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Welcome To Duty Built with the extraordinary expertise and dedication of modders from CombatACE.com, Operation Desert Storm – 30th Anniversary Edition promises to be the most complete total conversion ever made for Strike Fighters 2 by ThirdWire. Fly with more than 50 aircraft ranging from Cold War relics to the most advanced platforms. Gain air superiority in the mighty F-15C Eagle or challenge the Coalition with the agile Fulcrum. Support troops with the A-10A Thunderbolt II, bomb strategic targets with the stealthy F-117A Nighthawk, lead airfield denial operations in the iconic Tornado. Enjoy a beautifully rendered scenario on a scaled and accurate terrain. Fly over the lakes and rivers of Mesopotamia, the oil-rich fields of Kuwait, the mountains of Iran and Turkey. Take-off from aircraft carriers stationed in the Persian Gulf to watch over Kuwaiti oil rigs. Perform landings and patrols in more than 90 airports and air bases in the Middle East. Take part in different campaigns including the Iraqi blitzkrieg on Kuwait and the US-led liberation of the Kuwaiti Emirate. Discover how the Iraqi Army was one of the biggest in the world, through the eyes of American, British, Canadian, French, Italian and Arab pilots. Test your skills and abilities flying for the Iraqi Air Force during all stages of the conflict. Thirty years after, Operation Desert Storm still remains the largest air operation of modern warfare to date. Modders and flight sim enthusiasts at CombatACE teamed up to bring you a unique product in the lite flight sim world. Exquisitely detailed aircraft and paint schemes are delivered in a well-researched and thorough order of battle. The ODS 30th AE Development team would like to thank CombatACE.com, its admins, moderators and contributors. We are sure you will enjoy and appreciate this high-quality freeware product. From the aviation enthusiasts, to the aviation enthusiasts... and for the pilots of tomorrow. Minimum Requirements Required products from ThirdWire: Strike Fighters 2, July 2013 patch Strike Fighters 2: Israel, July 2013 patch Strike Fighters 2: North Atlantic, July 2013 patch Full support for: Mission Editor DLC Campaign Customizer DLC System specs: OS: Windows 7 x86 Processor: Dual Core 2.7 GHz Memory: 4.0 GB RAM Hard Drive: 17.0 GB Free Space Video Card: 1024 MB DirectX 10 Sneak Peek Disclaimer CombatACE.com shall at all times retain ownership of the Software as originally downloaded by you and all subsequent downloads of the Software by you. The Software (and the copyright, and other intellectual property rights of whatever nature in the Software, including any modifications made thereto) are and shall remain the property of CombatACE.com and of the respective developers/modders. In no event, unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, shall CombatACE.com, or any person be liable for any loss, expense or damage, of any type or nature arising out of the use of, or inability to use this installer or program, including, but not limited to, claims, suits or causes of action involving alleged infringement of copyrights, patents, trademarks, trade secrets, or unfair competition. The Operation Desert Storm: 30th Anniversary Edition modification does NOT comply with CombatACE's Freeware Licensing. Various contents of this modification are exclusive, as such you are NOT allowed to share, redistribute and/or make use of the mod and/or its contents for other purposes, without the consent of the mod's developers. Contents of the modification are the copyright of their respective authors. Notes about the installer Beware, the mod is available only in the ISO format. You can either mount it on a virtual drive, burn it on a DVD like in the good old days, or unzip it with 7-Zip or equivalent software. The installer will automatically detect your installation of the required Strike Fighters 2 games by reading through the registry keys. Game folders that are copied from or manually moved from where they were originally installed are not supported. You need all three aforementioned Strike Fighters 2 games and they must be installed with ThirdWire's original installers, not manually copied from other sources nor moved elsewhere after installation to other folders or drives. If you do not meet any of these requirements, installation cannot proceed and you are on your own. If you install all required games properly, the installation of the mod will proceed correctly as intended. The installer then lets you choose where to install the mod folder; you can even install the mod on a different drive or partition than the one where Strike Fighters 2 is installed. No further user input nor manual edits after installation are ever required; the installer takes care of creating all proper links to your desired path for the mod folder. After installation is over, simply run the mod by using the created Desktop and/or Start Menu links. If