Gr.Viper

I don't envy the pilots of this parade. Today we have strong gusts of wind, haze over the city (well, that's usual), and their flight path was mostly "head straight into the sun". But they did it

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-130

I just happen to live in the flight path of the planes after they pass the Red Square during the 9th of May V-Day celebration in Moscow. Unfortunatley da choppas take a different route and divert to the South earlier but all the fixed-wing types pass close enough to take pictures. So I did just that. Can't be seen from this angle but those two groups are formed as digits 6 (MiGs) and 5 (Sus). They were passing the RS maintaining the same speed as attack chopper formation below them. Technically I could've taken shots of chopper formations but not in low-level Moscow haze Ok, the rest At this point by some miracle got the manual focus sorted out so the blur after that must've been due to shaky hands and the lens weight. The engine sound of those is awesome! And the thing that made it all possible. Not the WC4, the big all-metal thing next to it.

Speaking of.. The US, British an French troops have just marched across the Red Square a few minutes ago

"C:\Documents and settings\ "My name\My documents\Thirdwire\StrikeFighters2 Israel" is the mod folder. "User" is in Win7/Vista setups.

Aren't those two quite close?

Is it well-hung?

Maybe it's a sign that our next gen fighters will take off by rolling off the deck backwards and get to fight drones on an alien planet?

I like the ENQUIRIES sign in the background. I wonder if they get a lot of "WTF?" calls...

Whatever you end up choosing, check the screen viewing angles first hand. Some laptops distort colour, brighness and contrast when you're not looking at it from a specific vertical angle. Also glossy screens are worthless. Only usable in the shade.

I don't think Holywood types will care. A few days ago in CoD Modern Warfare 2 I saw a single seater F-15 casually take out a building with AIM-120. If people buy that, how hard will be to persuade them that a cruise missile can be controlled by Skype and XBox 360 gamepad...

OK, how long will it take Holywood to make a movie about Somali pirates hijacking a ship with those and figuring out how to use it? I wonder if our mlitary tech people will start marketing six-packs of Russian anti-helicopter mines as well. "Don't like Apaches flying around? Put a passive supersonic sleeper on every rooftop!"

А бомбе нельзя сделать слегка увеличенную скорость падения, плюс невидимый "высокий" lod-кратер, над которым будет некоторое время гореть факел?

*puts another entry on the shopping list*

The stealthy F-84F still hasn't made an appearance in late previews...

March 2010 patch broke all subtitiles. Only cure is to reinstall without it.

You don't need to download anything. Go to controls.ini, find entries on keyboard control of roll and pitch and set centering rate to 0. This way you'll be able to use keys for fixed adjustments to control surfaces position. Although, I think, that trim will reset after a sharp joystick movement.

Notice the increase in tank details!

To avoid Esc-pressing accidents go to controls customization and set End misson to Ctrl+Esc. Much safer. Don't forget that Shift+Esc is ejection. Without any visual effects, but still helps in campaigns.

Yeah, it got pretty worthless lately. Still popular in this country for some reason.

Judging by the swarm of previews Suez is imminent. That's another add-on TK's talking about.

http://mashable.com/2010/04/28/aol-sells-icq/ ICQ is Russian now. Flee. I sure will...

http://bbs.thirdwire.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?p=47125#p47125 Sooo... WOW?

Such a tease... Yeah, Sptifire vs. Mustang! P-40 too? Ah, no another Spit. Oh, new stock rockets. I hope the Hunter will get a pylon for them too. Damn, I'll double check I have enough maoney on the card

"...if we inflate A-4 to the size of F-4..."