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File Name: Kang Ding class frigate File Submitter: WhiteBoySamurai File Submitted: 21 March 2015 File Category: Frigates This model represents the Kang Ding class frigate of the Republic of China Navy, in service from 1996 to present. They are a version of the La Fayette class built for Taiwan. Six Kang Ding class ships are now in ROCN service. The Kang Ding has slightly different structure and electronics from the La Fayette, and entirely different weapon systems. She is armed with a 76mm gun, two Bofors 40mm guns, Phalanx CIWS, Sea Chaparral point defense SAMs, and Hsiung Feng II anti-ship missiles. Note: You will require a capital ship to create a proper task group in game, such as the Kee Lung class (Taiwan's most powerful warship), available here. Other modern ROCN vessels are available here. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or constructive criticisms regarding this model, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you! Click here to download this file

The Kang Ding is uploaded and awaiting approval. We now have all of Taiwan's major surface combatants available for the sim. Here is a close-up of the new Hsiung Feng II missile, on its way to meet a friend. I made two versions, ship-launched (with booster) and air-launched (without booster). Both are included in the package. I also posted an update for the La Fayette. There were a couple of typos in the data file, causing the ship to run out of missiles too early. You can either download the new version or just edit the data.ini manually as described in the support topic. Sorry for the inconvenience.

File Name: La Fayette class frigate File Submitter: WhiteBoySamurai File Submitted: 08 March 2015 File Category: Frigates This model represents the La Fayette class frigate of the French Navy, in service from 1996 to present. Referred to as a stealth frigate, the La Fayette's angled design and radar-absorbent composites greatly reduce its radar cross section. Five La Fayette class ships are now in French service, and export variants have been sold to Taiwan, Saudi Arabia, and Singapore (not included in this package). The La Fayette is armed with a modernized 100mm gun, 20mm close in weapons, eight MM40 Exocet missiles, and eight Crotale missiles (with reloads). The flight deck can support one medium helicopter. See the readme for full details and credits. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or constructive criticisms regarding this model, please do not hesitate to contact me. Thank you! Special thanks to FRPignon for the hull number decals. Click here to download this file

Thank you all for downloading. This model has been updated to fix an issue with the missile reloads that I just noticed. You can either replace the data file from the updated package I uploaded, or manually make the following changes to the data.ini file. Under the [super] section: ... SystemName[010]=Missile1 SystemName[011]=Missile2 SystemName[012]=Missile3 SystemName[013]=Missile4 ... At the SSM launchers near the end of the file: [sSM1] SystemType=MISSILE GunnerID=5 MissileID=1 WeaponTypeName=MM40 WeaponPosition=-2.055,-2.1,12.71 ShowMissile=FALSE IndependentPitchMovement=FALSE ReloadCount=3 ReloadTime=1.0 ... [sSM2] SystemType=MISSILE GunnerID=6 MissileID=1 WeaponTypeName=MM40 WeaponPosition=2.055,-4.1,12.71 ShowMissile=FALSE IndependentPitchMovement=FALSE ReloadCount=3 ReloadTime=1.0

Thanks, krfrge. Kang Ding is almost done. Still need to do decals and a ship-launched Hsiung Feng II missile.

I was doing a simple Ka-29 recon mission in the wastelands when I got bounced by some very aggressive F-5's. I got a maneuver kill on one. But as it happened, the survivor chased me right into the line of fire of a Vulcan AAA. It didn't end well.

Okay, okay, I can do it. As always, if anyone can supply nice 3-views and line drawings, ships will get built much faster. I just finished this new 40mm Bofors. Taiwan uses them on the Kang Ding and Cheng Kung (locally-build O.H. Perry frigates). I don't know of any other navies that use this mount. Here's the Kang Ding with the new mast and hull modifications. I just need to make the new radar and install the weapon systems.

Nice work, man! I'm sending you a new stand-alone Phalanx model. I re-optimized it and remapped to a separate sheet like the other guns. This will also make it easier for me in the future to install on new ships. (I really should've been doing that from the beginning.)

I do have some Russian vessels planned, including a couple of modern frigates and rebuilt/retextured Kirov series. I haven't made a Moskva yet, but I'd like to someday if I have time.

Extremely useful video about smoothing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Iswm1xKtGs If it's not working as shown in this video, you probably need to weld vertices like russouk2004 said.

In their deal with Taiwan, France was able to sell La Fayette hulls and their electronics, but not the weapon systems. Taiwan had to improvise a bit when fitting the Kang Ding class. So far, I've added the 76mm gun and Sea Chaparral launcher:

Looks great, colmack! I just finished a bunch of 3" 50cal guns; check your email for them soon. From right to left: The open-mount I originally made for the Leahy, but I re-mapped it on its own texture sheet so you can use it more efficiently in other ships. Iwo Jima was laid down with these. Standard Mk33 turret, which has a really weird shape and I'm not 100% satisfied with, but I think it's close enough. The LPH's got a refit to this type at some point. Alternate Mk33 turret, used on other types of ships like the Oslo class frigates. I'm including them here for completion.

For questions 2 and 8, there is a partial solution if you want a second sortie without ending the mission. Go to your Controls folder. There should be an .ini file in there that lists all the key controls, such as "Default.ini". Open that up, and look for the [ControlSet001] column. At the end, paste in the following: REARM_WEAPONS=ALT+W RELOAD_GUN=ALT+G UNJAM_GUN=ALT+J After you land, press Alt+W and then Alt+G to re-arm your weapons and replenish gun ammo. Taxi back around and take off. (You can change the key presses to anything else you want, of course.) There are a lot of limitations, of course. I don't think there's any such command for refueling or replenishing chaff/flares, for one thing. The rest of your squadron will de-spawn once they land, so you'd have to do your sortie solo. If you land on a carrier, you can't reset the catapult. And finally, there'll be no waypoints to follow.

La Fayette is being uploaded now. The Taiwanese Kang Ding will be a separate release, to make it simpler for those of you who only play in the European theater or Pacific theater. Fun fact: The service dates for the Suffren, Jeanne d'Arc, and even this modern stealth ship all overlap by a decade (1996 to 2007). So you can have them all in one fleet during that time period. Enjoy!

La Fayette is 99% done; just need to add some weathering. Next is the Kang Ding-- I'll need to modify the hangar, build new masts and radars, Sea Chaparral and Bofors turrets, and install a 76mm and phalanx. Should take another week at most. As you may know, there was a La Fayette made for SF1 a long time ago. Here are some screenshots of my version and the old version to show why I think it deserved a new model:

You working on that, colmack? I've got 3" guns and Sea Sparrow launchers if you need them.

Here's a video of Boeing's similar project, the Advanced Tactical Laser, being fired from a C-130. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfmEUqmgsK4 Imagine driving along in your technical on the way to behead a journalist or something, and all of a sudden an invisible force slices through the hood and sets your engine on fire. Anyone who survives something like that is going to re-evaluate their life choices, or at least rush to get a change of underwear.

Coincidentally, some of the sound effects seem to have been lifted from Strike Fighters.

Starting the textures.

"Far over the misty mountains cold..."

Thanks KJakker, that's a big help. The La Fayette model is done and unwrapped. Will test and begin skinning soon.

Another great man is taken from us. RIP.

^ Replied, Dave. Alright, I'll put together a package for the Ka-29. I hope someone can improve on the skin and flight model. More progress on the La Fayette: Need to finish the Crotale launcher, add in some details, and then start texturing.