you have a previous version of the mod installed, please use the uninstaller to remove it completely. Clean installation is mandatory. You might want to make a backup of the Controls folder, so that you can easily restore your controller settings afterwards. Suggestions on common issues Make sure that you are using your dedicated GPU. By default, Strike Fighters 2 usually selects the integrated GPU you may have on your CPU, which is much weaker in terms of VRAM. In case you have frequent crashes or black/missing textures, I highly suggest you download and install the DXVK graphics wrapper (x86 DLLs) into your Strike Fighters 2 game folder: https://github.com/doitsujin/dxvk. You need a Vulkan-compatible GPU. The wrapper can greatly improve the experience with the mod. With DXVK I can play the mod on a mere Intel UHD 710, whereas without it the mod would always crash to desktop. Go to Sound and set Sound Channels to 32. We got reports that 16 is not enough and will cause crashes on some systems, due to the higher quality sounds included within the mod. The mod is pretty heavy for the game engine despite huge optimizations. Strike Fighters 2's engine is 32bit only and apparently does not manage VRAM properly; consecutive campaign missions might show black/missing textures on objects or cause crashes to desktop because the game does not release the occupied VRAM from the previous mission you played, thus the more missions are loaded consecutively, the more easily you may run out of memory. Set Ground Objects to Medium or Low, Horizon Distance to Near, and Shadows to Medium or Low. These are the most troubling settings. Avoid Unlimited settings as much as possible. If the mod used to work and suddenly crashes to desktop, updating or reinstalling video drivers should help. Make sure that DirectX June 2010 Redistributables are also installed, they are included inside the ISO disk image of the mod. Inside the mod folder, you'll find some extra text files. "(Coalition Order of Battle)" should be of your interest; the mod's terrain covers the entirety of Iraq, at the cost of not having all of Saudi Arabia; this means that a number of important units are based on airbases that are beyond the in-game playable area. With those units you always spawn near the target area, you'll never get to start from a runway nor to land on the assigned runway beyond the invisible wall. You have an entire list of the affected units in the aforementioned text file. By pressing ALT+N, the plane returns to base automatically. The mod is fully compatible with the Campaign Customizer and Mission Editor DLCs by ThirdWire. The Campaign Customizer might be an alternative way to experience those off map units I mentioned previously, since it assigns you to a random airbase of the in-game flyable area. Escort missions are often broken, this is not an issue of the mod, but a bug of the stock game; sometimes the AI flight you escort does not engage its target and keeps flying in a straight line instead of following waypoints, thus the trigger for mission success will never happen. Abandon the mission or retry it if the issue happens, sometimes it works. Pray for ThirdWire AKA Tsuyoshi Kawahito to work on a 64bit version of Strike Fighters 2, maybe even with support for DirectX 12. With that done, any out of memory issues should become an old memory.

Geezer German pilots for FE 2 This is a pack of new textures focused on pilots that Geezer released years ago. The content can be used with First Eagles 2 This pack presents some German Aces and there is also a group of generic pilots that you will be able to use in airplanes that you wish. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You will find several options for German uniforms and different scarf colors at your choice. I choosed the Geezer's "wwiPilotNew5" and "wwiPilotNew1" as base to my faces paint job, due that this is the only pilots where is possible painting different faces without the moustache. So I renamed the "wwiPilotNew1", "wwiPilotNew2", "wwiPilotNew3", "wwiPilotNew5", "wwiPilotNew6", "wwiPilotNew7" and "wwiPilotNew8", with the historical pilots names (ex: Kurt Wolff) or generic names such as GERMANPILOT1 for instance. Each Ace or generic pilot will be in aproppiate folder to avoid any incompatibility with the Geezer pilots if you had one of them intalled in your "pilots" folder. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ** What you will find in this German pilots skin Pack: - 13 Germans Aces: - Ernst Udet (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Josef Jacobs (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Josef Mai (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Julius Buckler (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Kurt Wolff (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Kurt Wusthoff (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Max Immelman (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Oswald Boelcke (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Otto Parchau (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Paul Baumer (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - von Richthofen (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - von Schleich (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Werner Voss (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 4 fictional characters from films: - Black Falcon (from Fly Boys film) (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Bruno Stachel (from Blue Max film) (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Willi von Klugermann (from Blue Max film) (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Ernst Kessler (from The Great Waldo Pepper film) (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 10 German Aces using a British long leather coat (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) that I adapted to German service colors. - Josef Mai 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Julius Buckler 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Kurt Wolff 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Kurt Wusthoff 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Max Immelman 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Oswald Boelcke 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - Paul Baumer 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - von Richthofen 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - von Schleich 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - von Schleich 3 (wwiPilotNew1) - 1 fictive character using a British long leather coat (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) that I adapted to German service colors. - Bruno Stachel 2 (wwiPilotNew1) - 6 Germans pilots with generic face and several options for different scarf colors & a German uniform at your choice. - GERMANPILOT1 (Geezer wwiPilotNew6) - GERMANPILOT2 (Geezer wwiPilotNew6) - GERMANPILOT3 (Geezer wwiPilotNew7) - GERMANPILOT4 (Geezer wwiPilotNew8) - GERMANPILOT5 (Geezer wwiPilotNew2) - GERMANPILOT6 (Geezer wwiPilotNew3) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: FE2 INSTALLATION - Drop or copy the inside contend of the folder "GERMAN PILOTS" to your "Pilots" folder. *ATTENTION* In order to work properly in your aircraft data.ini Inside the pack, there is a (GERMAN PILOTS INSTALLATION README) with installation instructions for the majority of German aircrafts (aircraft data.ini) around. You must to edit manually the "PILOTMODELNAME" and the "POSITION". As an example: Open your (FokkerDr1) Aircraft folder and find the "FokkerDr1_data.ini" file, then find the name "Crew". You must to exchange two (2) lines manually. To use with FokkerDr1 // Crew --------------------------------------------------------- [Pilot] PilotModelName=von Richthofen <------------------------------------ You must add this line Position=0.00,-0.75,0.65 <------------------------------------ You must add this line __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira texture skins for German pilots. - Geezer for the excellent pilot 3d models (wwiPilotNew1), (wwiPilotNew2), (wwiPilotNew3), (wwiPilotNew5), (wwiPilotNew6), (wwiPilotNew7) & (wwiPilotNew8). ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Special thanks to Geezer for their fantastic work. - Special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These textures are 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. These textures may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Geezer RNAS-RAF pilots for FE 2 This is a pack of new textures focused on pilots that Geezer released years ago. The content can be used with First Eagles 2. This pack presents some RNAS-RAF Aces and there is also a group of generic pilots that you will be able to use in airplanes that you wish. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ You will find several options for different scarf colors and a RNAS-RAF uniform at your choice. I choosed the Geezer's "wwiPilotNew5" and "wwiPilotNew1" as base to my faces paint job, due that this is the only pilots where is possible painting different faces without the moustache. So I renamed the "wwiPilotNew1", "wwiPilotNew3", "wwiPilotNew4", "wwiPilotNew5", "wwiPilotNew7" and wwiPilotNew8 with the historical pilots names (ex: Robert Little) or generic names such as RNAS-RAF PILOT1 for instance. Each Ace or generic pilot will be in aproppiate folder to avoid any incompatibility with the Geezer pilots if you had one of them intalled in your "pilots" folder. