Crusader

Return of the wingo

Some of the AAMs in the various weapon packs need another data revision. I have AIM-120's which speed along at Mach 7.4 .. Avoiding missiles, turning to move the threat to the 3-9 line seems to work OK, and firing chaff/flares if available.

Nice weavy-pattern :)

The black smoke coming from the chimney... really hot stuff inside !!

Pilots can have low-res lods (1 or 2 ?), as defined in the pilot's ini. Edit: 2 lods, it seems. Main lod and one low-poly.

The 0,0,0 position of Thirdwire stock pilots is the center of the head (visible with lodviewer).

Welt Dokumentation

It isnt the AwayImageFilename function. It is the ShowAnyWeapon function added to LCOS section which activates the missile tgas in the cockpit ini Gunsight section. Which is good for 60's sights but not really suited for 70's avionics.

He wont change the weapons data, he will shoot with different airspeed/distance/aspect/altitude difference. Thats how I read it. I had two AIM-7E failing (exploding shortly after launch) today during a forward quarter (about 120L aspect) IL-28 intercept at ~5000 ft alt. Tricky business, the early missiles

Banidos Dagger (modified)

With Aurora huh..

High aspect and high closure speed is good for AIM-7/-54 shots. Some of the Russian planes have internal chaff dispensers. Another cause for failing missiles.

ML / MLA There were only about 200 ML aircraft .. still with old gunsight and R-23 missiles. Then came the MLA .. (1100+ aircraft .. cant recall exact #) with better radar, new gunsight and R-24 missiles. And it was this MLA of which export variants were sold to all the many export customers .. Cuba/Angola, Iraq, Syria, NK, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and others. The Russians seem to have never changed public info to "MLA", they continued to use the "ML" designation .. and thats why the many exported aircraft are usually referred to as "ML" when they really are a improved MLA variant. Iraq received one of the last produced MLA batches in '84. The further improved MLD were all (and only) modifications from RuAF MLA's. None of the original ML's were modified.

Dec 2012 to Dec 2019 - this definitive is the "Bump of the Year"

But see in the comments on the site (by Herman C. Cook III ) : I still believe that the "missile off" comment is by the Connelly/Enwright crew commenting on their wingman's Sparrow shot.

Audio transcript http://fly.historicwings.com/2013/01/splash-two-migs/ " Gypsy 207 Pilot Connelly: “Okay, he’s got a missile off.” " If the transcript is correct... Gypsy 204 has not fired yet...

Thats the lead F-14 RIO observing the wingman F-14 Sparrow shot EDIT: or not.. see below.. EDIT 2: or yes it is .. see further below

Just a bit more Tomcat TCS footage

1989 1.) 12:43 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuswSMO15iQ 2.) 13:49 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4kk_5lcQ2s 3.) 3:00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjQeOER5I_8 4.) 7:21 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibjAv21InEY 5.) 9:06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShKFklcZ__o Same as #4 but with the into not cut out

1981 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIUpzNMbfY8 With audio transcript and link to source

Audio/video from both incidents exists, for the 1981 incident the audio recorded by USS Biddle (was on the now defunct USS Biddle website but its still on webarchive) And for 1989, there are 2-3 slightly different (runtime) audio/video files on YT and elsewhere. No use of radar by the MiGs in '89 - the F-14 crews never mentioned anything on the tapes referring to the RWR, right.. they surely would have done so in case of radar emissions by the MiGs.

The LAU-88 launcher for AGM-65 could be a better stand-in than the TER.

Black Mamba Viper

The 1981 incident vs the 2 Fitters.. one of them fired an Atoll Only the Tomcat pilots were shooting in '89, according to the incident audio/video (not the version shown above)