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I think we can all agree the people of Iran are the losers, and are the poor buggers who suffer and deserve far far better, Iran was a relatively happy and prosperous nation before the Ayatollahs removed a bad Shah and replaced Him with their own brand of insanity, but the question that everyone here I think agrees on is that something must be done, they questions are what, how , and when. if the Iranians do manage to achieve entry into the nuclear club, then I think all may agree that this would be a terrible thing. and must be prevented at all costs. Religious zealotry is also a terrible weapon , no matter from where it comes , be it christian, Muslim, or any other one cares to mention, I dislike religion, it causes more grief and suffering than almost any other thing, when folk are willing to die for their God entity, then we know everything has turned shit shaped !! Also, I am sorry to say this, but shouldn't the Arabs themselves be sorting this crap out, instead of expecting the US and Britain and France to solve their local issues ? I'm no politician, or strategist, I'm just and old ground pounding grunt, but from my particular slit trench, this situation looks shitty, and needs sorting without delay.

Busy with FM tweaks for Stephen's Polikarpov I-15 (gull wing variant) to fit it into the early WW2 SF2 package. Top speed around 350 kph at 3000 m alt. (with the earlier M22 engine variant), very maneuverable and good climb rate of about 15 m/s if you maintain about 200 kph. Also improved environsys and flightengine ini files - will include the atmospherics tweaks either with my ver. 9.9 FM update pack for FE2 or the early WW2 SF2 package. Next up is an early Ki-61 or the prototype Ki-60, also for the early WW2 package, then to circle back to further FE2 tweaks. (The PTO theater used a small number of gull-wing I-15's as trainers so it doesn't hurt to include them since we're missing the 15bis variant.) Von S

View File SPAD XIII Diamond Dick SPAD XIII C1. "Diamond Dick" for First Eagles 2 & 1 This is a skin for SPAD XIII C1. "SHOWBIRDS" to be used in First Eagles 2 and 1 Historical notes: This skin depict the SPAD XIII C1. Flown by Lieutenant William H. Palmer of 94th Aero Squadron. Ft. Alexander, Koblenz, Germany. April of 1919. Lt. William W. Palmer achieved 3 victories in WW1, flying with the 94th Aero Squadron. The pilots of the 94th Aero Squadron decided to paint their SPAD XIIIs. In an attempt to outdo one another they came up with what were termed the "showbirds". The planes were painted up for the April 1919 Air show at Koblenz. During the Spring of 1919, "Diamond Dick" took part of the "Showbirds" SPADs during the occupation duties in Germany, with more eight colourfull SPADs of 94th Aero Squadron. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS : This skin do not uses decal files, so will be easy install. To install this skin and ini file, copy or drop the folder named "Diamond Dick" in any SPAD 13 aircraft folder that you wish. (it will work with all SPAD 13). *ATTENTION* In order to work properly on your loadout menu option, inside the "Diamond Dick" folder, there is a TXT file that you must open and COPY the content into your SPAD13_XXX.ini. [TextureSetXXX] Directory=Diamond Dick Name=Diamond Dick Nation=USAS Squadron= Specular=1.800000 Glossiness=1.800000 Reflection=0.000000 Replace the (XXX) in the [TextureSetXXX] top line, with the appropriate number following your "ini" file order for others skins that you have already installed. I'm adding one optional (SPAD13_001.bmp) with a red star painted on the wheels. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira skin - Historical references by Bob Pearson. - Third Wire Productions for the original files that I used as base to my work. - special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is freeware; you are allowed to use it as you wish, but The names of all contributors listed here, must be added in any new released readmes. This skin may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. Submitter JulioJunqueira Submitted 01/09/2020 Category Spad Skins  

