[HN Gopher] Free Surface to Air missile simulator from Hungary
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Free Surface to Air missile simulator from Hungary
Author : throwawaybutwhy
Score : 57 points
Date : 2021-02-13 17:22 UTC (5 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (sites.google.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (sites.google.com)
| marcodiego wrote:
| Why not open source it?
| mam2 wrote:
| Lets stack an ai agent on it
| chronolitus wrote:
| It's a hard to describe feeling when you discover one of these
| obscure super-specific projects built out of passion.
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| I guess it's the feeling of my brain reassessing how many amazing
| hidden gems are out there. Wonderful!
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| I can't help but think a simulator like this would lend itself
| splendidly to VR.
| desine wrote:
| A "Let's Play" video is available here:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW1rIV5t74o
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| This style of hyper-specialized homebrew software is so
| fascinating. I wonder if the developer "works in the industry" or
| somehow has access to the systems, or if it's all pulled from
| field manuals and the like.
| ckozlowski wrote:
| I suspect it's mostly field manuals and exported references.
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| With older systems, it's easier to get hands on those as
| they've been exported to so many places around the world. I
| know DCS for example has had trouble getting their hands on
| manuals for current Russian equipment (there's explicit laws on
| it that's hampered a lot of their development there), but for
| older systems, there's a lot you can find outside the country
| of origin.
| trasz wrote:
| DCS folks had problems getting their hands on USA gear as
| well, one of them got arrested.
| [deleted]
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