History JustPlaneWrong / VideoGames

** The most egregious - [[AcceptableBreaksFromReality albeit deliberate]] - departure from reality is the missile armament on the planes - first, the planes can carry [[BottomlessMagazines a ludicrous number of missiles]] (upwards of fifty on the low-end fighters early in the series, and up to more than a ''hundred'' in more modern games; real missile armaments, even on the most heavily laden of proposed fighters, such as the F-15X, max out at 22, and few planes currently in service can carry more than 12), and second, the standard heat-seeking missiles are able to lock on to, and are equally effective against, both fast-moving fighters as well as hardened bunkers and buildings. A lot of the special weapons are also more viable than in reality; while you still can't lock onto an air target with a dedicated air-to-ground weapon, ground and sea targets are given no such distinction, so there's nothing stopping you from destroying a fortified bunker with a Harpoon that shouldn't work as well as it does over land (the only difference between the "LAGM" and "LASM" is that one dives upon reaching the target and has a wider blast radius, while the other dives upon firing and focuses its full power on the target).

** The in-game descriptions for the jets occasionally fall into this; for example, ''Shattered Skies'' refers to a number of the useable planes as having "forward-swept" wings -- the above-mentioned Su-47 and X-02 are the only jets in the game that feature them. Apparently they mistook (or mistranslated) canards as "forward-swept wings", since a lot of the planes described as forward-swept designs ''do'' have canards.[[note]]It wouldn't be the only such mistake in the game - turning ability in the game also seems to have been mistaken as "able to roll really well", where high-end planes like the Eurofighter and Su-37 can do a complete barrel roll in half a second but can only actually change pitch as well as the F-4E you start the game with.[[/note]]

* The ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Licensed Games]] has Dreadwing who takes the role of fighter jet enemy in the game. The problem arises because in a game that takes almost entirely in the United States,[[note]]barring the first of the Decepticon campaign which takes in an American military base in Qatar, and the BonusLevel for both that takes place on Cybertron[[/note]] their vehicle mode is a ''Russian'' [=MiG-29=]. Granted, some private companies in the States do have [=MiG-29s=] that are used as targets for training exercises, but particularly with the film's sub-plot about the US thinking the Qatar attack was done by a foreign power with Russia, North Korea, China, and later Iran in a throwaway line being named-dropped. Three guesses which fighter jet [[FridgeHorror all four of those nations happen to use]].

* ''VideoGame/DigitalCombatSimulator'' largely averts this thanks to its very realistic cockpit and flight simulation, but the trope does pop up from time to time - some planes are modeled in a wonky way that allows them to accelerate far faster than they realistically could in a given situation, while others are able to maintain lift even when their pushed beyond what would realistically be possible given their energy-management profile.

** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' has a chronic case of EasyLogistics, with magical transatlantic Havocs-apparently-carrying-[=BMPs=] probably the biggest example.
** ''[=MW2=]'' shows F-15Cs in "The Gulag" mission, but later referring to the Navy as bombing the gulag. The Navy uses F/A-18s and eventually will use F-35s for combat missions.[[note]]Ironically, this mission is clearly influenced by ''Film/TheRock'', and yet it makes the exact opposite error that movie does.[[/note]] Apparently the developers didn't want to bother modeling another aircraft. It's also rather sad considering ''Call of Duty 4'' correctly showed the Marines getting their air support from [=SuperCobras=] and Harriers - except in multiplayer, where again the F-15 carries out both their airstrikes and those of the SAS. A lesser goof is that the launching of AGM-88 [=HARMs=], which no F-15 variant is compatible with, is announced with a call of "Fox Three", which is the brevity code for ''air-to-air, active radar-guided'' missiles. An anti-radiation air-to-ground missile would be fired with a call of "Magnum".

