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F-4E with AN/ARN-101 from the 3rd TFS / 3rd TFW based at Clark AFB , armed with 2 GBU-15 and AN/AXQ-14 data link pod

In late 1985, several Angolan Mi-7 and Mi-24, supplying troops were shot down. The Angolan / Soviet and Cuban thought they were shot down by Cactus SAMs (variants of the Crotal system), it took some time for them to realize that the SAADF had countered them with low flying Impalas.

First ground object mod,already published and awaiting approval!

New Jersey?

Aerial battle over Al'Aranak I was testing and I got shot down by a totally illegal nuclear thingy. I decided to watch my wingman who managed to fire his two S-24 and was chased by two old F-86s. And then... That's science : you don't get what you expect.

SHIPFOT! (Scrambled Fishpot)

JG-71 Richthofen Super Mysteres Take off from Evreux Heading to London Checking the clock of Big Ben Oh, it's Teatime. And a happy farewell to the Queen.

and i see this, after doing the main body panels and a good ways into the wings and engines.... let me take a look at them. might still go with my own since i've put a chunk of time in already (and also have blown it up to 4096 prior to tracing panels). but never turn down an offer, ya dont know what it might hold meanwhile todays progress (had some of theat RL, plus just havent been feeling good last few days)

Hello everyonem, My wfie and I are contiuning with our excellent health recover. Ther is onething I have been wondering about and that is DLL files. The reason why I am asking about DLL files editing / modding; SF2 is not maintained nor update for many years. It is modders that have been keeping it alive. I am in the wonderful community that have passions as I do for Jane's combat simulation series and weare modding it. Even though I am on break from SF modding, in order, to allow my eye recover, I was wondering if it is possible to edit one of ancient simulation file, such as Jane's Fighter Anthology .exe files, because of awesome active modding community. We honor the ethics by keeping mods free and sharing our hobbies, as we do in here combatace. So I was wondering how can exe be understood? Out of curiousity, I took a look at HEX editing and then used x32dbg diseassebly and realized that the codes coudl be read in an assemlby langauge. However, I am not that experienced nor famliar with it yet. At the same time, by using AI to interpret the codes (Whiel being well aware that AI is currenlty still flawed and alwasy give geneic responses, still now is good time to experiment with it, due to the rapid advancement of AI technologies.) However, there is one thing that came up as an idea; What if we could edit the codes in DLL files that allow us to have unlocked moddability of avionics, enabling Gs limiters, and something like that. But again, I am concdenred about it becauser I do not know what combatace community feels about it. This is precisely why I haven't touched DLL files yet. I want to ensure it is done in ethical ways. If we contiune on the very limited methods of modding (Only iini. editing and adding 3D models), then we are stuck with the same limitatino of moddings. The community is currently small. We want for communty to be alive and become bigger again, therefore is why I want to ask about it. There is no another simulations out there that did excellent jobs as Thirdwsire did with Strike Fighter 2, as well as Jane's combat series did, what they managed to create; - Low Fidelity simulation that is semi-realistic This means we do not worry bout 'study sim', but we are required to learn about the limitations and characters of each aircraft, weaopns, avionics, etc.. IT is not arcade like ace combat nor too hardcore like "Study sim" DCS. It is just golden balance. Even though SF2 is missing air to ground radar veatures in avionics aspect. - Moddiblity, SF2 in heart, is desigend to be most moddable sim out there, it would be wasted potiental if DLL wasn't studied to allow expanded modding in ethical ways. EDIT #1: I talked with oen of modders, he / she gave me an excellent ideas. What I understand is that historically, TK do not mind the modding, however as long his files wasn't shared. So the idea is to create the installer that would modify the DLL files and allow us to add an external files that would enable DLL to read? EDIT #2: I realized we also could use Wrapper DLL, it intercepts calls to the original DLL and modifies them as needed before passing them on. I would like to know what combatace feels about this. Eagle114th

Yes! And the most important thing! I forgot to say that we have two helicopter experts. They are yakarov79 and Guuruu

A new project right away

Checking the clock of Big Ben Greeting the Queen.

