Starfighters - Koninklijke Luchtmacht

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Starfighters - Koninklijke Luchtmacht

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Royal Netherlands Air Force Starfighters. 

This mod offers my personal approach to the KLu (Koninklijke Luchtmacht) F-104 series. It is not intended to replace or compete with previous packs. I recommend testing it before removing any older mods, as you may prefer one over the other.

Installation & Requirements:
Skill Level: Basic modding skills are required (copy/pasting and managing mod folder structures).
Process: Copy and paste the specific folders into your game's directory.
Required Files: You must have a "fake pilot" installed and the original Thirdwire F-104 cockpit from the base game.
Game Menu: In-game, aircraft are listed with the .KLu. prefix -  Koninklijke Luchtmacht

Fuel tanks- Tanks are just ini files. The mod uses tanks that are part of an aircraft lod.
Now mod uses an additional no-fuel tanks loadout. Simply, If you want ot fly with a clean wing, choose from the loadout dropdown menu option - no tanks. You need this specific weapon in the weapons folder.
I have added some new pilot models; you can switch them easily in data.ini file, if you have such a desire.
Although iyt is important to remember that those pilots work well with the provided Lockheed C-2 seat. It was never tested in another configuration.

All skins are in 4096x4096 format. You can easily resize as needed.  

Paint schemes and decals represent historically correct serial numbers assigned to aircraft during their service in the Netherlands Air Force, for a specific year, squadron, etc.

Historically, the first Dutch starfighters were F-104G AWX versions operated by the 306th squadron, then passed to the 322nd  and 323rd squadrons. In 1964, the first fighter-bomber variant was delivered to 311st squadron and a year later to the 312th squadron. In 1963, after transferring the AWX variant into the defence squadrons 306th squadron received its first RF-104G. Those airframes were used until 1974, when all remaining RF-104G were upgraded by removing the internal camera bay and equipping it with a new Orpheus recon pod. 

In-game you will have:
F-104G '64 early fighter bomber variant.
F-104G '77 late fighter-bomber variant with ALQ-126 ecm.
F-104G AWX air defence fighter variant.
RF-104G reconnaissance variant with internal camera bay.
RF-104G(O) '74 Orpheus recon variant.
RF-104G(O) '77 Orpheus recon variant with ALQ-126 ecm.

The fighter-bomber variant is capable of delivering a special weapon. Known as nukes. Even if goverment will deny, they were training with imitation rounds. Anyway, after loading nuke, the M61 gun will be unloaded automatically. The plan was to use extra fuel loaded in gun/ammo bay but KLu did not practice that.
But there is extra fuel cell in RF variant. 
RF-104(G) - were built on old RF airframes, and some were withdrawn from the air defence role F-04G. Over the time IRST window were closed up with a metal sheet. But not on all airframes.  But here in-game, all RF-104G have the IRST window closed. 

I disabled radar in RF variants. It does not look good, I do not like it. But at least there is no radar. In fact, this is just a temporary solution.
Cockpit in general is a temporary solution, along with cockpit and avionics files. But for the new cockpit, you will have to wait a little longer. 

Credits.

3d modeling, mambo jumbo like skins, decals, some effects, ini work, pilots and seats model - yours truly .JH. 
Soulfreak - original templates, All skins in some way are based on his work. Some parts on the skin is his work, some is mine. 
The original model - Bobrock, Soulfreak, and my shitload of work hours to bring it to this standard.

pilot model - I used few parts from GKABS and guuruu work.
light effects - guuruu

All weapons by Ravenclaw, you should have them by now, but I have included what is listed in loadout.ini.
Orpheus recon pod by Ravenclaw.
TFU-11B is based on ravenclaw's HVAR.The The 
Dutch training rocket and bomb dispenser is made by me. Works only with ravenclaw's training rounds.

Cockpit repaint by Sophocles
Avionics by alfa2  and some work by Eagle114th

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Sorry for the trouble. I had to split it into two RAR parts. 

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This is FREEWARE-DONATIONWARE, and it CANNOT be distributed unless permissions are granted by me.
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.
ALSO, THESE FILES CAN NOT BE HOSTED ON ANY OTHER SITE THAN COMBAT ACE.
See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions
Any person wishing to make further modifications, contact me first.
Bribes and donations are accepted.

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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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Have fun.
Report bugs. *
Expect the unexpected.
Live long and prosper.

Thanks for all your kind support.

Jarek Hereda

* report BIG bugs...If I misspelled something or forgot to add a sound file...for dog's sake, try to fix it.  Unlikely, this mod uses some ancient or extraterrestrial files..

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• Submitter
  yakarov79
• Submitted
  01/24/2026
• Category
  F-104

 

Edited 2 hours ago by yakarov79

[yakarov79]

Correction. I was not planning to omit anyone from the credits, but it seems I forgot to correctly credit alfa2 for his avionics work. It is already corrected in the file description.