Hey guys,
Heatblur announced there F-4 Phantom in todays Developer Livestream. Look like the F-4 is not so far away…
The announcment an be found at 1:13 hour mark.
you can read about it here:
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Wow! Their F-4E is my absolute favorite DCS aircraft.
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It looks absolutely beautiful. The textures look near perfection. Will definitely be keeping an eye on this!
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Hopefully Jester AI will be included too with the custom UI they developed for it. Excited to fly this plane around MSFS Caucasus haha.
Much more fun over the MSFS Iraq map, or MSFS Kola. Can’t wait to fly it over the just-announced MSFS Cold War German map. 
Just kidding of course - seriously, the F-4E just won the Best DCS Addon at the Flight Sim Awards 2025, and deservedly so. It’s amazing. It would be nice if they give a discount to owners of the DCS version like they did for their F-14 collaboration with IFE.
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I know there are good and valid reasons to keep “Joker” as the name for the AI assist function (mainly intellectual property rights issues)… but I do wish they’d have a different name for each of their aircraft.
“If it’s Cowboy, I must be in the Phantom!”
etc.
Haven’t been able to confirm this, but came across a reference today on the Into the Blue Discord (connected to the great ITB YouTube channel) that the Phantom will have “the DCS flight model, not an MSFS flight model.” I guess that means custom external flight modeling. Great news if so - would be interested if anyone has heard anything similar, and what the source might be.
That’s very good to know - thanks for confirming!
Any updates on this now that it’s been almost a year?
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Hey, don’t hate on the DCS version. It’s amazing - easily among the most in-depth and detailed aircraft simulation of any kind available in a civilian consumer sim.