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I will try to make the earlier M109 (Vietnam war textures and up to the gulf war) soon. PS. I will try to get the M992A2 as well.

Insignia and tactical numbers on stock tanks. Here M48A2, M48A3 and M60A1

Today I uploaded the Nieuport 21. It was intended to be an escort and used a Nieuport 17 airframe with a smaller engine (to extend its range.) It was used by the French, British and Russians, and saw a lot of use post war. I have included two skins, a full set of decals, a fully functional cockpit, and my skinning templates. My thanks to Ojcar, who made the FM, which captures the fast climbing speed, but low power of this plane.

Another M109A2 was uploaded. I will be uploading the soldier and the sandbags/ berm as separate models for the terrain makers.

Gatling, Perfectly understand your "issue", and I can tell you we had a very lengthy debate and discussion about the "power" of the engines. We used the spitperformance site also for information and whatever else we could scrape up on the net, and we had perfectly matching speed values according to available data. Only we run into one thing, we also wanted to make the handling characteristics as close we could, on most difficulty settings, which required seemingly more power. There are several ways to achieve them, but the shortest and easiest solution was to add that extra power. On the other hand, other currently released WW2 aircraft on the opposite side were/are mostly overpowered and was not "fun" to fight against them, when historically they should be on par with AC-s in this or upcoming packs. Since it is a game, we chose the fun factor more important than a couple of HP-s. If you have the time and interest to make a perfected FM that solves every "issue" you may run into (power,speed,handling on normal and hard settings), you are welcome to do so. We work on the Spit family in our spare time we scrape from the other 4-5 projects we work on in parallel with this, so we welcome any helping hand that makes our work easier, faster or more realistic.

View File PLAAF Weapon Pack Redux Part 1 PLAAF Weapon Pack This pack contains some Air to air and air to ground weapons fro PLAAF aircrafts and helicopters. Included are: PL-2B IR WVRAAM PL-5B IR WVRAAM PL-7 IR WVRAAM PL-8 IR WVRAAM PL-9C IR WVRAAM PL-10 IIR WVRAAM PL-11 SAHM BVRAAN PL-12 AHM BVRAAN PL-15 AHM BVRAAN PL-21 AHM BVRAAN SD-10 AHM BVRAAM //--Air to Ground weapons---------------------// 500-3 500 kgr GP Bomb 1000-3 1000 kgr GP bomb CM-400AKG Anti ship Missile LS6 Guided bomb (50 kgr, 100 kgr, ) Laser / IIR guided LT-3 1000 lb Laser guided Bomb ( a GBU-24 equivalent) HF-20 57 mm Rocket Pod HF-22 57 mm Rocket Pod // --------Bomb /Missile Racks---------------// 2AR_Ch X2 AHM Rack 2BR_Ch X2 Bomb Rack TER_Ch TER for chinese bomb SmartRack_Ch Rack for LS6 ( For Chinese SDB) // ------J-10 Special weapons ---------------// J10_BlueSkyIV J-10 Blue Sky Target Pod J10_KG700 J-10 KG700 ECM pod J10_SEAD J-10 Datalink / ECM Pod J10_WDM7 J-10 WDM-7 Target pod Also included an J-10 model that I used to test the weapons. Instalation: ------------------------------------------------------------- Put the content of the objects/ folder in your mod folder. Crédits : -------------------------------------------------------------- 3d model (PL-2B, PL-5,PL-7,PL-8): RavenClaw007 3d Model, textures, INI files: angelp This addon is and will in all cases remain freeware, and is only allowed to be available here in Combat Ace Released under Combat Ace Fair-Use terms Submitter angelp Submitted 12/05/2021 Category Weapon Packs  

I played a lot Air Superiority / Air Strike, that was real fun, especially The Speed Of Heat (the VN extension) and Desert Falcon Good game, but on some occasions, I find the Tomcat slightly overmodelled:

Only 2 suggestions I can make on this: 1) use the AvHistory merlin sound from GregoryP. The stock Merlin is more Griffon like then the sweet sounds of a Merlin 2) add a 'fake' insigina decal, as the roundels are painted on. Just choose a mesh (rudder/aileron or something NOT fuselage or wing). Using something like the statement below: [Decalxxx] MeshName=LeftAileron DecalLevel=0 DecalFacing=bottom FilenameFormat=Insignia Position=-7.45,-0.10 Rotation=0.0 Scale=0.000001 DecalMaxLOD=1 That will activate the "Nation Name" service on the Loadout Screen's dropdown. Otherwise FANTASTIC JOB!!!! Big thumbs up!!

I totally agree with you and every thing has it's peaks and then fall. Unless you keep up with technology and enhancement.

