Spinners

In the words of the Prince Regent, "Hurrah!" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-d5nUCJEjU

The Herc's look awesome! BTW terrible news about Craig's HD crash.

View File [Fictional] Republic F-7S Thunderstorm Republic F-7S Thunderstorm for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of the stock MiG-23P to give a fictional Republic F-7S Thunderstorm in service with the Aeronautica Militare during the 1970-2005 timeline and includes the famous 'Devil' markings of 6 Stormo (154 Gruppo). You'll need to have SF2E for the Mig-23P LOD's (not included) and the pit from the F-105D_66 is used to get you flying. Radar and avionics are not my thing so forgive me if I've overlooked something but I like to make my mods nice and simple, just like me. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-7S folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-7S folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 9th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 03/22/2010 Category What If Hangar

I don't think so, I mean how would you select between the two and how would the game engine cope with the decals? Just copy the skin and edit the TEXTURESET and DECAL ini's plus the NUMBERS list and PATCH (optional).

MiG-23P - 154 Gruppo, 6 Stormo, Aeronautica Militare

Are you sure that the right LOD is there?

MiG-23P - 651 Gruppo, 51 Stormo, Aeronautica Militare

Eye of the Tiger

View File [Fictional] Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F-23J 'Tora' Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F-23J for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of Dels' excellent F-23A 'Black Widow' to give a fictional F-23J 'Tora' (Tiger) of the Japanese Air Self-Defense Force with markings for the 302nd Hikotai in a retro 'Zero' scheme (suggested by Canadair). BACKSTORY (This backstory was for my Israeli F-23 but explains why the Black Widow ended up in the land of the Rising Sun). With the success of the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom and F-15 Eagle in Heyl HaAvir service the Israeli's were hoping that the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas F-23A 'Black Widow' would win the USAF's ATF competition to continue their relationship with the McDonnell team at St. Louis but unfortunately Lockheed Martin's victory in the ATF competition looked like bringing an end to a long and enduring partnership. However in a brave move, in May 1991 the Northrop/McDonnell Douglas team secured permission from Congress to actively market the F-23 to (State Department) 'approved' nations and offered a single-seat multi-role version called the F-23I (International) to Germany, Japan, Israel and the UK. With Germany looking for any excuse to get out of the Eurofighter consortium and facing high reunification costs they persuaded the UK to team up in a combined purchase of 200 F-23I's. In return, this led to the German and UK Governments persuading Northrop/McDonnell Douglas to make BAe and MBB prime sub-contractors for any further export sales. However, with only 200 F-23I's on order Northrop/McDonnell Douglas were not convinced that it was enough to start a viable programme but the breakthrough came in January 1994 when, due to increasing tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the USAF agreed to purchase 100 F-23A's for PACAF (the air component of United States Pacific Command) and this move finally saw Japan and Israel also join the programme with 100 F-23I's each. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-23J folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-23J folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. Massive thanks to Dels for this superb add-on aircraft - one of the very best. Special thanks to Canadair for suggesting the retro Zero style F-23J. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 12th, 2024. Submitter Spinners Submitted 03/20/2010 Category What If Hangar

F-23J - 501st Hikotai, Japan Air Self-Defense Force

Sayonara Baby!

ghostrider883 did the skin and kept this project in the real worldTM!!

View File Dassault Mirage 5PA - Pakistan Air Force Dassault Mirage 5PA for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire Dassault Mirage 5F to give a Mirage 5PA in service with the Pakistan Air Force and with markings for the Combat Commanders' School and also for No.25 squadron. Photographs show many changes during the lifetime of the PAF's Mirage 5PA's so this can only be regarded as generic and a snapshot in time. Both the Mirage 5F and the Nesher cockpit are needed for this mod. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the Mirage5PA folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the Mirage5PA folder into your Decals folder. 3. From the PILOTS folder drag and drop the PILOT_PAF into your Pilots folder. CREDITS As always, thanks to TK for a great little game/sim. Special thanks to ghostrider883 for the idea, PAF skin and research. And thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 04/01/2015 Version 1 - 17/03/2010 Submitter Spinners Submitted 03/17/2010 Category Mirage 5

Mirage 5PA - Combat Commanders' School, Pakistan Air Force

Dassault Mirage IIIC - 302nd Hikotai, Japan Air Self-Defense Force

Thanks. But, as mentioned, the skin is by Coyote not me. I just added the decals.

I also think that SidDogg did a few for USAF Phantoms at about this time last year and it's easy enough to cut and paste the Spey nozzles onto the relevant bitmap to convert it to fit the Third Wire F-4M.

I took this screenshot about two years ago and the skin is by Coyote And this is where the skin is from http://www.bobsyouruncle.net/StrikeFighterSkins.htm

Sony and Toshiba. And they would have been smaller and more reliable

Dassault Mirage 5PA - No.25 Squadron, PAF. Testing ghostrider883's PAF skin (over Vietnam lol)

Dassault Mirage 5PA - No.25 Squadron, Pakistan Air Force @ghostrider883 - Superb skin mate! Serial Number decal is just a temp and I'll fiddle with things tomorrow night.

Tora! Tora! Tora!