* [=DiD=]'s 80s flight sim ''[[VideoGame/F29Retaliator F-29 Retaliator]]'' has some rather odd quirks; for a start, the poster plane is actually the F-22, the game having been mis-announced by Ocean's notoriously fearsome CEO and nobody wanting to correct him (mirroring the urban legend about the SR-71's name). The YF-22 wouldn't fly until a year after the game came out, so the aircraft is based on concept art that closely resembles the much later [=MiG=] 1.44 prototype. But that's not even the start of the silliness.

** When in Assistance OFF mode, the player is able to stall the plane out. It indeed does start plummeting near-immediately, but a stall is more likely to happen when the player is flying extremely slowly while turning a lot. Where it falls into this trope is that, if the player decides to stay in that state for the hell of it by keeping the plane level with the ground and holding the airbrakes, their plane will in most cases start to ''fly backwards''. This was fixed in the sequel.

* ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield}}'' games tend to have slightly silly flight models (the original's planes tend to practically ''leap'' into the air), while aircraft in later games are far tougher than they should be (''Desert Combat's'' AC-130 can fly straight through the factory chimneys at El Al, while ''[=BF2=]'s'' helicopters can survive a direct hit from a main battle tank) and with EasyLogistics in full swing (helicopters can re-arm by hovering over runways, planes just by ''flying'' over them; this is generally regarded as a fairly serious GameBreaker since it means they require no support of any kind). The pilot of a multi-seat aircraft can also [[CrewOfOne instantly teleport between seats]]; skilled players sometimes use this in helicopters to fire TV-guided missiles despite having no gunner.
** In ''VideoGame/BattlefieldBadCompany 2'', Haggard incorrectly identifies an Antonov An-124 that the game's BigBad uses as the Antonov An-225. This example may be intentional, as the information Haggard recites off the top of his head (the ''Mriya'' name's meaning, "Dream", and carry weight of 253 tons) are things that one would have to have done quite a bit of research on the plane to have it on-hand like that; it's also surprising, both to the rest of the squad and the audience, for [[CloudCuckoolander Haggard of all people]] to actually know that much about, well, anything (he responds to the squad's stunned silence with "What? I can know stuff!"). The fact that he's ''wrong'' makes it even funnier.
** The ''VideoGame/{{Battlefield 3}}'' mission "Going Hunting" places the player in the shoes of a Radar Intercept Officer aboard an F/A-18 Super Hornet, but there are numerous mistakes. For starters, the pilot and co-pilot walk out onto the flight deck without putting on their helmets until just before climbing aboard their craft - real pilots have hearing protection on long before they get that close to an active plane, because even when idle jet engines are ''loud''. The pilot also misuses "bogies" to refer to aircraft they already know are enemies, and one of the objectives halfway through the opening dogfight tells you to "Take out the remaining [=MiGs=]", when the enemies are flying the Sukhoi Su-35S. On the other hand, even real Naval aviators have applauded the actual takeoff for showing the real speed and exhilaration of using a steam catapult to launch off the carrier.
** The trailer for the updated version of the Gulf of Oman map for [=BF3=] shows Marine variant F-35 fighter jets using their VTOL capability to act as impromptu attack helicopters. A real F-35 would be incapable of doing this without wasting a ton of fuel.
** The same game's F/A-18E Super Hornet incorrectly has Marine Corps markings. The US Marines have refused to use the Super Hornet, so as to not endanger their purchase of the F-35B.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'' has a few examples of playing this trope straight. In the first title, Georgia is depicted as having what looks like either a [=MiG-29=] or a Su-27, neither of which are correct. Additionally, the depiction of the interior dimensions of the V-22 Osprey are noticeably generous to anyone who has actually stepped foot in one. Large computer bank on each wall with room to move comfortably in between? Not likely...

