JediMaster

The A-12 was a single-seat Blackbird flown by the CIA, it didn't do attack. That was the LATER A-12 that was known as "the Flying Dorito" that was canceled by Cheney in 1990 or so.

The YF-12 was an interceptor IR tracker/radar/missile armed fighter with internal missile bays. That would be awesome to use against waves of Soviet bombers!

Sky Captain and his long-range, multi-seat, underwater-capable P-40 would love to land on one of those!

Problem: those actors are a little old now! Plus it predates the prequels and a lot of what happens there is kind of invalidated by them.

That sounds like a perfectly reasonable snowjob to me. Since when did Russia become the used car salesman of the arms exporting world?

It's good they fired him...he's too STUPID to keep flying!

Ah yes, I remember. I had lasagna.

Can I get mine in Ferrari red?

I think supercruise has to be a substantial amount over Mach 1. Lots of older jets could break Mach 1 without afterburner in a clean config if they made a shallow dive or something first, but we're talking Mach 1.05 or such. Most "supercruise" is more like Mach 1.2 or higher.

As for reducing the RCS, just look at the Super Hornet. Bigger than the old Hornet, but has an RCS far smaller thanks to the inlets and angle changing.

Korea would also bring back carrier ops and give TK a chance to update them over what we had in WOV. There were so many little-known planes back then to use.

That scene was so over-the-top ridiculous.

No jet would dare hover INSIDE a multi-level freeway. At the least the plane would have trouble in control, and at worst it would crash. Going over a highway like that that low would result in unstable airflow as it passed from being 6 ft over the road to more to less and back. Also, AFAIK there is ZERO way to fire the guns in the hover. That is for take off/landing, it's not a helo gunship! Also, there's no way he would get that close. Again, it's not a helo. However, the movie makers decided once it got there they could make it into a helicopter and so they did.

In short, although it's nice to watch, it's no different from the ridiculous scene with Arnold and Eliza Dushku and that other guy in True Lies.

Supercruise is mostly about the engines but also has to do with inlets and drag. The reshaped wing and different engines likely enabled that.

I wonder HOW reshaped the wing is? Mostly cosmetic, or noticeable at a glance?

I thought the J-11B was to use indigenous made engines? Or are they merely licensed copies?

The Su-27KUB is its name I believe. Info is sketchy as to whether it's combat operational or purely for training. I'm not sure if I've even seen a pic of one with paint yet, just primer!

Well, both have already been done by mods technically, but then so was WOI. I'd like a Korea myself.

WWII frankly is done to death by games like IL-2 and CFS3 and so on, so I'm not particularly interested in YET ANOTHER WWII sim.

I think a Korean War sim, complete with some WWII planes like the P-51, A-26, and Yak-9, would be great.

LABS was designed for lobbing nukes (the A-4's original role was as nuclear bomber) and doesn't serve much purpose in conventional warfare. At least, it didn't until the invention of guided missiles/JDAMs that could conceivably use them now.

I remember toss bombing in Tornado. Following those HUD cues precisely enough to get a hit at long range was HARD.

"Splash the Zeros! I repeat, splash the Zeros!"

"Yes, sir!"

I think, just like real life, some bases don't have fighters assigned to them. They may only have transports or bombers, so there's no fighters to scramble.

Yeah, I noticed that too the other night. BLAM! POOF! No muss, no fuss! All disappear on death, like they're Jedi or something...

There is a large developmental time shift between SFP1 and WOI, literally the first and latest of the series respectively. WOI is the most polished of them all and has the fewest issues on day one. AI is definitely improved!

Just out of curiousity, the fact that the "default" loadout is empty, and it's intended for the pilot to load ordnance manually before the flight, means the plane will fly empty if you ever try to use it in MP, correct?

Yeah, I like Terminator as well, although I've heard rumors its ratings aren't living up to expectations. I hope they don't can that one too.

As for Bionic Woman, I laughed so hard on one early episode when Jaime goes into a room where Katee's original BW had been living...and playing on the TV was a space battle from the new BSG!!

Oleg put Mistels into Il-2 and it's VERY hard to detach without colliding and exploding in that.

You mean like paint an F-14 with markings like mid-WWII F4U Corsairs had? Glossy blue paint, huge white stars and bars?

Cool idea.

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I don't know, that sounds wierd. Besides, the T-38 is narrow, the widening you'd need to do to make a side-by-side cockpit would totally alter the lines.

Amazing work by those guys.