Eagle Dynamics

Eagle Dynamics is a software company founded by Igor Tishin in 1991, based in Moscow, Russia. The company develops realistic combat flight simulators.[2]

Eagle Dynamics
IndustryVideo games
Founded1991 in Moscow, Russia
HeadquartersMoscow, Russia
Key people
Nick Grey
ProductsSu-27 Flanker
Lock On: Modern Air Combat
Digital Combat Simulator
Number of employees
150[1]
ParentThe Fighter Collection
Websitehttp://www.eagle.ru/

History

Founded in 1991 by Nick Gray and Igor Tishin, the company teamed up with publisher Strategic Simulations (SSI) to produce its first game, a combat flight simulator. Released in November 1995, Su-27 Flanker offered players the opportunity to engage in combat aboard the eponymous aircraft over the Crimean peninsula.[3]

Flanker 2.0 was released in 1999. Developers have incorporated better graphics, training missions, multiplayer, and the naval variant of the Su-27, the Sukhoi Su-33, into this release. The theater of operations remained limited to Crimea. Although graphically very accomplished, the game had a significant number of bugs.[4]

In 2019, one of the company's developers, Oleg Tishchenko, was extradited from Georgia to the United States on charges of illegally acquiring documentation for an F-16 fighter and smuggling its technical manuals to Moscow.[5] In June 2019, Tishchenko returned home. He was sentenced by the Utah District Court to a term of 12 months and 1 day. But since the term of his conviction had already been served during the investigation period, after the trial, Oleg was released for immediate deportation from the United States.[6]

Combat Flight Simulators

Eagle Dynamics has been developing Su-27 Flanker (1995), Lock On: Modern Air Combat (2003), the Lock On add-on Flaming Cliffs 3.0 (2013, featuring the Su-25T) and Digital Combat Simulator (DCS), with the Kamov Ka-50 "Black Shark" as the first release (2008), and Fairchild A-10C "Warthog" as the second release (2011) - all of them being combat flight simulators.

Evolution of the Black Sea Theater

Since its first productions, Eagle Dynamics has systematically included a theater of operations located on the shores of the Black Sea. Its scope has evolved significantly over the company's publications.

  • Su-27 Flanker
    1995
    (Crimea alone)
  • LOMAC
    2003
    (Crimea and Northwest Caucasus)
  • Flaming Cliffs 2
    2010
    (Caucasus extended to Batumi)
  • Black Shark 2[7]
    2011
    (Caucasus extended to Tbilissi)

References
  1. "Eagle Dynamics General Information". Archived from the original on 2008-05-04. Retrieved 2008-05-09.
  2. "Products". www.digitalcombatsimulator.com. Retrieved 2019-12-03.
  3. "A quick look at the Su-27 Flanker Fighter Jets Evaluated by Western Countries". theaviationgeekclub.com. December 16, 2019.
  4. "Lock On: Modern Air Combat". www.simhq.com. Retrieved 2021-12-01.
  5. "Дело разработчика компьютерных игр Олега Тищенко в США". RIA Novosti. June 19, 2019.
  6. "U.S. Deports Russian Convicted Of Smuggling F-16 Manuals". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. June 19, 2019.
  7. DCS official website DCS: Black Shark 2
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