Air Combat Group

Former ED dev has been arrested for smuggling F-16 docs out of the US:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hoggit/comment ... urce=share

Latest from ED:
https://forums.eagle.ru/showpost.php?p= ... stcount=54

Thanks for sharing Swinder, hopefully just a misunderstanding from all parties involved.

Oh dear... It's a legal minefield with these things sadly.

As we all know Russia and the US aren't the best of friends. This actually reminds me of when the Bohemia developers were arrested when they were making ARMA 3. Link below to that story if anyone is interested.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/2/8/396881 ... -in-greece

Geordie wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2019 9:53 am

Oh dear... It's a legal minefield with these things sadly.

As we all know Russia and the US aren't the best of friends. This actually reminds me of when the Bohemia developers were arrested when they were making ARMA 3. Link below to that story if anyone is interested.

https://www.polygon.com/2013/2/8/396881 ... -in-greece

In that case they were however taking pictures of actual military installations in an area in which tensions are high and Turkish air incursions are nearly a daily occurrence.

ITAR violation. Size yourself for a prison jumpsuit. When the Feds want you bad enough to have you extradited from a foreign country, it’s not because they want to share recipes on how to make s’mores.

Official statement by Matt Wagner:

Lausanne, 14 May 2019.

The Eagle Dynamics group, headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland, confirms that one of its employees has been jailed in the State of Utah (USA) on charges of seeking to procure, export and sell restricted US fighter jet manuals, in particular the F-16.

Eagle Dynamics confirms that it was not involved in any way in the actions of its employee who acted in a purely private context and for his own personal interests.

The Company develops all of its DCS aircraft game modules exclusively on the basis of publicly available information and has never used nor tried to obtain any classified information.

The Company launched an internal investigation into the actions of its employee, and found nothing in the company's records that relates to the facts that are being held against him. The investigation confirmed in particular that no company resources were used and that no export restricted documents were obtained or stored within the company's systems. Furthermore, the Company confirms that the employee was not involved in any of the work or research pertaining to the development of the Company's upcoming F-16 module.

The development of the F-16 and other modules currently in the pipeline will continue in order to further enhance the simulation experience of DCS World. These events will not affect Eagle Dynamics' commitment to its users and faithful community.

Thank you,
Matt Wagner
Senior Producer, Eagle Dynamics SA

I knew it, I finally installed 2.5.4

But joking aside, this is really nuts. He was arrested in Georgia and they extradited him. And from what I read that was a real 'operation', he was approached by an agent on a forum in 2016. And he was allegedly selling these manuals to Cyprus, Japan, Australia, Germany and Taiwan.
Ahh damn, that was just to cover the traces...

Vranac wrote: ↑

Tue May 14, 2019 9:29 pm

I knew it, I finally installed 2.5.4

Awesome Vranac
I have a dedicated server up and running — dogfight missions, combined squadron server etc. Let me know if you’re interested, need more LW pilots

Actual footage of the CIA agent arresting the guy

That's a still image you fucking dope