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The legendary SU-34 fighter bomber! This is a SFP2 Thirdwire Sukhoi SU-34 Fullback Platypus Duck WIP (stand-in) candidate. I got tired of seeing the empty SU-34 slot at Combatace :). It is basically finished unless someone has a 3d-model I can use. It is based it on the Marcfighters SU-27. I used the fake pilot method to add the hump, canards, much longer tailcone stinger and co-pilot. The cockpit is based on the B-1 bomber cockpit by Alvaroideal. The fake pilot method means the camouflage scheme and additions are a bit limited but if it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck then it must be a duck! The data.ini has been modified to represent the Duck. It has a bigger signature among many other electronic and flight model tweaks and is a magnet for enemy fighters. In reality the SU-34 is a much heavier and larger aircraft than the SU-27. Its cockpit is slathered in heavy armor. It flies heaviier as well. The SU-34 eliminated the airbrake on top according to every source I could find. The real Duck includes a resemblance of a toilet, resemblance of a kitchen and a resemblance of bunk space for sleeping. Although it can do effective air combat, this is not its primary role. Imagine dogfighting in a bomber! The Su-34 is seven tons heavier at empty weight and larger compared to the standard SU-27. That's going to have an effect during air combat. The SU-34 Fullback Platypus, Duck cockpit

EAF MiG-21MF over Sinai 1981

BVR Shot at 81 miles.

Some interesting ideas, judging from the current images, the J-36 has a lot of space inside the fuselage, so many people imagine that it will have a very large weapons bay, and even be able to carry ballistic missiles such as the DF-21 inside. I recall that Northrop had a patent for a "weapons tray" during the ATF project. If, and I mean if, the J-36 implements this technology in the huge weapons bay...28xPL-15... Well of course, I don't think this is realistic, both technically and practically, so I don't think I'll do it. Interesting tho...

just a little weekend joyride

In a not to far future, when Canada has become a member of the EU, the Canadian Air Force will use Eurofighters instead F-35.

NVA 9K31M Strela-1M (SA-9B "Gaskin") propaganda picture

Over Michigan fields.

It would require some new missiles edited for export because the weapon bays are empty

That flying diamond

F-4EX Super Phantom

CF-104, canadian winged rocket. Not the best plane, but a beauty.

Norwegian Falcons on a Strike Mission....

Hello everyone! SF - CAP now have entered BETA stage and isnow finally released! I am currenlty waiting for the files ot be approved. UPDATE: The mods is now approved and ready to be downloaded. (Thank you Menvra and Eric!) It have been qutie long journey, and I want to express big thanks to Lex2Limit, DTMDragon, Ravenclaw_007, Menrva, Wrench, Daddyairplanes, and everyone who is invovled and supports me in this big mod projects! I feel huge relieved and pure joys bring this new version out. I do realize the mods is not perfect, I do my best everyday. That is why I humbly request for the feedback on this mods, so I can improve it further and fix what needs fixing. Thank you for enjoying the mods! Cheers! Eagle114th

Sitrep: I made a sea to city tile especially for the inner city with the skyscrapers. (I dont know, how you call such an area in America.) I placed 2 tiles side by side on the map. Closer look. Dont worry about the different sea colors. It is still a JPG file without water layer. When i will make it to a TGA file this difference will disappear. At the moment i'm not really happy with this tile. Perhaps this will change when i have placed the skyscrapers on it.

15 May 1975: Jolly Green 44 approaches USS Holt off of Koh Tang Island while extracting Marines after the recovery of the SS Mayaguez. Jolly Green 44, a HH-53, was able to expedite the withdrawal of Marines on the beach by offloading on Holt, with only the nose wheel touching down the landing pad. All in complete darkness. To go all the way to the carrier Coral Sea would have taken 30 minutes and the Marines remaining on the beach were in danger of being overrun. Once the 34 Marines on this trip were onboard Holt, Jolly Green 44 was on the beach for another pick up in 5 minutes 38 US service members were lost during what became known as the Mayaguez Incident, also generally considered the final US battle of the Vietnam War

This looks like Oscar material, right??

