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Didn't the Luftwaffe order some 600 Taurus missiles with Merkel already? It seems weird to spend so much in ALCMs if you won't get enough AAMs for your air defence

2 hours ago, Gepard said:

The original Sabre had not had enough firepower. The 12.7 mm machineguns were a better joke. The majority of so called "kills" came from the rule, that 7 bullit hits must be shown on guncamera. But the MiG-15 could withstand 7 bullit hits easily. Very often MiG's came home with 50 or even 100 bullit holes in the body and nothing happend. Even american pilots admit, that the 12,7 mm machineguns would have been useless against a bomber like the IL-28.

The best solution for the ultimate Sabre would have been the instalation of 2 british ADEN guns or 2 german MK 103 guns. This guns had enough punch to kill anything.

Well, that's what the Australian Sabres had, I still feel like the goldilocks zone was 20mm, hitting hard enough but enough ammo and muzzle velocity. That being said, I wonder if some aircraft could have been better of with another brand of these. Perhaps the USN could have done better with M39s, I don't recall reading anything wrong about them in the F-100 or F-5, it would be strange if they had electrical issues shipborne when they had Sidewinders with no issue.

I knew about the Gunvals, I was thinking more about something like Navy FJ2/3s  for cannon arrangement, but i guess they would have had the same issues. It feels like .50 cals wouldn't punch hard enough, but it isn't like that prevented them to do right over Korea. 

Regarding the wing, wouldn't the latest style, with the 6-3 plus width extensions plus slats be better all around? AFAIK Canadair Sabres didn't have it, while CACs stuck with the slatless 6-3. Which would be another interesting issue themselves with 30mm guns

1 hour ago, daddyairplanes said:

ooooor, you could just slap a J65 into a SabreDog. K model has your 20mm cannon, Winder capable, and with the added thrust (almost as much as a J47 with afterburner) probably no slouch manuevering (double down if one were to mod an afterburning J65)

I do love the K, although I wonder if it could really be as good as it is ingame, with the added weight. There was an afterburning J65 in the F11F, it could have been...wait, BRB.

In yet another of my on and off obsessions with specific aircraft, I can't keep the F-86 off my head lately, so I felt like starting a discussion about it to share thoughts, stories and anything else.

For example, I've been daydreaming lately about a "definitive dayfighter Sabre", as in having a J65, 4x20mm cannon and the F40 wing with Sidewinder rails, what would you think about something like that?

6 hours ago, Gepard said:

Its a picture from this year. Its an active EuFi of the Luftwaffe.

BTW. The Luftwaffe has enough missiles to fully arm 4 Eurofighters. No its not a joke. Only missiles for 4 planes. Of 12 submarines Type 212 only 1 is combat ready. Of 48 Tiger UHT helicopters 9 are ready for combat. In this light you may understand why Germany is no fan of military advantures in the Ukraine. After 5 minutes of combat we could throw only with cotton balls.

Sorry guys, you are on your own.

Ouch, I like to whine about what i wish we had, but i guess i should just shut up

10 hours ago, streakeagle said:

The key is that it happened first in Korea, then got repeated in Vietnam. Both stories are amazing.

Don't forget the absent minded guy who tried to do the same in WW2 with a Corsair to help a Zero, but ended up cutting its tail with the prop. Oopsie.

No PIRATE? Old prototype?

Welcome to the game!

I think you got it in the wrong folder somehow. The game does make a "mod" folder by default, in saved games/thirdwire/strikefighters2, normally. There are the different folders where mods are read from. Most mods here are ready to drop on that folder and just fire up the game and have them work, although it is better to take a look at the readme first to see how it is meant to be installed

7 hours ago, streakeagle said:

I am in the process of getting a divorce. Once my wife moves out, I will finally be able to finish my F-4E sim pit I have been working on for ages. The immediate task is to get my throttle integrated into a USB controller and restore the stick to operational capability, this time using a hall effect sensor based system to eliminate the problems I had with having to clean industrial grade pots that wear out and get dirty quickly after my kind of use/abuse.

Not sure wether to say I'm sorry or congratulations, but I wish you the best

It will be heartbreaking when I tell my girlfriend, after so long, that the time and money I was going to spend with her this year in a wedding, a home and starting a family is going to this. 

Welcome! Be aware that this might become somewhat of an addiction.

Regarding the vision, I use a cheap ass stick (I just read it, a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro) and all that I need for the game, which is quite simple for all it provides, is there or i can use the left hand on the keyboard, including throttle settings and vector, looking around and zooming in and out...Radar and radio controls are left to the keyboard, as you can only switch targets, modes and ranges (no way to slew it, I'm afraid).

