Strike Fighters by Thirdwire

This skin depicts the VA-146 'Blue Diamonds' during Operation Linebacker. For use with the Mirage Factory A-7E.
 
Thanks and credit goes to the Mirage Factory and Column 5 for providing a superb model.

F/A-18F Super Hornet VFA-211 Checkmates for SF/WOV/WOE/WOI
 
By SidDogg
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This is the ALL-IN-ONE VFA-211 livery for the excellent
F/A-18F Super Hornet by EricJ.
 
 
A BIG thanks to EricJ, FC, and all involved for this aircraft,
as well as the skin template used to make this skin.
 
Installation
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Simply unzip into the F/A-18F aircraft directory
 
Enjoy!
 
 
 
SidDogg

Set up for SF2/V but can be used for WOX Titles.
 
README is included.
 
Enjoy!
 
Semper FI!
 
331KillerBee

Historical Wings over Israel missions:
 

The first air battle of Yom Kippur war
 
The Ofira Air Battle was the first air battles of the Yom Kippur War. It took place near the Israeli Air Force base in Ofira, Sharm el-Sheikh in South Sinai on 6 October, 1973, around 14:00. It involved two Israeli Phantoms from the 107, knights of the Orange tail squadron and, 20 Egyptian MiG-17s, that were on their way to attack Israeli Defense Forces in the area. They were supported by eight MiG-21s fighters. By the end of the brief six-minute battle, seven MiGs were confirmed to have been shot down. The remaining MiGs disengaged and the Israeli Phantoms returned to their base.
The crews of the Israeli F-4 were awarded with The Medal of Distinguished Service at the end of the war.
 
 
Link to the story of the battle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofira_Air_Battle
 
 
To install:
 
Copy the 3 msn files into:
\Wings Over Israel\Missions. Folder
 
You can play either the Israeli side, or the Egyptian side.
In order to play the Egyptian side, you must have the Mig-17 and the Mig-21PFM add-on installed.
 
 
For suggestions or comments just send me a massage.
 
 
Enjoy
 
Guyran

This skin depicts the VA-113 'Stingers' during Operation Linebacker. For use with the Mirage Factory A-7E.
 
Thanks and credit goes to the Mirage Factory and Column 5 for providing a superb model.

This skin depicts VA-94 'Mighty Shrikes' during Operation Linebacker. For use with the Mirage Factory A-7E.
 
Thanks and credit goes to the Mirage Factory and Column 5 for providing a superb model.

This is a field-modified Convair F-102A Delta Dagger cockpit for Veltro2k's beautiful F-102A based on Pasko's F-106 stunning cockpit.
 
It has been modified over time by crews in the field as newer equipment came in and older equipment broke down and needed to be replaced. Apparently historically after time, almost no two F-102A cockpits had the same equipment in the same places as the others.
 
This is based on Pasko's beautiful later Convair F-106A Delta Dart Cockpit.
 
Tape gages were eliminated. Round gages were added. The moving map was removed and the radar display was changed and made a historically correct orange. The radar hood was made into a F-102A version. Lots of other detail work done was from actual color cockpit photos. It is much "greyer" and simpler than the later F-106A cockpit.
 
The F-102A was actually involved in air-air combat in Viet Nam while on a B-52 escort mission. One F-102A was shot down in ambush by a Mig 21 with an Atoll missile on 3 February 1968 according to the ACIG website. Another F-102A shot several Hughes AIM-4 falcon missiles at a Mig-21 but the results were not seen.
 
According to the ACIG website, a Turkish F-102A was in combat against Greek F-5s with shootdowns and other combats reported in July 1974.
 
http://s188567700.online.de/CMS/index.php?...14&Itemid=1
 
Thanks to Pasko for his fantastic F-106 cockpit included in the complete later F-106A Delta Dart that you can download at CombatAce.
 
If I forgot anyone, I appologize and please tell me. I finished this cockpit about a year before the Veltro2k F-102A was released and I lost track of things.
 
Apparently some USAAF Viet Nam pilots jury-rigged a mini-gun into the F-102 for some extra buzz.
 
Version History:
 
V.2 You can now see the wing tips and wing tanks from the cockpit...thanks for Lexx_luthor's suggestion
Thanks to Dave to point out the goof I made that it was Pasko's F-106 cockpit and not Dave's that I based the model on.
 
