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ODS Sukhoi Su-25

This is one of the old models in my list I just remembered Um Al Maradim Class (Combattante I), so I will be making it before the USS Pegasus (PHM-1)

Hispano Aviación HA-1108 Martillo - Escuadron 113, Ala 7, Ejército del Aire, May 1945 Whilst both Portugal and Spain remained neutral at the start of World War 2 the UK government was deeply concerned that the pro-Nazi Spanish dictatorship of Francisco Franco would inevitably lead to Spain joining the axis powers in their war against the British Empire. In particular, the UK worried that an emboldened Spain would make a move to take back Gibraltar which played a vital role in controlling naval traffic in and out of the Mediterranean Sea from the Atlantic Ocean. These fears appeared to becoming true when Franco and Hitler met at Hendaye railway station near the Spanish–French border on October 23rd, 1940. The UK knew that the object of the meeting was to resolve disagreements over the conditions for Spain to join the Axis Powers in their war against the British Empire. Among other things, Franco asked for the handing over of Gibraltar once the British were defeated plus the return of French Morocco, part of French Algeria and further demanded that French Cameroon should be attached to the Spanish colony of Guinea. Hitler knew that Spain was enduring a critical economic and military situation following the Spanish Civil War and realised that Spain could contribute little to acheiving Franco's extortionate wish list. Hitler regarded Franco with contempt and preferring not to disturb his relations with the Vichy French regime he abruptly ended the meeting and the two would never meet again. Following this infamous meeting Franco realised that Spain might struggle to receive arms from Nazi Germany and announced a series of military programmes including an indigenous fighter aircraft for the Spanish Air Force. Hispano Aviación were given a contract to design and produce a modern monoplane fighter utilising the promising 'in house' Hispano-Suiza R14 fourteen-cylinder two-row supercharged radial engine rated at 1,400hp driving a 3-bladed constant-speed propeller. Designated as the HA-1108 'Martillo' (Hammer) the HA-1108 was a low-wing cantilever monoplane with a retractable undercarriage and an enclosed cockpit. The relatively clean duralumin-skinned fuselage had a tubular steel frame whilst the predominantly fabric-covered wing (with duralumin leading edges) was supported by two steel spars giving considerable strength and stiffness and the flight control surfaces were also fabric covered. The upper forward fuselage was the location for the four ALFA 44 machine guns of 7.92mm calibre with Nelson E-8 synchronization gear allowing them to fire them through the spinning propeller. The first HA-1108 prototype flew on December 20th, 1941 and Hispano Aviación test pilots found it reasonably docile with decent flight and ground handling properties and good cockpit ergonomics. However, it was slower than contemporary fighters like the Me-109F and Spitfire V and the armament of four rifle calibre machine guns was considered to be woefully inadequate. Despite these shortcomings the HA-1108 started series production in August 1942 with Escuadron 113 becoming the first operational squadron on October 12th, 1942 (the national Day of Spain). On May 9th, 1945 the HA-1108's of Escuadron 113 saw combat over Olivenza near the Portuguese border with Spain shooting down a Portuguese Furacão and damaging a Spitfire on the following day. Production continued during the war and finally ended in 1948. Whilst outdated the HA-1108 was adequate for it's intended purpose of home defence and also controlling Spanish colonial territories in Africa. Veltro2K's VL Myrsky II in a tussle with Raven's Hercules Hurricane!

ODS A-10

Off to take photos over Libya Coasted in at 437 feet, thinking I was being slick. The terrain dipped at one point and I was above 500 feet, so almost instantly the SAM's went live and started firing. The ships are firing at a Libyan that crossed into their engagement range.

Lod viewer "before" & "after" and in-game screenshots

Mfair - A courageous attack on Bertancourt but then some awful news about Captain Goon. Hasse - Good to see your fellow getting to grips with the Nieuport. Seb - That Ackhart seems a right little charmer, moving in on Monique. Runt took it out on his liver in response. It didn't make any difference in the air it seems, some excellent maneuvers against those Fokkers. That Davies is a brave chap. Introducing............. Vizeflugmeister Leopold Bertram Doll, he's 24 and from Krefeld in the Ruhr. After school and a short period working in his father's tailoring business, he joined the navy. He serves on several vessels but once the war started and the Belgian coast captured he was posted to admin duties in Knokke-Heist. This inactivity didn't last long as he applied for pilot training in early 1915 and was accepted. He takes to flying like the proverbial duck to water. He is sent to Schwerin in September to learn rotary engine flying with the Fokker company. He is then ordered to the Marine Feldfliegers at Nieuwmunster. This is his story..........

