Strike Fighters by Thirdwire

Submitted April 16, 2014

Northrop P-61 Black Widow Pack

PLEASE READ THE README FILE INCLUDED !!!!!

The Northrop P-61 Black Widow, named for the venomous spider, was the first operational U.S. military aircraft designed specifically for night interception of opposing aircraft, and was the first aircraft specifically designed to use radar. The P-61 had a crew of three: pilot, gunner, and radar operator.

Like the original 1stGen Pak, this mod contains 2 complete aircraft:
P-61A
with 2 skins,
Olive Drab/Neutral Gray
and
Overall Black
The Black will become active using the "StartDefaultDate" switch.
P-61B
Overall Black
The P-61A does NOT have the top turret (as is historicaly correct). The P-61B DOES, and it will engage defensively (well, sorta offensively too) any E/A with range.
As a bonus, an 'experimental' version of the P-61A-1, WITH turret (but locked forward), and some engine modifications is included for those End Users with the skills and talents to try and dial in the WEP statements. The WEP is 'best guess', and historically was used on all Black Widow models (yes, the time IS correct! Right from the Pilot's Manual and other technical resources. But don't use it for longer than 5 minutes at a time!)

Credits:
Veltro2k for the aircraft
Stary for his Uber-fantastic Black Widow cockpit!
Wolf257s P-38 drop tank repurposed here
GergoryP for the AvHistory Engine sounds
Wrench for the skin, decals, inis, screens* and such like

Sources:
Osprey Combat Aircraft #6: P-61 Black Widown Units of WW2
Squad/Signal #1106: Northrup P-61 Black Widow In Action
Schiffer: 421st NFS in WW2
Warbird Tech #15: P-61 Black Widow
Nightfighter: The Battle for the Night Skies by Ken Delve (a SUPERB reference from WW1 to the 1990s)
USAAF Pilot Training Manual for the P-61 Aircraft (c.1945)

THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT

485 downloads

(7 reviews)

Submitted April 16, 2014

Hawker Typhoon Mk IB V2K

Hawker Typhoon Mk IB V2K

The Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy in RAF slang), was a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was designed to be a medium–high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
3D Model (Veltro2k)
Textures and FM (Charles)
Cockpit (Kesselbrut)
Best Sim : Thirdwire
unzip, add folders to their appropriate places...have fun

THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT

Update 4/13/2014: LOD fix for shadow issue

398 downloads

(5 reviews)

Updated April 16, 2014

Hawker Typhoon Mk IB Bubble Top

Hawker Typhoon Mk IB Bubble Top

The Hawker Typhoon (Tiffy in RAF slang), was a British single-seat fighter-bomber, produced by Hawker Aircraft. It was designed to be a medium–high altitude interceptor, as a replacement for the Hawker Hurricane but several design problems were encountered and it never completely satisfied this requirement.
3D Model (Veltro2k)
Textures and FM (Charles)
Cockpit (Kesselbrut)

Best Sim : Thirdwire
unzip, add folders to their appropiate places...have fun

THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT

276 downloads

(6 reviews)

Submitted April 16, 2014

Dhimar Deset Camo for Lightning53

By Centurion-1

Dhimari Desert Camo
for TW's Lightning53

Installation:
Drop into your mod folder of choice.

Credits:
Skin by Centurion
Templates by Sundowner
Dhimari Desert Camo idea by ValAstur

99 downloads

(1 review)

0 comments

Submitted April 16, 2014

Parani Air Force Pack 1

By Centurion-1

-=Parani Air Force Pack 1=-

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*****by Centurion 1******

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This pack adds a bunch of nation specifc, flyable aircraft that depicts the fictional Parani Air Force of the 1970s. All the skins are high-resolution and custom made for this. The baddies have never looked so good :) The fighters also have kill markings included.

Included are:
MiG-21MF*/PFM
Mirage 3 called PC
Mirage 5** called PD
Mirage F.1 (early type, Cyrano IV radar and no RWR. Inboard Atoll pylons included)
Su-7BMK
Tu-22
Il-28

and a skin for the Tu-22KD. The reason for this not being a nation specific variant is I cant make cruise missiles work for other nations than the Soviets.
The MiG-21s are based on the latest MiG-21 pack by Ataribaby and include the "hard" handling model.