V.3 Added to the bottom right instrument panel: 1) an AC voltmeter and 2) a master warning test and reset switch which some photos show and 3) more detail to the warning light panel as per color cockpit photos making it even more different than the standard F-106 cockpit.
 
V.4 Added the huge signature F-102A red nav indicator light to the middle of the panel. Changed the colors of the artificial horizon to F-102 specific colors and markings. Changed the colors of the Radio direction instrument to F-102 specific colors and markings. This is probably the final version.
 
V.5 I now included the very specific F-102A artificial horizon this time with gray-blue top, gray markings, black bottom with blue markings which I left out in V.4 by mistake. If you compared the photo with the current F-102A artificial horizon, you can probably see the difference.
 
A visual thread showing these additions:
http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=39881
 
Instructions:
 
1-Backup your files!
 
2- Unzip the F-102 cockpit to ...SFP1ObjectsAircraftF-102A.
 
3-When prompted, overwrite the files.
 
Enjoy!
 
NOT FOR PAYWARE USE IN ANY WAY

J32B Lansen interceptor BETA, based on A32A model by Timmy.
 
For classic olde style StrikeFighters Series 1.
 
Good A32/J32 resources here...
 
Canit, deep stuff on all SAABs ~> http://www.canit.se/%7Egriffon/aviation/
Vectorsite SAABs ~> http://www.vectorsite.net/avsaab.html
 
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A32A 3D model by Timmy.
Skins by Timmy. Cammo 2048 and smaller cammo 512 version included. Metal silver at 512 only.
Uses Thirdwire F-4B cockpit for now.
 
I (Lexx) don't have time to research the attack version (A32A) loadouts, so this is somewhat simpler interceptor (J32B) beta for us to start with.
 
OUT file included. If time permits, Timmy may work on dedicated J32B 3D model with slight differences.
 
Timmy says: Model and Template are available for those wanting to work with them.
 
4 30mm Aden
4 Rb24 Swedish Sidewinders
Basic setup for 12 Swedish 18cm-m49 air-ground rockets but this is just an example use of Timmy's great pylons. Timmy made this as A32 so we have 12 pylons here if they are used (invisible if not).
Conformal nonjettisonable belly tank.
 
Swedish rockets 18cm-m49 *and* 15cm-m51 are in Olde SF Weapon Pac, along with Rb24. Thanks to who made those.
 
DECALS:: I placed the basic national insignia decals over Timmy's painted skin insignias. You choose which method to use. I still don't know how SF uses unit numbers, since my personal campaign can't use the Thirdwire dynamic campaign generator and I'll eventually need to program my own. So, no decal numbers nor units for now.
 
Beta flight model is derived from Hunter/F-86D and basically tweaked to J32B. Climbs too fast, a bit too high Mach -- 0.96 vs 0.91 level Hi. Decreasing lift/drag might help this. Beta avionics is F-4E but basic radar performance (not display) tweaked towards J32B levels. Shortest selectable track range is 1km to allow good radar gunnery approach.
 
Everybody is encouraged to work the flight model and avionics I ran out of time for. Air-air rocket pods don't work in the sim for AI planes, and the fix Wrench and I worked on does not fire too well under AI control. So no interceptor rocket pods here for now. Maybe we can eventually figure something out, as I'd like to have air-air rckt pods for this and PVO interceptors like MiG-15 and things like that.
 
I am staying with Olde SF and not upgrading yet -- if ever -- so the FM/Avionics are rough but workable and it will be some time before I get round to deeply learning FM and AVIONICS design for the practical goal of building and comparison testing all files for all SAC/NAVY/RAF/Swedish and PVO aircraft needed for my own strategic campaign between 1947-1971, and making them compatible with the game AI programming in this role.
 
RWR is F-4E but it won't show in F-4B cockpit.
 
Go Tweak!

This is the 509th FIS SEA Camo Skin Updated to be used with the F-102A Delta Dagger V.095 by Veltro2K and FastCargo.
 
ReadMe is included.
 
Enjoy!
 
Semper Fi!
 
