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Happy Birthday, shipmate!

ah..... hadn't heard them called that. Yes, I have that loaded and use it as background in some of my missions.

a torpedo bomber?

on some ships, several turrets will move but only one will fire. So there is something odd in there. as I learn more about the ship ini modelling, I may be able to figure some of that out. "Oh, and does anyone know the realistic engagement altitude for 5" guns and 40mm Bofors? They're set at 8000' right now. " its been awhile since I came ashore - but I recall it being 15k yards (meters) for the 5". A lot less for the 40mm, I'd hazard a guess at 8k meters.

DAT? as in - where is dat? (sorry......)

what he said! its a pretty good terrain.

I was looking for that picture - thanks!! I put the modified C2 airframe morphed into an E2 in every mission that I build (go figure) it would be great to have a real E-2B, C and D to play with. RVAW-110 VAW-117 VAW-115

people who complain should be required to post their own mod before they are allowed to post anything else. I know that is impractical, but the point should be apparent. Those who can't or won't do are the ones who complain. they should simply be ignored.

the bottom line on bombing technology is that through the early '80s the bulk of bombing technology was still pretty much dependent upon the pilot putting a sight on target and counting "one potato(e) two potato(e)" as he pulled. there were a lot of various "bombing aids" in the form of computers, radar cursors, off-set bombing, nuke countdown timers, navigation assistance, etc. One of the more sophisticated was the computer generated "fly to" cursors with an automated bomb release. but all of that still boiled down to the pilot putting the sight on the target somehow and dropping a "stick' of bombs spread across the countryside with the faint hope that one of the many would be close enough to the intended target that the lethal radius would overlap. As evidence of that - review radar bombing of Stanley Airfield during the Falklands War. Even more recently - the war in Georgia this past summer involved a squadron of Backfires conducting the same tactics and radar bombing technology against an airfield, with somewhat dismal results (best defensive tactic for survivabiltiy when facing an inbound Backfire raid from the Caucus Military District is to stand at the intended target point.......) the real truth is that until the advent of guided weapons, which is pretty well simulated by the way in the sim, bombing with dumb ordanance was and still is pretty much flying the plane with a gun sight of varied sophistication on the target and letting the stick go at the right time. The sim actually does a pretty good job of representing that.

I was under the impression that they were fired in semi-active homing and switched to active when within a certain terminal range. Or is that just real world?

good air to air refueling practice!!

you could cause a campaign to crash if its one of those specifically listed in the campaign. Outside of that - no, there is no problem at all.

careful - thats a "maybe". Have to check in the ini for both the RWR and the missile in question to see if that's the case. At this point I am offering a guess.

there is an interesting update in the latest patch. The RWR and radar functions now work within specific bands (realistically) so it is entirely possible that your RWR may not warn of a missile in a band not covered. CHAFF CHAFF CHAFF

working through that. I can see some disconnects and just haven't worked all the way through yet. Just curious if anyone else had seen the same thing?

anyone having trouble with the FB-111 tanks showing up? they load but don't seem to show up.

??!!!! There is a similar Navy version but I have not heard of the opsec issue. Can you shoot that info to me?

"If everyone would at least do a search on their problem before they post their question," how do you do that? < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < < Just kidding!!!!!

good deal! hang in there and I know we are all cheering for you!

the Tomcat would certainly be an interesting event to watch!! but give me a nice new E-2D, complete with sidewinders on the nose, and I'm with you!!

I've been enjoying the scenes of consternation. A rather routine morning commute here in the Rockies. we get the Thundersnow pretty often in the springtime, followed by a foot or so............ good hunting weather!!

an outstanding ship. I wonder how many of the turrets could be made to be active. That would really smoke an air attack!

there are a fair number of WWII and post-WWII surface combattants from several countries.

"Lol! dude are you serious" oh yes! after all, if we have to go on a cross country hop anyway to fill out the training matrix - might as well go someplace kewl

not at all I had a lot of fun with the Army guys and gals around here with their "cute" little berets and that asinine Army of One nonsense. Army Strong is a heck of an improvement on that. (service academy games are A LOT of fun around here!!) AF Cyber looks to be coming under AFSPC and my company does a lot of work in that arena. AF Cyber may even end up here, so I may find myself buried over in that world in the months ahead. (horrors) I'm hoping for a much more interesting task that's coming up but nothing firmed up yet. And yet - both what I do now and what I will likely end up doing is essentially moving bits and bytes around so someone else can take an accurate shot. I'd much rather be flyin'