*The MiG-21MF have provisions for mounting Matra550 Magic 1 IRMS, because of the poor performance of the Atolls. This was done IRL by the Iraqi air force in the 1980s. If you dont like it, feel free to edit it out.

**Converesly, the Mirage 5s have the possibility to mount WP IRMs and dumb ordnance, like the Libyan Mirage 5D

Installation:
Unzip to a mod folder of your choice. Suggested to use with Piecemeals excellent Desert 4 terrain.

Requirements:
MiG-21s, Il-28, Su-7, Tu-22: Any SF2 title more or less.
Mirage 3 and 5: SF2 Israel (based on the Nesher and Shahak)
Tu-22KD: SF2: North Atlantic

CREDITS:
Thirdwire for making Sf2
The CombatAce community for being very friendly, supporting and making SF2 live on!
Piecemeal for making the Desert 4 terrain, the main reason for me making this pack
Me (Centurion): Su-7BMK templates. Skins. Misc tweaks.
Ataribaby, Paladrian, Spillone104,Howling1,Klavs81,Wrench,Lindr2,Zdenek Kussior, 4plus: MiG-21 pack (cockpits, data tweaks, sounds etc)
Soulfreak: MiG-21 templates
LudoM54: Mirage temps
Flogger23: Il-28 and Tu-22 temps
Stary: Su-7 and Il-28 cockpits
Lindr2 for some weapons
Ravenclaw for some weapons
LudoM54, Crusader and me and the rest of the F.1 team for the Mirage F.1

And anyone else I might have forgot.

396 downloads

paran
dhimar
(and 6 more)
Tagged with:
- paran
- dhimar
- opfor
- redfor
- high-res
- mig
- mirage
- su

(2 reviews)

3 comments

Submitted April 16, 2014

Thirdwire Runways 2014

By MigBuster

Thirdwire runways for SF2 series

Unlike the previous packs these include runways rescaled and reworked to Thirdwire standard and have the names of the Thirdwire runway textures - so this just replaces the stock ones.

A lot of existing runways use textures to this scaling so they can be used with those also.

includes 4 different sets with different runway colours - Covers 5 default runways in SF2 / SF2V / SF2E / SF2I

Just pick a set - the game will use just the one set.

810 downloads

(4 reviews)

0 comments

Updated April 15, 2014

StrikeFighters2 "Operation Hydra"

By Spectre8750

29 Jun 2011

StrikeFighters2 Cuba "Operation Hydra" V1.0 for post May 2011 Update.

Campaign For SF2:Europe, SF2:Vietnam and SF2:Israel Merged Install.

This is a Campaign that takes place in the Bahamas and Caribbean with Cuba
being central to the order of battle. Soviet and Chinese Forces are
gathering in the North and West and are first trying for a foothold through
Cuba into the United States. Guantanamo Bay has been taken by Soviet and
Chinese Forces. Some are aware of certain individuals in control and are
pushing for One World Control through International Organizations such as
the U.N., CFR, IMF, International Banks and the Top 2 percent whom Own half
of the entire planet trying for One World Control, Along with One World
Religion by 2015.

I've Melded some of Stary's Taiwan and Israel Tiles with my Korean Tiles
for some variation.

The Campaign includes USAF, USMC, and USN with Carrier support. Australia,
Mexico, Honduras, Cuba, Soviet, China, Royal Air Force and 3 Mercenary
Aircraft for Campaign play.

Installing the Campaign:

Campaign files with menu pics and Music files, Rain, Ejection Seat and
Parachute Effects are included. Also Included 1 Icon File for the Main Dir
to use with the Desktop Shortcut.

A few extra Files are needed: The E-3A.LOD's for the E-3 "Sentry" can be
found in Operation Desert Storm in the "ODS_part1.exe" file or at Skunkworks.
The A-37B-R5.LOD for Aircraft Folder and A37B_PIT-R1.LOD for the Cockpit for
the A-37B Dragonfly and the MQ1-R0B.LOD for the MQ-1 Predator at Skunkworks.
Just drop these into the corresponding Aircraft Folders.