331KillerBee

Historical Wings over Israel missions:
First Mig kill by Nesher
 
In 1973 The 101 First Fighter Squadron has got its new Nesher aircrafts from IAI. On January 8 1973, a flight of 4 IDF Neshers was directed, in an intercept course towards a flight of 4 Syrian Mig-21s, over the mountain of Druze, an elevated volcanic region in southern Syria. The Neshers engaged the Mig-21s in low altitude and low speed. One of the Neshers had shoot down a Mig-21 using a sidewinder missile. This was the first Mig kill by Israeli Nesher. Many to come in the future.
 
 
 
To install:
 
Copy the 2 msn files into:
\simulators\Wings Over Israel\Missions.
You can select either the Israeli side or Syrian side.
In order to play the Mig-21, you must have the Mig-21MF add-on installed.
 
 
For comments or suggestions send me a massage.
 
Enjoy
 
Guyran

Historical Wings over Israel missions:
 
Bat squadron 119 Mirage IIIc Shahak vs. Jordanian Hunters
 
 
On November 13, 1966 a flight of 8 Jordanian Hunters attacked Israeli ground force near Samoa village in the southern Hebron mountain. Two Israeli Mirages from the 119 Bat Sq, leaded by Ran Ronen engaged the Hunters. After a prolonged low level pursuit, Ronen shoots down the Hunter.
 
Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2M7ceCD14
The batlle clip 1
 
The batlle clip 2
 
 
 
To install:
 
Copy the msn file into:
\simulators\Wings Over Israel\Missions.
 
For comments or Suggestions send me a massage.
 
 
Enjoy
 
Guyran

Fictional Wings over Israel missions:
 
Israeli F-15A Baz vs. Syrian Mig-29
The year is 1988. Such a dogfight between F-15 and Mig-29, was never happened over Lebanon. Nevertheless, in the sky of 'wings over Israel' are two Israeli F-15s engaging 2 Syrian Mig-29s. A special issue in these missions is evading the long range semi active radar homing missiles.
Who will win this battle – is for you to decide…
 
In order to play this mission you must have the latest weapon pack and the Mirage Factory Mig-29 for WOI installed.
Link to Mig-29
 
 
 
You can select either the Israeli F-15 or the Mig-29 mission.
 
 
To install:
 
Copy the 2 msn files into:
\simulators\Wings Over Israel\Missions.
 
 
For comments or suggestion just send me a massage
 
 
Enjoy
 
Guyran

Historical Wings over Israel missions:
 

The Ace of Aces

First fighter squadron 101 Neshers vs. Egyptian Mig-21.
 
 
Colonel Giora Epstein is a retired colonel in the Israeli Air Force (IAF) believed to have shot down more jet aircraft than any other pilot. Epstein was credited with 17 kills, all against Egyptian aircraft. With seventeen confirmed kills, Giora Epstein remains the world's top scoring jet fighter pilot making him the "ace of all aces".
During Yom Kippur War, October 20, 1973; already a double Ace with 10 kills, Giora Epstein maneuvers his 101 Squadron Nesher after a decoy of 2 Mig-21 Egyptian aircrafts. On the deck are 16 Mig-21s waiting under the Israeli radar coverage, in a perfect ambush. After 3 of the Neshers had to return to base, Epstein fought alone against 11 Mig-21s. The results of the battle were: 4 Mig-21s downed by the Israeli Ace.
 
The full story of this battle is in the Giora Epstein Story.txt file.
 
There are also links to 2 video clips from the history channel, describing this battle.
 
Links to the video clips:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SRHjFxg0jMQ
Clip 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js4sW9XZVUY
Clip 2
 
 
To install:
 
Copy the 2 msn files into:
\simulators\Wings Over Israel\Missions.
 
You can play either the Israeli side, or the Egyptian side, if you have the Mig-21 add-on installed.
Remember if you are playing the Egyptian pilot, don't engage the Neshers immediately on sight, but lure them first into the waiting ambush first.
 
 
 
For suggestions or remarks just send me a massage.
 
 
 
Enjoy
 
Guyran

Since a real SMT does not exist from the Mirage Factory, this skin is a demo skin.
 
For the MiG-29C (Russian) but can be applied to any other MF MiG-29 provided you rename it.
 
