I too would like a good Viet Nam sim, but there are many stumbling blocks that really put it out of the question. The biggest being the absolute necessity for a "GiB" (Guy in Back). The aircraft of the era (especially the US ones) were trying for technological levels that we have today, but with 1960's computing power on board. No single seater would be effective simply because of task saturation of the pilot, hence the proliferation of 2 seat fighters of the period. (The F4, and, F-105 in particular come to mind).
For these types to work for our purposes we would have to have a very sophisticated AI "GiB". I can't see that happening anytime soon. And even though we could still have plenty of cool single seaters, (Mig 17, Crusader, Skyraider, etc...), not having an F-105 for Wild Weasel missions would take a very important element out of the sim.
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