This thread was asking about study-level jets for MSFS. There was no mention of, or interest in, DCS. DCS is superior in weapons systems and deployment, which it should be as that’s what it exists for and it’s been available for years. In everything else it is inferior to MSFS, including flight models ( due to there being virtually zero meteorological modeling, the very place where all aircraft do what they do, and the opinions of actual fighter pilots who have flown the real things and who frequently point the problems out ). This doesn’t make them bad, just nowhere near as good as DCS fans like to think that they are. MSFS is light years ahead in this respect. Weapons are also coming, and things like TACAN are already available. However, as per below, few people care.
Just Flight are the only developer who have built any fighter jets at “so called” study-level for MSFS. They have more on the way, including the Tornado GR1, Vulcan etc.
However, it should be remembered that only a fraction of the simulator audience are obsessed with “study level” aircraft, whether airliners, GA or military. The vast majority prefer a medium level of detail, so from a commercial perspective there just isn’t the audience available to make it worthwhile unless the development house has sufficient resources to do so. The fact that DCS remained a niche simulator even before MSFS arrived to compete, despite hugely successful modules like Heatblur’s F-14s, is clear testimony to that fact.
MSFS already has the capacity to produce aircraft to the same level of fidelity as DCS. It’s just that most folks using MSFS aren’t particularly interested in them, and most devs aren’t that interested in producing them due to the limited audience available.