Drop in the appropriate folder and fly.
 
Original template by Sundowner
 
This file is under the Combatace Freeware License Agreement.

Afghanistan Terrain Beta 0.6
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I.
AFGHANISTAN Terrain IS MADE FOR WINGS OVER ISRAEL (WOI) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This package is a work in progress preview. It should allow you a short view into this project. It is far away to be finished. Also, dont worry if you find bugs.
 
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II.
From December 1979 till now Afghanistan is a land in war. Soviets, Dushmans, Mudjahedin, Warlords, Taliban and Americans (OEF) destroyed the once florish land nearly completly.
This terrain is dedicated to all man who fought in this country and to all who lost their lives in a senseless war.
 
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III.
 
Afghanistan terrain is a Beta, so far, that not the entire land is covered at the moment. Finished, or nearly finished is the area around Kabul, Bagram, Jalalabad, Kunduz and Mazar i Sharif. This area is now completly tiled and the target areas are set.
So you can fly and fight along the Jala Road and surrounding mountains and in the north eastern part of Afghanistan where today the German ISAF sector is situated. You will find enemy positions in the hills and valleys north of Bagram, but also single bandit troops on the soviet/allied hold lowlands. You will find friendly and enemy fortified hill positions
 
- number of set target areas: -90
- Missions which can be flown are CAS, Armed Recon, Recon, Strike,SEAD
-Air to air missions are impossible, because no taliban airfield is set (as historical correct)
 
-I recommend a seperate installation of WOI for Afghanistan terrain. The new nations.ini would otherwise make trouble with other terrains. (I set all nations = friendly, only Afghanistan= Enemy
So you can fly for the Soviets and the OEF troops( USA,UK,NL etc) against the same Enemy)
You can delete not needed planes (for instance Mirages) and groundobjects (SAM, Radar,most tanks etc) and you can include needed planes, like the Mi-24 or the A-10 more easily.
-Panzers, like T-54,55,62 etc should be redesignated from TANK to ARTILLERY in their groundobjects data.ini. The reason is, that Panzers are widely useless in such a mountainous land. With the groundobjects i have included in this package you will have infantry engagements which are more Afghan style
 
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IV.
INSTALLATION:
 
-Unzip the file into your Wings over Israel
 
Thats it!
 
If you want then you can place mainscreen.bmp into your menu folder.
 
 
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V. Credits
At this place i want to say thank you to Geo for his permission to use his SquadCent files which i modified into Taliban warriors etc. And to Wrench who allowed me to use Montys Stinger site which i modified into Blowpipe and Strela site. I want to say thank you to Pasko who made the lod file for the BTR-60 and 70 and the single soldier with SA-7 which i also use for RPG-7 and Mortar (recoilless gun.)
I want to say thank you to _____ for the Taliban Dushka and the Toyota Hillux. And i want to say thank you to Capun for the permission to use his Mi-8 and Mi-24 as shot down heli ground objects.
 
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VI.
Afghanistan Terrain IS FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED.
Sharing of Groundobjects which are part of this package needs the permission of their makers.
 
If you find bugs please post them in StrikeFighters section of Combatace.com forum.
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VII.
Hope you enjoy it. Good Hunting along the Jalalabad road!
 
Michael (Gepard)
 
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VIII.
Made in Germany
April 2009
 
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New Clean Exhaust Effects
By NeverEnough
 
This exhaust effect was inspired by the work of Deuces, Fubar512 and Spillone104.
This New Clean Exhaust Effects package includes two ExhaustEmitter.ini's which can be used to supplement the old CleanExhaustEmitter.ini in your Effects folder for some additional exhaust effect variety.
The NewCleanExhaustEmitter.ini will produce a greater volume of somewhat translucent exhaust smoke which is more similar to the effect seen in more modern jet aircraft. Since modern turbofan engines produce very little exhaust smoke, this effect is a compromise between reality and the effects tools TK gave us in the Thirdwire sims.
For an even less smokey exhaust effect, the CleanerExhaustEmitter.ini is included. It utilizes the identical effects parameters as the NewCleanExhaustEmitter, but uses a different tga file to produce a slightly more translucent effect.
You can easily chose between the two effects to get whatever exhaust smoke trips your trigger!
Both of these exhaust effects can be applied to single, dual or multi-engined aircraft models.
 
