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To be honest I wonder how long the Supa Hornet will remain in service....personally I think it will be around for a few more years (decades), so given that and the fact that the Navy is still planning to replace the Legacy Hornets with the F-35C (once it's available), I don't see yet another new aircraft type coming anytime soon. Of course Boeing is pitching this now, because once the last Super Hornet is produced they would be pretty much out of the fighter game for the time being. Because I doubt that either the Super Hornet or their latest Eagle redesign will pull major contracts anywhere.

Nice shots, thanks.

Interesting sheets...no Crusaders though, which then again doesn't matter since I seem to be unable to skin anything else and don't use decals sheets anyway.

Locate the F-18_Effects.ini, which should be inside your Effects folder. Open it with Notepad and add the stuff written in bold under ... [F18FuseVaporSmokeMaterial] EffectShaderName=effectLightLevel.fx [F18AfterburnerMaterial] EffectShaderName=effectFire.fx Then open your F-18C_Avionics, which can be found inside the F-18C folder itself add under [HUD] HUDMaterial=HUDMaterial (add that below the initial HUD] entry [HUDMaterial] EffectShaderName=fltHUD.fx DepthBufferCheck=FALSE DepthBufferWrite=FALSE RenderedInOrder=FALSE AlphaTestEnabled=TRUE CullMode=NO_CULL LightEnabled=FALSE UseLightLevel=FALSE SpecularEnabled=FALSE EmissiveEnabled=FALSE FogEnabled=FALSE AmbientColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 DiffuseColor=1.000000,1.000000,1.000000,1.000000 ZBufferOffset=0 PriorityLevel=1 BlendOp=BLEND_SRC_ALPHA NumTextureStages=1 TextureStage[01].TextureName= TextureStage[01].MipMap=FALSE TextureStage[01].FilterEnabled=TRUE TextureStage[01].StageColorOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE TextureStage[01].StageAlphaOp=TEXTURE_MODULATE_DIFFUSE You have to add these lines due to changes TK made with patches that were released after those mods were converted for SF2. This pretty much applies to all mods that weren't updated after their release before December if I'm not mistaken.

Happy B-Day!

What Ceasar said. Also, the Soviets were not really known to hand over their latest and most modern equipment to their 'allies' anyway. And I doubt that the Soviets ever considered to become involved in Vietnam directly.

I also wonder if a turboprop engine would also offer the same amount of protection as the radial engine did....somehow I doubt it.

I like this idea. ...and I wouldn't mind some widescreen calendars as well.

Ouch.

Wouldn't a modern version of the Skyraider look a lot like this? The A-10 is actually (regarding the airframe itself) pretty low-tech....in a positive way.

I have a bad feeling about this...

That's just the Surfing Mountain....so it's not a bug, but a feature.

Seriously, that sentence above cracked me up. It's okay to believe in a certain aircraft, no need to explain why....mostly because trying to do so opens the gates of hell.

Eric's Super Hornets come with a dedicated Dual AHM rack.

Captain Obvious asks: Do AI prop aircraft run out of fuel? Of course they do. I guess this also explains that remark (that's from a summary of a comparison between a Spitfire XIV and a Mustang III) about the Spitfire having no endurance. ( Doesn't matter whether these are Seafires in the pic above, it still fits.

To be honest, I find the term multirole pretty confusing, since it's either used to describe an aircraft that could use in several different roles at the same time while this term is also attached to aircraft that could fulfill several roles (i.e. fighter & bomber) more or less satisfactory. Not to mention that most attempts to compare aircraft usually ignore that pretty much all aircraft are built to different specifications, thus making all the "aircraft A is better at whatever than aircraft B" statements pretty pointless since in most cases aircraft A was designed to do just that while aircraft B wasn't. Just saying.

Is that a converted 3rd party skin?

IRM missile rails on the stock models are part of them and they can't be added to other aircraft through data.ini edits. You still could add missile rails, but that would require an external model.

[-Insert WoW flashback-] What?

The EAF had Mark IXs as well....and speaking of Spitfires, it would be the cherry on top if there were RAF Mk 18s in this addon as well, but I guess we have to be happy with the Merlin-engined ones for now. A correct Mk IX is still better than nothing, after all. I would still be happy if some Griffon-engined Spitfires would be added to the SF series someday....they are sorely missing really.

F-8 Crusader....other types may have more impressive combat records, but they are definitely not as cool as the MiG Master.

Neat.

So you gonna make a thread each time you have some new screenshots for your gallery now?

ZOMG! SPITFIRES! with C & E-wings even!

Seriously, all the numbers aside, I do think we're debating a non-issue here. All that number crunching is pretty pointless, since I still haven't seen ANY reference where someone actually claimed that the F-8 was a better aircraft than the F-4 due to its design. Not to mention, and I do feel like beating a dead horse here, all the superiority of the F-4 is pretty useless when the pilots flying them are unable to utilize since their training focused on other aspects.