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Chicago Midway Airport with buildings, nearly finished. Chicago Gary Airport, only skeleton, buildings will come later.

Bear Hunt in the Far North...

Man, this is fantastic!! .. "feels" like a new sim! Well done Sir!

F2J-GN Super Fury on board of german carrier Graf Zeppelin in mid 1960th.

With regards to the design of the Israeli bomb: "It is widely assumed that the design of early Israeli nuclear weapons was strongly influenced by the second generation of French-made tactical nuclear weapons – especially the AN-52 nuclear bomb (first tested on 28 August 1972), roughly equivalent to such US-made tactical nuclear weapons as the Mark 7, Mark 8, Mark 11 and Mark 12" And with regards to Israel not wanting to show thier hand as a nuclear power, they did exactly that during the 1973 war: "Israeli then introduced what even the historians of the National Security Archives in Washington refer to as ‘an element of nuclear blackmail’..... .....Shalheveth Freier, the ministerial forum decided to ‘arm and target the nuclear arsenal in the event of total collapse’, or at least a ‘nuclear demonstration’, but also to ‘inform Washington of its unprecedented action’ – and then demand initiation of an ‘emergency airlift to supply Israel..... .....Correspondingly, several MD.620s of No. 150 Squadron were pulled out of their shelters and armed with nuclear warheads, while nuclear bombs were loaded on six modified F-4Es at Tel Nov AB, ‘at least to influence Washington’..... .....Whether it was Kissinger’s agreement – or ‘promise’ – to resupply Israeli stocks of aircraft, tanks and ammunition, or something else that eventually prompted the Israelis to de-activate their Jerichos, remains unclear." 1973-the-first-nuclear-war-crucial-air-battles-of-the-october-1973-arab-israeli-war-9781914377389_compress.pdf Also from another research report about the bombs design: "A. Warhead Type and Fissile Material There is a strong consensus among analysts and in declassified intelligence documents that Israel's early nuclear weapons, including those readied during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, were plutonium-based implosion-type fission devices. The fissile plutonium (weapons-grade Pu-239) was produced at the IRR-2 heavy water reactor and chemically separated from irradiated fuel elements at the associated reprocessing facility, both located at the Negev Nuclear Research Center near Dimona. The extensive French assistance provided to Israel for the Dimona reactor, heavy water supply, and critical plutonium separation technology was indispensable. Early French nuclear weapons, such as the AN-11 and AN-22 gravity bombs developed in the 1960s, were themselves plutonium-based implosion devices. Given the depth, sensitivity, and clandestine nature of this Franco-Israeli nuclear cooperation, it is highly probable that French technical expertise and design philosophies for plutonium implosion weapons were influential, if not directly shared, during the development of Israel's first generation of nuclear devices. This suggests a potential lineage for early Israeli bomb design that may reflect French technological approaches of that era, adapted to Israel's specific requirements and indigenous capabilities, rather than solely drawing parallels to early U.S. devices like the Fat Man." I researched the absolute s#*t out of this before I was satisfied enough to include a nominal Israeli nuclear bomb based on the AN-52 in this pack. I am satisfied that it is more probably than not that this is how the bomb was designed (with French influence/ assistance) and looked (influenced if not based on the AN-52). The existence, warhead type and yield is beyond doubt. As is the placing of nuclear armed aircraft on alert to 'persuade' the American's to help and 'just in case' after the failed Israeli counterattack in the Sinai. This pack is not a 'what if' and is as factual as possible. P.S. I absolutely love Tom Clancy books, games and movies but sorry Tom there's no way the Skyhawk carried Israel's nuclear bombs, it was the Mirage first and then the Phantom 😁

you gotta quit teasin folks with those not everyone has toys while waiting on RC to finish the 4096 tiles ---------- " Energy of the gods, adrenalin surge....."

"Launch the Alert 5" "Fox 3" at 74 miles "Call the Ball"

>>> VIEW / CAMERA SYSTEM OVERHAUL <<< The works on AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INI allows me to edit the view / camera to give you more realistic feelings of flying aircraft. Based on the work of Warbirds's Realistic Head Movement base, modified it so the head movement is not as dramatic. Since in the early cold war aircraft to modern, the pilots are tightly melted on the chair, as well have Gs suits. Spent a lot of time testing and tweaking it. AIRCRAFTOBJECT.INIIf you don't have the file, here is the file. To install it, drop the file in Objects folder. Cheers!

Air patrol...

What if the 42ECS, which provides USAF personnel to the USN growler squadrons, gained it's own aircraft and deployed to RAF Upper Heyford in homage to it's historic EF-111A deployment.. But of course, that's a what-if because RAF Upper Heyford closed in the early/mid 1990's for redevelopment, and the 42ECS instead became part of the 48FW at RAF Lakenheath... The squadron joined the other USAF Superhornets units based there, namely 493FS flying the F/A-18E, together with 492Fs and 494FS operating the 2-seat F/A-18F

We love you my dear friend! Wish you all the best !!!

Always think positive and hope for the best.

Good luck and keep fighting the big C!

Best of luck mate, you will be in our thoughts and prayers

@GKABS We're all with you, mate. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family. Keep the fight up, you're great.

now that i've finished my bit for the F-35 remod, I can get back to terraining. In this case, the "Espana" map from Op.Pelayo. Been working on and off on it since late last year. Made a lot of corrections and retiling. All airports have been rebuilded and are complete, excepitng for minor eye candies. I'll have to stop work on it for a week or so sometime over the next few days, and I'm going to have to learn Winge 11 when my BRAND NEW MACHINE ARRIVES!!!!! (and none too soon -- this one is starting to really act out). Of course, reinstalling every-damn-thing!! (good part is, I get to finally use the full SF2 pack with all the DLCs I bought years ago!) As you can see below, using my (patent pending) special tiles, Ceuta looks a bit more like itself then before. There are about 5 or 6-ish new tiles, mostly ports, and so forth. This terrain has a lot of flaws, and I'm trying to correct as many I can (other wise Macalana and Stratos will yell at me <gr>)

Last update before starting my treatment as I am going to have so many tests in the come two weeks before 12 June. My cancer turned out to be T3 N2 M0. (T3) which means stage 3 in the tonsils. (N2) it has spread to the lymph nodes more than five on both sides of the neck. (M0) indicates it has not spread to distant sites. I am in London and am scheduled to start both chemotherapy and radiation for six weeks, starting June 12. I am looking on the bright side and hopefully, inshallah, things will turn out well after treatment. Sincerely, Mohamad.