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# Thunder....you`ve been, Thunderstruck...

PV Venturas feet dry over an undisclosed location.

Along with the F-4C Phantom during program "Peace Alfa", Spain also received two squadrons of F-105Ds in 1971, which had been replaced by Phantoms and Aardvarks and saw action in Vietnam. While the Phantoms main task was air superiority, the Thud's main task was Strike and CAS. Republic F-105D (CA.12) Thunderchief, Ala 15, Escuadrón 151, 1972 In the 1980s, the Chiefs of the EDA received an upgrade concerning avionics and radar and was enabled to carry more modern weapons such as GBUs... Republic EF-105D (CA.12) Thunderchief, Ala 15, Escuadrón 151, 1985

Hi bros is there any plan to make AJ-1 Savage in CA or other modelers? If not.....I am a texture and skin publisher....then think about that.which plane is similar to savage to make texture for it?do you have any idea? sorry about my bad language....

27th squadron / 10th Wing 1956 The good thing is all the blue and white stripes come from the same TGA. The bad thing is 30 decal entries... At first I tried to paint it on the bmps but some gap in the mapping made me choose the decals way (and the pattern of the stripes is almost the same for the 23rd and 31st squadron) I toned it down this time : )

E-767 & Mainstay...

Another successful "Training" mission CL

Howzabout a twin-pack of high speed whoopa$$... With a SAC Chaser...

IT"S..... ok yall... . and a random heavy, just because me and the outer fringes of the thread rules

Today we are taking a trip back to 2004, a time when as you can see from the photo above featured PC CDROMs! Before Internet speeds for most were high enough to consider sending entire game files they had to distribute games to people using good old fashioned Compact Disks. The shiny CD came complete with its own (Jewel) case with cover and even a printed manual. As you can see a time when even Thirdwire had to distribute games and make them look like games used to - the manual even tells me to go to http://www.softwarehelpdesk.co.uk/ for technical support…………..ha looks like that domain is up for sale! Looking at the back we can see it even ran on Windows ME with 256MB of RAM! - Yes, I had to look back to remember what Win ME was – the very last of the Win 9x line before Microsoft thankfully ditched that and we got Win 2000 then Win XP. Of course, in 2004 or nearly all of that decade Win XP was the only game in town for home users and it was great for its time. For anybody who had bought Strike Fighters: Project 1, a Vietnam game was a logical and most welcome step forward….a game that recreates the intense air combat experience in the skies of North Vietnam at the height of the air campaign……………..what could be better! The manual lists the Player and AI aircraft, and although the VPAF selection looks fairly complete, the US selection was very limited compared to the later Strike Fighters 2: Vietnam. This was a time when there was hope for the future and many opportunities to modify the hell out of the game and start getting into place the absolute ton of things not included in the box. Terrain & Environment As you might see (from the case) the Terrain that came with WOV wasn’t much better than what comes with one of Thirdwires Phone & Tablet PC games – a pretty poor and unrealistic looking barren wasteland. Unsurprisingly it was not long before modders produced somewhat better tilesets - one of the first I remember and although free was used by Yankee Air Pirate later: The RA-5 Vigilante - does not come with WOV There was a payware tileset for sale at Razbams store at some point – but suffered from having obvious borders and tile edges – also 512 x 512 bitmap files were pretty big at the time but very low res by today’s standards. This later effort includes a version of Starys Green Hell which included a lot more trees for the first time: Vietnam was hell - Green hell! When released WOV also had no clouds either but they were added in a later patch: Low level clouds, gone but not forgotten Game play The North Vietnam Air Force (VPAF) and air defences were quite well set up as part of the terrain, with relevant SAM and AAA models for the era along with relevant AI. The MiGs varied in effectiveness from patch to patch whereas some of the SA-2s had a Kill probability of about 99% - this was rightly toned down somewhat in Strike Fighters 2 (SF2). WOV included an airbourne FAC (Forward Air Controller) role and this was usually represented by an 0-1E Birddog flying over the battlefield (Callsign Snoopy) – this was removed from SF2. The game added Carrier operations for the first time although the carrier was pretty lonely by itself most of the time, and players could only fly off it in campaigns and scripted single missions! The B-52s thought they were safe from Thirdwires lesser spotted MiG-17F Payware There were some options for payware – mostly from Razbam and Yankee Air Pirate – both had air of controversy that I won’t go into here. One of the very few payware aircraft was the A-1 skyraider pack Before the Mission Editor arrived in SF2 you had to create single missions using Notepad basically, quite a time consuming and difficult process. Yankee Air Pirate basically created single missions based on real missions from Vietnam and was quite an important addition for anyone with an interest in that subject. Populated carrier deck Landing and taking off in Hueys from smaller boats like this Shooting down Colts in Hueys Shooting the side gun in Hueys - Get some!. Of course, with scripted missions you can do quite a few things you cannot in auto generated single missions and campaigns! Advance clone army! The VPAF, masters of camouflage Looking back Wings Over Vietnam certainly started out as a fairly serious attempt to put together a decent standalone Vietnam war Air Combat simulator and in that respects, did a pretty decent job, but only if you took time to add a lot of the mods available and change the game yourself. Graphically it was using DX9.0c so was up to date in that regards although again you had to add mods to get it looking to what it should have perhaps been out of the box. F-111A - not included with WOV EB-66 - not included with WOV …………and Here we are at the tail end of 2017 and still no real alternative to WOV and SF2V on the Vietnam War flight sim front.

View File AMX A-1A, AMX-T A-1B and AMX A-1M Brazilian Air Force The AMX International AMX is a ground-attack aircraft for battlefield interdiction, close air support and reconnaissance missions. It was built until 1999 by AMX International, an Italian-Brazilian joint venture. The AMX is designated A-1 by the Brazilian Air Force, and A-11 Ghibli by the Italian Air Force. The AMX is capable of operating at high subsonic speed and low altitude, by day or night, and if necessary, from bases with poorly equipped or damaged runways. Low IR signature and reduced radar equivalent cross-section help prevent detection, while low vulnerability of structure and systems aid survivability, while integrated ECM, air-to-air missiles and nose-mounted guns provide self-defence capabilities. AMX-T In 1986, development of a two-seat advanced trainer variant was undertaken. This was intended to provide trainee pilots with experience on fast jets, while still retaining the single-seater's attack capabilities. First flying in 1990, the AMX-T equipped both the Italian and Brazilian air forces. A-1M The product of a Brazilian upgrade program of their A-1s; significant features include a Mectron SCP-01 Scipio radar, Embraer BR2 data link, FLIR Systems navigation equipment, Elbit INS/GPS/databus, the adoption of a glass cockpit,[31] a new OBOGS system and HMD DASH IV. O AMX International AMX, ou simplesmente AMX é um avião de ataque ar-superfície usado para missões de interdição, apoio aéreo aproximado e reconhecimento aéreo. Foi desenvolvido pelo consórcio internacional AMX Internacional. Na Força Aérea Brasileira, ele é designado A-1 (A-1A para a versão monoplace e A-1B para a versão de dois lugares). Com a modernização o A-1 passa a incorporar o M em sua designação na FAB, tornando-se então A-1M. Na Itália, ele tem o apelido de "Ghibli". O AMX é capaz de operar em altas velocidades subsônicas a baixa altitude, tanto de dia quanto de noite, e se necessário, a partir de bases pouco equipadas ou com pistas danificadas. O caça conta com relativamente baixa assinatura em infravermelho e reduzida secção frontal ao radar, para melhorar seu percentual de sucesso nas missões. A auto-defesa é proporcionada por mísseis ar-ar, canhões integrados e sistemas de contramedidas eletrônicas including: Two versions of skin Two fictitious skins (A-1M) Three models: AMX-1A AMX-T A1B AMX-1M Model By Rafael Rodrigues Texture By Denis Oliveira Submitter denissoliveira Submitted 03/23/2015 Category Other Origin  

i´m trying to make new F-105 450 gallon drop tank but i can not find any info on the length or diameter of this tank , if anybody has some info on this dimensions please let me know

Like so... P.s. the painted over squadron tail fin markings are from VF-24 as in the story on the first post.

British Aerospace Hawk F.2

Raw Power BAC Thunderstrike GR.2A - No.19 Squadron, RAF Germany, 1976

you know, I'd swear Dels uploaded the cockpit seperatley, but I sure as hell can't find it!! But it's here somewhere's, not just in the KAW ADs EDIT: found it, under Cold War Aircraft, A1

I called down there and the F-105 they have is being refurbished for display, off limits to the public at the moment. Maybe these will help you scale a tank based off your model?

AD-5Ns Cat and and trapping on CV-19, the Hancock for the 1st 3 minutes.

There is, of course, an actual Skyraider cockpit, made by Dels, which looks a lot better for the Spad than that old A-4 Skyhawk cockpit. It is available in the KAW mod, I think.

Still not a bad idea for a skin...

VFA-21 Freelancers

Some dhimari Thunder-(Desert-)chiefs out looking for some trouble...

Lookin' for a fight.

China Syndrome....hint...buy some cleaner fluid and a cloth ?

Thanks russouk2004! Fast prop, New slow prop & static prop.

Getting there

Winter over Faroe islands. (WIP terrain)

Death from above

RU

F-15I Ra'am (which means 'Thunder' in Hebrew)

& Very Very Frightening

USMC AV-8B tanking on the way home from a CAS mission over Ethiopia...

That's right. I usually set up the tanker flying a Transport or Recon mission and move it's waypoints, altitude etc so it's near my ingress or egress route from the target. Then I can have some fun simulating tanking While my wingman either formats with me... or gets bored waiting for me and orbits us!