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Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy – Action Game Review
Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy is a Action/Simulation game from Phanotek, Inc., first launched in 12th March 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 153+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy Stand Out
MINIMUM HARDWARE REQUIREMENT: IPAD2, iPHONE 4S
This game is an expansion pack of the Gunship-III Vietnam War series.
Features flyable A-1 Skyraider, A-4E Skyhawk and F-4B Phantom II.
Full feature U.S. Navy carrier take-off and landing with deck crew, Surface to Air Missiles for both side, Radar Warning Receiver for US's planes.
Players could play co-op or against other players on Gunship-III original and Gunship-III Vietnam People Airforce.
For more info about the Gunship-III Vietnam War Aircombat series, visit developer's page or at www.gunship3d.com
Features:
- 360 degrees virtual cockpit.
- Realistic avionics and weapon systems.
- Full multiplayer over the internet with live text chat.
- Support private network multiplayer.
Download Gunship-III FREE for more free aircrafts and helicopters.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 12th December 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Fix engine slowly spool up on some devices
Download & Availability
Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator – U.S. Navy on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Its a great game but when you are in multiplayer you get dead really quickly and in practice you are invisible and loved it.
We like the game but could you please ad more aircraft like the a6 intruder ,f8 crusader and the a7 Corsair please.
The game is great and we would like it if the developers added napalm to the games.
App needs to be updates to work with latest iPad OS. Works on iPhone but no longer loads on iPad. Intro screen starts and then app immediately force quits itself.
- Can u combine the 3 apps to switch teams and aircraft or just the 2 US to switch aircraft 2. Different navy prototypes 3. On the Skyhawk there should be 1 with 4 missiles and whatever 4. Navy helicopters 5. A new jet but free with missiles.
Would like to see m F-8 crusader!!!! Would love to see a newer updated version of this game.
This game is awsome but it needs update really bad.
We recommend that the developers add the two most known planes during Vietnam used by the US navy the Vought F-8 Crusader dogfighter and Vought A-7 Corsair II attack plane and theses are also our favorite planes during the Vietnam war and if the developers would make our life by adding ONE or BOTH even of these planes we would never know how to repay you for this amazing game. We hope that this update comes in the future for more people to enjoy. Im not trying to be picky or saying YOU HAVE TO ADD THESE but saying it as a recommendation for the developers. Thanks you for reading this and we hope you add theses plane.
We love the game its the best navy fighter simulator out there it just needs updates please.
We love this game everything about it is perfect we just wish you guys could of added helicopters to it just like the other games but still great.
Its a great game but it needs more planes to fly other than that It is a fun game and the f4 is amazing all it needs is more planes. Like a B-52 but the game is fun.
Would you consider, putting the F-8 crusader in game.
We're not mad, but can you please add the helicopters from the original full version of gunshipIII like the Huey slick and gunship, the chinook, chickataw and cobra and cayuse and the Choctaw oh, and please make all of the catapults on the work for heavy fighters to take off with ease.
We would like to have the F-8 Crusader,the A-6 Intruder,EA-6B Prowler,E-2 Hawkeye,S-2 Tracker,S-3 Viking,RA-5,AD-5 Skyraider,and the TA-4 Skyhawk.
Make the catapults by the wires work like the other two already being used in game.
This is a amazing game but more aircraft like the panthers s put some battleships ok thanks is game is amazing.
Very fun game but could use an A-6 Intruder.
Overall, the Gunship III series is a great series, and always worth your money. It is wonderful as a flight simulator, but it focuses on the word flight. For those people that want to use the revolver and knife; THIS IS A FLIGHT SIMULATOR, NOT A FIRST-PERSON SHOOTER! Thank you for your time.
We think you guys need to add more Planes because they had a lot more planes than 3. Also we think you should add choices for the A-1 and add rockets or other bombs for the plane and other planes. PLEAS ADD MORE PLANES. FINALLY YOU NEED TO ADD MORE HELICOPTERS THERE WERE WAY MORE THEN WHAT YOU HAVE ON THE GAME.
We payed money for this great simulator, but it needs some new planes and helicopters like the kaman SH-2 seasprite and should get a new aircraft like the F-8 Crusader. Thank you so much for a great game navy is the best version of the game please update with this stuff.
Maybe you could add cargo aircraft such as the c-130 and have a role as ground crew so you could push aircraft back and refuel them manually as a character outside the aircraft, also ATC would be nice, and the last thing we would like you to add would be in flight refueling with other multiplayer aircraft or the AI b-52 , with all kindness Aviator luke.
