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Arma 3 · Royal Navy · Fleet Air Arm

Naval aviation, built for Arma 3

Helicopters, jets and the ships they fly from. Carriers you can land on and launch from, working cockpits, and liveries from the Cold War to today.

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The mods

Every aircraft and ship is tested in game with scripted test missions: deck landings, take-offs, night lighting and cockpit views.

F-35B leaving the ski-jump of HMS Queen ElizabethF-35B lined up on the Queen Elizabeth flight deck

HMS Queen Elizabeth

A detailed carrier with 4K PBR textures and a ski-jump that really works: the CUP F-35B rolls down the deck and leaves the ramp undamaged. Helicopters placed in Zeus settle onto the deck.

CarrierWorking ski-jumpZeus-friendly
Sea King HC.4 on the airfieldSea King Mk 41 anniversary livery

Sea King Pack

22 Sea Kings from navies around the world: Royal Navy HAS and HC.4 Commando, German Mk 41, US SH-3, Canadian CH-124 and more, each with its own livery.

Helicopter22 variantsAnimated cockpit
Blackburn Buccaneer in Royal Navy coloursBuccaneer rotating bomb bay open

Blackburn Buccaneer

The Cold War strike jet, with its rotating bomb bay, folding wings, pylon loadouts, Navy, RAF and desert schemes, and a cockpit lit for night flying.

JetRotating bomb bayNight cockpit
Westland Lynx HAS.2 parkedLynx pilot's view

Westland Lynx HAS.2

The Royal Navy's ship's flight helicopter, with Sea Skua missiles, moving instrument needles and a flight model matched to the Wildcat it is based on.

HelicopterSea SkuaFleet Air Arm faction
HMS Ark Royal R09 at seaType 965 bedstead radar

HMS Ark Royal (R09)

The last big-deck Ark, built from 17 sections so you can walk, land and park on her. Her Type 965 and Type 982 radars turn as she sails.

CarrierRotating radars
ARA Veinticinco de Mayo at seaDeck lights at night

ARA Veinticinco de Mayo

Argentina's Colossus-class carrier with a clear deck ready for your own aircraft, and runway lighting that comes on at night: edge, centreline, threshold and catapult track.

CarrierNight deck lights
RFA Cardigan Bay at seaHelicopter on the Cardigan Bay flight deck

RFA Cardigan Bay

A Bay-class landing ship with a working flight deck: AI helicopters will land on it on their own.

Landing shipAI helipad
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How they're made

Each mod starts as a 3D model and goes through a custom Python pipeline straight into Arma's model format. Then come scripted test missions that fly, land and photograph everything, so problems get found before players do.

  • Carrier decks with collision built for real landings, launches and AI helicopter traffic
  • Animated cockpits with moving needles and night panel lighting
  • Flight models tuned against the vanilla aircraft they're based on
  • Every release checked in game, day and night
Merlin and Type 45 escort near HMS Queen Elizabeth
Also working on

Wings of Britannia

I'm part of the development team for Disco's Wings of Britannia, a pack of classic British aircraft from the V-bombers to the Comet, Nimrod and Belfast. My work there covers working cockpit instruments, physics and mass fixes, and livery touch-ups across the pack.