* ''F-19 Stealth Fighter'' was a combat flight simulator produced by Microprose in 1986. Its fictional plane used the same general appearance as the Testor Corporation's model kit, and was similar in capability to the F-19 featured in Creator/TomClancy's ''Literature/RedStormRising'' a few years earlier. Ironically the game was released on the same day that the U.S. military admitted the existence of the F-117, the RealLife "stealth fighter", which turned out to be quite a different bird. The 1991 sequel/remake added the real F-117, with real-world capability to match (flying the F-117 made for an easy mission, while flying the less-stealthy but air-to-air combat-capable F-19 made for a more exciting one).
* A carrier appears at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' with F-35s and Apache helicopters shown sitting on the flight deck. The problem being the Apache is only used by the Army. The Navy also doesn't give up its flight deck space to the other services when they have their own aircraft to use. The Apaches could be handwaved as the Marines ''finally'' replacing the aging Super Cobra (rather than just upgrading it), but it probably isn't.
** They also don't use Blackhawks, so the ubiquitous transports should be upgraded Hueys, or if it's really the future, V-22 Osprey tilt-rotors. There are also, incidentally, no Bradley [=IFVs=] in the Marine inventory. If the developers had just name-swapped the Marines in dialogue with the Army, almost everything except the carrier would work fine.
* This trope is [[ShownTheirWork averted thoroughly]] in the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII combat flight simulator series ''VideoGame/IL2Sturmovik''. The demo of the same studio's next flight sim, ''VideoGame/BirdsOfSteel'', doesn't do as well, though, with the narrator of the tutorial at one point telling you to fire the "afterburners" on your P-47 Thunderbolt, a single-engined propeller plane which, due to the mechanics of piston-engined planes, could never be fitted with an afterburner even if they had been invented when the game was set. In the studio's next game, ''VideoGame/WarThunder'', putting a non-afterburning engine's throttle past 100%, and actually firing the afterburners on the jet engines that ''do'' have them, are both referred to more properly as War Emergency Power, or WEP for short.
** While a "Jug" certainly couldn't have a "reheat", the afterburner was actually around back then. The Italian Caproni-Campini [=CC1=] fighter prototype of 1940 used a radial engine to run a ducted fan (much like many modern radio-control flying models), and it did have a "thrust augmentator", which squirted aviation-grade gasoline into the duct behind the fans and ignited it. In other words, an afterburner. [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness Early jet technology could get a little strange]].
* [=DiD=]'s 80s flight sim F-29 Retaliator has some rather odd quirks; for a start, the poster plane is actually the F-22, the game having been mis-announced by Ocean's notoriously fearsome CEO and nobody wanting to correct him (mirroring the urban legend about the SR-71's name). The YF-22 wouldn't fly until a year after the game came out, so the aircraft is based on concept art that closely resembles the much later [=MiG=] 1.44 prototype. But that's not even the start of the silliness.

* In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' Volgin has a great number of Mi-24 Hind helicopters under his command, but the game takes place in 1964, six years before the helicopter went into production and even the first prototype was still very early in development. To give the designers some credit, the helicopters are the early Hind-A version with the polygonal canopy, instead of the iconic bubble canopy of the Hind-D and later models. It's also worth noting that the game explains that Volgin has priority access to what was at the time the cutting edge of Soviet equipment, and in a Codec conversation you find out that this is the first time anyone from the West has encountered the design, with Snake being the one who initially suggests the "Hind" callsign based on the fact that it looks to be a sleeker derivative of the Mi-8 Hip (although that potentially opens another can of worms when you consider the Mi-8 wasn't actually adopted by the Soviet military until '67).
** The game's designers deserve quite a bit of credit, as most of the 'wacky designs' for vehicles in the game (save the Shagohod, which is classically AwesomeButImpractical in traditional Metal Gear fashion) are drawn from rare but existing real life prototypes and models, such as the M21 insertion drone used by Naked Snake at the start of Operation Snake Eater (the in-game dates even match pretty closely with the real craft's first flight) and the Bartini Beriev WIG which appears in the ending scenes. Even the science-fiction-style hovering platforms used by patrols in some areas are based on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiller_VZ-1_Pawnee real]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet prototypes]], proving once again that RealityIsUnrealistic.
* Averted by ''X-Plane''. While flight sims are generally pretty good at getting it right, ''X-Plane'''s attention to detail and real-world flight physics is so incredibly accurate it can be used, along with the right hardware, for getting one's FAA certification. That's right, they've [[ShownTheirWork shown so much work]] that many countries' aviation regulators agree it's just like flying a real airplane.
* ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/{{HAWX}}'' starts out with the retirement flight of the eponymous Air Force squadron - flying Navy F/A-18C Hornets. You don't even get a choice of what plane to fly for the mission if you replay it in NewGamePlus.