The Gunship III – Combat Flight Simulator is one of the best combat flight Sims that you can purchase and get in the App Store or the Google play store! The graphics are unmatched, the gameplay is the most fun we've had with any app that we have gotten before. In fact, we deleted all the other apps that were flight Sims and kept only the flight Sims that are made by PNTK (Phanotek). We purchased all of them! There's one annoying flaw that we see in this series and it persists and all Gunship III sequels. That is the issue of deadly grass! You cannot crash land your jet or touch any grass in the game or your jet will instantly explode! And in large you are NOT updating Gunship III (Vietnam War) or Gunship III Heroes of Mig Alley (Korean War)!!!!! Why?!?! One major issue is that there is no speed or altitude in the heads up display when your are using easy mode and using the fly behind camera view!!! Why?!?!?! Please fix this to in Gunship III Series. You have left these Sims unupdated for a LONG TIME!!!!! By the way, more objectives or any objectives in Gunship III Heroes of Mig Alley would be nice! Only single player objectives!! Why?!? Maybe you can do a capture the base in these flight Sims to like you did in Wings of Duty? It would add a lot more fun to the Gunship III series. Also, it would be nice if you could be a ground anti-aircraft cannon or Sam missile battery.maybe there could be another installment and make it the ground forces package where you can be any type of ground force, Either anti-aircraft gun, Sam missile battery, or even a tank that can help capture bases, if you employee capture the base in gunship III series.
We think you guys should make a modern version of gunship if you did that would be sooo awesome and for all of gunship 3 wings of duty and Mig alley can you guys add a button to turn engines on and off and for F-86F can you add tail hook and carrier for USA oh and can you add MIG-21Bis for Vietnam side for free that would be awesome.
Gunship III is awesome. But we have and idea. We think u should add the F-18 Super Hornet and the CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. Other than that the game is AWESOME.
You know the island behind yankee, we were thinking maybe you could put a runway on the island (your team choice) and put battleships and stuff for the objectives, and you could have a battleship for the migs, and during a certain point in the game, the battleships will meet and both teams will have to destroy the battleships. But the battleships can respawn, like the B-52, but the objective won't reset, they are ideas, and you can add them if you want, awesome game though.
The game is awesome.butt we think you should add the a-7 corsair and f 8 crusader.but other than that it's a great way to have fun and shoot down migs. We hope you add The A-7 and F 8.it will make the gunship saga even more fun!!!take our word we really hope you add the f8 a7. Sincerely:meep A.F 7 ps the F 8 has 4 20mm cannons and 4 aim 9 2 Agm 67 and a computer in the cockpit pps A 7 carries 1 20mm cannon and 14000 lbs of unguided bombs plz plz plz plz plz plz please add the A-7 corsair and F-8 crusader ppps A 7 flies at 696 mph and the F-8 flies at 1117 mph plz add.
Love the game, it's a lot of fun to play. This expansion pack is probably our favorite. It would be great to see an F-8 Crusader, A-6 Intruder, and the A-7 Corsair.
This game is the bet it gets for; history buffs, fighter jocks and gamers alike. This game is very realistic, in that it captures all the main features of Aerial combat during the Vietnam combat, many people say that it needs more carriers or runways, but it is perfect, it has the most realistic amount of airbases and carriers, the only thing you could add are A-6 intruders/prowlers and corsairII which were involved in the war for the navy at this time, love this game thanks.
We used to love playing this series, but these days the game has not been working. We try to open the game and it immediately sends us back to the Home Screen. Please we beg of you guys fix this so we can have our fun again. PLEASE.
This game is a banger but its sad to see all the wasted potential we feel like im playing a game that has the environment of a bunch of children who chat spam and hack the game. Overall very enjoyable game IF you only play single player.
We think this Game is awesome but it dries up kind of quick, we Believe if you had some more aircraft like A6s or more carrier based aircraft it would be even better, also on the A4 the gun sight is off, the cross hair isnt on the hood.
The best single player fighter is the F-4, but the best multiplayer fighter is the A-1, why? Because the F-4 in single-player doesnt have to worry much about friendly aircraft and can spot and destroy aircraft from far away, however in multiplayer where you tend to circle over the enemy airbase (because teams are unbalanced and sams dont do anything) the problems in the F4s maneuverability become evident, and thus the A1 can catch the slow migs. Heck, sometimes you can kill the with rockets.
We need an navy rescue Helicopter. Thats About.