November 15 Paul Schneider transfered N113.Replacement should be arrive soon. Third Battle of Artois continue.Losses are extremely high and gaining ground are nonexistent. Whole October was muddy are rainy.Flights were always when weather allow it.Contacts with Boche however,was not. The consolation was that Nieuport was much better plane than Morane.Now there was little possibility gain victories when you have forward shooting machine gun! Chief mechanic Jacques Neuville changing a tire from Henri Castillac's plane.

Great stories Gents! A.T. - Rest In peace Kenneth Hardie! We drink to your memory and your success in combat. He was such an interesting character and I enjoyed your pictures of the bombs! Mfair - Elijah is quite the poet sir! Hassel - Auguste's time in the Nieuport 10 should be interesting! Such a bleak photo of the front too, chilling, PBI. Raine - I continue to love your writing, poor Mr Osbourne - just as he was beginning to open up to Hawkwood! Albrecht - I love your art style thanks for sharing how they are done! I'm looking forward to what October has brought for the rest of our intrepid DiD pilots! ------ Flight Lieutenant Theodore Aloysius Andrews aka 'Runt' HQ Sqn 1 Wing RNAS in Flanders St. Pol-sur-Mer Missions:53 Flying Hours: 82 Confirmed Victories 6 Part 12 I didn’t wait... I left the little coffee shop at once. To see Monique with Simon Ackart, my boyhood bully and current odious nemesis was a most devastating vision, my heart felt like it was going to explode and the blood in my veins had turned to ice. I felt kicked in the stomach and twisted in knots. There is a small bar in Dunkirk, in a side street, near the docks and it was there my feet dragged me. The open door emitted a whiff of tobacco, sea-water, sweat, the subtler indescribable odour of masculine loneliness and one too many bare-knuckle fights, but I pulled up a chair and drank heat into my veins and heart. Just a few weeks into being twenty and I felt like an old man. One drink turned to more drink, then, even more, drink, then oblivion. I woke on my camp bed, in my basher, cold with a mouth feeling like a fur coat. Davies stood over me. “How’s the head Theo?” He enquired with a practised delicateness that only the Welsh can manage without sounding effeminate. “Thumping like a barn door in a gale”. I slurred. “Not surprised, old man.” He smiled “ I went looking for you and Monique last night, I saw her and Ackart together and guessed where’d you be.” Davies looked upon me with sympathy and care in his eyes. “You need to learn to hold your drink.” The older man added. After a moment of silence while he assessed my sorry state he continued, “Apparently he made his move when we were in captivity, by all accounts she was devastated and he moved in with a strong arm and shoulder to cry on. I’m sure when she hears we’re safe and sound things will work out.” Whether it was pride or a sense of scorn I resolved in my heart never to step foot inside the Le P'tit Dupont again and devote my time to flying and to helping the chaps with one exception. The Partnership continued. I was cleared to fly again very quickly and Davies’ and my partnership continued. The first half of October was the continued mix of reconnaissance and patrols, both over our lines and the enemy’s. We went two weeks without seeing anything in the sky and then mid-way through the month things began to heat up dramatically. We were attacked by Fokker monoplanes on two separate occasions. In the first instance, Davies and I were near the back of our formation and the first I knew of it was Davies firing like the blazes. We downed at least one but our claim was denied. On the second occasion, we were jumped from below by 4 Fokkers. Our Morane was leading the flight I ordered the flight into a climbing left-hand turn, allowing us all to make shots on the EAs. Between us, we bagged a couple. Ackart is still flying a BE2c and I saw him break away from the pack and was being chased by two very determined Fokkers. I am proud to say I didn’t even hesitate and pointed the nose of the Morane to aid him. Ackart saw what we were attempting and flew towards us, the BE2 coming under intensive fire, it flew over us and Davies let the first Fokker EI have it. The Fokkers incensed, left Ackart alone and stuck to us. Davies fired and fired taking a couple of hits himself. Whether it was Archie or the Fokker our Morane had had a bellyful and started to lose fuel and responsiveness. I started to make for our side of the lines with the Fokker in pursuit. Davies, despite his injures kept firing at the Fokker who wouldn’t let go. I knew his bravery was rewarded when all of a sudden, Davies shouted "Got the bugger!" Ackart's BE2 is attacked by Fokker EI Fokker Scourge Getting Close ... ... But Not Too Close Putting the Morane down in a field, I dragged Davies out of the cockpit bleeding. Ripping strips from my coat I wrapped his wounds. He had nasty wounds in both his shoulder and left arm as well as a gash above his forehead. I couldn't see any sign of the second Fokker and perhaps Davies hit that chap too - I'll never know. Davies was taken to hospital and I returned to St.Pol-sur-Mer. Ackart’s observer had also been injured in the fray but apart from that, the flight escaped unharmed. I still do my best to avoid Ackart, there is no love lost there between either of us. After the Fokker attack, he did try some attempt at an apology, which I detested as it put further demands on my patience. We were a claim on the flaming EI too. I think everyone too busy was fighting for their lives to notice! Unbeknownst to me, that was to be my last flight with Davies, who I’ve been to visit in hospital a couple of times. The next day I flew with a new chap and on the third day, we took delivery of some beautiful single-seat scouts. Nieuport 10s. This is a relief as the Morane’s were little match for the German one seaters. I ended the month enjoying the beauty of this new machine. The chaps have started scoring regular victories in them, I even two bagged two armed Aviatiks of which one has been confirmed. Confirmed and unconfirmed victories The squadron is in frightfully good heart some great chaps have joined us. The most promising is an Australian chap called Rod Dallas. He arrived in a Caldron G4 which he prefers at the moment to the Nieuports - for my money it’s a ridiculous looking thing, but it keeps up with the rest of us so we let it pass. We’ll hopefully coax him into a Neiuport before too long. He is a particularly good sport, on his second day with us one of the other chaps, a practical joker, imitating Chris Cleaver (our CO) telephoned Dallas, (who was the duty officer) and ordered him in brusquely imperious tones to take off in a 'propeller-less Breguet' that we had knocking about in a hanger. Upon learning that he had been tricked, Dallas joined in the laughter with the rest of us and has accepted the resulting nickname of "Breguet". To be continued …

