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U.S. Navy Fighters IBM PC MS-DOS Electronic Arts 1994


U.S. Navy Fighters



Electronic Arts released U.S. Navy Fighters for IBM PC MS-DOS 5.0 November of 1994. U.S. Navy Fighters was designed by and programmed by Brent Iverson.

U.S. Navy Fighters is the spiritual successor to Iverson's Chuck Yeager's Air Combat of 1991 and predecessor to Jane's ATF of 1996.

U.S. Navy Fighters Aircraft


In U.S. Navy Fighters players can pilot six different fighters in the Ukraine war theatre of 1997.


U.S. Navy Fighters is also notable for its light-sourced and Gouraud-shaded texture-mapped terrain. In addition, U.S. Navy Fighters renders small ground details such as individual trees and soldiers. U.S. Navy Fighters features professional multimedia menu presentation the likes of which had not been seen before in flight sims.

U.S. Navy Fighters Technical


U.S. Navy Fighters displays in non-standard square-pixel 256-color VGA 320x240 or square-pixel 256-color VESA SVGA 640x480, 800x600 or 1024x768.

U.S. Navy Fighters recommended system specifications are i80486DX2 66 MHz CPU, 450K of free conventional RAM, 6,900K of XMS RAM and Local Bus or PCI video card with 1 meg of vRAM. U.S. Navy Fighters employs the PharLap DOS extender.

U.S. Navy Fighters digital music supports AdLib Gold, ATI Stereo FX, Pro Audio Spectrum 16, Pro Audio Spectrum 8, Sound Blaster, Sound Blaster 16, Sound Blaster Pro, Sound Blaster Clone and Turtle Beach MultiSound.

U.S. Navy Fighters MIDI music supports AdLib, AdLib Gold, ASC MediaMaster Synth, MPU-401 General MIDI Synth, Pro Audio Spectrum, Pro Audio Spectrum 16 OPL3, Roland LAPC-1, Roland MT-32, Roland Sound Canvas, Sound Blaster AWE-32, Sound Blaster Clone, Sound Blaster Pro OPL2 and Sound Blaster Pro OPL3.

U.S. Navy Fighters controls support keyboard, standard analogue joystick, Thrustmaster F-16 FLCS, F-16 TQS, RCS, FCS, PFCS and WCS MK II.

U.S. Navy Fighters was distributed on 1x CD-ROM and extracts and installs to hard disk drive via U.S. Navy Fighters Install program. The install size is 15 megs and consists of 38 files whereas the install size of U.S. Navy Fighters - Gold  -- which includes the Marine Fighters expansion of 1995 [1] -- is 23 megs and consists of 53 files.

U.S. Navy Fighters Features List


  • In-game 5-panel reference media for each aircraft (photos, 3D model, data)
  • 1x campaigns/war theatres: Ukraine of 1997
  • Create Quick & Pro missions
  • 14x Training missions
  • 36x single missions
  • Low, Medium and High Detail texture-mapped terrain
  • Tailorable terrain and object detail levels
  • Toggleable textured sky, ocean and land
  • Toggleable Gouraud shading, light-source shading and texture-mapping
  • Digitized sprite explosions, splashes and smoke trails
  • Slow-motion and 1x-8x Time compression
  • Tailorable sound and music volume
  • Virtual cockpit: in-cockpit panning and zooming
  • Toggleable cockpit rearview mirrors
  • 4x Rotatable and pannable external views
  • Flight controls: Flight Stick, Rudder Pedals, Throttle, Vectored Thrust
  • Aircraft maneuvering: Pitch, Roll, Yaw
  • Takeoff, Landing, Carrier Takeoff & Landing
  • Wind and Turbulence
  • Stalls, stall recovery, spins, spin recovery
  • Instrument Landing System (ILS)
  • Wingman commands

Marine Fighters Expansion [1]


Electronic Arts released Marine Fighters for IBM PC MS-DOS in 1995. Marine Fighters is an expansion for U.S. Navy Fighters.

Marine Fighters adds the Kuril Islands campaign, 35 missions, Marine Air Wing control and Tour of Duty. In addition, Marine Fighters adds three vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft, the Spectre gunship and terrain masking and low-level buffeting and turbulence.

  • McDonnell Douglas AV-88 Harrier II
  • Royal Navy Sea Harrier FRS.2
  • Yakovlev Yak-141 Freestyle-A
  • Lockheed AC-130U Spectre Hercules-style gunship
  • Ordnance: Snake Eye bomb and LAU rocket

U.S. Navy Fighters Flight Maneuvers


  • Break Turn
  • High Yo-Yo
  • Low Yo-Yo
  • Barrel Roll: Offensive & Defensive
  • Scissors
  • Immelmann turn
  • Split-S
  • Lead pusuit, Pure pursuit, Lag pursuit

U.S. Navy Fighters Ordnance


U.S. Navy Fighters Guns & General


  • M-61 20mm Vulcan six-barrel gatling gun-style cannon
  • Electronic countermeasures (ECM Jamming)
  • Chaff
  • Flares

U.S. Navy Fighters Air-intercept missiles (long-range)


  • AIM-7 Sparrow SARH
  • AIM-9 Sidewinder AAM
  • AIM-54C Phoenix
  • AIM-120 AMRAAM

U.S. Navy Fighters Air-to-air missile (short-range)


  • AA-2 Atoll, AA-6 Acrid, AA-8 Aphid, AA-9 Amos
  • AA-10 Alamo, AA-11 Archer, AA-12 AMRAAMSKI

U.S. Navy Fighters Air-to-ground missiles


  • AGM-65G Maverick
  • AGM-88 HARM
  • AGM-84A Harpoon
  • AGM-84E SLAM
  • AM-39 Exocet
  • AS-7 Kerry, AS-14 Kedge, AS-16 Kickback

U.S. Navy Fighters Bombs, Rockets & Anti-tank missiles


  • Mk 82 & Mk 84 General Purpose Glide Bombs
  • GBU-10 Paveway Laser-Guided Glide Bomb

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