Harrier Hovering Duration/modability

[bad_karma_2one 0]

IRL the harrier has a tank of water in it to cool the engine during hovering (NOT VIFFing) will this be included in the FM so that you have a limited duration before the engine begins to over heat

 

Will we be able to mod the game to have a second more modern campaign "Falklands II" with more modern aircraft like the FA2 with the AMRAAM and the detachment of six Tornado ADV's that are based there now?

[bad_karma_2one 0]

Also in a recent documentary the program says that the harrier is susceptable to the hot exhaust being re-injested in the hover, which causes the engine to gradually loose power, and causes the harrier to begin to decend faster and faster, the only way out is to get a few knots of forward speed so that you get cold air into the intake and have the hot air to the rear of the aircraft

[scary_pigeon 0]

We are aware of these features of the harrier and will put them in in some way.

 

One thing though - the need to use water is only necessary in hotter parts of the world.

 

with regards to falklands 2...

 

...british defences are pathetic - we've built them a nice new shiny airbase that are defended by 2 tornados - Theres nothing that could stop an argie invasion now and what is worse - they'd have an airbase to imediately station fast jets there with all the necessary facilities.

 

What has britain got now - a few small carriers... that in the next year or so are having the sea harrier decomissioned infavour of ground attack radarless(!) GR7's and GR8's.

[bad_karma_2one 0]

What has britain got now - a few small carriers... that in the next year or so are having the sea harrier decomissioned infavour of ground attack radarless(!) GR7's and GR8's.

err, no, we will be replacing them with F-35B's and the carriers with new shiny Nuclear carriers nearly on the scale of Nimitz carriers

 

Having those tornados wouldnt be historically acurate, I was talking about a second modern times "Falklands 2" campaign in addition to a totally historically accurate one

Edited December 20, 2003 by bad_karma_2one

[scary_pigeon 0]

What has britain got now - a few small carriers... that in the next year or so are having the sea harrier decomissioned infavour of ground attack radarless(!) GR7's and GR8's.

err, no, we will be replacing them with F-35B's and the carriers with new shiny Nuclear carriers nearly on the scale of Nimitz carriers

 

Having those tornados wouldnt be historically acurate, I was talking about a second modern times "Falklands 2" campaign in addition to a totally historically accurate one

yes, the navy gets the fancy new JSF...

 

...but there is an anticipated 5 year gap or more were the navy has only ground attack harriers. it is as though for now, the royal navy is just a fairly potent auxilary unit of the US Navy. we're reliant on being in a US task force with the nimitz type carriers for air defence.

 

But yeah, in 5 years time its a different story. I think right now, the indian navy is getting our sea harriers.