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[Fictional] F-23E 'Karesh' (Shark)


F-23E for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2

This is a simple mod of Dels' excellent F-23A 'Black Widow' to give a fictional F-23E 'Karish' (Shark) of the Israeli Air Force with markings for;

No.110 squadron - The Knights Of The North Squadron.

No.119 Squadron - The Bat Squadron (with toned-down markings).


BACKSTORY

With the success of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and F-15 Eagle in Heyl HaAvir service the Israeli's were hoping that the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F-23A 'Black Widow' would win the USAF's ATF competition to continue their successful relationship with the McDonnell Douglas team at St. Louis but unfortunately Lockheed Martin's victory in the ATF competition looked like bringing an end to a long and enduring partnership.

However in a brave move, in May 1991 the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas team secured permission from Congress to actively market the F-23 to (State Department) 'approved' nations and offered a single-seat multi-role version called the F-23E (Export) to Germany, Japan, Israel and the UK. With Germany looking for any excuse to get out of the Eurofighter consortium and facing high reunification costs they persuaded the UK to team up in a combined purchase of 200 F-23E's. In return, this led to the German and UK Governments persuading Northrop/McDonnell Douglas to make BAe and MBB prime sub-contractors for any further export sales. 

However, with only 200 F-23E's on order Northrop/McDonnell Douglas were not convinced that it was enough to start a viable programme but the breakthrough came in January 1994 when the USAF agreed to purchase 100 F-23A's for PACAF (the air component of United States Pacific Command) and this move finally saw Japan and Israel also join the programme with 100 F-23E's each.


INSTRUCTIONS

1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-23E folder into your Aircraft folder.

2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-23E folder into your Decals folder.

That's it! 


CREDITS

As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim.

Massive thanks to Dels for this superb add-on aircraft, it's one of the very best.

And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community.

Regards 

Spinners

Version 2 - January 6th, 2024


 

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Apologies for the 'Karesh' typo in the line but, thankfully, the screenshot (and therefore the loading screen) are correct.

 

 

 

 

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WOW, thank you.

This one looks great.

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It should cobble nicely in with the imminent release of SF2I, at least I hope.

 

I think it would have been cool as all get out if other countries/air arms had bought this

contender.

 

Too bad the economy could not have fit both in the USAF stable...

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I have an oddtechnical issue with this download and the Kiwi hunter. When I download them and extract them the aircraft and decal folders are both empty...only seems to be these two files affected ????

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On 1/14/2024 at 11:06 AM, crisisloaner said:

I have an oddtechnical issue with this download and the Kiwi hunter. When I download them and extract them the aircraft and decal folders are both empty...only seems to be these two files affected ????

You should have DM'd me as I rarely come to the SF1 section. Hopefully sorted but probably awaiting admin approval for a while due to the time difference.

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Apologies Spinners,I thought the issue was at my end and was dumb enough not to check the dates of the comments and reviews :stars:

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No problem mate. The 'odd technical issue' was me not re-packing properly. IT experts refer to the likes of me as PICNIC - problem in chair not in computer :haha:

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