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ** What you will find in this RNAS-RAF pilots skin Pack: - 6 RNAS-RAF Aces: - Arthur Roy Brown (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Bruno De Roeper (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Geoffrey Siedle (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Lawrence Coombes (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Raymond Collishaw (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Robert Little (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 1 Knowed pilot without the Ace status: - Colin MacLaren (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 6 RNAS-RAF pilots with a generic face and several options for different scarf colors and a RNAS-RAF uniform at your choice. - RNAS-RAF PILOT1 (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - RNAS-RAF PILOT2 (Geezer wwiPilotNew4) - RNAS-RAF PILOT3 (Geezer wwiPilotNew7) - RNAS-RAF PILOT4 (Geezer wwiPilotNew8) - RNAS-RAF PILOT5 (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - RNAS-RAF PILOT6 (Geezer wwiPilotNew3) - 4 RNAS-RAF pilots: Geoffrey Siedle, Colin MacLaren, Arthur Roy Brown & Robert Little, using a British long leather coat (Geezer wwiPilotNew1). - wwiPilotNew18 - Geoffrey Siedle - (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - wwiPilotNew20 - Colin MacLaren - (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - wwiPilotNew23 - Arthur Roy Brown - (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - wwiPilotNew24 - Robert Little - (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: FE2 INSTALLATION - Drop or copy the inside contend of the folder "RNAS-RAF PILOTS" to your "Pilots" folder. *ATTENTION* In order to work properly in your aircraft data.ini Inside the pack, there is a (RNAS-RAF PILOTS INSTALLATION README) with installation instructions for the majority of British & French aircrafts (aircraft data.ini) around. You must to edit manually the "PILOTMODELNAME" and the "POSITION". As an example: Open your (CamelF1_130) Aircraft folder and find the "CamelF1_130_data.ini" file, then find the name "Crew". You must to exchange two (2) lines manually. To use with CamelF1_130 // Crew --------------------------------------------------------- [Pilot] PilotModelName=Arthur Roy Brown <------------------------------------ You must add this line Position=0.00,-0.20,0.75 <------------------------------------ You must add this line __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira texture skins for RNAS-RAF pilots. - Geezer for the excellent pilot 3d models (wwiPilotNew1), (wwiPilotNew3), (wwiPilotNew4), (wwiPilotNew5), (wwiPilotNew7) & (wwiPilotNew8). __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Special thanks to Geezer for their fantastic work. - Special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These textures are 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. These textures may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Geezer United States pilots for FE 2 This is a pack of new textures focused on pilots that Geezer released years ago. The content can be used with First Eagles 2. This pack presents some United States Aces and there is also a group of generic pilots that you will be able to use in airplanes that you wish. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ You will find several options for different scarf colors and a United States uniform at your choice. I choosed the Geezer's "wwiPilotNew5" and "wwiPilotNew1" as base to my faces paint job, due that this is the only pilots where is possible painting different faces without the moustache. So I renamed the "wwiPilotNew5", "wwiPilotNew7", "wwiPilotNew4", "wwiPilotNew8", "wwiPilotNew3" and "wwiPilotNew1" with the historical pilots names (ex: Frank Luke) or generic names such as US-PILOT1 for instance. Each Ace or generic pilot will be in aproppiate folder to avoid any incompatibility with the Geezer pilots if you had one of them intalled in your "pilots" folder. __________________________________________________________________________________________________ ** What you will find in this United States pilots skin Pack: - 5 United States Aces: - Douglas Campbell (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Edward Rikenbacker (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Frank Luke (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Lawrence Callahan (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - Raoul Lufbery (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 2 Knowed pilots whithout the Ace status: - William Palmer (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - William Wellman (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - 3 United States pilots: Edward Rikenbacker, Frank Luke & William Wellman, using a British long leather coat (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) that I adapted to United States service & french service colors. - wwiPilotNew13 - Edward Rikenbacker (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - wwiPilotNew14 - Frank Luke (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - wwiPilotNew28 - William Wellman (Geezer wwiPilotNew1) - 5 United States pilots with a generic face and several options for different scarf colors and a United States uniform at your choice. - US-PILOT1 (Geezer