Today I experienced a thing that was new to me. While testing @Cliff7600 skin for the F-103 intercepting some Harbin H-5 Beagles, I got hit by a tail gunner and caught fire, fire was extinguished after some seconds, but my engine was dead so as I was high and fast started to glide to a nearby airfield, when I tried to hit CTRL + I and the engine restarted!! I made a controlled landing with power and man that was fun and rewarding!

Love it!

thanks a lot , that fits perfect with my 1979 cockpits that have the VOR light will add this antenna to the USAF F-4E and F-4G aircrafts

Intercept flown to Molly Hatchet's "Satisfied Man"

It's a VOR/localizer antenna........

SiriusXM ??? == I'll show myself out ....

Egyptian Phantom

night ops, 1975

Hello everyone! I have two thigns to report today: Firstly, my apologize, I did not realize that I accidentaly set "Had lead sight" to true for ADs / A-1s Skyradier series. It is fixed for next version of SF - CAP. It also includes the fixes for the gunsight missing a piece of reticle for gunsight. By the way, the work on Wings Over Korea F4U-4s and F4U-5s are now completed, including the fixes for F4U-5NL radar being upside. Here is screenshot of F4U-4 / 4B, F4U-5, and F4U-6 (AU-1) with Mark 8 gunsight: F4U-5NL with Mark 20 Mod 4 gunsight and AN/APS-19A radar Eagle114th

looks like the fin assembly for the 450 gallon drop tank of the F-105

Cold Weather Ops... These guys just realized I was shadowing them for the last 20 miles and steadily getting into a better firing range. Out of LRAAMs & 6 dead Flankers, we're headed home....

I check it. I think it was the missing BLANK.TGA So what happens. i make a new F.4 J (74) PI Avi with your files look the screenshots and giv me feedback. you can have the files, f you want.

I found this posted in a Discord server, it's another preview of the J-36's weapons bay, more plausible if you like:

Hello everyone! The F-80C, RF_80A / C, and RT-33A with new K-14 / K-14B gunisght are now completed with some tweaked of glass tilts: Eagle114th

May 10th 1972: first flight of the Fairchild Republic YA-10A Thunderbolt II. the YA-10A would go on to better fame during Desert Storm, when it was better known as ... the Warthog

In-game FJ-3M with Mark 11 Mod 1 gunsight: Eagle114th

https://www.sas1946.com/main/index.php/topic,72056.0.html

strategically this is true but who has the money to practice this? im not even going the "US is so great" route with that. its expensive to maintain 3 carriers let alone 11

80th Anniversary of VE Day today. Let us not forget the greatest generation.

A Taiwanese F-103 mod would be cool! Mandatory screen, a Early J-7I over Formosa (cannot be more what if than that )

Doing some tests I often deal with F-103 intercepts. They're tough opponents but when I manage to reach their six it's impossible to let them go. It's a J-4/F-4 Fresco-A without afterburner, this F-103 really let me caught him up. To activate the F-103 periscope, in the data.ini file : [Fuselage] ... SystemName[xxx]=Periscope (replace xxx by next number in sequence) & [Periscope] SystemType=HIGHLIFT_DEVICE CLiftdc=0.0 CDdc=0.002 Cmdc=0.00 DeltaStallAlpha=0.0 AreaRatio=1.000 DeploymentMethod=AUTOMATIC_MACH Setting[1].Angle=8.62 Setting[1].DeployValue=0.85 Setting[1].RetractValue=0.86 MaxDeflection=8.62 MinDeflection=0.0 ControlRate=0.5 RotationAxis=X-AXIS ModelNodeName=PeriscopeCover ReverseModelOrientation=TRUE

"Well, boys, we got three engines out, we got more holes in us than a horse trader's mule, the radio is gone and we're leaking fuel and if we was flying any lower why we'd need sleigh bells on this thing... but we got one little budge on them Rooskies. At this height why they might harpoon us but they dang sure ain't gonna spot us on no radar screen! "

I don't know if I put in just enough or if I exaggerated with realism, but...it is realistic.

May The Fourth Be With You...

May the force be with you! Happy STAR WARS day!!!!

We come from the land of the ice and snow From the midnight sun where the hot springs flow The hammer of the gods Will drive our ships to new lands To fight the horde, sing and cry Valhalla, I am coming