Miltech Simulations - FSExpo Recap

Sceneries, in partnership with Sundownersim

Tonopah Test Range (July Release)

• Covers the entire Tonopah Training Range
• Modeled to period: Area 51 circa 1970s–80s, Tonopah AFB circa 1990
• Dozens of dry lake beds and landing zones across the range
• Mission-ready reference points at black-project test sites: A-12 Avenger, Have Blue, Tacit Blue
• Aliens and Extraterrestrial Highway landmarks included

Berlin Tempelhof (June Release)

• Modeled in its 1960s configuration
• Period-accurate BEA and Pan Am statics 
• USAF aircraft of the era
• Fly the full length of the Berlin Wall with period set dressing
• Three teaser missions for Mission Hub + Bo 105

Miltech Simulations U-2

First announced in 2024, the aircraft has gone through several iterations and revisions: 3 cockpit remakes, 2 external remakes, and 2 avionics remakes. It was not the schedule we planned for, but it has enabled us to create a much better offering. 

The aircraft & variants

• U-2S — current high-altitude recon airframe, digital glass cockpit
• U-2R — same mission profile, analog cockpit
• ER-2 — same R-airframe and cockpit, NASA's high-altitude science platform

• Cockpit model & texturing: ~90% complete
• External model & texturing: ~90% complete
• Final livery list: 27 liveries, many of them completed.

The Sceneries

As is often the case for Miltech Simulations products, the U2 Package is bundled with sceneries from where the U2 historically operated sorties.

• RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus

• RAF Fairford, UK

• Groom Lake, USA (1960s configuration)
• Patrick Space Force Base (NASA flights)
• Fictional airstrip, northern Finland (USSR flyover missions)

Avionics & sensors

• U-2S: CDU, full MFD glass cockpit (with over 35+ simulated pages), RADNAV
• U-2R / ER-2: Stormscope, INS unit, camera viewfinder.
• Sensor suite: optical camera, terrain radar, weather sensor (NASA)

U-2 Datalink Portal 

• Web-based interface with optional live telemetry tied to your aircraft
• IMINT and SIGINT collection
• Land survey via ASARS-2 
• Weather survey data modeled on NASA's variants.
• All the information captured in-sim is available for download on the web Datalink Portal.

Missions & special features

• 15 missions (Mission Hub required): USSR flyovers, Chinese balloon incident, Cuban Missile Crisis
  
• Chase cars from multiple eras: 1980s USAF, current USAF, current NASA, with realistic audio calls.
  
• Modeled GSE: GPUs, ASUs, crew transfer vans, stairs
• Realistic Pre-flight flows: service LOX (liquid oxygen) tanks, review logbook, check maintenance remarks
• Failures and maintenance cycles simulated

Miltech Experience: machines that wear, break, and remember

• Every airframe carries its own state.
• Quirks and faults develop and evolve over time
• 470+ discrete failure points simulated.
  
• Damage is not binary, every component has a finite service life from real-world specs
• Every increment of wear feeds the flight model directly
  
• On helicopters, Prop blades can crack and bend; prop shafts can go out of balance; rotor bearings can degrade
• Flight-surface model: dissymmetry of lift, phase lag, resonance, blade flapping, coning
• Coming to all future Miltech Aircraft, starting with the U2 and CH53.

 

One final thing before we dash...