A goof game overall but it need more aircraft and a sea king, seasprite, helicopters and planes like the A-6, A-7, F-8 and maybe even the RA-5 or A-3.
Like the 0-1 bird dog the ov-10 Bronco the 0-2a skymaster and the c123 provider.
This game needs lots of work. Its historical accurate and its very fun . Sometimes when we land our landing gear sometimes glitch through the ground or when Im on the carrier our gear disappear into the ground . Another problem is that we only have three planes to use its very boring just playing with three planes. We have been having problems with the aim-9s , when Im locking on to a mig Ill her the brrrrrrr and than fire but it doesnt go to the target it just keeps going . These are all major problems with the game! Anyway the game is great and we have met many friends in it.
People can say what they want and we ended up having to stop because some guy had some crazy bad language and we want you to fix this so we can play again.
The game is really awesome but it would be cool if you added more planes into navy or at least add more modern fighter jets plzzz F-18.
The game is old and cool but (and this is a big but) the game needs mor updates the devs need to come back from wings of duty and give the gunship III games a update or more updates. Why this? The games last update WAS 2 YEARS AGO.
The game overall is great and really fun to play, but these werent the only planes used. You could also add the A-6 intruder, because last time we checked thats a plane from Vietnam. Also we suggest that you put this into consideration because you heads are stuck inside wings of duty. This game needs some love too you know. Put these suggestions in and actually for once give this game some love and leave wings of duty alone.
Great game but the USN had the Kaman SH-2 Sea Sprite helicopter in Vietnam. Please add it. Also can you add the A-6 intruder & F-8 crusader? These were both in Vietnam and are iconic aircraft. Thanks.
After u eject and land u should have to get back to base as soon as possible so having the ability to walk , run and shoot would make it the best game on the App Store And we need a apc and jeeps with 50 cals on them and paratroopers like arma 3 please it will make it awesome . We hope u will consider one of these in a future uptate don't stop updating this game please.
Gunship 3 is an amazing game, But we need at least two more aircraft for the navy. The two jets that we think should be in the game is the F-8 Crusader and the A-6. Fighter bomber. Plus a line of missions possibly control tanks and even when you bail out your job would be to get back to base as soon as possible.
Pntk.Inc, youre games are very cool and interesting but sadly Gunship 3 has been crashing all the time and now we cant play it. Phanotek, could you fix the issue and hope that we can play again.
Ive been playing this game since it came out, and a couple weeks ago we tried to start it and it just didnt launch then kicked us out of the game, we looked it up online and Im not the only person this is happening to, and we checked for updates and even uninstalled and reinstalled this game, so uhhhhhhhhh help.
Since the latest iOS update, the game, along with all the other GSIII games, crashes on the title screen. Awesome game but it wont even start now.
Add F-8, A-6 and A-7. Fix the bugs. Get rid of that built-up G limit, all planes should have their own fixed G limit.
We play this every now and then and it just needs updates to aircraft, airbase and the carrier. The last update was 4 years ago and you all update gunship sequel like every week. Work on this.
The game is great, but there needs to be a system to ban certain people and report them, because they are horribly anti-Semitic and rude. Please fix this, then maybe 5 stars.
The planes look and handle great, as always, but there are a handful of issues. For one, the camera angles (and this goes for all of them) can be buggy, and it is especially evident with this game. When we are trying to circle around the plane/jet and search for enemies or inspect the aircraft, it will sometimes make it so we are zooming in and out of the camera angle, instead of moving left, right, up or down. Another thing is the white rectangle that forms on the shadow of the A-4E. We dont know why that happens. Also, there is an issue with enemies being seemingly invisible, even when we do a slow flyby of the target area. Ive done this multiple times with multiple aircraft. The las thing we have, and this is a question rather than a complaint, is why you didnt have all the other add-ons for Gunship III as a paid expansion that is attached to the main game, as in when you go into the mission to pick your aircraft, you can have the option to either buy an aircraft individually or the whole pack. Installing several different games and switching between them to get specific aircraft is a bit irritating. We dont know if you can afford to make it a paid dlc, and Im fine if its not in your budget and putting a price on it is required in order to make money back, but if not, make it a free dlc. We understand that this game is older and the player base is not as large as it used to be a year or two ago, but theres still some devoted players, along with casual players, and we know for them and we, an update to assess what we said would likely be appreciated. Thank you for your time and your games, which we still enjoy playing.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.8.4
- Size: 510.18 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Phanotek, Inc.]()
Last updated: 12th December 2016 | Genre: Action, Simulation | Developer: Phanotek, Inc.