wwiPilotNew5) - US-PILOT2 (Geezer wwiPilotNew3) - US-PILOT3 (Geezer wwiPilotNew4) - US-PILOT4 (Geezer wwiPilotNew8) - US-PILOT5 (Geezer wwiPilotNew7) __________________________________________________________________________________________________ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS: FE2 INSTALLATION - Drop or copy the inside contend of the folder "UNITED STATES PILOTS" to your "Pilots" folder. *ATTENTION* In order to work properly in your aircraft data.ini Inside the pack, there is a (UNITED STATES PILOTS INSTALLATION README) with installation instructions for the majority of United States, French and British aircrafts (aircraft data.ini) around. You must to edit manually the "PILOTMODELNAME" and the "POSITION". As an example: Open your (SPAD13_220) Aircraft folder and find the "SPAD13_220_DATA.ini" file, then find the name "Crew". You must to exchange two (2) lines manually. To use with SPAD13_220 // Crew --------------------------------------------------------- [Pilot] PilotModelName=Edward Rikenbacker <------------------------------------ You must add this line Position=0.00,-0.85,0.62 <------------------------------------ You must add this line __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Credits: - Julio Junqueira texture skins for United States pilots. - Geezer for the excellent pilot 3d models (wwiPilotNew1), (wwiPilotNew3), (wwiPilotNew4), (wwiPilotNew5), (wwiPilotNew7) & (wwiPilotNew8). __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ - Special thanks to Geezer for their fantastic work. - Special thanks to CombatAce.com hosting the files. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ These textures are 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. These textures may not in any way, be used in any payware additions. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________

--------------- Spitfire for CombatAce --------------- SF2 version 2021 TurboSquid : original 3D model Snapper21 : source file donated to CA, project development and textures editing Wrench : project development origin and weapons pack 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. Bunyap and Killerbee : weapon packs The guns come from the "SF2_Gun_collection" by Flogger23 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 Mk1a Hydroplane - Spitfire Mk1a Hydroplane Long Range - Spitfire Mk5b Hydroplane - Spitfire Mk5b Hydroplane w Vokes filter - Ki-65 Hydroplane Only two aircrafts of this pack actually existed : R 6722 and W 3760

All in all, this is a mod that restores the visual effects of Flare according to the photos IRL, you can refer to the screenshot I uploaded. In addition to purely visual effects, the response to gravity has also been adjusted by the way, so this mod will look more realistic overall. And of course, this is still a BETA version, I think I need to make further adjustments. Usage: Copy Effects and Objects folders into your SF2 main folder

Opération Harmattan---------Operation Ellamy---------Operation Odyssey Dawn--------Operation Freedom Falcon----------Operación Amanecer de la Odisea---------Operation Mobile Finally here It is!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Opération Harmattan for SF2/Europe/Vietnam pathched at least april 2012!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (VERY IMPORTANT) | |Features: | Dinamic campaign with French, British, Italian, Spanish, Danish, Belgian etc.......................units. Carrier operations suported , specific speech for each country as well as medal pack. Countries and means you will find in this MOD: FRANCE ------------------------- Armée de l'air Mirage 2000D Rafale C Mirage 2000-5F Aéronautique Navale Super Étendard Rafale M Armée de Terre Gazelle UK --------------------- RAF Tornado GR6 Typhoon Nimrod ITALY -------------------- AMI Tornado Italian Navy Harrier II PLUS SPAIN -------------------- C-15 Hornet BELGIUM -------------------- F-16 The Netherlands --------------------- F-16 NORWAY --------------------- F-16 DENMARK --------------------- F-16 UAE --------------------- F-16 Mirage 2000-9 Qatar --------------------- Mirage 2000C Canada -------------------- CF-18 Greece -------------------- F-16 Sweden ------------------- JAS-39 Gripen USA ------------------ USAF KC-135 USN F-18 Growler Aircraft Carriers: R-91 Charles de Gaulle Giussepe Garibaldi Landing ships: BPC Mistral | |Known BUGS: | Decimomannu , Giogia del colle and Souda Bay bases are on the limits of the map, so you may hit the "Wall" , in order to avoid this just start the mission from air. Solenaza air base, although mentioned, it does not exist so the french units based there in the real life, in the mod operate from Italy. No weapons and effects are included, so please download the lastest weapon/effects pack. | |Important Remarks: | Most of the missions are just Strike missions against warehouses etc , so if you had expected a super intense campaign this is not your mod. French and european air forces