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macelena

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  1. That´s how a Meteor can kill MiG-15s, 17s and even 21s. The AI is prepared for the classic DACT nightmare, a nimble MiG-17 turning inside a Phantom
  2. Depending on what do you consider SF2NA level. Most maps can be set as naval maps, and with a bmp water map will deploy naval forces of the countries listed as present in that terrain. If you mean LOD based terrains, i think so far it is not possible yet, other than a big pond without land for carrier groups to bomb the paint out of each other
  3. I know the man was controversial, personally i won´t judge him as i didn´t know him and won´t have the chance, but this is looking good. Also, it is directed by Clint Eastwood, whom, when not talking to empty chairs, can do quite engaging war films. If this is along the lines of Flags/Letters, it will be great. It seems once a year there is a SEAL movie, can´t complain. Loved Lone Survivor, and it was the most popular film here when released.
  4. Now, this is fucking disgusting, and indeed only contributes to the carpet nuking mood the whole world the islamists are fucking with are starting to get
  5. What about the Simpsons dogfights? Like the F-15 shooting first his wingman then himself with malfunctioning Sparrow, or the Tomcat overshooting the Wright flyer, then their pilots chasing it on foot? And then there is Milhouse
  6. Anyone ever played Fast Attack? It had a cool interface, yet didn´t allow you to peek out like you would do in silent hunter. It was more immersive in some areas, like not being able to use an external view, and using cut scenes and so on, didn´t require much power to look nice. I remember even the mission i was playing on the PC when i heard my parents, startled by an aircraft crash in New York call me just in time to watch live how the second plane hit WTC
  7. http://www.amazon.com/Discovery-Channel-Multimedia-Pirates-Captains/dp/B000KRRBEG/ref=sr_1_2?s=videogames&ie=UTF8&qid=1412033696&sr=1-2 I dare you all to find some funnier than this one. I loved it.
  8. Yeah, ISIS probably doesn´t have SAMs, just like Donbass reb...nevermind. Anyway, why does the USAF send Raptors? Because they can
  9. Whatever they can take, they are welcome, pretty much like anyone else.
  10. In fact this is more like AA, only with eels, lazercats and nuke sycophants
  11. It is heavy, and underpowered when compared to any MiG-15/17, however, it is quite gentle at handling. Reminds me of Hunters vs MiG-19s.
  12. Flew an intercept mission with Tomcats over Germany against a flight of Tu-22RDs, launched all Phoenix missiles but then got tangled up in a dogfight with MiG-21bis. After getting rid of the Fishbeds, i requested a vector against the Blinders wich survived the initial salvo of AIM-54s, felt there was something wrong about the directions GCI was giving me and expected that one of them had somehow landed. Well, it landed...somehow:
  13. Yeah! Party like it is 5775!!
  14. Well, it can´t (or shouldn´t) turn as tight as a MiG-15, and of course it doesn´t accelerate as fast, but even if you are not using a wingman as bait, you can keep an horizontal fight and wait until it unloads eventually as it bleeds faster than you. You have an small window of time to get him before he builds speed again, but it gets harder from MiG-15bis to Fresco-A and then Cs (afterburning)
  15. Another Meteor vs Fresco pair duel over Vietnam. This time they jumped on us from 6 or 7 o clock high, while i instinctively started to dive, it was clear that i wouldn´t outrun them in any way, so i turned trying to force the overshoot, and the furball began much more confusing than the other times in wich i had the iniciative. I manage to spray one when we entered scissors, then stalled when the other guy got himself on my tail. He forgot about me after following my spin and rushed to the other Meteor. I chased them but my wingman got downed dramatically just before i caught up with them. Having exhausted his energy, the last mig was an easy pery after all. Btw, while Israeli Blue camo is awesome, Syrian Camo fits both the Mex Air Force and SEA quite good
  16. Red Storm Rising, while i think there is stuff wich would have been different, Patriot Games, for the way it catches the effects of terrorism vefore 9-11 raised awareness to a whole different level internationally and within the US, and Clear and Present Danger, just because it is so awesome.
  17. We had a 59 year old veterinarian drop a huey by throwing a stone at its tail rotor because it was freaking out his dog back in 1989. He argued in his defence his had arthritis and didn´t feel like throwing anything. Zohan could top that.
  18. I tried again, dogfight near Vinh or around. 2x Mexican Air Force Meteors (I got a very Mexican day, will talk later) vs 2 VPAF MiG-17F This one was harder. I set them to excellent, had less altitude difference (21k Ft vs 18k Ft) and climbing there left me at barely 200 knots, while they were doing 270. Despite the increase in the level, the AI did some dumb things like the last time, but they got behind us several times. I had to turn hard and brake for one of them to overshoot me, and they used their speed much better, so i had to lead pursuit them. Managed one kill while the other fled the scene faster than i could chase him. While the obsolescence of the Meteor became much more apparent in this fight, i still think it is a much more capable fighter ingame than it apparently was in real life. Mexican kills a "Bandido"
  19. Now that i think of it, i forgot to change the AI to expert, so both accounts were against "poor" pilots, the first mig in the last dogfight acted kind of dumb, he extended when i had the height advantage when he could have just turned into me, and he turned later when he was started to gain speed ahead of me, will have to try again EDIT: Nevermind, it was Average for VPAF.
  20. I was tired of getting shot down by Soviet Fleet SAMs, so i cheated my way with a Harpoon armed Vigilante. Despite all of this, i CFITed into the sea in the middle of the Soviet CVBG because i wanted to follow the missiles, both for attracting the SAMs and witnessing the event, because i went supersonic at low level and forgot it had a tendency to dive, while i was distracted by the show. Damn me...
  21. Just went and tried on a single mission fighter sweep. 2xMeteor F8 vs 2xMiG-17F, near Diem Bien Phu. We started at 16000ft, with the bad guys at 11000ft, we were at their 9 o clock. I dove into one of them, while i let the other one pass me head on guns blazing to engage my wingman in the upper level. My target tried to extend on AB, but i gained a lot of speed while diving, so much that it took a generous and carefully led burst with deflection to take him out before getting me to overshoot. The second one then was chasing my wingman, and i tried to take the chance (Yeah, i know, using your wingmen as bait is unfair, but the way i see it, i´m just saving them) to kill him while he was busy, however i had exhausted my speed after turning and climbing back into them and was barely doing 300 knots while they were almost at 400. I told my wingman to break, and he acted as a genius, as he didn´t only turn into the bandit but also hit the brakes, thus forcing the enemy to slow down too (One of the advantages of attacking somebody who is chasing your flightmates is that, despite hacing a superior aircraft, they are bound to the movements of their prey, wich is as mediocre as yours. Also you can lead them much more easily by following your wingman, as anywhere he is going, the bad guy is following a few seconds later, a seconds you scratch on your advantage) and took the shot. The second MiG crashed at the edge of an airfield, so i decided not to waste the trip and strafed the Bar Lock radar and a ZSU-57-2
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