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php?topic=67326.msg735893#msg735893 Hello everyone, I am not certain where to post this, so please let me know the proper place I can post this. For now, since this section is related to BAT WAW, so here it is. It have been fun week working on this project intensively. What took a lot of time is researching for each designation / names of aircraft. Before I explain about this mod project, I want to express big thank to the community for creating this huge mod project. I want to give the gifts to the community by creating this mod project. Keep in mind, this mod is NOT meant to replace any mods, instead, this is meant to give the user an alternative ways of selecting aircraft from the list. After looking at the aircraft list, I realize the modders are very enthusiastic about aircraft naming for immersive experiences. In my humble opinion, due to the limited space of displaying aircraft name, I believe that it is more ideal use the space to show the designation , name, and specific variant of each aircraft, related to their types and purpose of aircraft. What this mod do: 1) Tweak all aircraft names to match their accurate designation, naming, and variants as possible 2) Rename the 'what if' user made aircraft to the certain name as if they would have been likely (Theoretically) 3) Add the specific purpose of aircraft for certain group of aircraft When I look at the long list of, say 'bomber', I always get confused by which specific type of bomber are used for, such as level bombing, heavy dive bomb, torpedo bomb, etc. That is where this mod project comes in. This is also an ideal not only for assisting pilot to select aircraft with specific role for certain missions, it also is helpful for mission / campaign creation. When I used to look at the very long list of Spitfire, I always get confused by it. Hence, I often skip Spitfire from time to time. However, now with this mod, I finally understand the variants of spitfire and is finally enjoying flying them with the understanding of what each spitfire are designed for. I hope this help anyone not to get overwhelmed by the long list of aircraft, such as Spitfire, A6M Zero and other aircraft. 4) Changes the 'symbol' to become more 'eye friendly' when looking at the list. instead of using many "*", I use horizontal line that will help your eye to naturally separate the group of aircraft from the list with ease. 5) Group the list of aircraft under each nation and group that uses them. With this mod project, there is no more "various nations", you will see the the following nation in the list: > Dawn of Flight (#DOF3) CIVILAN AUSTRIA-HUNGARY CZECHOSLOVKA ENGLAND FRANCE GERMAN EMPIRE ITALY JAPAN NETHERLANDS ROMANIA RUSSIA > The Golden Age (#TGA3) < CIVILAN CANADA CHINA COLOMBIA CZECHOSLOVKA DENMARK ENGLAND FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY ITALY JAPAN NETHERLANDS POLAND SOVIET SPAIN (Post Spanish Civil War) - WIP SWEDEN THAILAND UNITED STATES SPANISH CIVIL WAR OTHER > World at War (#WAW3) < CIVILIAN AUSTRALIA CHINA CZECHOSLOVKA DENMARK EGYPT ENGLAND FINLAND FRANCE GERMANY ITALY JAPAN NETHERLANDS POLAND ROMANIA SOVIET SPAIN SWEDEN SWITZERLAND UNITED STATES YUGOSLAVIA OTHER > The Jet Age (#JTW3) < CIVILIAN AUSTRALIA ARGENTINA BRAZIL CANADA CHINA CZECHOSLOVKA ENGLAND FRANCE GERMANY INDIA ISRAEL ITALY JAPAN NEW ZEALAND SOUTH AFRICA RUSSIA / SOVIET SWEDEN SWITZERLAND UNITED STATES PROJECT BEARTRAP EXPERIMENTAL RACING 7) Uses tag for notes. Here are the following tags used in aircraft list: - PLANNED - = Aircraft that are designed by an aeronautical engineer officially and have not been built as a prototype yet. - CAP - = Captured aicraft - PROTOTYPE - = Aircraft that get stuck in prototype without becoming a military production version - OLD - = For "old hangar' aircraft - modder name- = For any aircraft with duplicated name, with this tag, you can tell which aircraft are from IL-2 1946 or modder. For example, -JCat- for A6M series mod. - FICT - = for any user made aircraft that wasn't officially designed nor planned by an aeronautical engineer. 8) Optimized the list with more clean list. it will make scrolling through aircraft easier. I hope that one day modders manage to add the features to the GUI where you can select the country from a drop menu, then choose the aircraft. That would be awesome. This just gave me ideas for the request section. By the way, Keep in mind, I am not perfect and I continue to learn everyday. Any feedback are always appreciated. If you happen to spot the incorrect aircraft name, roles, or placement of the aircraft in the list, please post here. I am more than happy to fix it. If you have any suggestion or ideas on how to improve the mod, please feel free to post here. ISSUES: There are certain issues in the aircraft list. - Some of the two aircraft have the same name. I can't tell which mod it is from. So I use tag "#1" and "#2" for now. if anyone know which mod it is from, please let me know and I will use tag - modder name -. - Some aircraft does not use specific variant letter / numbers for designation. I use one that I think is possibly correct. For example, when I see B-36, I assumed it is B-36C. So if the designation and variatns are incorrect, please post it here. I will fix it and release the newer version. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTION: (This mod is JSGME supported now.) 1) Extract a zipped file and you will see a folder "BATMODS" 2) Drop BATMODS into IL-2 1946 main folder #BAT_DOF_ALTERNATIVE_AIRCRAFT_LIST_ALL_ERA 3) Use JSGME to enable the mods UNISTALLATION: Delete #BAT_DOF_ALTERNATIVE_AIRCRAFT_LIST_ALL_ERA folder from JSGME folder Changelog v1.0 - First main release of BAT-DTW-AAL v1.1 - First release of BAT-DTWJ-AAL v1.2 - Cleaned some of the list, moved some aircraft to the correct role, and re-organized A6M list. Added an alternative version of #WAW3 list known as "#WAW3 Lite". v1.3 - Updated to work with BAT 4.2 v1.4 - Fixed A6M variants and moved several aircraft to their proper role. v1.5 - Updated to BAT v4.2.1 v1.5a - Fixed Avenger name and place in the list v1.5b - Updated various planes name DOWNLOAD (Mediafire) BAT v4.2.1: https://www.mediafire.com/file/pkqficoj8zozmbt/BAT-DTWJ-AAL_v1.5b.7z/file