** Like ''Ace Combat'', the planes are all given ludicrous amounts of missiles (this time the absolute minimum is about 88, flying a "Low Payload" craft on the highest difficulty which cuts missile counts, which as of 2022 is still four times as many as the most heavily-armed proposals can carry) that can target both fast-movers and stationary ground installations. The second game still gives planes at least three-fourths of a full ton worth of missiles, but the default ones are now explicitly-labeled "Heat-Seeking Missiles" that can only target other aircraft.

* ''Videogame/DigitalCombatSimulator'' largely averts this thanks to its very realistic cockpit and flight simulation, but the trope does pop up from time to time - some planes are modeled in a wonky way that allows them to accelerate far faster than they realistically could in a given situation, while others are able to maintain lift even when their pushed beyond what would realistically be possible given their energy-management profile.
* ''VideoGame/{{Aerobiz}}'': Though most aircraft have historically accurate phase-in and discontinuation dates, they don't feature accurate seating capacities or operational ranges. This is further exaggerated by the fact that the game does not allow airlines to make any alterations to the seating capacities or cabin configurations.

* ''VideoGame/BlazingAngels'' lets the heroic World War II pilots upgrade to flying the F-82 Twin Mustang, which first flew a month before the end of the war and didn't see combat until Korea.
* ''F/A-18 Hornet'' had you fighting Soviet [=MiG=]-27s and Su-27s in the Persian Gulf, neither of which are planes Iraq has ever flown. On the US side, the F-16 Fighting Falcon featured in later editions is sometimes seen taking off from or landing on an aircraft carrier, which it is incapable of in real life (the Navy only ''very'' briefly considered adopting a navalized variant of the F-16, the Vought Model 1600,[[note]]The US Navy does operate a handful of F-16s, but only in [[WeaponsUnderstudies adversary squadrons]], and they're emphatically ''not'' carrier-capable.[[/note]] before settling on the Northrop YF-17 instead).
* One of the playable planes in ''VideoGame/SkiesOfWar'' is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_C-47_Skytrain C-47 Skytrain]], which is used as a medium bomber, of all things, with a missile mount and two fixed forward facing gun positions on each wing in addition to the bomb bays. While versatile and no doubt capable of such a theoretical modification, the C-47 was a cargo and paratrooper plane, with a close support variant, the AC-47 "Spooky", mounting three gun positions along the port side. This is strange, as the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_B-25_Mitchell B-25 Mitchell]] could have easily taken its place as the medium twin engined bomber.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert2'':
** The standard Allied bomber aircraft is identified by name and icon as the AV-8 Harrier, and they appear as such in cutscenes such as a mid-mission one for the second Allied mission or the introduction to the ExpansionPack, but the actual voxel art used in gameplay more resembles the A-6E Intruder, which cannot take off and land vertically as the in-game craft does; earlier in development the craft was identified as an Intruder, with the name and icon change apparently happening midway through to fit better with it acting as a VTOL aircraft.[[note]]Interestingly, the Traditional Chinese translation of the game does more or less properly call the Harrier the "Intruder" instead.[[/note]] The Aircraft Carrier also utilizes small, apparently-unmanned aircraft referred to as "Hornets", presumably meant to be the real F/A-18 Hornet despite it also being incapable of VTOL, and not even existing in a non-prototype in the game's time frame of 1972 (then again, this is a game where, as just one example, [[EnergyWeapon laser technology]] is utilized as a direct method of attacking hostiles in combat, so maybe it was developed earlier here).
