Drafted — not technically validated
Record revision 1 · Falcon 4.0's Korean Peninsula theatre, carried on by Falcon BMS: a modern war between North and South Korea.
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Falcon BMS: Korea
- Simulator
- Falcon BMS
- Made by
- Benchmark Sims
- Setting
- Present day: A full-scale modern war on the Korean Peninsula; Falcon 4.0's campaign began with a North Korean invasion in the early 1990s [2], and BMS describes its setting as a 2000 warfare era [1]
- Area
- The Korean Peninsula, with an airbase in Japan [2]
- Real-world theatre
- East Asia and the Pacific
- Purchase
- Falcon BMSFalcon BMS by Benchmark SimsFree, but Falcon BMS only installs over a bought copy of Falcon 4.0Falcon BMSFalcon 4.0 on SteamFalcon Collection on GOG
Store pages checked 2026-10-28. Prices and availability change.
Airfield coverage
| Airfield | On this map | Name in the sim | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kadena Air Base | Not yet checked | — | 2026-10-27 |
Each airfield's page cites the sources for its entry. Airfields not listed have not been checked against this map.
Other differences from reality
- ATC frequencies: All airbase ATC frequencies are UHF only, to avoid splitting every frequency between VHF and UHF; towers keep an old VHF placeholder that pilots are told to ignore, and only the ATIS is on VHF. [3]
- Approach and departure: Approach and departure share one frequency at every airbase, although the ATC menu has separate pages for each. [3]
- Read-back: There is no mandatory read-back of instructions; AI controllers often give the next instruction straight away, so a read-back is likely to be stepped on. [3]
- Navaids: BMS models only TACANs and ILS. Real civil VOR-DMEs appear as TACANs, and unlike in real life no ILS has its own DME: distance in TCN/ILS mode is to the TACAN, which can be 1 or 2 nm or more from the runway threshold. [3]
- TACAN data: BMS TACAN channels and ranges match real-world data, but the work began in the Falcon SP days, so stations changed since then may differ. [3]
Coverage
Falcon BMS is a free, standalone mod of Falcon 4.0, the 1998 F-16 simulation whose dynamic campaign is a full-scale war on the Korean Peninsula. [1] [2] In Falcon 4.0’s story North Korea invades the South in the early 1990s and the United States reinforces the South; Japan has an airbase but plays no part in the war. [2] BMS describes its F-16s, avionics and weapons as set in a 2000 warfare era. [1]
Sources
- Falcon BMS. Benchmark Sims (project home page). https://www.falcon-bms.com/ (accessed 2026-10-28).
- Falcon 4.0. Wikipedia (secondary source). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_4.0 (accessed 2026-10-28).
- BMS Comms & Nav Book 4.38.1. Benchmark Sims (official documentation). https://cdn.falcon-bms.com/docs/4.38/BMS-Comms-Nav-Book.pdf (accessed 2026-10-28). Sections 1.1 (Airbase comm plan) and 1.3.5 (Departure), the read-back rules, and the navigation chapters on tacans and ILS.
Wikipedia articles are secondary sources and can change; they are cited with the date they were read. Vendor pages describe the current release of each map.