have the dominant role in the MOD , US presence is purely testimonial as well as Libyan forces. | |INSTALATION: | Drop all the contents in your MOD folder and in order to install the medals you must go to flight folder and open the file: "MedalsNationname.ini" , you will find for example in the case of France: C:\Users\***************\Documents\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2\Flight\FrCGuerre.txt In *************** just put your directory and it is done, remenber that you have to do it for each nation!!!!!! | |Credits: | Wrench----Libya Terrain Aleks1-----R91 Charles de Gaulle and BPC Mistral Bobrock----Giussepe Garibaldi and Harrier II plus Toyota Hilux------ (I Did not find who did it, so please if you are reading this, tell me who you are!!!) thereg--------Multinational Speech pack BUFF------Medal Pack V1.3 Bongodriver------Typhoon ianh755, Dave, Sundowner ----- British and Italian Tornados Foxmonter and Wrench---- SUper Entendard with Original's Foxmoter cockpit CadetaBra-----Rafale C Veltro2k----Nimrod ace888 and others (See original readme) -----Mirage 2000 UAE and Qatar from Mirage-2000 Foreign Operators pack. From NATO fighters 4----------Mig-25PD eburger68 (Uploader) Lindr2 , TMF and others (see original readme)-------Mig-23 JAT81500 and Amokfloo-----------Mirage 2000D Mirage Factory------Mirage 2000-5F, KC-135 Stratotanker and F-16 (belgian and dutch taken from Nato fighters 4) Brain32-----Gripen Dave and wpnssgt ---- F-16E Viper Team--------Norgewian, Danish and Greek F-16 Veltro2k-----------Breguet Atlantique dtmdragon---------CF-18 Hornet Kesselbrut-------- Gazelle Blackfish and Sordo------------C-15 Hornet EricJ--------------------------EF-18 Growler Campaign data files............. Cangas Music........................... Cangas New Menu Files.................. Cangas Rafale M........................ Original Model by CadetaBra, new Skin by cangas and new (fake) arrester hook by cangas New Pics----------------------- Cangas New Spanish Speech----------------- FX interactive Intro Video---------------------Cangas Intro Video Music----------------Whitchcraft by Pemdulum Finally, if I've forgotten to mention someone in this readme, please, just tell me and I will add it. Have fun and enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!! Cangas

Sud Aviation/SNCASE SA.341 and SA.342 Gazelle Ver 1.0 for SF2 This is a third party addon of SA.341 and SA.342 Gazelle helicopter. This is orignal model by BPAo moded by me. The original flight model is standard as on many free to download helicopters modified by me. I am not using airbrakes or flaps but flying fast and slow is stil possible, even hovering with little practice. It is designed for and works only in SF2 series. And will never work in SF1. Please read this as some info from here might be useful in game. ************************************************************* This is FREEWARE-DONATIONWARE and it CANNOT be distrubuted unless permissions are granted by myself. The original readmes, if any, and all other pieces of the package MUST remain intact. The names of all contributors, modders, suppliers, etc =MUST= be listed in any new readmes. This package and any part of it may NOT in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions. See the original readme documentation, if any, for further allowances and restrictions Any persons wishing to make further modfications, contact me first. Any persons wishing to make further modfications, MUST remember to put everyone's name in it. Bribes and donations are accepted; ************************************************************* ************************************************************* THIS AIRCRAFT MOD OR ANY PART OF IT MUST NOT BE HOSTED OR POSTED FOR DOWNLOAD ON ANY OTHER WEB SITE WITHOUT MY EXPRESS PERMISSION, OR USED FOR ANY OTHER PURPOSE THAN THIRDWIRE FLIGHT SIMULATORS, AND MUST NOT BE SOLD OR OFFERED FOR SALE BY ITSELF OR WITH ANY OTHER FILES OR MODS. ************************************************************* Jarek Hereda ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is highly modified SA-341 Gazelle by BPAo (TMF). Lucky, thanks to Crusader I had access to original max file. So I could work a little on this great helo. At first I was planing only to rebuild middle east Gazelles to have some balance of power in Wings Over Israel game. But having oportunity to work on file brought me at this point. And I decided to go with French Gazelles first. Generaly model is almost the same as old one. My work was to add some parts here and there (rwr,cable cutters, new athos, some internal parts, skids etc..). Rearanged animations and added new. Weapons/pylons are part of airframe. Ive added new rotor. Also I've rearanged UVW mapping. So basicaly skins are 70% new. I was putting some hangar/loading screenies but finaly it covers only few models. Rest must be done in future. This mod represents few versions of Gazelle. Unarmed called 'Lisse'. Early 