** The introduction to ''Yuri's Revenge'' is even worse. As above the CGI models are proper Harriers, but the cockpit view showcased on a few occasions is wildly inaccurate, depicting a control panel with a pair of gauges and two or three {{Big Red Button}}s, rather than the array of ''several'' gauges and buttons that even the earliest Harrier variants had - to say nothing of the actual head-up display having apparently gone AWOL (unless we're meant to assume the in-game version has a helmet-mounted display system like the modern F-35). Then the first of the Harriers to get shot down by Yuri's {{gatling|Good}}-based defenses has one wing torn off by a neat line of bullets cutting through it, but it rolls away from the missing wing ''and'' somehow still manages to home in directly onto another still-functioning Harrier to crash into it.
* ''VideoGame/GoldenEye2010'':
** The Russian Federation does not use the Ch-53 (slightly dressed up and called the "Ludmila T1" here), as in Dam, or the AH-6, as in Tank. Granted, the former case is [[LampshadeHanging noted by Bond]], even if it's more because he can somehow tell at a glance that it looks {{EMP}}-hardened, and so one of the objectives of the level is to take pictures of it so [=MI6=] can help figure out ''why'' it's there. Also, much like the Eurocopter Tiger from the original movie it's taking the place of, the Ch-53 does not have an ejection system and cannot lock missiles onto itself (it doesn't even ''have'' missiles).
** Also, the SAM launchers in Airfield are the American MIM-23 Hawk, rather than an actual Russian system like the SA-19/SA-22. ''Reloaded'' at least adds ZU-23-2 guns that Russia actually does use, but because they weren't there in the Wii version nobody is able to actually use them here.
** Sky Briggs notes in Dubai that the pilots for the copter on display there used to fly Cobras for [[PrivateMilitaryContractors Blackwater]]. The AH-1 isn't in use with military contractors. The Blackhawk would probably be a better fit, since there is a civil variant.
* ''VideoGame/BomberCrew'' is a crew management simulator of a British Lancaster (and in a DLC campaign, an American B-17) bomber. Aside from only having a pilot with no co-pilot or auto-pilot, causing the plane to begin to plunge to the ground whenever he steps away from the controls, it also features the ability of the crew to climb ''out on the wing'' to fix damaged engines - [[RealityIsUnrealistic which did indeed happen once]], in an incident that earned [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Cyril_Jackson the sergeant involved]] a Victoria Cross and a whole forest of aluminum Christmas trees.
* The attack helicopters in ''VideoGame/GhostReconWildlands'' are repeatedly referred to as "Apaches" despite the in game models being near-perfect representations of the Cobra, the Apache's USMC counterpart and predecessor in the US Army.
* The planes in ''VideoGame/AeroFighters'', despite being based on real-life ones, tend to be... off in terms of accuracy. The Vulcan and B-2 from the first game and the second respectively are both ''way'' larger than their real-life counterparts, while the second game has a pair of militarized Concorde airliners as the boss of the Paris stage. Then again, when you consider that one of your playable pilots is a dolphin that can talk in human languages...
* In ''VideoGame/JurassicWorldEvolution'', helicopters can lift sauropod dinosaurs without a problem. There is a chopper that can lift up to 80,000 pounds, but that’s clearly not what these are, and even so, many of the sauropods in game are twice that weight.
* In ''VideoGame/BanjoPilot'', the planes that Banjo and his friends fly slow down when they fly over terrain such as grass. This would make more sense in a car racing game due to friction.