View File SPAD XIII Easter Egg SPAD XIII C1. "Easter Egg" for First Eagles 2 & 1 This is a skin for SPAD XIII C1. "SHOWBIRDS" to be used in First Eagles 2 and 1 Historical notes: This skin depict the SPAD XIII C1. Flown by Lieutenant Samuel Kaye of 94th Aero Squadron. Ft. Alexander, Koblenz, Germany. April of 1919. Lieutenant Samuel Kaye achieved 4 victories in WW1, flying with the 94th Aero Squadron. The pilots of the 94th Aero Squadron decided to paint their SPAD XIIIs. In an attempt to outdo one another they came up with what were termed the "showbirds". The planes were painted up for the April 1919 Air show at Koblenz. During the Spring of 1919, "Easter Egg" took part of the "Showbirds" SPADs during the occupation duties in Germany, with more eight colourfull SPADs of 94th Aero Squadron. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS : This skin do not uses decal files, so will be easy install. To install this skin and ini file, copy or drop the folder named "Easter Egg" in any SPAD 13 aircraft folder that you wish. (it will work with all SPAD 13). *ATTENTION* In order to work properly on your loadout menu option, inside the "Easter Egg" folder, there is a TXT file that you must open and COPY the content into your SPAD13_XXX.ini. [TextureSetXXX] Directory=Easter Egg Name=Easter Egg Nation=USAS Specular=1.800000 Glossiness=1.800000 Reflection=0.000000 Replace the (XXX) in the [TextureSetXXX] top line, with the appropriate number following your "ini" file order for others skins that you have already installed. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira skin - Historical references by Bob Pearson. - Third Wire Productions for the original files that I used as base to my work. - special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is freeware; you are allowed to use it as you wish, but The names of all contributors listed here, must be added in any new released readmes. This skin may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. Submitter JulioJunqueira Submitted 01/09/2020 Category Spad Skins  

View File SPAD XIII Lightning Bolt SPAD XIII C1. "Lightning Bolt" for First Eagles 2 & 1 This is a skin for SPAD XIII C1. "SHOWBIRDS" to be used in First Eagles 2 and 1 Historical notes: This skin depict the SPAD XIII C1. Flown by Lieutenant Harvey Weir Cook of 94th Aero Squadron. Ft. Alexander, Koblenz, Germany. April of 1919. Lieutenant Harvey Weir Cook achived 7 confirmed victories in WW1, flying with 94th Aero Squadron. The pilots of the 94th Aero Squadron decided to paint their SPAD XIIIs. In an attempt to outdo one another they came up with what were termed the "showbirds". The planes were painted up for the April 1919 Air show at Koblenz. During the Spring of 1919, "Lightning Bolt" took part of the "Showbirds" SPADs during the occupation duties in Germany, with more eight colourfull SPADs of 94th Aero Squadron. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS : This skin do not uses decal files, so will be easy install. To install this skin and ini file, copy or drop the folder named "Lightning Bolt" in any SPAD 13 aircraft folder that you wish. (it will work with all SPAD 13). *ATTENTION* In order to work properly on your loadout menu option, inside the "Lightning Bolt" folder, there is a TXT file that you must open and COPY the content into your SPAD13_XXX.ini. [TextureSetXXX] Directory=Lightning Bolt Name=Lightning Bolt Nation=USAS Squadron= Specular=1.800000 Glossiness=1.800000 Reflection=0.000000 Replace the (XXX) in the [TextureSetXXX] top line, with the appropriate number following your "ini" file order for others skins that you have already installed. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira skin - Historical references by Bob Pearson. - Third Wire Productions for the original files that I used as base to my work. - special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________ This is freeware; you are allowed to use it as you wish, but The names of all contributors listed here, must be added in any new released readmes. This skin may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. Submitter JulioJunqueira Submitted 01/09/2020 Category Spad Skins  