1973 version without APX-397 sight and late already equipped with 'Athos' Armed with 20mm cannon called 'Canon' and Version armed with HOT missiles usually called HOT but here it is split into two models; one with Athos sight and second with Viviene. Also you can find here Air to Air escort version -early called 'Celtic' and late called "Mistral" Mistral/Celtic version is set as attack role and has similar aircraft dutties as attack version plus escort. Thing is that you may consider changing role only to recon/escort as it will not perform well agianst ground targets. ******************IMPORTANT****************** This addon works with my WeaponPACK (included in rar file). Most of pylons/launch rails are part of airframe. So in weapons folder you have to put only ini files. All of weapon stations are made as specific station code and will work only with this cargo pack. Of course you can edit and use any other weapons availalbe. Weapons included: SA.341F2 'Canon' NC621 20mm automatic canon. Two verson low and high RPM rate. By default in loadout.ini it is low-rpm always. Better do not give hi-rpm to wingman. SA.341M 'HOT' Sometimes called as SA.341F 'HOT' first model equipped with HOT missiles. Only 40 build because of underpowered engine. Somehow it was in use and passed form unit to unit until 90's - HOT-1,2,3 missiles. SA.342L1 'Celtic'/'Mistral' Mistral Air to air missiles. SA.342M and M1 HOT-1,2,3 missiles. All late versions have stations for flare launchers, suppresed exhaust and/or engine intake filter. IMPORTANT THING ABOUT WEAPONSTATIONS. F2 'Canon' and M/M1 version 90 and 93 have weaponstations calling for use Mistral ATAM. THIS IS NOT for use on those helos. It is to have possibility to assign L1 Celtic/Mistral for wingman to have Air to air escort. So do not use it on F or M version as it will not apear there. Cocpits. All versions have dedicated cockpits. It is simplified and unified version of Gazelle cockpit. In every pit you can switch from pilot to co-pilot/weapon operator seat. On co pilot seat you have access to 1x "binocular" sight Athos/Viviane. By choosing radar on you will have "sniper" zoom. I dont know how many x zoom is that. It's zooming. And it is acurate somehow. With little practice you can even hit targets from 1-1.2 km. aiming crosshair is 'what if' since I never found the look of real one In HOT equipped version by selectiong HOT missile sight will lock on target as all HOT missiles are made as EOGR. As Mistral and Celtic are escort versions ther is not much features in cockpit. Animations and standard commands: LANDING GEAR - Nose light deploy/retract at any speed. ANIMATION 1 - right side door. ANIMATION 2 - left side door. ANIMATION 3 - rear doors. Thereis also parking animation that works only when aircraft will be placed by game engine on airfiled as parked aircraft. Flying. As with all my previous helos flying is quite easy. With little practice you can even hoover. Without fake flaps and airbrakes. Important here to control is using rudder and vector thrust control. Normaly throtle vector control on 88-89 degree increase power 55% wait little and then increase to 100% and helo will take off nicely. 341 version got little less power in engine. Skins. There is just few skins but lot of use of it in few units. So it is more about decals assigned. All serial numbers are based on available photos and ALAT documents and are historicaly correct. I was trying to put all real units with real codes/numbers for specific year. Not always easy. There is still some numbers missing. Inside there is seperate folder Called "Operation_Dauget' Inside you will find skins made for use with ODS mod for SF2. It contains skins and decals for some units during French part of Operation Desert Storm. French codename for his operation was Dauget. Only thing you have to do is coppy all files exept skin folders and use it in you ODS mod. Also specific loadouts for this period are provided. Due to hot climate/engine power, ALAT used only two HOT missiles. Same thing nearly ten years earlier during operation Manta in Tchad. SA.341F 'Canon' 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Appui-Protection „Condor” – 6e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat. 1985. 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers Canon – 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat. 1983-84 – Opération Manta. 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Appui-Protection „Corsaire” – 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1992 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Appui-Protection „Gerfauts” – 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1993 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Appui-Protection „Les Dragons”– 3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1999 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat BATALAT TRIDENT Mandat III, 1999 Opération Daguet 1991 Escadrille dHelicopteres de Reconnaissance et dAppui EHRAP 1/1 „Aiglon 11”- 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat Escadrille dHelicopteres de Reconnaissance et dAppui EHRAP 2/3 „Aiglon 32”- 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat SA.341M 'HOT' 3e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Anti-Chars – 2e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, 1978 SA.342M HOT 'Athos' 5e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Anti-Chars (puis d’Attaque) – 2e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, 1980. 