[Bobbo]

Devastator was produced by Douglas, not Grumman....

I see something strange in this problem with "copyrights". Exist many games about pacific war... Battlestation pacific, Steel Monsters. And they don't have any problems with copyrights.

I know what you mean, I don't under stand it but it was Grumman who got upset and to be safe from any other lawsuits (I think) they stopped work on any PTO content for IL2. Any way some one on here must know the hole story and can clear this up about USA aircraft, ships & vehicles ect... and copyright's?

This discusses it
http://forum.1cpublishing.eu/showthread.php?t=10544

And it sounds like what is happening is the US companies, like model makers thumb their noses at the defense companies while apparently foreign companies feel more pressure to pay.