macelena

Been doing some of that, like a Linebacker 3, but i would like to change it so it represents the communist offensive on its way to Saigon, and features no US aviation in the South, perhaps just navy and some Sqns in Thailand, at the very least B-52s. Combining the wide and dense AD network of Vietnam with the tech from the Yom Kippur War (basically, SA-6s, and to a much lesser extent, Shilkas) make for quite a cool offensive campaign, but so far, i just keep playing single missions with the improved USN aircraft available (A-7E_74, A-4F_74, F-4N, F-14A...) and some different scenarios, like CAS deep in the south or BARCAPs over convoys

By 2005, there were 4 Harriers remaining in the DA version, but weren´t part of UNAEMBs (UNidad Aérea EMBarcada, Embarked Aerial Unit) in the R-11. However, they were last deployed to fill decks with the LHD, when the 9th Escadrille had to provide harriers for 2 carrier UNAEMBs. Since the "Principe de Asturias" was decommisioned early to accomodate an smaller budget, they were stored and used for spares. Don´t know about what will be done when the next LHD is in service

I´ve made a weird discovery playing with mirages and using Matra R.530s in SEA, as i didn´t use them (Matra missiles) that much in other scenarios; the 3O misses almost always, most often it goes ballistic right after launch, and when it manages to lock on something, it ends up going dumb when about to hit. However, with the 3C Z/J variants, it is much more effective, even if i am much more careful with parameters with the 3O than with the Cs.

Loved that film. Aviation porn. Only for fans. No one else could take on the story, they wanted a Top Gun a la française, and like hell they got it.

Yak-23 would be great for Israel, don´t know how, but would rock. Btw DA, i didn´t miss you Phantom skins and had them running until smoke came out of the laptop, so i´m not missing you SLUFs even if i have to install SF2 in the microwave oven.

@daddyairplanes, Yep, did Frequent Wind too, even before i got the Tomcat Skinpack for VF-1 and the F-4N DLCs. Was cool to have an evacuation convoy with LPDs and DEGs under attack from MiGs and Beagles. You didn´t miss too much, as i put up an small thread about making a Lebanon 83 campaign but didn´t go forward with it. @dtmdragon Aussie A-4Gs end up being, as you said, a bit of SAM-fodder as their RAAF mates were when up north, and not so much different from USN variants, and the same can be said about Kiwi Skyhawks. Hunters can make a great Fresco hunter, but they face the same issue. While not being so much with US fighters, you really notice when you don´t have all the electronic kit. Regarding Europe 79, i did some with unmarked Kfirs, just to try its possibilities as a low cost alternative, and without a doubt it was great Also, i forgot to tell about Lightnings. I liked them as RSAF against Israel or a RAF What If for Nam, but i prefer the Mirage3O for the later. Not as much performance and the early Sidewinders are way worse than Red Tops, but i prefer the Deltas as a more stable platorm, along with the HUD

Good luck mate!

Hail Gonorrhea!! RIP SSG

Looking great, perhaps the peak is too abrupt, but i don´t think there is much to be done with it. If you have the mod your way, it is going to be better than anything i could have done back then

If Iceland had normal names, there was an airstrip in SF2NA whose real life landing videos are beyond awesome Edit: like this

While it is early for condolences, I wouldn´t have any hope of them being OK. So saddening for every single life every single time something like this happens...

If only we had a Su-30MKA model, we could do an awesome campaign with Algerian friendly and Moroccan comptempted governments being toppled by Islamist-Magreb Nationalist and turning against Spain.

As long as Central Europe, specially Germany wich has so much weight on the Union, is so dependent on Gazprom, i don´t think Europe is going to do anything against the Russians.

If North Korea is worth Raptors, Russia deserves more than Eagles, but maybe they don´t want to stir things up more. With Eagles, it is a reinforcement of the current mission, Raptors are a different thing. Either way, i don´t know how would they fare against S-400s in any kind of incident

Early Atolls being as bad as AIM-9Bs is right, but the main issue would be that every fighter gets to know about them, specially in Vietnam with the MiG-21 slash attacks. It is more of an AI flaw wich i doubt even TK could fix. Aircraft that get to know you shot a AAM when they shouldn´t, or be oblivious to you when you zero them with a new gun as bullets fly past them. I prefer to avoid this kind of situation by selecting different kind of missions

There was an F-18 Korea, but i don´t know if it was a variant of any other game or what. I googled it for nothing really interesting

As a side note, the 462nd Sqn in the Canary Islands only use single seaters. Also, those are US models, not exactly EF-18M, but F-18A+. Depending on the timeframe, their engines and ECM are different, but otherwise, if you don´t want to be picky, they are almost the same as the peninsular ones

you know, everytime i see the old towers in an old photo i get kind of mad. when i see the new one, it is just the opposite. way to go yanks

I didn´t know about the year, it just said it was an N model. On the other hand, there was a pic around with Ks in along with a J with DECMs, however, this had to be in a US carrier, as they were side by side in their respective catapults and i doubt a J would have been fine to operate from one of the smaller carriers

You could use rocket pods in vietnam, they wont spook the intercepted flight. Without any doubt, i use them for B-52s anytime. It is not like those are easy anyways

They missed the DECMs, counting rivets...

Lovely, i wish i could have finished my project, but now that you are on it...:D EDIT, as a side note, F-5BMs don´t use AIM-9X, dunno if IRIS-T have been integrated, but if not, they would use AIM-9JULI like the Mirage F1M

BADASSTALITY

It would be cool to have Kong, i mean Major Kong, to do a "frying chicken in a barnyard" nuke run at him, just to be sure

I only wish this was Jug