Please don't beat up each other, nevertheless it is always advisable to compare information and broaden our views and understanding of the world. All of us just benefit from that, if that is done properly without developing anger, etc. Nobody on this planet can have and know everything, so blank spots can happen for each and everyone of us, but its always better to get into a "bigger box of life". One thing that most areas forget is to think about our planet as a life form of its own. We can use an analogy of the human body for comparison. If the body is healthy all is well and the person is as happy as can be, so all life flourish and prosper. How ever there are times when non optimum conditions persist, a virus gets into the body or from an injury gets an inflammation, how the body reacts? It develops fever, raises core temperature of itself and tries to "sweat" out the problem. Unfortunately our planet can not sweat, but it is able to change its core temperature, by melting or increasing the polar caps, it can reduce or enlarge the reflection percentage of incoming heat from the sun. So it can rejuvenate itself and its "cellular structure" so it can be healthy again. True it is a slow process that can take decades, but does work flawlessly. What many don't see by the melting polar caps, the temperature of the deep sea is getting lower, and it brings new and abundant life forms into existence, that will support us in the coming years. The Co2 is not causing it by itself, in fact first the temperature has to rise in order to get more Co2 in the air, they do go hand in hand to a degree but not dully as most areas advocate it. A large volcano eruption can toss thousands or million ton of Co2 into the atmosphere, yet it gets colder for a certain period, why? Because the ash blankets out the sun.... The planet went through thousands of cycles of getting very warm or getting extremely cold, that's how propagates life and life cycles on its surface, whether internal or external was the source of turning event. One big misconception is that we kill the planet, no the planet will be here for a few more billion years, and thanks for asking it will fill just fine. What we actually kill is ourselves, if we not stop polluting our environment - air, waters, ground. As you can see I said "pollution" not Co2 or other, in fact any material that can be dangerous to any existence of life, the list is quite long so not gonna put them here. If we want to live for few more thousands or million years as species, then we have to change our way of careless life, destroying everything around us just for the sake of "profit" and because "we are the top of evolution" - actually far from this last one. There are many things more than money, you can't eat money when no crops would grow or cattle to be able to eat grass to give milk or meat. So our planet now has a fever, did we cause it - no - but we did accelerate its cycle by carelessly polluting our environment. All heat cycle is followed by cool down. Is climate change is real, sure, just look out the window. Unfortunately you can not direct or stop climate change to where what would change, but we can make an alliance with the planet so it is less severe, and also to a degree we have to adopt to the "new" zones, where we can grow crops, fish, etc. This fever will be turning around, by the end of the 20-s and early 30-s you will see a drastic cool down, sort of mini ice age that will last between 10-25 or so years. That means also plenty of people moving around, since some of the areas they live now would be quite harsh to sustain, and there will other places that become "livable" that are currently not. Forest fires will grow for coming years, but we could lessen its chance by stopping being careless or just ignorant about our environment and it's inner working. With more conscious attitude and actions we can negate some part of the problem, and by adopting reasonable rules that are beneficial for most of its sides - not just mankind - we can progress and bring a turning point. Unfortunately man as a group in its current form needs big catastrophe events to even start thinking, so few more of such might follows before we start to act en mass.

ur welcome let me know if it works

From my point I believe u can try the na exe again see if that works since I did one time. For the ex and as far as the expansion packs go expansion 1is for sf2 Israel and expansion 2 is for SF-2 Europe but for me I have the merged sf2 e/v/i/NA/and sf2 into one full merged install also try reinstalling sf-2 europe