Make a copy of your "StrikeFighters2 Israel.exe" or
"StrikeFighters2 Europe.exe" in the program folder and rename it to
"StrikeFighters2 Cuba.exe". Also make a copy of the INI and rename it
"StrikeFighters2 Cuba.ini" in the main dir.

Now Run the New "StrikeFighters2 Cuba.exe" and go the the
"Saved Game folder" "StrikeFighters2 Cuba" and delete the "Aircraft"
and "GroundObject" folders. New ones will be created. I've included all the
Aircraft and Ground Objects including the Default SF2 files you need,
You do not have to sift through them. You can add Aircraft later if you
want. Also open the Options.ini file and change:

[singleMission]
AircraftType=A-10C_10
Service=USAF
........
MissionDate=2010
StartYear=0
EndYear=2050 <------------to this
EditMission=FALSE

Now Run the Mod Installer and point it to the New User Directory
"StrikeFighters2 Cuba Folder. Overwrite if it asks.

You should be ready to go.

I want to thank the Community for all their effort.
and and especially:

_Thomas_
101tfs
331KillerBee
Actarus
AGOSTINO
AleDucat
aleks
AmokFloo
ArturR
Badger
BANIDOS TEAM
bib
bigal1
bobrock
Boopidoo
BPAo
Camouflage
Capun
Cocas
Column 5
comrad
Crab_02
Craig
Crusader
DamWaar
Dante-JT
Dave USAFMTL
Dels
Deuces
Diego
Digital Overlord
dmtdradon
Dr.Welsh
Epizikl
EricJ
Erikgen
Erwin_Hans
FastCargo
Flying Toaster
Fubar512
Gabilon
Gaston
gerwin
Ghostrider883
Hawker
Hinchinbrooke
HoneyFox
Howling1
HrntFixr
Insky group
J.M Langeron
JA 37 Viggen
Jat81500
Jeanba
JimBeamer5
Jimbib
Joe Baugher
JSF Aggie
Julheim
Jv44kt
Kesselbrut
Kout
Kreelin
lindr2
LloydNB
Mago
Manetsim
Marcfighter
Matthew Ouellette
Mauricepiesligeros
Max Rudakov
Mig Master
Mike1
Miracleman
Mirage Factory
MJ
MK2
Moonjumper
NazGhul
NeverEnough
Olivier ANGUILLE
olo007
pablitoVPT
Paladrian
Pappy
Pappychksix
Pasko
pcpilot
petr005
Phamtuan
Private
Rafael
Rampage
Raptore One
ravenclaw_007
raynor
rscsjsuso5
Scrapper
Sidewinder86
Signum
Sony Tuckson
spillone
ST0RM
Starfighter2
Stary
SUICIDAL
Sundowner
Swede
SWS
Syrinx
Talos
Team Viper
TFlash
The Trooper
Thunder-Works
Tiwaz
tomcat
Tonix
TORNO
Tunderchief
Typhoid
UF Josse
Veltro2K
vrkuboy
WhiteBoySamurai
Wilco
WingWiner
Wpnssgt
Wrench
X Ray
YEYEYE
Third Wire
and TK

Thanks to all, let me know if i missed anyone.

Spectre[8750]

1,884 downloads

(2 reviews)

11 comments

Updated April 15, 2014

Mirage5F_DesertCamo

By slick cowboy

These are two fictional desert skins for the Mirage 5F, for EC 2/13 Alpes and EC3/13 Auvergne.
The colours used are the same as the French desert Jaguar A. So it's a kind of a plausible outfit if the Mirage 5 was ever deployed in a desert theater.

In order to use the skins, you need to download Ludo's flyable Mirage 5F:

http://combatace.com/files/file/10873-mirage-5f

You need SF2E for the actual stock TW aircraft and SF2I for the cockpit. Please find all info in Ludo's mod.

Once you have properly installed Ludo's flyable Mirage 5F, you can paste my skins in the aircraft folder:
Objects/Aircraft/Mirage5F. My desert skins refer to the decals used in this package!

The skins themselves were made based on Ludo's Mirage 5F templates with some additional weathering by yours truly.