3e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Anti-Chars (puis d’Attaque) – 2e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, 1986 4e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Anti-Chars (puis d’Attaque) – 2e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, 1983-84 – Opération Manta 3e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Anti-Chars (puis d’Attaque) „Scorpions” – 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Attaque – 3 Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat. 1999 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Attaque – 3 Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat. 2001 BATALAT SFOR Mandat IX, Bosnia and Herzegovina – 1998 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, BATALAT TRIDENT Mandat III, Kosovo – 1999 Opération Daguet 1991 Escadrille dHelicopteres Anti-Chars EHAC 5/3 „Rapace 35” – 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat Escadrille dHelicopteres Anti-Chars EHAC 6/3 „Rapace 36” – 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat SA.342M1 HOT 'Viviane' 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Attaque „Rapaces” -5 Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1999 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Attaque „Ravens” -1 Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 2002 DETALAT TRIDENT Mandat VIII, Kosovo – 2005 BATALAT EUFOR Mandat II, Tchad / RCA – 2008 SA.342 M1 HOT ‚Viviane’ Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Attaque „Les Félins” -3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat. Tiger Meet Air Show, Cambrai – 2003. Skin by emresukhoi. SA.342 L1 ‚Celtic’ 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres d’Appui-Protection – 2e EHAP -1 Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat - 1989 2e Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers de Reconnaissance – 3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1992 Opération Daguet 1991 Escadrille dHelicopteres de Reconnaissance et dAppui EHRAP 1/1 „Aiglon 11”- 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat Escadrille dHelicopteres de Reconnaissance et dAppui EHRAP 1/3 „Aiglon 31”- 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat Escadrille dHelicopteres de Reconnaissance et dAppui EHRAP 2/1 „Aiglon 12”- 3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat SA.342 L1 ‚Mistral’ 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Appui-Protection – 3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat 2000 SA.341 F ‚Lisse’ 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers – Groupe D’aviation Legere du 1er Corps d’Armee – 1973 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers – 3e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1977 l’Ecole d’Application l’ALAT – 1985 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers de Reconnaissance – 1re Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1989 1re Escadrille d’Hélicopteres Légers de Reconnaissance „Mohicans” – 5e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat – 1992 FORPRONU Mandat II – 6e Regiment D’Helicopteres de Combat, Croatia – 1993 Pilots - best to use is OldDiego's pilots. Two versions of pilots are provided. Early ALAT and Late ALAT. Those are repaint of OldDiego's great usn pilots. Nation for this helo is new ALAT. This should be added (by copy text from provided file) to nationlist.ini Also you may consider adding few ALAT squadrons into squadronlist.ini. Sounds - two additional sounds data entrys for 20mm cannon should be added to soundlist.ini. Credits Model - original model BPAo (TMF) Upgraded model - yakarov. Cockpit model - yakarov. Sounds - enigine sound from original SA341 Gazelle for SF2 by Wrench. - gun sounds yakarov Decals - Eole, yakarov, Skins - yakarov, - Tiger Meet 2003 skin set by emresukhoi. Ini work - yakarov, Eole, Weapons and textures - yakarov. Have fun. Hope you will enjoy it same as me when working on it. Edit and report bugs. Jarek Hereda. Thanks. Thanks to everyone who helped me with this. Crusader,daddyairplanes,Eole,76.IAP-Blackbird,emresukhoi, Thanks for all kind support. Reference: Revue d'information de l'ALAT (several issues) Sud Aviation/SNCASE SA-341 SA 342 La Gazelle -Ecole Superieure et d'Application du Materiel alat.fr alat2.fr helis.com aerialvisuals.ca airliners.net planepictures.net dsstorm.eu site-daguet.fr operation-daguet.fr and more..