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File Name: VF-32 F-14A Mig Killers 1989 File Submitter: Dave File Submitted: 06 January 2011 File Updated: 22 January 2011 File Category: SF2 Series Add On Skins F-14A_82 VF-32 Swordsmen Skin by Dave On the morning of January 4, 1989, the Kennedy battle group was operating some 130 km north of Libya, with a group of A-6 Intruders on exercise south of Crete, escorted by two pairs of F-14As from VF-14 and VF-32, and as well as an E-2C from VAW-126. Later that morning the southernmost Combat Air Patrol station was taken by two F-14s from VF-32, AC207 (CDR Joseph Bernard Connelly/CDR Leo F. Enwright 159610 AC207) and AC202 (LT Hermon C. Cook III/LCDR Steven Patrick Collins 159437 AC202). The officers had been specially briefed for this mission due to the high tensions regarding the Carrier Group's presence; the pilots were advised to expect some kind of hostilities. At 11:50 hrs, after some time on patrol, the E-2 informed the F-14 crews that four Libyan MiG-23s had taken off from Al Bumbaw airfield, near Tobruk. The F-14s turned towards the first two MiG-23s some 50 km ahead of the rear pair and acquired them with radars. At the time the Floggers were 72 nautical miles (133 km) away at 10,000 ft (3,000 m) and heading directly towards the Tomcats and carrier. The F-14s turned away from the head-on approach to indicate that they didn't want to engage. The Floggers changed course to intercept at a closing speed of about 870 knots (1,000 mph, 1600 km/h). The F-14s descended to 3,000 ft (910 m) to give them a clear radar picture of the Floggers against the sky and leave the Floggers with sea clutter to contend with. Four more times the F-14s repeated this maneuver, still tracking the Libyans. At 11:59 the Radar Intercept Officer (RIO) of the lead Tomcat ordered the arming of the AIM-9 Sidewinder and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles it was carrying. The E-2C had given the F-14 crews authority to fire if threatened; the F-14 crews did not have to wait until after the Libyans opened fire. At almost 12:01 the lead Tomcat RIO said that "Bogeys have jinked back at me again for the fifth time. They're on my nose now, inside of 20 miles", followed shortly by "Master arm on" as he ordered arming of the weapons. At a range of 14 nmi (26 km) the RIO of the lead F-14A fired the first AIM-7M Sparrow; he surprised his pilot, who did not expect to see a missile accelerate away from his Tomcat. The RIO reported "Fox 1. Fox 1." The Sparrow failed to track because of a wrong switch-setting. At 10 nmi (19 km), he launched a second Sparrow missile, but it also failed to track its target. The Floggers accelerated and continued to approach. At 6 nmi (11 km) range the Tomcats split and the Floggers followed the wingman while the lead Tomcat circled to get a tail angle on them. The wingman engaged with a Sparrow and downed one of the Libyan aircraft. One of the US pilots broadcast "Good kill! Good kill!" The lead Tomcat closed on the final Flogger from the rear quadrant and at 1.5 nmi (2.8 km) the pilot fired a Sidewinder, which hit its target. One crewman broadcast "Good kill!" and "Let's get out of here." The Libyan pilots were seen to successfully eject and parachute into the sea, but the Libyan Air Force was unable to recover them. The Tomcats then proceeded north to return to the carrier. Templates and base skins by Column5 and EricJ. For use with The Mirage Factory F-14A_82 for SF2. To install: Drop the "Objects" folder into any SF2 install: C:\Users\yourname\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Let it overwrite the aircraft and decals folder names. The go fly. JimmyB thanks for the assist! Update 22 Jan 11 TF-30 and Glove vane updates by Caesar. Thank you sir. Enjoy Dave aka USAFMTL Click here to download this file

It would be really nice if he could just share with us a little more of his overall vision. So we know what to expect, can we mod the new sim? What will be its limits? Where is the current series going? Things like that. He has a account here. He is always welcome here. Just something to help us quit speculating and maybe think about where we are all going to go from here.

That i will be cured soon too.... Would that be Panzermeyer? If he spent half his energy in installing a mod instead of whining about how to install it, he would of gotten to play some good stuff. That guy has ADHD bad and whined about that installing s**t too much. Or just plain lazy. He still owes me a bottle of scotch....

Most excellent...

France?

Hey man, hope you have a good and hope they gave you the day off. Happy birthday!!!

AD's A-7 is completely diferent than the stock A-7 and The Mirage Factory A-7, They are all mapped and modeled differently so the skins are not interchangeble.

Wow those are nice, seem we are all on an Iran kick!

http://combatace.com/topic/57844-about-the-new-korea-mod/ http://combatace.com/topic/58773-mig-alley-update-thread/

If it was I didnt notice it. What peaked my interested was reading about what SEAM was then trying it out. Frank Here is a good thread about the AIM-9 I dug up and it talked about uncaging the seeker. Hope this answers your question. http://combatace.com/topic/16642-heat-seekers-uncaged-mode/

Hey Eric http://www.airliners.net/photo/USA---Navy/Grumman-F-14A-Tomcat/0940304/L/

Vampyre That is Sundowners Iranian F-4D skin adapted for use on the F-4E_75. All I did was adjust the nose so it would work. That took all of 5 mins. All credit goes to him. I did it because I wasnt sure if he had some Iranian F-4E's lined up.

No it couldnt unless you were firing the AIM-9C which was a radar guided Sidewinder. Well the key JM is that you have to have the target locked in boresight mode which in ACM mode it does the same thing . Then you can fire. You have to use F-4 and its must be the AIM-9G or H. Try it and let me know.

Good job Henrik!

Gepard Will you mind if a couple of us make this SF2 usable and post it for download?

I havent played in 3 weeks, well since the SF2:Europe Exp 2 came out. I like the hell out of it though. Great fun.

No serious injuries, just happened not to long ago. All the news outlets reporting it.

Well since this is a fictional skin you could make the kill marks look like anything you wanted. Don't feed the trolls.

Middle of a war and they want to cut back. Morons.

F-4E over the Desert

90 years of getting its ass kicked, mainly by us.....I mean US....

VF-32 Gulf of Sidra 1989 Mig Killers... So between 1981 and the 1989 incidents its; Tomcats 4 - Libya 0 Anytime Baby!

Decalled.......

Just trying to keep it on topic.

Yes it is Wrench, I am adding decals now.... wanna trade?