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Inspired by Gepard ! F-111B in action...

Man, Herks can carry anything that or its all about the angles

Portuguese Guinea circa 1973

Kool, scrapped mine, so i can concentrate on this heavy bird

Nellis AFB

A boatload of Phantoms

sometimes, you gotta look (repeatedly) at the photos and make your own details

yup, caught that right off ... also the use of the SUU-23 gun pod === required screenie, albeit not really a what if as used in "The Hunters"

^ Excellent shots there Coupi. Dhimar takes a pounding

Out now https://www.moddb.com/mods/janes-wwii-fighters-2020-edition-flight-sim-air-combat/news/janes-wwii-fighters-2020-edition-released

Air action over the new 1939 Nomonhan terrain: Polikarpov I-16, Ki-27 Nate and Ki-30 Ann:

20 February, 1991 Lockheed S-3B Viking BuNo 159765 from VS-32 aboard USS America becomes the first Hoover to engage and destroy an enemy vessel. The Viking was vectored by a cruiser to sink an Iraqi patrol boat.

Into Stormy Skies

I've spent a few hours today trying to find the career for a specific EA-6B Prowler, BuNo 161880. Why this aircraft? Well, the Prowler's always been one of my favorite aircraft and this was the only one I ever saw, at an airshow in 2006 where a young me might have tried to rotate the ram air turbine on an ALQ-99. Anyway, I was wondering if someone might have better luck finding a squadron by squadron history and ultimate disposition of this aircraft? The Prowler's airframe by airframe history seems much less well documented than say, an F-4 or F-14's. Thanks! EDIT: Finding the histories of specific aircraft I've seen on display at airshows or museums is something I've been doing to help pass the time while covid's being going on.

A-5D Vigilante, Mach 2 capable non nuclear strike aircraft

you know, this would have been useful about two months ago

Nope. Look at the burner cans and nose ; ) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Required Screenie

Let me guess @Spinners a Luftwaffe F-4 with Sparrows - and the with Sparrows is the What If? With that, required screenshot from long ago:

Dassault Super Mystère B.2 - 8th Squadron, Lebanese Air Force, 1967 Dassault's steady evolution of the Ouragan and Mystère family culminated in the excellent Super Mystère B.2 which entered production in 1957. Featuring a new thin wing with 45° of sweep the Super Mystère B.2 was powered by the SNECMA Atar 101G and was the first Western European production aircraft to exceed Mach 1 in level flight. Dassault received a production order for 220 Super Mystère B.2's but a combination of defence cuts and the dazzling potential of the forthcoming Mirage III saw the Armée de l'Air order cut to 178 and then to 158. An entirely expected Israeli order for 24 Super Mystère B.2's restored production orders to 178 and Dassault's salesmen pitched the Super Mystère B.2 to many Middle-East and Sub-Saharan African countries but only the Lebanese Republic showed any interest. After the end of the 1958 Lebanon crisis a new government of national unity was formed under President Fuad Cheha and the returning Prime Minister Rashid Karami. Whilst grateful to the United States (who had sent 5,000 United States Marines to Beirut during the crisis) Lebanon's french-speaking Prime Minister Rashid Karami had warm relations with the French Government and supported the Lebanese Air Force's request for modern jets to replace the obsolete de Havilland Vampires. This led to the purchase of 18 Super Mystère B.2's for delivery in 1960 with these aircraft becoming the last of their type to roll off the Dassault production line at Mérignac. Entering service in March 1960 with the 8th Squadron of the Lebanese Air Force based at Rayak Air Base the Super Mystère B.2's were popular with Lebanese pilots. In 1962 a Lebanese Super Mystère B.2 shot down an Israeli jet over Kfirmishki. In 1967 two Lebanese Super Mystère B.2's were shot down on the first day of the Six-Day War by four Israeli Air Force Mirage IIICJ's. Lebanon played no part in the 1973 October War and the Super Mystère B.2's were retired in September, 1983.

Also, as loathe as I am to suggest it, try FB. Usually there are pages for aircraft with names like Friends of (insert aircraft here) run by Av-nerds and ex-service people. I came across a couple groups looking for info on RAAF Mirages & RAN/RNZAF Skyhawks a while back and I got a shit-tonne more info than I needed from 'em. Pretty sure there's a Growler/Prowler page on there. Might help... maybe? *shrugs* Otherwise, there's a prviate VMAQ group. There's bound to be ex-members there who might be able to point you in the right direction. Just don't mention you're Army though. You know how judgy leathernecks get...

makes you wish Joe Baugher's site covered Navy/Marine aircraft instead of just USAAC/AAF/AF I'd reccomend Forgotten Jests: http://www.forgottenjets.warbirdsresourcegroup.org/ but he doesn't have anything the EA-6B (just A-6s and EA-6A) still a good place though!

Minmax was causing problem..fixed..also a\c centre was off by a few metres...fixed some mapping\overlapping polys fixed...nacelles need remapping as they are all out of alignment... doesnt need much to make it look ok ish...

Some more bombers over WW2 China - the Japanese Fiat BR.20 and Ki-21 Sally, and the Chinese Tupolev SB-2:

Sharp-looking SEAD

yup. I have MERs for 6/5/4/4slant/3/2.

De Havilland Venom FB.52 - JG71 'Richthofen', German Air Force, 1956

algo de trabajo fino sobre el fuselaje de los A4P

Last Year's Model

Folland Gnat FB.3 - No.75 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Force, 1967

Couldn´t resist, i swear i couldn´t... Hope it is not too much...

BAC Goliath C.1 - No.30 Squadron, RAF Strike Command, 1986

(Love these schemes)

RCN CF-8E Crusaders Over Iceland during Operation Northern Sabre, 1969. VF-871 hitched onto the JFK Carrier group to provide multirole capability for the group.

British Aerospace Sea Hawk FRS.51 - 300 Indian Naval Air Squadron

Okay - so you merged your SF2 games into 1 to save space - but now when you run one (for example the SF2 Israel exe) you no longer have a separate game like you used to e.g. you can select missions and campaigns from the other games you have merged. Here's how to have it so it runs like the original standalone game. 1. Go to the mod folders - by default at C:\Users\<>\Saved Games\ThirdWire\ 2. Go to a terrains folder - C:\Users\<>\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Israel\Terrains . 3. Backup the terrains folder in case you screw this up!! 4. Create a new folder called Terrains if its not there already! 3. Now simply create new folders for each terrain for the games you don't want to show up in your install (we DO NOT touch the IsraelME folder in this example) So if we are in israel Terrains folder then we create folders for: desert GermanyCE icelandna VietnamSEA Then in each of these folders create a new empty text file and call it the same as its parent folder: desert.ini GermanyCE.ini icelandna.ini VietnamSEA.ini NOTE because this is Israel we don't create or change IsraelME because that needs to work You should end up with: (Note i have manually changed the folder icons here via properties customize - not required though) So when I run the game I now only see stock campaigns & missions for Israel.

Ecco giusto per levare quel 20-07-2010...... Dopo G-2 e G-4...non resta che dedicarsi ad Soko J-22 Orao e Soko J-20 Kraguj poi abbiamo ricostituito la componente ad ala fissa dell' Aviazione Yugoslava e "Polverizzazione Balcanica" conseguente.... Sembra quasi che ci divertiamo a costruire gli sparring partners per i modelli di Erik e Spillone (in solitario). Torno a dire, ancora una volta che ci manca solo il "Domestic Scenario" e poi siamo pronti ad ipotizzare qualsiasi cosa sul cielo del Nord-Est. Mau.