With so many different aircraft in Strike Fighters it is often the case of selecting an aircraft and fudging it around the skies with only vague recollection of how the radar works and how it is supposed to handle because you didn’t have the time to refresh. The Last of the Lightnings is a mod that unusually for SF2 centers mainly on getting familiar with a certain type of aircraft and its systems. You might even term it DCS lite however I can’t imagine seeing any of the aircraft in this mod featuring in that sim in my lifetime. So, what is it about? The Last of the Lightnings (by comrpnt) is a set of scripted single missions (like YAP) that take the player through an RAF Operational Conversion Unit (OCU) training program and is based on the writings of ex Lightning and F-4 pilot Ian Black. This takes place in 1976 and you are flying the English Electric Lightning F.mk6. The what you say? or as FastCargo once stated before being put under court martial by the USAF for blasphemy [or not]. The Lightning was the last fully designed British supersonic fighter to enter service and its only requirement seems to have been performance above everything else [especially fuel]. Strike Fighters 2 comes with all seven of the single seat variants: Lightning F.mk1 Lightning F.mk1A Lightning F.mk2 Lightning F.mk2A Lightning F.mk3 Lightning F.mk6 Lightning F.mk53 Okay if you are wondering where your Lightnings are then you didn’t buy SF2 Expansion Pack 2 did you, in which case you are one of the reasons TK is now doing crappy phone games only………[hey his words] not to make you feel too guilty! Shame really because it comes with some of the best 3D pits Thirdwire ever did, and probably unique as far as combat sims go with the Lightning: The centrepiece of the mod is a pdf guide that must have taken some time to do and is quite detailed in places. So the point of this is that you will be learning to fly the Lightning or at least be better at it. On Hard flight model (~SFM in DCS) it can be tricky to handle so you will be dragged through formation landings, flying, A-A refueling and even learn how to use the radar to properly intercept targets and actually read the radar symbology. Some of this should be useful for other aircraft at least. Install So yes you need SF2E and SF2 Exp 2 to run this minimum. I was running this from a full merged install, of which I created a separate install by copying the game exe file and running that to create a new Mod folder called LastOfTheLightnings for it. Full instructions are on the PDF and is mostly drag and drop with some ini file editing. For the training rounds I created new folders in the weapons folder and not the old-fashioned way recommended. Mods So once up and running I added mods and changed them as I went through the course. Because of the changes that come with the mod I only changed the terrain tiles, runway, and sky using Better Widesky (Cellisky/Orsin). I have also put in mods to give more head movement and darker nights. Up and running Firstly, you go to single mission only and choose the missions using the date code e.g. [760522] then ignore the text the game puts in because it is wrong [only go by the date code to get the correct mission per the guide]. Check your loadout - obviously the training rounds should be there otherwise don’t touch or change anything just look at the map and then launch. So you start either on the runway or the taxi way on these missions. At the beginning the tricky parts are landing on formation with your Qualified Flying instructor (QFI) and playing chase the QFI. Especially at night you need to be on your feet to keep track of the guy initially! You are then given instruction on how A-A refueling should be done, e.g. fly in formation on the port side before refueling then fly formation on the starboard wing. You then have to try it at night and in clouds. Yes the amazing Ravenclaw Bucc is in this pack. The Intercept phase is interesting and you will be going after low and high targets before flying in formation with them, so you will need to learn what those dots and lines mean After basic intercepts you get to do ACM against the pesky aggressor F-4Ms, although don’t pay too much attention to the instruction for this because they will spam those AIM-7s at you, luckily they are only training rounds [if you installed them properly] and wont kill you. Next live weapons are used to intercept remote controlled unmanned drones (Hunters). The early ones fly straight but the later ones give you problems by turning a lot. After basic strafing there is a pretty cool finale for your graduation, firstly you fly an F-4M as a photo chase plane: Then you get to fly position 9 in a graduation formation fly over of RAF Jever. Final salute to comrpnt for a fine job six years later.

Yes if u want them into a single install I don’t have the complete pack but I do have all the installs as Sf-2 Europe and all works well this is where i have them merge and used C:\Users\UserName\Saved Games\Strike Fighters 2 Europe

let us state some facts. Iran did not start any war or attack any country in a very long long time....unlike other 'civilized' countries. Iranian people are generally very friendly, open and peaceful people. As far as I know some numbers of them. They just have shitty leadership. Just like some other countries. Starting war and removing current leaders will lead to a bigger mess - more parties would like to gain power there...without a single goal. Considering the geographical issues...it would be very hard to land airstrikes just like that out of nowhere. This is not a country like Afghanistan (where air defenses were nearly not existing) or Iraq where everything was about to collapse anyway and the military was at the edge of existence. And as trotski said airforce is not winning wars. Another thing is that whatever leaders think they still need to listen to military experts - and I believe that Trump was already informed of aftermatch of airstrikes...and his speech a few minutes ago shows that perfectly.

its only a show. Believe me . I am Iranian and awfully I know our coward murder regime that play like a clown...

This was the view from the trio of tanks on the receiving end of the last rocket run

Very nice m8........hope you're not expecting this kind of detail from anything I do...

I just completed the new pilot for SF2, I have made 2 pilots one is right-handed and the other is left-handed. I have used two software to model the pilot FaceGen and Fuse. The skin is a collection of photos and textures from google search. In-game screenshots flaying the F-18-B

Still WIP...

a surprise WIP from angelp. Still a long way off, but has much promise! Reusing the decals from my old DAT Boston mod. There's a gun-nosed A-20G in the works (also reusing my decals from the ETO Havoc). It looks really good close up; i've sent him over 300 megs of e-books on the Havoc. So, it's gonna be done right! Been begging for a new one for years....

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

Great to see this mod of mine being talked about after all this time. Thanks for the write-up. I really need to revisit this to remind myself what I did. These days I seem to be immersed only in DCS. Time for a SF2E social perhaps? All the best. Kind regards, comrpnt.