SKY ACES

SKY ACES ✈️ Jets, Warbirds & Warships

Take to the skies and rule the seas. Fly 26 aircraft, helicopters, warships and submarines, from the F-22 Raptor and F-35 to the Spitfire and the Apache. Launch from a sailing Nimitz supercarrier, refuel from a KC-135 tanker, crew a submarine from the inside, defend your airbase with Patriot missiles and fight your way from Cadet to Ace.

NEW IN 1.10.0: glass cockpit

• Multifunction displays - two MFDs beside the flight display of every modern jet. Keys , and . pick each page, ; changes the radar range or the FLIR polarity.
• RADAR sweep with contacts and 4 ranges, FLIR thermal camera (white hot / black hot), SMS stores and seeker SEARCH / TRACK / LOCK with the lock tone and a SHOOT cue, TAC tactical map and STAT fuel, airframe, engine and gear.
• Your page layout is saved per player and per aircraft.
• Living cockpit - gloved hands on the stick and throttle follow your controls, blinking master caution / warning lamps, a faint windscreen glare and the panel shaking at high speed.

Everything can be turned off or tuned in the client config (section cockpit: MFD colour, lock tone, hands, lamps, glare, vibration). Client side only, MC 1.17+.

NEW IN 1.9.0: realism animations

• Canopy - swings open on parked jets and closes smoothly after you board; the pilot climbs into the seat.
• Redout - a red vignette under strong negative G (on top of the existing greyout and blackout).
• Touchdown - tyre smoke, suspension squash and a jolt when the wheels hit the runway.
• Damage alarm - cockpit caution / warning beeps and a camera jolt when you are hit.
• Ejection camera - third person view on the ejection seat and under the parachute.
• Crash camera - when your aircraft blows up the camera looks at the blast while the debris fly in slow motion.

Every effect can be turned off or scaled in the client config (section realism). Client side only, MC 1.17+.

NEW IN 1.6.0: three new jets

MiG-29A Fulcrum - the Flanker's little brother: smaller, lighter and quicker to respond, with R-73s, R-27s and a 30 mm cannon, but short on fuel.

F-15E Strike Eagle - two-seat strike fighter (pilot + weapon systems officer) with conformal fuel tanks: long range, Sidewinders, AMRAAMs, GBU-12s and bombs.

Dassault Rafale C - French canard-delta and the best low-speed turner of the deltas: MICA missiles, GBU-12s and a 30 mm cannon, with French roundels.

All three are built at the Aircraft Assembly station, appear in the Pilot's Manual and take every livery.

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🆕 SKY ACES 1.3.1 is out! The Big Fleet Update, now on even more Minecraft versions. Fighter Jets Overhaul is now called SKY ACES: same mod, same worlds, a lot more to fly.

Available for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge on every Minecraft version from 1.18 to 26.3, and for Forge 1.7.10, 1.8.9, 1.9.4, 1.10.2, 1.11.2 and 1.12.2. Fabric needs Fabric API. Install on the client and the server.

P-51D Mustang, Spitfire Mk IX, Bf 109, A6M Zero and Yak-3: propellers, tail-wheel take-offs, a vintage gunsight and a classic cockpit panel. Perfect for dogfights with friends.

• AH-64 Apache: a chain gun slaved to where you look and laser-guided Hellfire missiles.
• UH-60 Black Hawk: rescue missions, rotor downwash, easy hover controls.
• CH-47 Chinook: open the ramp and carry animals and vehicles.

• Arleigh Burke destroyer with a bridge you can walk in, depth charges and sonar.
• Submarines Type VII U-boat, Gato, T-class and I-201: dive, use the periscope, ping with sonar, fire torpedoes.
• Walk inside: open the hatch and you are below decks. Take the helm and drive from inside.
• Engine telegraph, rudder, real knots, sinking ships and much more.

A full-size carrier that sails: steam catapults, arresting wires with LSO landing grades, aircraft elevators, CIWS guns, a lit hangar deck and an island with a ready room, CIC and bridge. Stand on the deck while she is moving.

• A military airbase with runway, hangars and control tower (generated near spawn or with /f22raptor airbase).
• Patriot launcher, CIWS, radar antenna and command console with a live radar scope.
• Weapons loader truck arms parked jets, fuel truck refuels them.
• Fuel pump, repair wrench, paint kit with camouflage schemes and a pilot's manual.

• Campaign "Operation Iron Sky": 5 chapters ending with the ace "Black Baron" (/f22 campaign).
• Survival waves, air races with a ghost, base raids with sirens, SAM site strikes, CSAR rescue, naval battles.
• Team dogfight red vs blue with a scoreboard.
• AI wingmen that fly in formation, intercept and escort missions.
• Pilot ranks from Cadet to Ace that unlock paint schemes.

Cannon, IR and radar missiles, GBU-12 laser bombs with a targeting pod, flares, chaff and ECM jamming, stealth radar signatures, part damage (lose a wing!), ejection seats, night vision goggles, contrails, vapour cones and a sonic boom you hear from the ground.

1. Craft the Aircraft Assembly Table, Armament Table and Fuel Refinery: they list every blueprint.
2. Build your aircraft, place it and right-click to board. N starts the engine.
3. W throttle, mouse to fly, R gear. Load fuel and weapons by right-clicking the parked aircraft.
4. Press K for the quick settings (sensitivity, speed units, flight style: Arcade / Realistic / Simulator).

• Is this the old Fighter Jets Overhaul / F-22 Raptor mod? Yes, it was renamed to SKY ACES. Your worlds and vehicles keep working.
• Which versions? Fabric, Forge and NeoForge for Minecraft 1.18 to 26.3 (every version the loader exists for). The whole update also runs on Forge 1.7.10, 1.8.9, 1.9.4, 1.10.2, 1.11.2 and 1.12.2 (Java 8).
• Multiplayer? Yes, install on the server and every client.
• Other mods needed? Only Fabric API on Fabric.

⭐ Enjoying SKY ACES? Leave a comment with what you want next: many 1.3.x features came from your ideas!