Requests/Issues

Platform addition for HUD4 v1.0 are now closed. All requests will now be incorporated to HUD4 v1.1 and sequel. Thanks for attention and involvement. Special credits given to Mark Gellis for testing the DB and bug reporting. FG

Hi there, Quick message from me to let everybody be aware of the following principles in adding platforms to the HUD4: -Platform inclusion will depend on time I can dedicate to database edition -From above come the following: the less time I spend in researches, the more platforms I can add at once. -Reality has been the keyword of HUD since the beginning, HUD4 makes no derogation to the principle. If for reason of missing data I can't add a platform, it will be merely refused or delayed if I'm convinced there will be such platform in Harpoon Master Annexes in a "near" future. -Some database integrate scores of platforms at once, but at a cost: realism. To request…

ANW 3.10.1 HUD3 1.6.3 I would like the Super Tomcat-21 added to the HUD4 along the lines of the "Tomcat 21" section at http://www.topedge.com/alley/text/other/tomcat21.htm Service years should be 1990 - 2025 Missile loadouts to include AIM-152 AAAM per http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/sys...itions/aaam.htm I would like to use this platform in a scenario pitting the actually built F-14 against a prolonged Cold War alternate universe F-14 Tomcat 21. Thank you!

'Alpinist' class electronic surveillance ships (Project 503M) http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/russia/aux_othr.htm http://russian-ships.info/eng/intelligence/project_503.htm "ELINT ships converted from large sternhaul trawlers" --Hazegray, http://www.hazegray.org/worldnav/russia/aux_othr.htm ANW HUD-4 v1.11

1942 Design Light Fleet Carrier http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_class_aircraft_carrier An old design, but they served in many Cold War conflicts...a couple are in the database already, but I don't know if they were modified, etc., and whether or not the original platform should be included, too. ANW HUD-4 v1b6

Japan's newest carrier...ummm...errr...destroyer. Yes, that's what it is...a destroyer! 19000t class destroyer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19000t_class_destroyer http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/japan/22ddh.htm http://newpacificinstitute.org/jsw/?p=7051 Oooo...it looks sparkly... ANW HUD 4 v 1.1 b7

500 lb. Moored Mine "The moored mine is the backbone of modern mine systems. They are deployed where water is too deep for bottom mines. They can use several kinds of instruments to detect an enemy, usually a combination of acoustic, magnetic and pressure sensors, or more sophisticated optical shadows or electro potential sensors. These cost many times more than contact mines. Moored mines are effective against most kinds of ships. As they are cheaper than other anti-ship weapons they can be deployed in large numbers, making them useful area denial or "channelizing" weapons. Moored mines usually have lifetimes of more than 10 years, and some almost unlimited. These mi…

9K52 Luna-M (aka Frog 7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog-7 Another widely used SSM to include when there is time to do so... ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b11

9K52 Luna-M (aka Frog-7) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FROG-7 "The 9K52 Luna-M (Russian: Луна; English: moon) is a Soviet short-range artillery rocket system. The 9M21 missiles are unguided and spin-stabilized. "9K52" is its GRAU designation. Its NATO reporting name is FROG-7. "FROG" is an acronym for "Free Rocket Over Ground" --Wikipedia Produced in large numbers and used by a wide range of nations. ANW HUD-4 v1.2

Minor database issue...the text for the HMAS 215 Stalwart is a bit off. First, the ship is listed as the A 215 A 215 HMAS Stalwart, which looks a bit odd...one of the two "A 215"s should be taken out. Also, the ship was not a cargo vessel. Replacement text might be... "Australian support and command vessel that served as the flagship of the RAN during the 1980s."

I had an idea. I'm not sure it will work, but it might simplify adding troops to a scenario... Barracks are where troops are usually "stored." Why not give the generic barracks in the database a "magazine" and as new troop types (I notice that Rangers and French Marines are in the database now, but I didn't see any others, although I may have missed them) are added, one could simply add them as possible weapons in the magazine of the barracks? A barracks would always start with NOTHING and would have to be edited. But once a barracks with troops is attached to a base, like an ammo dump, those troops can be added to aircraft. Another idea...a compromise between…

A-class minehunter (Turkey) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_class_minehunter_%28Turkey%29 "The A Class is a class of minehunter vessels in the Turkish Navy. In 1999, the German shipyards Lürssen and Abeking & Rasmussen were contracted to build six Frankenthal class ships for the Turkish Navy, a business worth US$630 million. While the first vessel was built in Germany, later ships were constructed by the Istanbul Naval Shipyard.[1] The Turkish Navy has become the second naval force in the world, after the German Navy, to utilize a non-magnetic steel hull in its minehunter vessels." --Wikipedia As before, I would make the case for including more minesweeper cl…

A26 submarine http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A26_submarine "A26 is the project name of the next generation of submarines developed by Kockums for the Swedish navy. First planned at the beginning of the 1990s, the project was called "U-båt 2000" and was intended to be ready by the late 1990s or early 2000. With the end of the Cold War the naval threat from the Soviet Union disappeared and the new submarine class was deemed unnecessary.[2] The project lay dormant for years until the mid-2000s when the need for a replacement for the Södermanland class submarines became apparent. Originally the Scandinavian countries had intended to collaborate on the Viking class submarin…

A319 Maritime Patrol Aircraft http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/a319mpa/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A319#A319 ANW HUD 4 v 1.1 b8

AAI RQ-2 Pioneer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-2_Pioneer "The RQ-2 Pioneer is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) that had been utilized by the United States Navy, Marine Corps, and Army, deployed at sea and on land from 1986 until 2007. Initially placed aboard Iowa-class battleships to provide gunnery spotting, its mission evolved into reconnaissance and surveillance, primarily for amphibious forces." --Wikipedia ANW HUD 4 v1.11

AAI RQ-7 Shadow http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RQ-7_Shadow "The RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is used by the United States Army, Marine Corps, Australian Army and Swedish Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with the aid of arresting gear similar to jets on an aircraft carrier. Its gimbal-mounted, digitally-stabilized, liquid nitrogen-cooled electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera relays video in real time via a C-band line-of-sight data link to the ground control station (GCS)." --Wikipedia Widely used...over 100 built and in service w…

AB-25 class patrol craft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB-25_class Turkish patrol craft, some transferred to other countries (a couple on the Caspian Sea, I think...I wonder how they moved them from the Black Sea...) ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b11

AB-25 class patrol craft http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AB-25_class "The AB-25 class (Türk type) is a class of large patrol craft that was built for the Turkish Navy in the late 1960s and early 1970s. One craft was transferred to Georgia in 1998, two were transferred to Kazakhstan in 1999 and 2001, one was transferred to Azerbaijan in 2000 and the remainder are in service." --Wikipedia (FYI...I don't know if the Wikipedia text can be included in the HUD-4 without getting permission, etc. I'm just posting it here to try to help Gunny by giving him some basic descriptive text to work with.) ANW HUD 4 v1.1 b10 (I keep thinking I posted this one already, but …

Abnaki class tug http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abnaki_class_tug Okay, normally I wouldn't suggest a tug, except these tugs are now used as patrol boats with various Latin American and Asian navies...normally with a 3-inch gun, some AA guns, sometimes depth charge racks depending on whose navy they're with, etc. (Bizarre as it sounds, the class might need more than one listing.) Some of them are still in service and likely to celebrate their 70th birthdays at the rate they're going! ANW HUD-4 v1b6

I'm not sure if anyone reported this already, but the loadouts for the AC-130 seem to be wrong...it shows up in the database as being unarmed, and we know that's not right! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AC-130