ft/min) on afterburner
Armament
2 × 30 mm Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 cannon, 80 rpg

AAA was also a big threat and that can also be simulated in DCS with the options available.

So while you need to forgive the obviously inappropriate target and aircraft types, I think the experience of ground pounding missions in a Mustang in DCS World, going up against air defences and jets, is pretty transferrable to a Korean war scenario.

H