I am happy you like the idea of this mod. This mod is created for the community, so we all have much easier time going through the list. Any feedback and suggestion are always appreciated. Cheers

Just some fw-190's using updated fixes. Still wip as there will be more additions and fixes. But it gives you a taste of whats to come. Fw190 Barnesey 3-D for BAT WeeEyePee

rellay nice. looking forward to more ships in game.

That’s a tough break AT. A toast to the fallen.

You beat me to it. I was just about to post it. any how for any one else who is looking for the Etendard IVMT his is a URL.

SLUF's sunset...

Apparently planes purchased during Merc=true campaign show up (later on if not used) as parked within your squadron. cool.

OK I see it here, thanks. Not to do with screen res, some other issue. We will look at and if we fix release in a patch at some point. [edit: this is fixed and improved in V1.20 which is out now! See our website www.overflandfersfields.com]

Leaked video of U.S.S. Carl Vinson monitors during last month's incident where pilot ejected safely and was rescued, but seven sailors were injured.

Damn....and it was going well too. Sergeant Kenneth Hardie 6 Squadron RFC Abeele airfield BE2C 1 confirmed victory 1st November 1915 Major Shephard took the briefing and explained that the mission today would be an attack on Phalempin airfield. The weather was good as Kenneth cranked up the throttle and the BE rumbled across the airfield. The journey went quietly until they crossed the lines. From that moment on the flak grew thicker and thicker. Kenneth's BE was thrown about the sky as the bursts threw metal everywhere. Just as they approached Phalempin and Kenneth was about to nose down on the bombing run, something blew directly in front of him. Wood and metal flew around and Kenneth buckled as he took the full brunt. He was groggy and blooded and as he tried to get control of the aircraft again he realised he couldn't. The wires were wrecked and the stricken BE began a spiralling fall. As the ground grew nearer, Kenneth kicked the rudder to try and level out and it worked a little but the aircraft nosed into the ground and skidded to a halt. Kenneth was out cold as flames burst out around them........he felt nothing anymore.......