International Volunteer Group Pack
        Top Aces' F-16 and AlphaJet in Action over Ukraine
This mod presents a what if scenario: what if Top Aces were to cease aggressor operations and conduct real world operations in support of Ukraine? What if the US Administration in 2025 allowed it, citing the precedent of the American Volunteer Group in China during 1941? What if the Russian Air Force had to go up against, the International Volunteer Group?
            Required
a functional copy of any Strike Fighters 2 Israel or a merge install that includes Israel
the Top Aces aircraft pack available here:
 
            Included
- F_16A_TA: one IVG skin,
- F-16B_TA: one IVG skin
- AlphaJet_TA: five IVG skins
- decals for all, see History of the IVG document for background on how they were chosen
- weapons for all three aircraft to make them combat effective rather than training aids.
            Installation
-add objects folder to mod folder your Top Aces mod is in
-allow overwrites

            Credits
-ravenclaw_007            most weapons (both new to this and from Florians Alphajet)
-Florian                           original AlphaJet model
-simonmiller416           various ini edits and testing,
-daddyairplanes           skins, tgas, multiple ini edits, research
-Nightshade/PR           testing

thank you for downloading this mod, i hope you enjoy flying it as much as i did creating it
Kevin Unruh
aka daddyairplanes
13 Oct 2024

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This is freeware; it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by myself.
The original readmes, if any, and all other pieces of the package MUST remain intact.
The names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, etc =MUST= be listed in any new readmes.
This package and any part of it may NOT in any way, shape, or form be used in any payware additions.
See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions
Any persons wishing to make further modifications, contact me first.
Any persons wishing to make further modifications MUST remember to put everyone's name in it.
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THIS AIRCRAFT MOD OR ANY PART OF IT MUST NOT BE HOSTED OR
POSTED FOR DOWNLOAD ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT MY EXPRESS
PERMISSION, OR USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN THIRDWIRE FLIGHT
SIMULATORS, AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITSELF
OR WITH ANY OTHER FILES OR MODS.
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Panavia Tornado IDS AMI Skinpack
This skinpack is only for Guuruu´s Tornado IDS (Italian AF)
https://combatace.com/files/file/16920-tornado-ids-italian-af/
It contains 9 brand new skins in NATO & grey camo.
Included are 6°, 36° & 50° Stormo.
Also included is a new data.ini, wich removes parts, that are not on the real jets.

Install:
You need the AMI Tornado from Guuruu
extract the 7z file and then drop the Aircraft & Decals folder (and all what´s in) into your objects folder of your mod folder.
Go Fly.
 
Credits: 
Guuruu - Basic Tornado Template & creator of the Model
Soulfreak - enhanced reworked Templates, skins, brand new decals & ini dance 

Schapen, Sept. 28th 2024
Carlo "Soulfreak" Heuer

FSD* skin for the Strike Fighters 2 Israel F-16A Block 10 Netz by Thirdwire :
However to run correctly you should add this skin to this uploaded mod by Dave.
https://combatace.com/files/file/12743-updated-f-16a-block-10/
*From 1977 to 1978 General Dynamics delivered 6 pre-production F-16As to USAF for Full Scale Development:
75-745
75-746
75-747
75-748
75-749
75-750
To install this skin for the SF2I F-16A Block 10 Netz mod, copy and paste the "Objects" folder into your "SF2" directory.
Many thanks to the Combat Ace community and Thirdwire ! ;)
Coupi
 

FSD* skin for the SF2 F-16A Block 1 package by Wrench ;)
https://combatace.com/files/file/18256-sf2-f-16a-block-1-tmf-pack/
*From 1977 to 1978 General Dynamics delivered 6 pre-production F-16As to USAF for Full Scale Development:
75-745
75-746
75-747
75-748
75-749
75-750
To install this skin for the F-16A Block 1 mod, copy and paste the "Object" folder into your "SF2" directory.
Many thanks to Kevin for the SF2 conversion of this vintage Mirage Factory Team mod !
Coupi
 

So basically, this is a skin mod imitating the F-16s that appeared in the video released by the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense not long ago.
According to the fuselage details and Local S/N, they should have once served in the Esk727 and 730 squadrons of the Royal Danish Air Force, so I copied some of their other Local S/Ns.
Special thanks to:
Viper team provide those great Falcon mod
Usage:
1. Put the "EX_RDAF" folder into your F-16 mod (AM/BM recommended, as link below);
2. Put the "Decals" folder into: your SF2 directory\Objects;
3. Start the game and read your F-16AM, the game will automatically read the data.
https://combatace.com/files/file/12909-european-mlu-vipers/
 

"The F-16 has benefited from a long-running program of improvements to minimize its RCS, under the name Have Glass. With several reports suggesting that a Have Glass V F-16 will, on average, have a 1.2m² radar cross section, compared with about 5m² for an ‘untreated’ F-16, straight off the line."
——info from key.aero
This mod only contains the 157FS version.
Special thanks to:
Viper team provide those great Falcon mod
Usage:
1. Put the "157FS_HG5" folder into your F-16C mod (Block 52 recommended);
2. Put the "Decals" folder into: your SF2 directory\Objects;
3. Start the game and read your F-16CM Block 52, the game will automatically read the data.

Hogs in Reserve: A-10A in Air Force Reserve Service, 1990s
This is a skin and decal mod to bring the A-10s of the US Air Force Reserves throughout the 1990s to SF2
It features skins for both the European 1 green skins as well as the Grey Compass Ghost scheme that the Hogs settled into as the 90s progressed.
Although considered a part time frorce, the AFRES hogs were quite busy throughout the 1990s supporting operations in the Balkans and over Northern Iraq. This mod has pinpointed the aircraft of each unit as accurately as possible within each unit
    
Note: the 706th Fighter Squadron is covered from 1996 on, not the aircraft the squadron used in Desert Storm. most of those went to the boneyard shortly after coming home as the squadron converted to F-16s for a few years.

        Included
Skins and decals for 4 AFRES A-10 squadrons: the 45th FS "IN", 47th FS "BD", 303rd FS "KC", and 706th FS "NO" post 1996.
        Required
Spectre8750s A-10A_93 found here
https://combatace.com/files/file/12476-a-10a-and-c-thunderbolt-ii-warthog-pack/
        or here
https://combatace.com/files/file/17877-23d-wing-pope-afb-1994/
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THESE SKINS WILL NOT WORK WITH THE STOCK THIRDWIRE A-10s!!!!!!!
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        Installation
acquire the A-10A_93 if you haven't already (seelinks above)
unzip, cut or copy "Objects folder to preferred mod folder
fly one weekend a month or several weeks on end!

        Credits
Sundowner -                 Skin Templates
daddyairplanes -          texture, tgas, load screen
TK -                                origianl game
 

*************************************************************
This is freeware; it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by myself.
The original readmes, if any, and all other pieces of the package MUST remain intact.
The names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, etc =MUST= be listed in any new readmes.
This package and any part of it may NOT in any way, shape, or form be used in any payware additions.
See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions
Any persons wishing to make further modifications, contact me first.
Any persons wishing to make further modifications MUST remember to put everyone's name in it.
*************************************************************
THIS AIRCRAFT MOD OR ANY PART OF IT MUST NOT BE HOSTED OR
POSTED FOR DOWNLOAD ON ANY OTHER WEBSITE WITHOUT MY EXPRESS
PERMISSION, OR USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN THIRDWIRE FLIGHT
SIMULATORS, AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITSELF
OR WITH ANY OTHER FILES OR MODS.
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These are 6 new skins. Templates are from Soulfreak. I wish you good hunting.