Credits:

Ludo for modded Mirage 5F and templates
TW for original aircraft

115 downloads

(2 reviews)

0 comments

Updated April 14, 2014

Avro Lancaster MK1 V2K

The Avro Lancaster is a British four-engined Second World War heavy bomber designed and built by Avro for the Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service with RAF Bomber Command in 1942 and, as the strategic bombing offensive over Europe gathered momentum, it became the main heavy bomber used by the RAF, the RCAF, and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within the RAF, overshadowing its close contemporaries the Handley Page Halifax and Short Stirling.The "Lanc", as it was affectionately known,thus became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 long tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties."

3D Model (Veltro2k)
Textures and FM (Charles)
Cockpit (Kesselbrut)
Best Sim : Thirdwire
unzip ad folders to their appropriate places...have fun

THIS MODEL IS ONLY TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FREEWARE AND IN NO OTHER CIRCUMSTANCE SHALL IT BE USED, EVEN IN PART OF ANYTHING THAT IS PAYWARE. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE COMBAT ACE MODDERS AGREEMENT

498 downloads

(3 reviews)

Submitted April 13, 2014

SF2_CASA SF-5A

By lanapa

SF-5A de las FFAA Españolas

Basado en el NF-5A, disponible aqui: http://combatace.com/files/file/9484-nf-5a-for-sf2-ver102/

3 Esquemas de color: "Metal", "Lagarto" y "Gris" con numerales históricos del escuadrón 211, 212 y 464 (Metal y Lagarto) y ALA 23 (Gris)

2 Armas incluidas BR-250 y BR-500

Skin del Piloto creado por Diego Lozano y modificado por mi.

Breve historia, Archivos modificados, instrucciones de instalación, reconocimientos y créditos en el LEEME

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SF-5A of Spanish Armed Forces

Based on NF-5A, available here: http://combatace.com/files/file/9484-nf-5a-for-sf2-ver102/

3 colour schemes: "Metal", "Lizard" and "Gray", with historic numerals from 211,212 y 464 Sqn (Metal & Lizard) and ALA 23 (Gray)

2 Weapons included, BR-250 & BR-500

Pilot Skin created by Diego Lozano, modified by me.

A little bit of history, modified files, Instalation and acknowledgments and credits on README

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¡¡¡Espero que lo disfruteis!!! --------- I hope that you enjoy it!!

Thanks to ravenclaw_007 for the plane & Diego Lozano for the Pilot!!!!

---LANAPA---

656 downloads

spain
f-5a
(and 1 more)
Tagged with:
- spain
- f-5a
- casa

(4 reviews)

Updated April 13, 2014

Hawker Sea Fury Fb.11 & Mk. 50

By paulopanz

The Hawker Sea Fury was a British fighter aircraft developed for the Royal Navy by Hawker during the Second World War.
The last propeller-driven fighter to serve with the Royal Navy, it was also one of the fastest production single
piston-engined aircraft ever built.
Exported to a number of countries, it acquitted itself well in the Korean War even against the MiG-15 jet aircraft.

Sea Fury Fb.11

4 KAW Era, 2 RN, 7 RCN, 4 RAN, 6 MLD (23) skins.

Sea Fury Mk. 50

3 Burma, 5 Cuba, 1 EAF, 3 IRAQI, 1 Morocco, 2 Pakistan (15) skins.

What's in:

1) All new skins made using new temps except for EAF, Glory and Sidney that are heavily edited. Zoom in;
2) The plane has its pitot, made in Brasil by Denis
3) The spinner bug is solved: You can quit the engine and see the spinner even if inside the cockpit,
without nose/fuselage showing, using a new trick
4) Each skin has historical decalset
5) weapons included
6) Hangar/loading/loadout immages new/edited for SF-2
7) (V.1.1) New FM/data/loadouts & tanks by Baffmeister

To Install:

- All in main mod folder

Credits:

- Simon for the plane (original SF-1 readme included)
- DenisOliveira fot the pitot, a little great add
- Baffmeister for New FM/data/loadouts (V.1.1)
- Tim Canada for his SF-1 original canadian skin
- the maker of the EAF one (I don't remember who... )
- Wrench for original hangar
- Derk the best Dutch aviation expert I ever met.
- Fastcargo for his Fake pilot (included)

Note:

- this pack uses stock TW P-51D pit, but you're free to experiment

With all my love for this evenig (piston engine) star.

