macelena

3 hours ago, Menrva said:

Correction; those terrains were converted by gerwin, I just took design decisions on matters such as target areas, terrain surroundings, water maps, etc.

Mandatory screen;

 

I stand corrected

A little VPAF raid on Da Nang, good old Ma Deuce kissed us goodbye. Meanwhile, a Lawn Dart earns his moniker after an over enthusiastic interception

Novalogic terrains ported by gerwin (while Menrva took design decisions on matters such as target areas, terrain surroundings, water maps, etc.)  are great for getting nostalgic and solving some grudges

I think I've broken off Crusader wings from over G,  but IIRC that was using an updated ini. 

4 hours ago, SayWhatt said:

... but our flash new whizz-bang (and strategically knobbled) $60 billion dollar broadband service here in Oz has only just reached 1992-era levels of latency, so it'll continue to be a what-if for most of us here for the foreseeable future.

I know Mad Max is a big thing down there, but perhaps you guys should take it down a notch or two. 

I would play WT, and did with tanks a few years ago, but i can't stand the grinding. I would also prefer a little more historical context over the way it is now, as oriented for MP balanced competition, but the models look great and there is a bit of soft realism. To be honest, I just envy some of the aircraft they have been getting for the Cold War era. Having stock flyable F-86s, F-5s and F-104s, let alone all the commie stuff, would have been great. Not that it is so much of an issue with mods, anyway. 

3 hours ago, Nesher said:

@macelena, the Al-Jazeera tower that was downed, had anti-GPS and (I assume) other electronic countermeasures which tried to interfere with IDF's operations... that's why it got knocked down.. so in today's fights, I won't be so sure that we make out all the electronics in the area 😅

In any case, since there are a lot of assets in a very small area, errors are bound to happen... unfortunately in the previous conflict, we had a few blue on blue fire which resulted in several KIAs and casualties

I meant the electronics used by the IDF for IFF, I kind of refered to Hamas EW, among other things, when i mentioned the noise in the evironment

5 hours ago, Gepard said:

The Iron Dome incident shows, that the american made Friend and Foe systems still have problems to work properly. Its not new. Its known since Vietnam war. You'd think they'd had enough time to sort out the problem.

Too little margin of error. They might have the fighters and the SAMs integrated via datalink, but have lag, more so if there is a lot of EM noise around, or have interrogators in each targeting radar, but they could take a while to hail the fighter, have the fighter IFF recognize the call, answer, and discern it over different echoes, since there could be rockets in the air at the same time, with a lot of automation involved. Could be that Iron Dome was not designed to work in a tactical environment with friendlies on flight, but then they could hit airliners even more easily. Either way, i guess most of the electronics involved in this would be Israeli. 

Well, I got it. Had my two shots of Astra Zeneca, but looks like I became part of Delta!! Well, the good thing is it has been quite minor, I'm just tossing biohazardous boogers and staying at my room, playing Total War, Mass Effect and Strike Fighters all day. 

 To put it in context, Ala 12 (12th Wing) is based in Torrejon and at the time, had two Hornet Squadrons (121st, 122nd) and an RF-4 Squadron (123rd)

Welcome back!! I had been away for a while too 

6 minutes ago, MigBuster said:

Info is from F-102 Delta Dagger Units (p75 Osprey 2020)

I need to get a haul of those, just went to self-isolation.

If you ever feel useless, remember I was meant to escort B-58s with this.

Well, it was hard, but at least I never got tracked with so much ECM power

18 hours ago, MigBuster said:

The F-4 setup of AIM-4 was clearly unusable in most typical SEA engagements however F-102A was still set up as a pure interceptor so even they needed to get the missile ready before use. In the one engagement (Feb 68) the guy that did not get shot down apparently fired 3 x AIM-4Ds and all missed.............sounds like it was the start of the engagement and before his wingman was hit......but anyway.

 

 

I thought he shot after the other F-102 exploded, while the MiGs were pulling out. If it was the way you say, it would be even more of a failure.  

One would have thought since they already had "borrowed" the Phantom from the Navy, the Air Force brass or whoever made the call shouldn't have been so concerned about using the same model of Sidewinder and just fund the same program.

