Hello everyone!
I have another reports; Aircraft designation and Israel Shahak series.
I began working on excellent Shahak mod pack by Yakarvok79, implementing the new optical sight, radar, and fixed the recon camera for recon version of Shahak.
Here is screenshot of Shahak Moshel (Mirage IIICJ) with recon camera system:
I want to talk about the designation system, it is one of favorite topic because there have been misunderstood. For example, before and after September 18, 1962, US Navy / US Marine Corps had a whole different designation system. Same thing with US Navy / Marine Corps and US Air Force designation for AAMs before and after June 27, 1963.
One fine example is AIM-9B, it wasn't until 1963 when they were known as AIM-9B Sidewinder. Prior to that, US Navy / Marine Corp, the AIM-9B was known as AAM-N-7 (NOTE: AAM means air to air missile, N stands for "Navy"). And the US Air Force's AIM-9B was known as GAR-8.
However, this time, while working on export variants of Mirage IIIC and E, I learned that Spain had locally different designation for them, as well Israel for various imported aircraft.
So from on, there are new naming format for nations that have local designation as well technical aircraft where they come from, therefore giving more immersive experiences when flying them in SF2:
LOCAL DESIGNATION (TECHNICAL AIRCRAFT), YEAR
Here is an example:
For Mirage IIIEE, Spain designation is C.11, therefore, the name would appear as:
I am going through all Israel aircraft to have correct names for each aircraft historically:
By the way, the notes is included in the mod pack about the various version of Shahak field modification and the purposes, so we can use them best way in SF2:
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