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Neither did the previous troop carrier it was replacing. A Bradley would indeed blow up and be turned into a flaming pile of melted aluminum from an AT weapon hit, but that was always known - it wasn't designed to be able to resist such weapons. That way you could actually account for the damage done.Īccording to the Col, this was a bad faith cover up that the Bradley wouldn't survive and instead be a flaming wreck. The Army filled the ammo shells with sand and the fuel tanks with water as to be bale to measure damage done to them from sharp metal. The Army thought it would be worth while to do some tests but not to the extent which Burton demanded. James Burton insisted on destroying many fully functioning combat loaded Bradleys by firing RPG's at them from multiple different angles. The most significant were the subjects of the destructive tests, in which Col. I haven't read the book, but in the movie, it claims that the army had spent $14 Bn at the time of the Congressional Committy on April 24th, 1987 where as it had only spent $8Bn out of the $12Bn allocated.īeyond that simple fact check, sure the programs did exist but there are numerous other issues. > The budgets and overspending were also correct (where I checked)

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I had left before this happened, but was really a bummer not to see the full potential of ESP :-( Bummer that this is exactly when the iPhone came out and the cloud-based strategies were taking over 'classic' enterprise software. These things combined were honestly beautiful - and add to that the backwards compatibility with all the 3rd party FSX plugins/adds ons. So we grabbed the physics engine of Forza and included it there.

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The physics models of the planes and the trains were great, but obviously to be a generic simulator you needed to include physics engines for other types of objects like Cars. The idea was to include a 'world editor' with world-wide geospatial data, too. The solution to this was that MS Train Simulator 2 made tons of improvements for the '1 foot experience'. Everything looked great from far above, but not close by. The cool thing about MS ESP was that we used the FSX Engine for the '1000 foot experience'. I worked on this product for a year back in the day. Other than that, I don't see any good reasons for new users to want or need this. Of course, most relevant aircraft are probably also available for MSFS 2020 at this point and possibly in an improved or nicer version. Now that they have released (and given how great it is), there probably still is a niche market for people with older setups that are happy to keep on using that especially those that invested in third party aircraft.

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It was a nice upgrade before MSFS 2020 became a thing for users stuck in the MS ecosystem without meaningful updates to their simulator for a decade or so. P3D seems like it has served its purpose. Probably more for MS but there are a few nice ones for X-plane as well. In terms of third party aircraft, there are interesting products for both simulators. Though that did improve with their latest version.

I think when it comes to simulation fidelity, it still has a nice edge over the Microsoft ecosystem.

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MSFS is of course looking pretty good but in terms of rendering capabilities, X-plane 12 looks like a big update as well. I think there's no need to worry about that going away.

X-plane 12 is currently in Alpha and Looks pretty interesting. Like a support system that is a public forum where you must manually sign your real name at the end of each post or get banned (PMDG), or uploading the chrome username/password DB of suspected hackers based on a check for username (FlightSimLabs). If you do get into the P3D third party ecosystem, be warned that many of the developers are older hobbyists turned devs which have been in their own universe and so can have weird ideas from time to time. If they lose interest for a similar length as between FSX and Microsoft Flight or between Microsoft Flight and MSFS, that could be a bad time for the flight sim world if they've gotten too used to MSFS. A large part of its appeal is the bing maps powered streaming of good terrain and other map features, and I suspect Microsoft won't maintain that forever. I am a little worried for what will happen to hobbyist flight sims after MSFS though. If you want something more realistic you should get P3D + third party aircraft for airliners or XPlane for GA aircraft (+ setup ortho scenery for XPlane), but much of the ecosystem is slowly releasing MSFS ports too. If you want a video game, you should get the new MSFS. The base game is very very sparse compared to newer offerings like XPlane or MSFS.ĭue to its long history of development it has some of the most well received third party aircraft add-ons, but be warned, these will cost more than the sim itself.

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