** Every jet in the game with more than one variant uses the exact same model for each one, even when later variants add or remove extra seating, switch out the engines, or the like. The sole major exceptions are the F/A-18E Super Hornet, which has the proper wider fuselage than the other Hornet variants,[[note]]appropriate, since the real Super Hornet has been described as closer to a new plane advertised as a variant for the purposes of not inviting budget scrutiny[[/note]], the F-15 ACTIVE, which lengthens the fuselage to fit a second seat in the cockpit (since you first fly it in a tutorial mission where the GuyInBack is actually acknowledge; even then, it omits the thrust-vectoring engines the real thing has, and the game fails to make the same modification for the F-15E), and the Su-32 and -34, which get the widened tandem-seat cockpit and longer tail. The only other exceptions are when a variant of a plane adds canards, but that's the only difference, and if you look at the textures, you'll note that for most craft with canards, like the aforementioned Flanker family, they're lazy enough about it that canards are textured even on variants that don't have them. The game even goes overboard on this sort of thing with the Mirage V, which is accidentally programmed to use the Mirage III's texture instead of its own.

* The ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' [[TheProblemWithLicensedGames Licensed Games]] has Dreadwing who takes the role of fighter jet enemy in the game. The problem arises because in a game that takes almost entirely in the United States,[[note]]barring the first of the Decepticon campaign which takes in an American military base in Qatar, and the BonusLevel for both that takes place on Cybertron[[/note]] their vehicle mode is a ''Russian'' [=MiG-29=]. Granted, some private companies in the States do have [=MiG-29s=] that are used as targets for training exercises, but particularly with the film's sub-plot about the US thinking the Qatar attack was done by a foreign power with Russia, North Korea, China, and later Iran in a throwaway line being named-dropped. Three guesses which fighter jet all four of those nations happen to use. [[FridgeHorror Yeah]].

* ''F/A-18 Hornet'' had you fighting Soviet [=MiG=]-27s and Su-27s in the Persian Gulf, neither of which are planes Iraq has ever flown. On the US side, the F-16 Fighting Falcon featured in later editions is sometimes seen taking off from or landing on an aircraft carrier, which it is incapable of in real life (the Navy only ''very'' briefly considered adopting a navalized variant of the F-16, the Vought Model 1600,[[note]]the US Navy does operate a handful of F-16s, but only in [[WeaponsUnderstudies adversary squadrons]], and they're emphatically ''not'' carrier-capable.[[/note]] before settling on the Northrop YF-17 instead).

** The standard Allied bomber aircraft is identified by name and icon as the AV-8 Harrier, and they appear as such in cutscenes such as a mid-mission one for the second Allied mission or the introduction to the ExpansionPack, but the actual voxel art used in gameplay more resembles the A-6E Intruder, which cannot take off and land vertically as the in-game craft does; earlier in development the craft was identified as an Intruder, with the name and icon change apparently happening midway through to fit better with it acting as a VTOL aircraft.[[note]]Interestingly, the Traditional Chinese translation of the game does more or less properly call the Harrier the "Intruder" instead.[[/note]] The Aircraft Carrier also utilizes small, apparently-unmanned aircraft referred to as "Hornets", presumably meant to be the real F/A-18 Hornet despite it also being incapable of VTOL, and not even existing in a non-prototype in the game's time frame of 1972 (then again, this is a game where [[EnergyWeapon laser technology]] is utilized as a direct method of attacking hostiles in combat, so maybe it was developed earlier here).

** Earlier games in the series utilized a Flanker that was referred to as the original Su-27 but was very clearly not one, having the canards of upgraded models like the Su-33 and original Su-35. Likewise for other planes that were still in development at the time of the games' releases; for instance, the F-22 was not actually an F-22 until ''VideoGame/AceCombat3Electrosphere'', every prior game (released before the production F-22 was finalized) using the YF-22 prototype, of which only two existed, and the Su-47 in ''04'' being noticeably different from the real thing due to a lack of proper sources to model it after, being more of a hybrid between the real Su-47 and the fictional Su-43 from ''Electrosphere''.

