JediMaster

I say the next war all journalists are forcibly drafted to serve on the front lines...of BOTH sides. Once they're gone, peace will break out all over.

We did. The People have been toppled.

Nothing like being able to truly screw up a landing.

Reminds me of some of the better parts of the novel of Clear and Present Danger...F-15s downing those jerks over the water. Nice.

It's just so surreal that in this era of ever-more-expensive planes, even a deal for used planes is astronomical...and yet very little of the money is actually for the planes! Less than 19% of the cost is for the planes themselves. Apparently the answer to ever-increasing defense costs is not to stop buying the equipment, it's to stop paying for everything else since THAT is where the costs lie.

Yet as if to demonstrate they don't want us thinking they're getting smart or anything, they've set it up for a repeat of all of this in Jan/Feb. Anyone want to make bets on if we're going to see deja vu all over again then?

Now if it was a preventable accident attributable to someone in the US of great importance politically, THEN I would expect the cover-up. I suppose likewise if the one at fault was an ally like Britain or France we could've had a similar cover-up, but the USSR? Really?

Your English is pretty good, but for better communication might I suggest our Spanish forum? We have multiple members from around the world there. http://combatace.com/forum/144-espa%C3%B1ol-spanish/

...they just got the memo now?

Right, SF was developed to fly single-seat. Even the 2-seaters you just sit up front. There are historically very few jet sims that have had this ability. There are a few WWII sims like Il-2, but for jets the last I recall was F-15 SE 3 in the late 90s. DCS World should at some point bring this feature in, no timeline that I've seen though.

Actually, Win98's first release was poor, but 98SE in 99 was golden. I kept it until WinXP SP2 when I finally upgraded. Never touched Millenium or 2k at home, and I tried and dumped XP pre-SP1.

I wouldn't worry about the loss of fuel. I would worry about the fuel igniting! Especially when firing my gun.

Amazing he's doing a strafing run with a fuel leak like that. Also interesting how you can see the smoke from the guns long before you hear anything.

Yes, the successor to the B-52's successor is out of production while the B-52 is still serving. However, they DID at least stop building them before they built the B-1B...and they stopped building those before they built B-2s. They just never replaced their predecessors fully.

LOL at the thanksobama@gog.com email addy.

While I kinda miss it, on the other hand it's not all that interesting a plane to fly IMO. You take off, fly a route, drop some bombs, and leave. If you do it right you're never seen or fired on, and all you can do is drop some limited types of bombs. At least the Bone has burners and is a pilot's plane.

No, not seen that particular one, sorry. Did you try a System Restore? It's really not a big deal to redo any drivers or other things you've done since then. Sometimes it doesn't work, depending on what you've got, but it's pretty much the first thing I do.

Yeah, you have to be on the listen for missions that change mid-flight. I don't recall others offhand, but I've seen it many sims over the years.

No combat sim has ever done that. At this point, after all the years of delays, you'd ask them to trash the whole revamp of the terrain system and start over AGAIN? I'd like to have them before my toddler graduates college. Note that while MS did that with FS, they did NOT do that with CFS either. I don't know the exact numbers, but I'm pretty sure CFS3 was the largest budgeted (in inflation-adjusted dollars) WWII sim ever made and they didn't even attempt all of Europe...although they covered a lot more than any of Il-2's ever did.

I wish I could go back to the 70s and start the arguments about how much the F-15, F-16, and Hornet would cost over their ENTIRE lives and start throwing fits. "We'll STILL be building them 40 years from now! The cost will be TENS of MILLIONS PER COPY!!!" Two of them are still in production while one of their successors is already done! That's never happened before in the history of successful programs (plenty of failed successors of course that kept the predecessors going.) Of course, the history of "interim" programs is generally brighter, such as the interim F-102 and B-1B producing more units than the "final" F-106 and B-2 programs. Even the Super Hornet was pretty much considered a stop-gap till the JAST/JSF showed up. The problem is combat losses became politically unacceptable. Accept say 20% losses in a given conflict and you can make your planes a lot cheaper as well as less survivable. Not sure how that would hurt pilot recruitment and retention numbers, though.

Perhaps beefing it up for carrier ops was more trouble than it was worth. Like the carrier Su-25.

Against enemies equipped with nothing but MANPADs? I would hope so.

...and then fire up SF2:NA.

See? They're a lot like us.

That's another thing--sure stealth isn't invincible, and it doesn't make you invisible, but to claim that it's worthless is totally sidestepping the fact that if an F-35 could be seen at X miles, an F-16 will be seen at 2X, 3X, 4X, or more! An F-15 would be seen at 4X, 5X, or more. There's no such thing as a radar that can reduce the stealth advantage that isn't ALSO more effective against unstealthy planes. The SA-2X series can reach for HUNDREDS of miles. The development of these super long-range SAMs is why stealth was implemented in the first place! An F-16 or Hornet would be seen and swatted down long before it could fire a weapon against the site. If an F-35 can close to a dozen before it's seen, that's GREAT! It's not a "fail" because it can't fly directly over the site without being seen. The prevailing anti-stealth argument seems to be "because of these advances in radars like X, Y, and Z, stealth only lets a plane close to within striking range of the enemy before it can be shot down. So let's instead buy more of the older cheaper planes that will be shot down LONG before they can get in striking range and hope they run out of missiles before all our planes are shot down!" If the F-35 is vulnerable, the F-16 is dead as soon as it's wheels up.