Caesar

Glad to hear you're getting better! Hope for a speedy recovery!

Swing Wing Strike!

Awesome work, team!

The first two Tomcat squadrons to transition to the Super Bug were VF(A)-14 and VF(A)-41, which happened in December of 2001. So, unless any other Legacy Bug squadrons were replaced prior, the Super Bug wouldn't have been there at that point in time.

FOX THREE! FOX THREE!

Goin' to the range to fire the Mosin Nagant I just picked up.

Just saw this myself. Sucks. RIP.

Friggin' sweet!

ToS, that pit is lookin' good!

Holy wow, and I just saw the preview! Congratulations to TMF on the release!

Sweeeeeet!

Just thought of something: did you check the gundata.ini entry vs. the F-35's data.ini? The older entry for the GAU-22 was 25MM_GAU-22/A, but it is now 25MM_GAU-22A. That had my gun missing for a little while, when I noticed my installed GAU-22 had a slash between the 22 and the A. Deleted that and it worked.

Damn, sorry to hear about this. Hope for a speedy recovery!

Atreides, is your gundata.ini/gundata.dat located in your objects folder and not your weapons folder? For a while I couldn't get the gun to show up back at Beta 1.6, and couldn't figure out why. Then, either Wrench or FC pointed out the obvious "gundata.ini" and "gundata.dat" don't go in the weapons folder, but stay in objects. Fixed the problem instantly. Just an idea, if that ain't it, I don't know what it is.

Think there was a discussion about this earlier, but it's been a while so I'll bite: MiG-17's are the only aircraft I ever get a bad feeling about when I go up. They're small, highly maneuverable, tricky little bastards and it doesn't matter what aircraft I'm flying in, they always give me a run for my money if the engagement turns into a dogfight. Even modern MiGs and Sukohis don't give me nearly the problems that little Fresco does in a dogfight.

I've done it to the MF Hornet, but before the Oct 2008 patch. It took a 24G turn and yes, I was actually trying to break the plane when I heard G stress had been added because I wanted to see how much it took. It happened again at 16G on another flight. Since the Oct 2008 patch, I haven't broken a plane, but I also haven't been trying to, either. Based on the above responses, it's still in there.

With the way that the pilots were flying during AIM/ACE, they were more concerned with kill/loss ratios and were fighting as though it were against a real enemy because the results of that evaluation would be the foundation for tactics against all-aspect missiles in the future. 9G+ turns by Tomcat and Tiger crews was the norm during the exercise and G-limits were not even briefed - "Pilot Limited" was what they followed, both Blue and Red forces alike (at least on the Navy side). In the end, it probably did take a toll on all the aircraft (hell, I know they had to recalculate frame life after clearing the Tomcat for 2000lb bombs, because even doing THAT wears on the airframe). EDIT: 159830 was struck in 1992 after 3183 flight hours. But I'm getting off topic...

Yeah, those guys are royally jacked up. I cannot claim any experteise, but I did take a few classes on Korea with a professor whose been to the North on several occasions and offered an objective look at the North. There's a lot of saber rattling, a lot of "hey, look at us! We're still here!" but how serious a threat it is to the global community is questionable. They're just about broke, areas are heavily affected by starvation, but they also have a view of their leadership that might as well equate to religion. When the Eternal President died, they couldn't believe it; it was as if a god had died (if you've seen the recording, you know what I'm talking about) and they put absolute faith and will in Dear Leader right now. There is a British documentary on two children who are part of the Mass Games - the name eludes me, if I can find it I'll post it - but the BBC crew was given unprecedented access to this family. Every single problem you could think of is blamed on the US, all the way to the mandatory blackouts at night or lack of food, or you name it. It is as if the US is not a country, but the devil manifested in a nation. I wish I had more knowledge of the country, but as it stands, and from what I do know, I don't feel very threatened by them; they can hate us all they want, but they can't do anything to hurt us, and I highly doubt they'll blitz Seoul. Then again, I'm not an Intel officer either...maybe that's why they're giving me a missile silo...

One that I've actually used is CMDR Satrapa's "Vorboshka" maneuver - 600+kts, defensive, with low G (either level or in a gentle turn) - just as the bandit is sweetening his gun solution (and is under 1000ft from your plane), pull MAX G for about 2 seconds, roll 45* to his lift vector and pull another MAX G , which should pop him out front, or make the fight neutral and allot for a rolling scissors set up. In Hoser's case at AIMVAL/ACEVAL he used this in defense against "Hawk" Smith in an F-5E, putting 12.2G on his Tomcat and such a turn rate that eventhough Hawk dropped his flaps, breaks and pulled for everything he had, he could not match Hoser's turn. It resulted in Hawk going from offensive to neutral to defensive as they went into a rolling scissors. The result was a Knock it off at the hard deck with Hoser about 2 to 3 iterations from winning. Of note, Hoser and the F-14 were fine after that 12G yank, but his RIO "Hill Billy" hurt his neck in the pull and didn't fly for a few days!

Congratulations!

Hgwhaaaaaaaaa? I didn't know the new BUFFs were this far along! Congrats on the release, and thank you!

Sweet shot of t3h sexplane!

The loadout depends on what the squadron thought was appropriate and the timeframe. I think "Hey Joe" Parsons (F-14 RIO) said during his stint with VF-32 they carried 4 sparrow between the intakes, while their sister squadron (VF-14 at the time, IIRC) had 2 AIM-54 under there. "Skogs" Skogsberg (F-14 Pilot, VF-14) had 1, 3, 2 (Phoenix, Sparrow, Sidewinder) in '83-'84, VF-41 and -84 did a 2,4 (Sparrow, Sidewinder) while off the coast of Iran. VF-1 on the first cruise had 2 Phoenix, 1 Sparrow and 4 Sidewinder, but even that was variable ("Turk" Pentecost recounts a 1,2,4 also used). - all this info can be found at Tomcat Sunset (link posted by DWCAce). As DWCAce stated, the AIM-54's pallets added weight as well, but also they take away from the lift generated by the tunnel/pancake, so the F-14 isn't getting as much lift even after having fired the -54's, so a pure "fighter" loadout would be better off with either 4, 4 or 6, 2 (Sparrow, Sidewinder). The Phoenix's effectiveness against fighters always seems debatable - the Iranians claim to have quite a few fighter kills with the earliest "A" models of the missile. The missile also improved much over the years, and the late versions (C+, C++ block 7) would be tough to beat even in a maneuverable plane. Unfortunately, a lot of the details on why are still classified, but I can assume that because the missile is launched in TWS mode, the target isn't going to be maneuvering much because they aren't going to know they are being shot at until the missile goes terminal/active when it is right on top of them. EDIT: Vampyre, great shots!

Already had some discussion on it: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=38352

Thank you all, and congratulations! Just flew the -35C...friggin' awesome!