I think Maj. Bruce Gordon, former F-102/106/100 pilot and senior Youtuber, commented that AIM-4s themselves were great, but weren't properly integrated in Phantoms. I don't know what to make of it, for what I'm concerned, if the USN already had something that worked well why bother trying in the middle of a war.

I think an F-102 managed to shoot several AIM-4s without against MiG-21s that had just bounced his wingman, but from what i read they had to be already far and getting away, and of course it seems too little of a sample to find out.

4 hours ago, Wrench said:

are you playing the old (original) or the newer versions I uploaded some months ago?? IIRC, when I upgraded some skins and decals, the data ini got some reworking too (D & L marks)

The new ones. I have the K alone right now, but i had both the D and L and i also had the feeling they flew great, it was just harder with the rockets. Still managed to get a few kills just by sticking to their tail and throwing them all close enough to poke them with a lance thanks to how well they handled.

I got outclimbed (on a K) and outturned by a MiG-17F over the which i had a serious energy advantage (on his six, 400ish knots vs his 250ish, 1000 ft above him) when he hit the burner, pulled up and started turning and reversing, but other than that, it was great. 

1 hour ago, streakeagle said:

The USAF also liked to carry the AIM-4D instead of the AIM-9. So even on May 10, 1972, during the biggest day of air-to-air combat during the entire war, Major Lodge's Oyster flight of F-4Ds was carrying 1 x AIM-4D on each wing pylon, either 2 or 3 AIM-7 + ECM pod.

I didn't know AIM-4s were carried that late, that would be certainly a bump in difficulty ingame when AIM-9Js become available.

Ingame, they fly great, and I think they were also supposed to IRL, however i can't make much sense of it. By every source I've seen, they are quite heavier than daylight F-86 variants, with a higher wing loading and lower thrust to weight despite the afterburning engine, yet they can outclimb them and accelerate faster, and at least in game, they are as good at turning. 

Does anybody know about how they actually handled IRL? Am I missing something?

I think when it comes to Vietnam, the all-Chaff loadout makes sense. While i edited both AIM-9B and R-3Ss to be 180º rear aspect, it seems SAMs are still much more of a concern.

May i suggest F-86Ks? License built out of the US since around 1955, a good compromise. With Sidewinders and 4x20mm I would feel more confident than with FFARs

10 hours ago, EricJ said:

I'm kinda surprised that TK didn't implement an IRST on the NA Tomcat. It would have been cool to have that implemented for missions

The fact that he didn't makes me feel as if there is some technical issue preventing him from doing so, it seems like it would have been simple otherwise to enable something like the targeting pods-TV bombs for air targets.

I'll check it out later, but wasn't there a way to use the targeting pod functions to lock on air contacts already, or did I dream we had TISEO? 

15 minutes ago, daddyairplanes said:

i just thought of something, given whois askin.....

youre not thinking of something like a HA-1262 are you?

 

It was one of the ideas, after the 1953 agreements to clear the export of the engines, but also some sort of Super Avia 92 for the IDF and some interim fighter for, say, France, they had a handful of former German gear and could have used some tooling to rebuild industry after the war.

To be fair, I wasn't sure SF2W10 would ever come about, leaning more towards no. I guess a 20 year old sim is already pushing some limits, specially if it was not profitable 10 years ago  and the attempt to finance the update failed, but to be honest I would miss the game a lot to be very reasonable.

All I'm stating is fairly known , but just to explain what I'm thinking about

Right after WW2, a few variants of aircraft designed in Nazi Germany were produced by other companies, such as Avia in Czechoslovakia or CASA in Spain. 109s with Jumo, Hispano or Rolls Royce engines, and even Me-262s as the Avia S-92, although on a small scale. Willy Messerschmitt himself still worked in aircraft for Hispano Aviacion while he couldn't in Germany.

So the What-If story i came about is, What about a license built improved version of the 262 in some other country? I was thinking, powered by J34s,bubble canopy, stabilators, probably 20mm Hispanos, and perhaps, pushing it too much or for later upgrades, radar computing gunsights.

How do you reckon it would perform?