1995 is a good date to pick if you want to date restrict all GPS weapons but still have all the laser guided options.
(cherry picked from commit 27829a024a08203d1cd54141d7cfd7d906707206)
Generate a Carrier Group which comes close the the real Carrier Strike Group 8.
Under carrier_names in the faction simply add "Carrier Strike Group 8" as the first and only entry and enable super carrier.
* TRU as TACAN name
* Harry S. Truman CV
* 4x Arleigh Burke
* 1x Ticonderoga
* CV in the middle, Ticonderoga in a radius of 2 miles, Arleigh Burkes forming a rectangle
Still a work in progress (the missions don't actually perform their task, just orbit). Currently:
* AEW&C aircraft can be bought.
* AEW&C missions can be planned at any control point and at front lines.
* AEW&C will return after 4H or Bingo.
DCS features a massive range of aircraft and land vehicles, and not all of them make their role(s) clear just from the name alone. What this commit does is add an "information" button (and resultant window) to the recruitment section. This should allow new players to understand what each unit is/does.
Current state - every aircraft has a country of origin and an introduction date for that variant. Some also have a small placeholder description, taken from ED's store page for that aircraft. There is also a placeholder picture (taken from a rejected image from my own personal photography) that will, in time, show a banner image of each unit.
Todo - add appropriate screenshots for each aircraft's banner, replace the placeholder text for each aircraft (this will take a while...) and add more data points for each unit type, such as a unit role (i.e. "air-superiority fighter", "multirole fighter", etc) or perhaps a list of weapons carried. I also haven't made a start on the huge number of ground units yet.
A user can now modify the existing default loadout, rather than starting from scratch.
Also adds WIP handling for removed pylons, which looks like it may need some PyDCS work.
Also fixes the F-14B default loadouts for everything OTHER than fighter sweep again.
The default loadout is now displayed whenever the custom loadout checkbox is unchecked.
The custom loadout is reset when the custom loadout is checked, to force the user to be prescriptive about the loadout.
Contributes-to: Khopa/dcs_liberation#725
This makes the names of the aircraft displayed to the player in the UI more verbose and readable.
It allows allows specific countries to display an aircraft's name differently. An example of this would be the JF-17 Thunder, which is known in China as the FC-1 Fierce Dragon - this now displays correctly in the Liberation UI.
The SU-17M4 represents the remaining Su-22s that Poland still flies.
I've used the Stryker as a replacement for the KTO Rosomak, which was in service as far back as 2007.
There were a few Molniyas still in service as of 2010, namely the Metalowiec and Rolnik, as well as a singular Kilo class.
* Adds the E-2C Hawkeye to the game.
It wasn't being imported from pydcs, and thus wasn't in the list of AWACS aircraft or prices.
Also adds it to the 1985 US Navy list, as that makes sense to do.
Updates .gitignore to ignore my VS Code settings file.
Addresses Khopa/dcs_liberation#709