@ paulopanz

729 downloads

(4 reviews)

0 comments

Updated April 13, 2014

RT-33A A.M.I.

By paulopanz

... wet paint. This is a brand new skin. One of my few AMI works.
51° Stormo RT-33A for Enrico's outstanding model.
Fly it.
Paul

101 downloads

(3 reviews)

Updated April 12, 2014

G-91Y Desert AMI

By slick cowboy

These are fictional desert schemes for the G-91Y of the 8th and 32nd Stormo.
It's a paint-over job, but it came out quite well I think.

You will need the original aircraft of course! Get it here:

http://combatace.com/files/file/11133-aeritalia-g91y/

The skin doesn't include the decals. You'll find them with the original aircraft mentioned above.

Credits:

(copied from the G-91Y page)

kreelin for the great FM; thanks a lot Andriam
Spillone104 for the jet sound, photos and suggestions during beta testing
Steve S for the invaluable infos about the cockpit , grazie Stefano
bobrock, Soulfreak, Dave, Canadair, 76.IAP-Blackbird, Veltro2k and Nghengo as beta testers
ErikGen ... 3D, skins, pit, blood and tears.

There are no templates so I painted it over and worked with layers of saturations and color balance to get it how I wanted it.
The model seems to work only with DDS files, but I included jpgs of the skin for reference.

Have fun!

71 downloads

(4 reviews)

0 comments

Submitted April 12, 2014

RT-33A PAF Skinpack

By paulopanz

These skins were sitting on my HD waiting for RT-33A realise.

I made them for Indo-Pak scenario so are mostly for Sandesh,
but this fantastic plane (as others like Voodoos, G-91s,Tu-128, F-80, T-33, F-94 .... ) comes from our great friend and modder Enrico Gennari aka (Erikgen).
He's out from here from too much time I have to say: "We miss you Enrico come back". Please.
I hope some of you will be with me.
I'm sad so no enjoy, this time.

Paolo

76 downloads

(3 reviews)

0 comments

Updated April 12, 2014

SF2 Lockheed RT-33A Shooting Star Pak by ErikGen

By Wrench

SF2 Lockheed RT-33A Shooting Star Pak by ErikGen 3/25/2014

= For SF2, Full-5 Merged (Reccomended/Preferred) =

This package contains a new aircraft for SF2. Originally part of the KAW F-80/T-33A/RF-80 pak, it somehow slipped under the radar (which Recon birds are supposed to do!!).

*Note: as this aircraft were built with the latest 3W exporter, it will =NOT= work in SF/Wo* 1stGen Installs at any patch level.*

Like the other Shooting Stars, this is a complete pak with everything needed.
The skins included are:

USAF (Generic style markings)
Natural Metal (uses stock 3W decals; generic for everyone else)

Skins and damage textures are in DDS format. Decal randomization is TRUE.
The USAF skin uses painted on national marking, the "Natural Metal" does not; all marking will be decals. Generic "plane-in-group" decals reference stock 3W numbers.
Serial numbers are 100% historically correct for T-33s, but should be considered generic in nature, as they represent no particular unit or aircraft within a particular unit.
The "Generic NM" skin will be a good, blank canvas for other users to be created. All decal positions are pre-plotted on the included decals ini. Some adjustments may be necessary for specific country users, but that's a simple matter of creating a new, country specific skin and replotting the decal locations.
It's also know to me that Soulfreak has some other skins in the works; when released, these will be great additions for your flying pleasure!
Drop tanks are 'built in' to the aircraft lod; weapons folders for the drop tanks are included, as are the pilot figures and seat. As this is a recon bird, it's limited to ONLY RECON, and carries no weapons or guns of any kind.
The canopy is controlled via the Standard Animations Keystroke , Shift/0.

As always, fairly easy to follow, yet detailed install instructions are included. So, please read them. Also, give the "Notes" section a read too. There are "Operational Notations" with other impertinant data you should know.

Happy Landings!
Wrench
Kevin Stein

343 downloads

(4 reviews)