View File Type 625A/625E SHORAD Please note that because there is less information about this air defense system leaked to the outside world, this mod has certain [What If] content. So what are Type 625 and 625E? "Based on the revealed images, the Type 625E is a short range air defense system, or SHORAD. It is built as an 8×8 vehicle-mounted self-propelled anti-aircraft gun and surface-to-air missile system." —— From Military-Wiki This SHORAD is set to debut in at least 2021, with Type 625 being PLA’s own version, while Type 625E is the version intended for export. The difference between them is that the Type 625 has a longer gun and only 2 short-range anti-aircraft missiles on both sides. In this mod, due to the lack of 100% accurate model materials, I personally transformed the Type 625E based on the real prototype, named it Type 625A and set the service date as 2020. In summary, this mod contains: 1.Type 625A SHORAD (Olive Green/Desert Digital); 2.Type 625E SHORAD (Woodland/Desert/Desert Digital). Usage: Copy the Objects folder into your SF2 main folder. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Model/Texture: Tim Samedov & Me Data/Modding: Me. Special thanks to:GKABS (for the Stinger model, the HY-6B seems to have a similar appearance to the Stinger, so I adapted based on his great work) Submitter simonmiller416 Submitted 11/03/2023 Category Ground Object Mods  

Viva Argentina!

The Red Mustang, the black Spitfire's arch nemesis. It's an unknown aircraft because once ezer weizman, chief of the IAF, found out that a mustang was painted that way he gave an order to paint it back to it's original camoflauge, and after that it was sold to a museum in sweden (which it remains to this day). The cone is supposed to be black, no idea why sf2 decided to make it red even though its painted

and i punish myself why considering i have two textures to go after this one, then the white lines along side......

Well, at least it can fire...

Supermarine Syrena F.1 - No.111 Squadron, RAF Fighter Command, 1962

Aerodrom Evreux, again. I made a new tile, so that i can place this big base at 3 tiles. Then i added the last two round dispersal areas to this monster base. In the next step i will place the parking positions for planes.

We launched to intercept some inbound Beagles. Every one of them (all 12) was/were killed by the fleets missile barrage before we got close, so it became just a routine training mission.

Squadron ready for elephant walk.

Drive in. Fly in.

Ten years ago... the ultimate TW update ! Updating the current avionics shouldn't be a disgrace given the time our community members spend supporting and improving this game from 20 years. P.

For me, this is a good idea. I see that SF2 is already, rather, an abandonware. But now the moderators will wake up and they'll hit you on the hat with a hammer . And we will continue to play the outdated game by ethically way. Ones has tried many times to discuss editing dlls and it always ended like this.

I want to add one more thing, if we are going to start looking into DLL files, we should create seperated theads that discuss about modifying each DLL files, such as avionics60.DLL, avioncis70.DLL, HUD.DLL, and any another DLL related to flighht model (like adding Gs limiters as an example), AI and etc... If we discuss about all DLLs in one thread, it would get quite chaotic.

Agreed wholeheartedly! Just to show what I see from x32dbg (Please note, there are x32dbg and x64dbg, if we want to look into 32 bit software, then we use x32dbg) when opening Avionics60.dll This could be hlepful to the modders when looking at DLL files.

serious question, would the 17 have had the legs to fight over south England for a while? or would it have been jet age Me 109s, ten minutes on station and then its really time to go home? --------- Mirage killer over the desert

I do use that one; especially when I'm flying French Crusaders. That's the map where thsese were taken. (Hopefully, this protocol breach of it not being Monday is allowed in this instance) Getting them back on the smaller decks is the real challenge.

Was somebody waiting for a bus ???

The A-6 is a nice responsive bomber, I like it when I fly it. Very nice aircraft. Taking out the E4 Prototype out for a spin in SoCal.

just testing some stuff out today

Of course, you tell me this after me & my Gina blow up the neighborhood.............

'Papero'

weekend warriors 1, ADTAC 0

It was supposed to be an intercept mission, but a combination of ground fire and other MiGs killed them before I got into range, so I had a free flight to just cruise around the Korean countryside in 1951.

Dassault Aviation Mirage IIIVZ - No.2 Squadron, South African Air Force, 1974 Skin Credit: torno

Checking a SAM site at Socotra island.