Interesting design concept, but it doesn't work. The zero lift drag coefficient for the Spitfire I was 0.0200, and for the Mk Vb was 0.0235. These Spitfires have total Cd0=0.0195, which is a little lower than reality, but close. The problem is that the airspeed at various altitudes is way too high. If you look at http://www.spitfireperformance.com/spitfire-I.html you will see that the Spitfire Mk I (with the original fixed pitch prop) could manage: 307 mph TAS (243 kts IAS) at 5,000 feet 328 mph TAS (237 kts IAS) at 10,00 feet 348 mph TAS (232 kts IAS) at 15,00 feet 360 mph TAS (223 kts IAS) at 20,00 feet 349 mph TAS (202 kts IAS) at 25,000 feet The later variable pitch prop could manage a little faster than that, by a few mph (the numbers are bit lower down that web page). I've just tested these new Spitfires, and with this extra and unhistorical (x1.63) engine power, they can do 20-30mph more than reality (264 kts IAS at 5,000 feet, 261 at 10,000, 254 at 15,000, 245 at 20,000, and 232 at 25,000, for the Mk I). In 1940 that was unattainable. They are beautiful models, but these are uber-Spitfires, and not realistic.

Guys keep calm and get back to Topic!

Thanks to these drones, I live in peace now. Thank you Selçuk Bayraktar ! I can't wait the TB2 in my Mod folder.

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.

TB2 Russian nightmare in the Ukraine.

View File Spitfire Mk1 & Mk2 (2021) --------------- Spitfire for CombatAce --------------- SF2 version 2021 TurboSquid : original 3D model Snapper21 : source file donated to CA Wrench : project development origin and inis Starfighter2 : original Spitfire Mk9 cockpit Logan4 : additionnal 3D parts and model editing to import into TW sims, textures editing, decals and inis. Cliff7600 : textures editing, decals and inis, cockpit editing. Thirdwire : textures and inis. These are the models made for CombatAce from the original TurboSquid 3D source file. It is made to be downloaded for free at CombatAce site only, and not to be used in any other way. The models have been designed for a SF2 / ThirdWire use and nothing else. Not to be merged with other files sharing the same original 3D model. - Spitfire Mk1 (early) - Spitfire Mk1a - Spitfire Mk1b - Spitfire Mk2a - Spitfire Mk2a Long Range - Spitfire Mk2b Submitter Cliff7600 Submitted 12/05/2021 Category Spitfire  

i can understand it to a degree. when i get to setting up my newly created era/region installs (roughly about three weeks), i wont want to scrool past the stock stuff to get to the add ons (in the cases of the 1950s based installs, or the Jumbo, the Atomic, or the ASW installs). i could, i just dont want to.

Gepard: I have never seen or heard of "attached node" in ground objects. Your Data.INI numbers for the FlaMG look right, and if they are taken from the LOD Viewer I'm sure they are correct. The only thing I would try would be to change MuzzlePosition=0.50,1.384,2.82 to MuzzlePosition=-0.50,-1.384,2.82, and see if that changes things for the better. Also, make sure that the YawModelNodeName=cupola turret and PitchModelNodeName=machine gun are the correct names in the LOD.

If anyone want my opinion those UAV would lose a lot of its effectivity against a up to date and decided enemy.

Gep, thats why I want everyone to keep on topic please.

View File M109A2 howitzer static/dynamic with berm and sandbags Hello and thank you for downloading my work. https://gkabs.net What's included: M109A2 howitzer models one static and dynamic with berm and sandbags. All my files should include the Strike Fighters 2 Series game file (.LOD) and the texture required. (tested and work only for SF2) Installation: Copy files to their proper folder //Please change the XXX with the correct number from your //Soundlist: [SoundList] SoundFileXXX=155MM_M126 SoundFileXXX=TankEngine SoundFileXXX=GKTankTrack SoundFileXXX=50caliber [TankEngine] Priority=LOW 3DSound=TRUE DopplerEffect=TRUE Looped=TRUE NumBuffers=2 MaxDist=250.000000 MinDist=10.000000 InsideConeAngle=360 OutsideConeAngle=360 ConeOutsideVolume=100 [GKTankTrack] Priority=NORMAL 3DSound=TRUE DopplerEffect=FALSE Looped=TRUE NumBuffers=4 MaxDist=500.000000 MinDist=50.000000 InsideConeAngle=360 OutsideConeAngle=360 ConeOutsideVolume=100 [155MM_M126] Priority=NORMAL Looped=FALSE NumBuffers=2 3DSound=TRUE DopplerEffect=FALSE MaxDist=1500.000000 MinDist=400.000000 InsideConeAngle=360 OutsideConeAngle=360 ConeOutsideVolume=100 [50caliber] Priority=NORMAL Looped=TRUE NumBuffers=4 3DSound=TRUE DopplerEffect=FALSE MaxDist=1000.000000 MinDist=50.000000 InsideConeAngle=360 OutsideConeAngle=360 ConeOutsideVolume=100 If you need any further help please read the Knowledge Base at: https://combatace.com/forums/forum/268-thirdwire-strike-fighters-2-series-knowledge-base/ 1.0.0 LICENSE: You are allowed to use this model and everything included with it for personal non-profit use for Strike fighters 1 and 2. For use outside of this scope, you need to contact me for permission. gkabs@gkabs.net Credit goes to the following: Third Wire for making this outstanding game. The soldier is free model is from MIXAMO WEBSITE https://www.turbosquid.com/3D-Models/free-fbx-model-soldier-military-character-rigged/516949?referral=3dmdb (I am sorry that I don't have the model template for the texture in photoshop) compufat for helping me with the textures big thank you. Credit goes to https://www.textures.com as I use a lot of their photos to create the skins. Google for some photos and information. And finally not to forget the wonderful site of https://combatace.com and all the nice members and their dedicated support for this game. Software used: 3d Max 2009 UVLayout v2 Pro Substance Painter Adobe Photoshop If you need any assistance please contact me at gkabs@gkabs.net Site gkabs.net gulfknights.net Submitter GKABS Submitted 12/06/2021 Category Ground Object Mods  

