New Game

For anyone who owns a Sony PlayStation 2 console I have some good news for you. The video game company called Konami has recently put out a new flight combat game (read flight combat arcade game and not flight combat SIM game) entitled Air Force Delta Strike.

It’s the latest in a series of games with the Air Force Delta franchise name (including Air Force Delta on Nintendo Game Boy Color & Sega Dreamcast, Air Force Delta Storm on Microsoft Xbox, and Air Force Delta Storm on Nintendo Game Boy Advance).

I thought I’d mention it to the fine people on this board because I know we have a lot of realism nuts, and (let me explain) there is a really cool aspect of this game that’s realistic. The number of aircraft in this game is sheer madness. Not since Jane’s Fighters Anthology for the PC has a game included so many different types of aircraft (Il-2 probably comes close though). This is a first for a console game though.

As far as flight physics and stuff, it’s all very basic because its intended as an arcade shooter with some flight sim elements.

The interesting thing is that all the aircraft are modelled accurately, even down to the weapons you see them fire.

I’m going to post a list below of all the flyable aircraft (as well as the AI aircraft) included in the game.

About 99 percent of it seems to be pretty accurate with a few exceptions.

Here it goes: (Art I think you’ll like the list because it’s very broad for the most part and there’s a huge array of Soviet aircraft)

(This is how the aircraft are numbered in the game….the numbers don’t really have any significance.)

1. F-5E Tiger II
2. MiG-21bis “Fishbed-N”
3. Su-20 “Fitter-C”
4. X-29A
5. MiG-29SMT “Fulcrum-C”
6. Su-27LLUV-(PS) (Can anyone give me any background on this jet as I’ve never heard of it…it appears to be a TVC testbed)
7. YF-17 Cobra
8. F-2A
9. MiG-1.44 MFI
10. X-32A
11. S-55 LFS (background on this one would be nice too….I seem to remember it being some sort of lightweight Su-27 variant or something….)
12. F/A-22 Raptor
13. Hunter FGA.9
14. Su-17M “Fitter-D”
15. Su-24M “Fencer-D”
16. F5D-1 Skylancer
17. J-8IIM “Finback-B”
18. F-20 Tigershark
19. HiMAT (yes I know the real thing is a UAV, but why not have a little fun and make it flyable?)
20. F-14D Super Tomcat
21. F/A-18C Hornet
22. Su-30MKI Flanker
23. J-12 (XXJ design proposal)
24. F-15E Strike Eagle
25. Su-35 Super Flanker
26. YF-23A Black Widow II
27. J-11 Flanker
28. F-102A Delta Dagger
29. Su-7BM bis (that’s how it’s designated in the game, but I believe it should either just be simply Su-7BM or Su-7BMK)
30. F-106A Delta Dart
31. F-4E Phantom II (do you think I would have picked this game up without it? 🙂 )
32. FC-1
33. MiG-23ML “Flogger-G”
34. MiG-33 “Fulcrum”
35. X-31A
36. F-16C Fighting Falcon (Block 50)
37. F-15C Eagle
38. Su-27SMK “Flanker-B”
39. Eurofighter Typhoon
40. S-37 (now Su-47 of course) Berkut
41. F-100D Super Sabre
42. T6-1 (Su-24 prototype)
43. P-38L Lightning
44. P-51D Mustang
45. Il-2m3 Shturmovik
46. Spitfire Mk.24
47. F-86L Sabre Dog (game says Sabre Jet but I know better 🙂 )
48. Lightning F.6
49. J-6 “Farmer” (game says J-6J…..was there such a variant?)
50. YF-12A
51. F-104G Starfighter
52. F-108 Rapier (Early Plan)
53. TSR.2
54. MiG-27K “Flogger-D” (game says Flogger-J but I believe that would be the MiG-27M)
55. F-111F Aardvark
56. MiG-25PDS “Foxbat-E”
57. MiG-31BM “Foxhound”
58. Su-37 Super Flanker
59. F-15 S/MTD ACTIVE
60. Su-15TM “Flagon-F”
61. JH-7
62. T-58VD “Flagon-B” (experimental VTOL aircraft)
63. Yak-38 “Forger-A”
64. MiG-19PFM “Farmer”
65. J-7MG Airguard
66. F-5A Freedom Fighter
67. A-5A Vigilante
68. J-8I “Finback-A”
69. AV-8B Harrier II
70. Sea Harrier F/A.2
71. Yak-141 “Freestyle”
72. X-32B
73. F/A-35B (okay so at this point it’s not the F/A-35, but that will likely change)
74. MiG-17F “Fresco-C”
75. Su-22M-4 “Fitter-K”
76. F-105D Thunderchief
77. Su-25 “Frogfoot” (game says Su-25A but I don’t believe that’s correct….isn’t it just Su-25 Frogfoot-A or Su-25K Frogfoot-A?)
78. Yak-28L “Brewer-B”
79. A-10A Thunderbolt II
80. F-117A Nighthawk
81. Jaguar GR.1
82. F-16XL
83. Tornado GR.1
84. F-15U Plus (can someone tell me is this was some design concept?…it appears to be an F-15 without the horizontal stabilizers and with the wings moved to the rear giving it a more traditional tailless delta shape……kinda analogous to the regular F-15 in the way that the X-44 design is the F/A-22 if that makes any sense)
85. X-44 (tailless delta-winged F/A-22 derivative….at least it looks kinda similar to me)
86. F-101B Voodoo
87. A-7E Corsair II
88. A-4M Skyhawk
89. Buccaneer S.2D (game says S.2D, but I’d guess it’s supposed to be S.2B as I’ve never heard of the S.2D)
90. A-6E Intruder
91. Sea Vixen (don’t know what variant because it’s the only aircraft I haven’t acquired yet)
92. F4D-1 Skyray
93. F-1
94. Su-39 “Frogfoot”
95. Su-34 (has the name “Fullback” been adopted yet?)
96. F/A-18E Super Hornet
97. Su-32FN (same question as that about the Su-34)
98. Tornado F.3
99. Su-33 “Flanker-D”
100. J-10
101. I-2000 LFS (same question as I asked about the S-55……was this some kinda MiG-29 derivative or perhaps something akin to the PAK-FA?)
102. X-36 (see comment about HiMAT)
103. Bird of Prey (see comment about HiMAT & X-36)

Well those are all the flyable aircraft that actually exist in some form (whether on paper or they actually flew).

The remaining 14 aircraft are various spacecraft and stuff from some of Konami’s older games).

The final set of aircraft is real aircraft that appear in the game, but aren’t flyable. Some you encounter as enemies, and some as friends.

118. RF-4C Phantom II 🙂
119. P-3C Orion
120. SH-3H Sea King
121. Ka-52 “Hokum-B”
122. Mi-35 “Hind-E”
123. AC-130H Spectre
124. B-1B Lancer
125. B-2 Spirit
126. C-5B Galaxy
127. SR-71A Blackbird
128. U-2R
129. E-2C Hawkeye
130. E-3C Sentry
131. YAL-1 ABL
132. Tu-160 “Blackjack”
133. M-17 “Mystic”
134. A-50 “Mainstay”

So there you go……120 real (sorta for some of them) aircraft.

Hope you guys enjoy reading the list.

You can pick up the game for around 40 US dollars, and it’s compatible of the Logitech Flight Force joystick if you so desire.

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