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Jimbib sent me some static planes for populating the airfields: Here the DC-9

whats wrong with Kraft singles? ------ Devils in Italy

it's actually called a 'columator glass" on reflector gunsights. just to clarify <gr>

F-4G final version , arresting hook is now done and mapping and template is complete , next i have to bring all F-4E´s , F-4F´s and F-4G´s to the same standard and change all number 1 skins aircraft has now a lod size from 8,33 mb and the cockpit 7,70 mb , sofar i dont have any major issues with the FPS slow down i´m on win7 , CPU i7-4790k , 32 Gb Ram and a ASUS Strix Rog 1070 Ti with 8192 MB GDDR5 SDRAM so it is a old computer who still runs perfect FPS based on a heavily modded GermanyCE terrain from Rents are between 40 to 69 FPS

Marine first, aviator second..

There's only 1 of em'

CMH seems excessive for a few infantry squads on top of a camp. Mind you, they were very well hidden.

The Missile is reported to have said, in a brief radio communication to HMS Vanguard " In a former life I was an aerobatic aircrafft. " The Ministry of defence, and Lockheed Martin have made no comment on the allegation that Trident missiles are made from dead Aerobatic and other Aircraft.

if anything called for the Benny Hill music to be playing.........

building up to the grand phinale......

Vought F-8EJ Crusader - 302nd Hikotai, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, 1984

Short discussion which is better: Cheddar or Camenbert?

Hello sir, If you're looking for reference material, try this website. Just type in the airplane you're looking for in the upper right hand corner where it says SEARCH DOCUMENTS. Regards, Pappy https://docer.tips/

points accrued from targets destroyed

So after some experimentation (and because I've always loved the plane), I decided to start "learning" carrier ops with the A-1, flying Steel Tiger missions - because again, they're pretty cool. My first mission (with a new pilot, following the "Dead is dead" principle) was a milk run to the Vinh PT Boat base, which I dispatched fairly easily by rippling my entire load of M117s all over it. Took some HMG fire from the PTs themselves as I dropped in, but nothing that affected the plane, so I flew home and trapped (first time!). In the de-brief it seems I was "injured", so spent some time in Subic chasing nurses. 5 months, it seems Next mission was a looong flight from Yankee to the SVN/Laos border, (south of Da Nang) to deal with a HCMT camp, which I did with bombs, took fire again from the jungle so circled and rocketed a couple of squads before coming home. On the way back I noticed a right roll, looking out of the cockpit I see that my right flap had been shot off, but nothing major as it was easy enough to counter with light pressure left on the stick. Get all the way back to the ship, and despite her manoeuvring like she was dodging torpedoes I trap again on the first attempt, sans flaps! Now, as pleased as I was with myself for a successful mission and a good trap, I wasn't prepared for what came next: Apparently for my work deleting a camp and a couple of VC squads in what was a fairly permissive environment, I received the Medal of Honour Has anyone else had this before? Was it purely for a good mission, or was the fact I landed the Spad something to do with it? Score for the mission was 3000 I think.

EuFi

Runway Denial in Central America Time to una$$ this AO....

Thirsty Tonka..

Sham... rocks!

and we have punch and pie!!!

one thing on the SAMs gents is the Rules of Engagement often kept the SAM crews safer than teh fighter crews. at least until 1972 by which time the defense were built up pretty thick Desert Storm, gloves were off, if it radiated it was eating a HARM (to include the occasional BUFF tail gun!) it was more a DEAD fight than SEAD (destruction vs suppression) go back to Allied Force and a strict ROE once again. while only 2 aircraft were downed over Serbia, sites werent allowed to be prosecuted unless they were absolutely sure that it was a SAM or AAA and that there would be no civilian casualties. but Allied tactics and tech did keep the Serb SAM crews on their toes and shut down most of the time so suppression did work

Snipped this article off of AvWeb this morning - details how Marine aviator flying an AV-8B off of USS Bataan has collected seven drone kills. https://www.avweb.com/aviation-news/red-sea-drone-attacks-create-first-american-ace-in-50-years/?MailingID=FLY240214002

Vought F-8EJ Crusader - 302nd Hikotai, Japanese Air Self-Defense Force, 1981

https://warisboring.com/ukraine-f-16-revealed-for-the-first-time-since-the-us-began-training-their-pilots/?fbclid=IwAR0jWeevTeSQuvzI-V3fc1RBdClLAgTP3Hk40vkZ2yFMhTrr6Sa2v_MfCi0 looks like time to open up the F-16 templates again...

Launching the Boss...

Sitrep RAF Fairford: More buildings, reworked parking areas. Next step will be to find the missing texture of the runway and finally to place the parking planes. Edit: I forgot to show you Dunsfold:

It are MiG-21bis subversion SAU. Funny fact, the vietnamese pilots prefered the captured F-5E Tiger. It was easier to handle than a MiG-21. An other funny fact. If you watch carefully you see, that the pilots are of taller stature than the ground crews. The reason is, that vietnamese food was mostly vegetarian. Soviet flight instructors found out, that the physis of the vietnamese pilots was not strong enough to withstand the high g-forces of a modern combat plane like a MiG-21. They got black out between 6 and 7g, while european pilots were able to withstand 9g. The solution was to bring young teenager into the Soviet Union and feed them with european food, mostly beef and pork. When the vietnamese teenager became of age they were taller and stronger than their comrades in the homeland, which were feed mostly vegetarian. So they were able to fly a MiG-21 up to the limits. With this in mind: Vegetarian diet is malnutrition.

ok, i figured that would be the case but its always a hard no if one doesnt ask

One of the mysteries of SF2: I have a limited nations list [LimitedNationList] FriendlyNation001=RAF FriendlyNation002=RoyalNavy EnemyNation001=FRANCE EnemyNation002=WGermany EnemyNation003=BELGIUM EnemyNation004=NETHERLANDS EnemyNation005=DENMARK So i expect to see british, french, west german, belgian, dutch and danish planes. And what i found: Egyptians! Funny!!!