There are a couple of stock single missions already made for carrier take off and landing, but you can also use the editor (the pencil icon on the single mission screen). You might want to switch for an A-7 or F-14 since the modern HUD works for the AoA, stock Phantoms need a little tweaking IIRC 

The scandal after the incident of Palmdale and the MightyMouse fiasco led to a rush to phase out these air to air rockets. In many cases, it was solved with new interceptors or replacing them with Falcon missiles in existing types, however a very sizeable fleet of F-86Ds was to remain in service for a while and then be passed on to ANG units. Many of those were refitted with new F-86F40 wings (please play along, I kept the tips out of frame) , new electronics, including capability to operate with SAGE, better engine and, most noticeably a new weapons set up, replacing the rocket tray with the cannon arrangement of the F-86Ks and adding Sidewinder missile rails.

The redesignated F-86Ls would become the backbone of the ANG during much of the 1960s, with a few being deployed to Vietnam and Thailand to provide air defense against the odd raid and a good adversary to simulate MiG-17s on training.  

As a side note, I've always been impressed by the Mirage F1. Reading specs alone it doesn't feel like it would perform as good as it did historically against MiG-23s and F-14s

It didn't feel like 3 minutes, certainly got me hooked

8 minutes ago, clim995 said:

must have something to do with the weight and aerodynamics of the aircraft as well. I've already messed around with the engines but still,  the most I can do is Mach 1 flat. I still cannot fully replicate the "supercruise" of the Marcfighters Su-27 flight model, might snoop deeper into the aircraft data ini themselves hope I find something.

Of course, I guess that number is just a hard limit, in the end it will depend on your thrust and drag. But merely changing that number already worked, which might be some sort of asymptote, since it didn't just accelerate at the same pace and just stop when it reached the mach number.

Messing with the stock F-104C data ini

Quote

[FlightControl]
StallSpeed=60.94
CruiseSpeed=192.52
ClimbSpeed=267.95
CornerSpeed=179.81
LandingSpeed=60.33
MaxG=7.33
MaxSpeedSL=344.22
MachLimit=2.200
MachLimitDry=1.2 <<<Modified
..MachLimitDry=0.980<<<<Original
PitchDamper=0.6
RollDamper=0.4
YawDamper=0.0
GunBoresightAngle=0
RocketBoresightAngle=-3.0

With the original I managed to get .96, with the modified one it was past 1.07, but they still don't get all the way to the limit, with both clean and in a shallow dive. Mind you, I also buffed the engine to GE-19 levels of thrust, an engine only used with F-104S and a few F-104As, AFAIK

I thought it was an advert for the real thing and I was wondering "What better advert than the Nov 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war?"

43 minutes ago, shotdown said:

I think they are still doing it. I've read some really ludicrous ideas (like buying 25 F-35 for the Navy and 25 for the Air Force), but knowing the neverending budget problems for spanish armed forces, I guess whatever choice will be far from ideal.

If we upgraded the Typhoons we had, and replaced the Hornets and Harriers with F-35A and Bs on a one to one basis, I would build a palace for every member of Parliament. But while it is what would make sense to me, I don't know how it could happen. 

2 hours ago, daddyairplanes said:

count another vote for China/Vietnam. it would be really interesting to see say MiG-21s escorting A-37s

although who would be red and who would be blue?

I guess Vietnam, with all the US stuff they kept using after the war. Not that it would really matter, but i would still go with the theorical "underdog"

Once I get a proper house where i can place a desktop kick-ass liquid-cooled gaming computer and all the fluff...and before i get married and she forbids it, I'm diving so hard on DCS

I may or may not have given F-104s ECM pods and J79-GE-19 engines, but man, am I bullying the VPAF.

If I'm not making memories up, I think I saw something like that in mods years ago. Perhaps with a low enough muzzle velocity the AI would compensate for targeting, they do so with other guns either way.

7 hours ago, KJakker said:

This should help you. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A"Bureau+of+Naval+Weapons"

Looks like they have manuals and patents related to sidewinder.

Edit: These may also help. https://archive.org/details/fire-control-equipment-manuals/

Thanks a lot! There a lot of stuff to milk out there

In case you don't know me, I'm a Sgt in the Spanish Army, currently getting training in electronics at the Army's Polytech School. I just did a proyect in which i updated the circuitry from a WW2 VT fuze with solid state electronics, and i wanted to keep doing stuff like that, updating vintage electronics to solid state.

Could anybody point me where I could get  some declassified, legal electrical schematics for early, vacuum tube Sidewinders guidance circuits? Meaning Bs mostly, I read it was around built with 24 parts and the greatest challenge was to get it to work with so few.

The closest i got to it was this: