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F-90; B-47 RATOG take-off; Formation; Il-28SH in action; Carriers MiGs with CFT in clouds

Skin for A-team Skunkworks Crocodile

I love B-25. It's beauty plane. ------------------------------------- Miss World 1991, final.

Target-Firebee

Mix. My "war reflections in the mirrors"

RCAF Post War B-25 of No. 418 "City of Edmonton"

Hello! I just finished the chimiotherapie and I wanted to wish you all happy holiday. Does anyone know what happend with my project ? :)

The Russians build some crap cars,but,they certainly know how to build some of the finest Flying machines out there.....some really good shots of helos ,jets and bears etc....superb stuff....Ive always been a fan of Russian aviation,...they sure can knock a few bits of metal and what not together....to make a flying work of art.

Ok, we've painted as you wish .... but where is a snow ?? Correct plane, correct weapon .... only no sea .... Smile !!!

My new cutting board computer. I needed a test motherboard. A motherboard became available. A few rubber spacer, a few wood screws and voila, a cutting board test board.

Thanks gents... Must be getting closer if I've started sea trials....

oh how it is beauty skin "Стрижи" It needs to draw this skin for my MiG-29UB.

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army Navy’s (PLAN) first domestically designed and built aircraft carrier, the Type 002 Shandong (CV-17), was commissioned on Tuesday at a naval base in Sanya on the southern island of Hainan during a ceremony attended by President Xi Jinping, according to local media reports. Xi inspected an honor guard during the ceremony and met with PLAN personnel aboard the carrier, the Global Times reported on December 17. The Shandong was launched in April 2017 and began sea trials one year later in April 2018. The carrier conducted a total of nine sea trials. During its last sea trial in November, the Shandong passed through the Taiwan Strait and entered the South China Sea. In comparison, the PLAN’s sole operational aircraft carrier, the 60,000-ton Liaoning, a retrofitted Soviet-era Admiral Kuznetsov-class multirole aircraft carrier, completed 10 sea trials before being commissioned in 2012. The Shandong is based on Soviet Navy carrier designs: The 65,ooo-ton Type [002] carrier was launched at the DSIC shipyard in April 2017. The Shandong has been fitted with a so-called ski-jump assisted Short Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (STOBAR) launch system also installed aboard the Liaoning. STOBAR-launched aircraft have a more limited operational range and carry lighter payloads than fighter jets launched from so-called Catapult-Assisted Take-Off But Arrested Recovery (CATOBAR) systems used on U.S. Navy carriers. (STOBAR systems put a lot of strain on the airframe of fighter jets during take-off.) The [future] Shandong will be able to carry up to 24 Shenyang J-15 multirole fighter jets and a variant of the fourth-generation Sukhoi Su-33 twin-engines air superiority fighter, as well as around ten rotary wing aircraft including Changshe Z-18, Ka-31, or Harbin Z-9 helicopters. The Shandong will be able to accommodate up to 32 fighter aircraft in total, according to senior PLAN officers. With today’s commissioning, the PLAN is now operating two aircraft carriers, although it will take the Shandong around a decade to be combat-ready, while the Liaoning primarily serves as a training platform for Chinese naval aviation. It may also take a decade or two for a next-generation carrier-based strike aircraft to be deployed aboard the PLAN’s flattops. Chinese pilots and aviation personnel will also need to gain additional experience in operating aircraft from carriers. The Shandong will likely be beset by so-called “first-in-class problems,” technical and engineering issues that will only become apparent once the ship will begin conducting operations, which will impact the carrier’s reliability. Stashwick also noted that China’s future carrier force may be limited to four hulls due to the massive costs associated with building these huge flattops. Additionally, the PLAN will also have to gain further experience operating a carrier strike group (CSG). A future PLAN CSG will most likely be composed of Jiangkai-II-class (Type 054A) frigates, Luyang-III-class (Type 052D) destroyers, Renhai-class Type 055 destroyers, and one to two Yuan-class (Type 039A) or alternatively Song-class (Type 039) submarines in addition to support vessels. Advertisement The Shandong will be homeported in Sanya. for more info.

hi, cv-16 / Laioning was acquired by China from the Ukraine, and not from Russia. both Chinese ships belong to the Soviet Kuznetsov-class, though markable improved and without the Kuznetsov's ship-2-ship-missiles. this class is in no way comparable to the USN-attack carriers, since the Kuzemntsov's main task is not power projection around the globe (and attacking various countries by doing so), but defense of the fleet, i.e. of the strategic submarines. cheers sokol

Shandong is Laioning's almost twin sister. Granted she can carry 8 more aircraft with a bigger displacement and more fuel on board. Her deck is 10% bigger and the super structure is noticeably smaller. Her radar systems are said to be of notable improvement giving her more situational awareness. The true test of the Laioning will be under pressure in high movements of launch and recovery. The Laioning's biggest draw back is her inability to carry latest generation fighters.

Back to the 80's Klu NF-5 over Germany.

10km B-61 drop ;-)

Guuruu's Tornados.....

Outside....... Inside........

Here's an update on the project. I have been dealing with an issue about GPS-guided EOGB not working on racks, and initially I had resorted to use GPS-guided EOGR, so the bomb would actually be a an air-to-ground missile. However, that makes the AI crazy sometimes (flying towards the ground and crash). Not only that, there's a severe lack of avionics for all GPS-guided weapons in SF2; you never get a cue of a lock on the target. In the end, I may have found the best workaround for all the GPS bombs, making use of some info from this very old thread: https://combatace.com/forums/topic/18331-bru-help/?tab=comments#comment-73751 Basically, all GPS-guided bombs should be changed to LGB. There is no need of a targeting pod, and the bomb works pretty much as a GPS one; in fact, on Strike missions (aircraft only using GPS bombs should be limited to Strike missions, no Armed Recon nor SEAD) you're assigned a primary target. The bomb will only lock on that target. If that primary target gets destroyed by you or the AI, you cannot drop the remaining bombs anymore. This reflects what a GPS bomb is all about, even though in the weapon files it is defined as a LGB. For the F-22A Raptor, target coordinates are preset before a mission, so the GPS-guided bomb only works for that preset target. When that is gone, you do not have data for locking on targets of opportunity. Moreover, this change from GPS EOGB to LGB brings working avionics, so it's totally for the better. Some more testing is needed, but it seems to work just fine. A few more updates must be finalized, including an important overhaul of the aircraft's fuel cells. The package's release will most likely slide to 2020; I want to ensure that the final product is as bug free as possible, so it will be worth the wait.

"Naked" Raptor Not a perfect 1:1 representation of the real looks of a mid-production Raptor, but it may be a fun bonus to include in the package nonetheless.

Short status update of the 104S rework project: F-104S CB - done F-104S ASA CB - done F-104S CI - done F-104S ASA CI - to be done F-104A ASA M - to be done

Don't know if this helps but I caught a few of 'em back in 2013: https://www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=63422257%40N08&view_all=1&text=VFC Sure appreciate you taking this one on.

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Finally done with these...