jeanba

Most of them were not delivered in 1980 (if at all) Cooper is well aware that he needs to revise his book, and that's why acig forum is a nice erratum After all, it is a common situation in history and especially aviation history.

Actually, the thread was on acig, and some posts are by Tom Cooper, but they were posted few days ago ! I strongly advise you to subscribe acig and read carefully this topic

As a side note : an interesting info I found on Iranian Tomacts at the begining of the Iran-Iraq war : link : http://www.acig.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=7270&start=120

An interesting site : Soviet Air Force in East Germany in January 1, 1983. http://www.easternorbat.com/html/soviet_16th_tactical_air_army_1.html

Great account, thank you !

Yes, Lima, that was my feeling. Better stick to RoF or First eagles (or WoFF, but I don't have it)

Don't take it bad but I absolutly do not understand what you want me to ask about the supercetendard : pictural info ? It is ok That you want pictures of sem cockpit

About the Nioeuport 11 : do you have the right cockpit ? I have a Nieuport 17 cockpit, with the wrong Mg, and it really ruins the pleasure !!!

Nice one, thank's !

You can post on C6 : http://www.checksix-forums.com/viewforum.php?f=279 It is french and some poeple know very well the Super Etendard, you can post in english If you want, I can post too

Nothing to do with the communist party

Thank you 33Lima Actually, I read articles on the Breguet 693 french attack plane, and I seem to remember that it is in ETO, so it will be an occasion to reinstall CFS3

New trailer : This one looks much better and I have more confidence in it

Great !

Great, a new Super Etendard The old one was nice, but old

They are fairly well known, I've read a lot of articles on them in the early 90s There was even a TV porgram showing their action in the Vosges

My first kill :

I have 2 comments : - It is very important to make no assumption on any kind of potential terrorist attack,as it may turn to them for free, for instance if a plane crash is an accident, if you say it is a bomb, that will spread fear, which is the purpose of the terrorists. Sometimes also, behind those terrorists attacks, there are some "state to state" negociations. - In the end of the 20th century, terrorism was not a muslim speciality, just think of IRA, Action Direct in France, Rotte Armee Fraction in Germany, ETA in Spain, Red Brigades and the Mafia in Italy. But they were eventually neutralized by security forces and various governements in a long struggle It happens that NOW, the majority of terrorist attacks are from Islamists but deducing from this that terrorism is an islamic speciality is a disgusting offense to those men and women who fought and risked their life against far left, far right, mafia, independantist terrorists from all European countries. Just like saying in the US that only soldiers who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq are veteran and denying this title to people who fought in Viet Nam, Korea, WWII ...

That's exactly my problem with DCSI played lockon for quite a few time but I am tired of crimea I would like to test the 2000 but not over crimea nor nevada

They want to kill us

I don't understand, I loved Ghostbusters 2

Just to add on Iranian chaffs and decoys use : I asked on acig, and here is the answer I got from Tom Cooper : http://www.acig.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=7131&p=200739#p200739 jeanba wrote: Hello I have been reading the french "Avion" special issues on the Iran-Iraq war. It is very interesting as it gives a global view of the conflict in the air I never had. I have a question about the IRIIAF : it is written that they were "not enough" advanced in the field of countermeasures, but did they use chaffs and flares ? Because there are some comments on IRAF planes using decoys, but none about IRIIAF ? Thank you in advance What was meant with this was that none of fighter-bombers in service with the IRIAF during that war has got any chaff & flare dispensers. That is: the F-4D/Es, RF-4Es, and F-5A/B, RF-5As and F-5E/Fs haven't got any; only F-14s have got them. The IIAF did purchase some containers (can't recall their exact designation right now), that could be installed into one of the rear Sparrow bays of its F-4Es, in the 1970s. But, there was only a handful of these (I think there were 9 in total), and they were never used operationally. Essentially, the IIAF expected that (and there seem to have been corresponding agreements with Washington) that - should there be a war - it would receive similar kind of help from the USA like the IDF/AF received during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli War. Of course, when Iraqis invaded, in October 1980, this didn't happen, and thus major fighter-bomber types of the air force went into the war actually poorly equipped for electronic warfare: except for ALQ-101s, even all the 120 ('or so') ECM-pods the IRIAF has got were obsolete. This cost the IRIAF dearly during the war. In comparison, from 1984-1985 period, the IrAF wasn't operating over the battlefield if it couldn't provide suitable ECM-support. I.e. if it couldn't provide support from Caiman-equipped Mirages for formations of its aircraft, and if involved aircraft haven't got chaff & flare dispensers. The few times it did, it always suffered heavy losses (one example would've been the Tu-16 shot down by Iranians over Faw, in 1986: this should've got support from Caiman-equipped Mirages, but these failed to appear because of a technical snag, and then the command failed to recall the Tu-16 on time).

It's a pity centurion left Is there anything available from his work ?