F-100D Super Sabre

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DCS F-100D

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The F-100D Super Sabre module for DCS world created by the Grinnelli Designs team.

Collector's Edition information

Commemorate the launch of the F-100D for DCS World with this limited memorabilia set. Includes the following:

  • “Remove Before Flight” keychain
  • Kumi the Catfish plushie
  • 4″ Fighting Catfish patch
  • 3″ Grinnelli Designs patch. Limited to 100 units

Note: This edition does not include the digital F-100D module for DCS World.

General
  • Manufacturer — North American Aviation
  • Role — Bomber/Fighter
  • Crew — 1
  • Length — 54 ft, 3 in (with pitot extended)
  • Winspan — 38 ft, 3 in
  • Height — 16 ft, 3 in
  • Empty Weight — 21,000 lbs
  • Gross Weight — 27,000 lbs
  • Powerplant — Pratt & Whitney J57-P-21
Performance
  • Max Speed — Mach 1.2/864 mph
  • Thrust — 10,200 lbs
  • Max Thrust + Afterburner — 16,000 lbs
  • Service Ceiling — 50,000 ft
  • Rate of Climb — 22,400 ft/minute
  • Max Range — 1995 nm
  • Max Takeoff Weight — 34,832 lbs
Armament
  • Guns — Four M39 Pontiac 20mm Cannons
      • 200 rounds per cannon
    • Hardpoints — 6 Pylons
      • Missiles & Rockets
        • AGM-12 Bullpup
        • AIM-9 Sidewinder
        • LAU-3/A 2.75-inch unguided rocket dispenser
      • Bombs & Explosive Ordinance
        • Napalm Canisters
        • Cluster Bombs
        • Mk 7, Mk28, Mk43 Nuclear Bomb
service history
  • First Flight — May 25, 1953
  • Introduction — September 27, 1954
  • Retired — 1979 (US ANG)
  • Production Years — 1953 – 1959
  • Unit Cost — $697,029 (1954)

LEGACY

The F-100D “Hun” entered service in 1956 as the U.S. Air Force’s definitive fighter-bomber. Succeeding the legendary F-86, it was the first fighter aircraft capable of supersonic speed in level flight. Although developed as a day air-superiority fighter, the F-100 family eventually saw the F-100D repurposed as a ground-attack platform. Extensive use of the F-100D during the Vietnam War made it the most widely produced variant.

Building on the legacy and performance of its predecessor, the F-100’s distinctive 45-degree swept-wing design introduced unique handling challenges at low speeds. In particular, inexperienced pilots could encounter the notorious “Sabre Dance”: A phenomenon resulting from increasing adverse yaw, inertial coupling, and wing-tip stall.

Armament

The F-100D is equipped with four 20 mm Pontiac M39 cannons mounted in the lower fuselage beneath the cockpit, providing formidable firepower.

It is capable of carrying up to four AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air, infrared-guided missiles for targeting enemy aircraft. The aircraft also features six underwing hardpoints that can carry a total payload of up to 7,040 lb of conventional bombs, rockets, napalm, and the AGM-45 Shrike anti-radiation missile used to attack radar installations.

To support both aerial gunnery and air-to-ground bombing, the aircraft is equipped with a fire control system that helps the pilot accurately aim and release weapons.

To further enhance operational effectiveness, the F-100D features the “high wire” modification that standardizes instruments and avionics. This includes the AN/APR-25 Radar Homing And Warning receiver (RHAW), which alerts pilots to threats from surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). For example: The RHAW can detect radar emissions from systems like the Fan Song tracking radar that guides SA-2 Guideline missiles.

features

  • Highly detailed cockpit and external model: Crafted from thousands of photos, photogrammetry, and laser scans of an F-100D museum aircraft.
  • Extremely accurate flight model (EFM): Tested against actual short- and long-period dynamics reports to achieve exact handling qualities that have also been verified by actual F-100 pilots.
  • Detailed era-correct F-100D pilot model
  • Zero-length launch: A rocket-mounted system for launching the aircraft from a standstill with a full combat payload.
  • Configurable strike and gun cameras: Record weapons fire so that pilots can review in debriefs.
  • Customizable dash: Set up core gauges the way you want them, or randomize the setup for an authentic experience. 
  • High-quality cockpit audio: Recorded from an actual F-100.

        In-depth systems modeling:

          • Electrical system: A fully-simulated electrical system model provides accurate voltages, currents, and power consumptions of electrical components.
          • Hydraulic system: Simulates hydro-mechanical flow and physically modeled actuators.
          • Radio navigation equipment: Including UHF Radio direction finding, ADF, and TACAN.
          • Thermodynamic engine model: Includes engine compressor stalls and surges, oil, gearbox, ignition, and afterburner physics.
          • Multiple probe and afterburner configurations: Integrated into the flight and engine models. Two afterburner models are provided: The J-57-P-21 and J-57-P-23. Pilots flying  the older J-57-P-21 experience longer afterburner light times, more frequent failures to light, and more frequent compressor stalls.
          • Physical simulation of pilot interfaces: Including gauges, friction, and mass to achieve realistic dynamics on gauges and other moving parts.
          • Temperature simulation of aircraft brakes: Includes brake fade and smoke when brakes are too hot.
          • Radar homing and warning receiver: Includes detailed radar signal simulation, dynamically generated unique sounds for all radar units, and a scope that displays radar vectors for three specific threat bands.
          • Detailed weapon systems: Includes guns, air-to-air missiles (including new AIM-9E Sidewinder), air-to-ground missiles (AGM-45 Shrike), bombs, rockets, and two new cluster dispensers (CBU-38 and CBU-7).
          • Fire control system: Incorporates a ranging radar, gyroscopic air-to-air gunsight, and an early form of computer-assisted bombing.