Very much used by the French on the Balkan front, with limited success as it proved unable to intercept ennemy bombers and recon

Feel free to restore the correct values in your files. It was not done so in an enthusiastic mood. It was more constrained by the performance in flight and by the opponents from the downloads section (roaring in the skies of England like Me-262s). So yes every engine has its power multiplied by 1.63 or something close and It's not an error. The endurance has been checked also with the fuel consumption of these overpowered engines. Drag values have been checked from a study of the real aircraft. With the real engine power values you may have to lower them to reach the right top speed at the right altitude (in hard mode flying).

Nice-looking aircraft! The flight models are rather enthusiastic, though - the Mk 1 and 1b have been given 1730 hp engines, (should be 1030 hp), and the Mk2s have 1915 hp (should be 1175 hp). With uber-Spitfires like this it is no wonder the Germans lost the Battle of Britain!

Fantastic!!! I love unexpected moves like those you use to do. Thanks bro!!!!

Always wanted to fly with them in their "Battle of Britain" scenarios!!!!!

After consideration, I will pass this one and wait for holosuite version. Miles and Julian said it is worth trying.

View File Nieuport 21 The Nieuport 21 was designed to be a long range escort fighter. It used a Nieuport 17 airframe with the smaller Nieuport 11 engine to reduce fuel consumption and extend its range. The lighter weight gave the plane a good climb rate, but the lower power engine reduced its speed. The Nieuport 21 served along with the Nieuport 17 on the Western Front. It was also licensed to the Dux factory in Russia and large numbers were used on the Eastern Front. My version of the Nieuport 21 is armed with a single Lewis gun mounted on the upper wing and has a loadout for eight Le Prieur Rockets for Balloon Busting missions. This package features two skins - one French, one Russian - a set of decals, and a fully functional cockpit. My skinning templates are included with the download. This plane uses the Le Prieur Rockets created by P10ppy and a sound file created by Nixou (included with his Realistic Engine Sounds package). Both of these files are available in the Combat Ace Download section. Both of these files are used by other aircraft, so you may already have them. I have included Nixou's sound file with this package in case you don't already have it. Credits: My thanks to Ojcar for making the data file for the Nieuport 21. My thanks to Nixou for making the sound file for the Le Rhone 80hp engine. Installation instructions: This aircraft uses P10ppy's Le Prieur rockets available in the CombatAce downloads section. You may already have it. If you don't, you'll have to download it and install it into your Weapons folder. For FE1: Unzip the file and move the folder named "Nieuport21" into your FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. If you don't already have it, copy the file named "LeRhone9c80hp1m4" from my Sounds folder into yours. For FE2: Unzip the file and move the folder named "Nieuport21" into your FirstEagles/Objects/Aircraft folder. Then in your FirstEagles/Objects/Decals folder, create a new folder named "Nieuport21". Move the folder named "D" from the Airplanes/Nieuport21 folder into the Decals/Nieuport21 folder you just made. If you don't already have it, copy the file named "LeRhone9c80hp1m4" from my Sounds folder into yours. Submitter Stephen1918 Submitted 12/05/2021 Category Nieuport  

I don't understand why didn't the Russians Army used these kind of Jammers in Libya or Syria? or atleast learned the lessens from these two conflicts and used Jammers in Nagorno-Karabakh? It's really simple because the Turkish TB2 have there Jammer support unit that counter any kind of Jammers and they are the KORAL is a land-based transportable electronic warfare system developed to jam and deceive hostile radars Service history Used bySee Operators WarsSyrian civil war Libyan civil war 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. By the way the TB2 do not use radio controlled ignition, they use laser guided smart gliding ammunition that detonate by hitting the target.

Somebody overlisten the russian propaganda.

SA-5 Gammon (S-200 Vega) SAM site at Socotra (terrain WIP) Edit: After a look on a Google Earth sat pic of an old east german SA-5 base i found out, that each SAM Launcher position had an own storage bunker. Thatswhy i changed the design of the site a little bit. Now it looks so:

that's one hell of a camoflague job!!!

My 1/350 miniatures for Birds of Prey.