To install the effects; copy the NewCleanExhaustEmitter.ini, the CleanerExhaustEmitter.ini, the SMOKE3.tga and the F14SMOKE.tga into your Effects Folder.
 
Save the AIRCRAFT_DATA.INI after you have made the ExhaustEmitter changes, and then go fly and enjoy spreading socially responsibly burned kerosene emissions around the the skies of the virtual world.

Hello. Here are a bunch of Weapon Editor and misc desktop icons for the Thirdwire Series. Once again these were made from 48X48 bitmap images. There are no text on these this time so that helps with the clutter. They look just fine especially if you're running at a standard desktop resolution such as 1024X768. I don't know how these look on a Vista desktop as I don't have vista. But if Vista makes your icons bigger you'll be just fine. If you run your desktop at a really high resolution then you may have to make some adjustments somewhere. As a result, included also are the 48X48 bitmap images so folks can tweak them to there needs if necessary. Some of the icons include actual images from the TW series. Some of them also came from pictures I found and clip art.
 
Thank you to cksinfo.com for the free weapons clip art. http://www.cksinfo.com/index2.html
 
Thanks everybody and I hope you all can get some use out of these.

:yes:
 
Hello fellow simmers !
Here is the latest version of my India Map for SFP1 (it should be playable with other WOx games)
 
Readme_India.txt :
 
India/Burma/China terrain for SFP1 by S.Ansons
v1.2 April 25th, 2009
 
1.2 Release : Add Trees and rivers to the Map with several new tiles.
The Gange, Brahmaputra, Irawaddy mouths have been simulated with
a lot of river branches. Add cows , bushes, grass and temples.
Rework of transition tiles for the cities.
Add reworked PlanningMaps.
 
Credits : Thanks to CA_STARY (Green Hell), The Wrench, Polak
(Desert tiles) , TK.
India_data.ini has been updated to have no shimmering water and to allow all the trees to be rendered once in game.
 
Install: Just put the India folder into your terrain folder.
Warning: Be sure to set the cat pointer in the India.ini file to the correct
.cat file depending on your game.
 
Have fun !
 
S.Ansons

Hi!
 
I realised the green skin for the F-80 needed a bit of TLC,
so I fiddled aroud and made this one.
I guess the original was from Pappy, but I don't know...
I just altered it and used the serial numbers which were already
present; I merged the two.
So, kudo's for all who made the plane and skins possible!
 
 
 
Muesli

Felix 103 from the VF-31 Tomcatters
 
To install drag/paste/etc to your F-14D folder.

F/A-18E Super Hornet VFA-147 Argonauts for SF/WOV/WOE/WOI
 
By SidDogg
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This is the ALL-IN-ONE VFA-147 livery for the excellent
F/A-18E Super Hornet by EricJ.
 
A BIG thanks to EricJ, FC, and all involved for this aircraft,
as well as the skin template used to make this skin.
 
Installation
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Simply unzip into the F/A-18E aircraft directory
 
Enjoy!
 
 
 
SidDogg

Hangar_Loading_Pack_Part_6
 
Loading screens for the aircraft:
 
- MiG-21-93/bis
- MiG-23-98/B/B-98/BM/M/P
- MiG-27/K/M
- MiG-29K
- Yak-28P
- Yak-41
 
The optimization of loading screens was produced on monitor 19 " with the permission of 1280 x 960 end 1280 х 1024
 
Installation:
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To select one of the screens and to place it into the appropriate directory, having preliminarily removed from the name excess signs (+=)

Well, this is the skin of Avro Lancaster/Lincoln of Grupo 4 Bombardeo from Argentine Air Force.
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Hola, aca dejo el skin de los Avro Lancaster/Lincoln del Grupo 4 Bombardeo de la Fuerza Aérea Argentina.
 
 
 
Bye!!

Hi, this is the skin of B-25 from Grupo de Aviación Nº3 "Bombardeo", of Uruguayan Air Force.
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Bueno aca dejo el skin de los B-25 del Grupo de Aviación Nº3 "Bombardeo", de la Fuerza Aérea Uruguaya.
 
 
 
Bye!!

PSD files. By request.