Strike Fighters 2 Screenshots Thread

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18 hours ago, JosefK said:

Feel up to sharing the debugs this summer please @jeanba ?  I re-read VORTEX by Larry Bond about once a year...

 

Mandatory screenshot:

 

Yes, it is here:

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Elements of CVW5 begin a series of probes of Chinese activity in the South China Sea...

Running in low and fast, the plan is to get some good imagery of each island and then egress before the Chinese can react...

 

But you know what they say about the best laid plans....

 

The response is swift and accurate...

The flight regroups and heads for home...

Is this going to escalate further???

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March 27, 1999 - A group of 4 F-117A stealth aircrafts are ready for take off from Aviano to strike targets near Belgrade

Usually F-117As were escorted by EA-6B Prowlers but that night wasn't the case... Due to bad weather Prowlers were grounded and F-117As were finally ordered to strike their targets without escort because their structure made enemy air defense radars very difficult to detect them

Yugoslav spies acquired this critical information and transmitted it to Yugoslav Army

Formation of F-117As followed the usual flight path and dropped paveways at its targets

However the 3rd Battalion of the 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Yugoslav Army commanded by Lt. Colonel Zoltan Dani operated S-125M Neva-M (SA-3B Goa) SAM system had relocated and had been waiting for enemy aircrafts to reach the area. Zoltan's unit successfully acquired one of the targets

After some seconds the 82-0806 callsign "Vega 31" was tracked by unit's fire control radar. Missiles were ready on their launchers

PUCK !!! (Launch)

V-601P missile getting close...

F-117A was hit and crushed shortly after. The rest is history...

 

20th Anniversary !!!

 

 

 

 

 

Edited December 27, 2019 by tiopilotos
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Peruvian Canberra over Ecuador :

 

 

 

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7 hours ago, tiopilotos said:

March 27, 1999 - A group of 4 F-117A stealth aircrafts are ready for take off to strike targets near Belgrade

Usually F-117As were escorted by EA-6B Prowlers but that night wasn't the case... Due to bad weather Prowlers were grounded and F-117As were finally ordered to strike their targets without escort because their structure made enemy air defense radars very difficult to detect them

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Excellent use of SF2 and screenshots to tell military aviation history @tiopilotos.  Very nicely done.

 

Mandatory screenshot:

 

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F-15E Eagle "BUNKER BUSTER"

Bombs Away 

 

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Initial Perusal

(see what I did there?)

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Bad guys during operation Askari (1983):

 

I made several modifcations to SpudKnocker's campaign :

No Mig-23ML (they were not operationnal at this time accoding to Tom Cooper)

No SA-8 neither

Added some Mig-21 PFM

 

I could also have added Su-20M (very close to Su17M3), which were operationnal from 1982.

 

Of course, my date are only hypothesis as we know very few things about the Angolan Air Force at this time, let alone which aircraft or unit actually fought at that time.

We have better information for operation Modular

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B-52 BUFF over Baghdad 

ALCM launch

ALCM missile is right on the target

AGM-154 and SA-8 Gecko

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Pig Pen

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SU-27 have a new enemy :

 

 

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The Flogger Scourge

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Tweaking the FM on another classic for my early Cold War install, will eventually get to uploading these dozen or so data inis.

Von S 

 

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F-86F Sabre - Fuerza Aérea del Perú

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Japanese Air Self Defense Force F-86F Sabre....

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1 hour ago, Spinners said:

F-86F Sabre - Fuerza Aérea del Perú

Outstanding pic! One of your best!!

Mandatory pic, a MQ-9 departing an unknow airfiled in Ukraine to check Russian activities in the Donbass...

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The World's Fastest Tricycle

(I've not previously heard that nickname for the Thunderjet - the wiki page has several more)

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It's SAM day over Hanoi :

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I got stripes, stripes around my shoulders

 

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A time to be Frank...

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I am playing an SF2V Mig-21PFV campaign.

I try to play it "realistically", that is to say with a pair of Mig-21 ambushing the Yankee Air Pirates.

No gun, 1 Fuel Tank and 2 AA-2A, fly low:

Given the limits of the AA-2A, only surprise bounces are possible and most of my missions are unsuccessfull.

In the below case, I tried to ambush a  RA5C, he spotted me and flew away:

 

 

I did not even bother trying to puruse them and went back home, to avoid the escort

 

 

Edited April 1, 2019 by jeanba

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Sabre with teeth...of the Turkish Air Force, circa 1974.

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