** ''VideoGame/AceCombatJointAssault'' and ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' pay particular attention to carrier compatibility. For one mission, if the plane you select has an extant naval variant (or for the former game, select either one of the 2 prop fighters), you start with a carrier launch; if it doesn't, you perform a mid-air refuelling instead. Similarly, when taking off from a beached carrier in the latter game, compatible aircraft will use the slingshot; incompatible ones start much further back on the flight deck and will need pretty much the whole length to get airborne.

** ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyModernWarfare2'' falls into this trap by showing F-15Cs in "The Gulag" mission but later referring to the Navy as bombing the gulag. The Navy uses F/A-18s and eventually will use F-35s for combat missions.[[note]]Ironically, this mission is clearly influenced by ''Film/TheRock'', and yet it makes the exact opposite error that movie does.[[/note]] Apparently the developers didn't want to bother modeling another aircraft. It's also rather sad considering ''VideoGame/{{Call of Duty 4|ModernWarfare}}'' correctly showed the Marines getting their air support from [=SuperCobras=] and Harriers - except in multiplayer, where again the F-15 carries out both their airstrikes and those of the SAS. A lesser goof is that the launching of AGM-88 [=HARMs=], which no F-15 variant is compatible with, is announced with a call of "Fox Three", which is the brevity code for ''air-to-air, active radar-guided'' missiles. An anti-radiation air-to-ground missile would be fired with a call of "Magnum".
** ''Call of Duty 4'' also features Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters in Chernobyl's vehicle graveyards. No such aircraft are present in the real graveyards.[[note]]This is most likely a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl'', which also erroneously features Hinds in the vehicle graveyards.[[/note]] Zakhaev's forces also use Mi-28N Havocs for air cover in the Chernobyl missions, at best a couple months before the prototype for that version even had its first flight. Especially odd is that, in the rest of the game, where the Mi-28N being ubiquitous would have been temporally possible, the Ultranationalists are almost exclusively using the older Mi-24 Hinds while Mi-28N Havocs are reserved for the friendly Russian Loyalist forces.

** ''Modern Warfare 2'' had a chronic case of EasyLogistics, with magical transatlantic Havocs-apparently-carrying-[=BMPs=] probably the biggest example.

*** The PBY Catalina the player mans the guns of in "Black Cats" has both Oerlikon 20mm cannons and Browning M1919 machine guns mounted on the bow. The cannons were often reported as a field modification to Catalinas in the Pacific, but they'd have to remove the machine guns to make the room for them - they weren't meant as an additional set of guns to support the M1919s but rather as straight-up replacements with better range and power. The Oerlikons are also depicted as part of a flexible mount to fire wherever the front turret is facing, when in reality they were on [[FixedForwardFacingWeapon fixed mounts]]. Additionally, the player's Catalina is severely undermanned - the real things had a crew of ten (pilot, copilot, flight engineer, navigator, radio and radar operators, and four gunners), but the player's crew is at half that (pilot and copilot alongside only two gunners, forcing the player character to waste time clambering between individual guns, and ''one'' guy [[CrewOfOne handling everything else]]), though in turn this helps answer the question of how your Catalina also has the room and engine power to carry up to six sailors pulled out of the ocean over the course of the mission.

** ''Call of Duty 4'' also features Mi-24 Hind attack helicopters in Chernobyl's vehicle graveyards. No such aircraft are present in the real graveyards.[[note]]This is most likely a ShoutOut to ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}: Shadow of Chernobyl'', which also erroneously features Hinds in the vehicle graveyards.[[/note]] Zakhaev's forces also use Mi-28N Havocs for air cover in the Chernobyl missions, at best a couple months before the prototype for that version even had its first flight. Especially odd is that, in the rest of the game, where the Mi-28N being ubiquitous would have been temporally possible, the Ultranationalists are the only non-playable faction that ''doesn't'' use them.