Gepard

Really cool bird. I love it!!!

What a toy!!!! Here is the big sister of american toy: Czechoslovakian Dana 152 mm mobil gun, based of Tatra 815 truck.

Found this photo. No words.

Of course it is a What if bird and i love it. Would like to fly it as fast as possible. Good job. Now to your arguments. If you look to the Q-5 air intakes. They are placed much more forward as in your 19SK. So is no real danger, that gun smoke comes into the engines. And the inner wing pylons of the Q-5 are not as close as the 19SK pylons, which looks like MiG-17F pylons. But away with my critics. Your MiG-19SK is great!!!!

When i developed Ostseeausgang terrain i had Sweden as FRIENDLY for a while. But is unsatisfying always to fly cross the baltic sea and never to the "correct" western or eastern direction. For fun i made a campaign Sweden vs Danmark. Was a cool thing. But it was long long ago. Dont know, where it is now, perhaps deleted?

Nice bird. Really cool. I love the blue camo very much. But some remarks. In real life you wont be able to carry rockets and missiles on the inner pylons. The launch of these would cause engine stalls, if the smoke of the rockets comes into the engines. With the MiG-17 it was possible because it used radial compressor engines whiche are less vulnerable against smoke. The same issue is with the guns. You come in danger that gun smoke is coming into the air intake and you get engine stalls. To use the GP-9 gunpod under the fuselage would solve it. The UB-32 rocket pod (in game UV-32) is to heavy for outer wing pylons.

South Sweden is in the terrain. I set it to NEUTRAL, as it was in reality. For a campaign you can change it easily. If you would set Sweden as FRIENDLY the most air combat would be between swedish bases and the WP bases. The NATO bases would used only seldom in game.

And i thought it was a joke.

In my local newspaper i found, that someone in the USA wants to remove a statue of Christopher Columbus and replace it by a statue of the singer Prince. Really?

Good point. But what exactly you had already done? I for myself planted 15.000 trees with my own hands. My personal CO2 footprint is positive. I know that you like the Tesla. Its a nice masterpiece of engeneering. But its a deadend development, like the track-wheel tank invented by W. Christie or the swing wing planes. You cant solve the problems of our world with it. If all people would drive Teslas we had much more problems. From where the whole additionally electrical power should come? From the socket? The world must find a way to make renewable energy storable, whithout batteries. Global climate change is fact. But it is fact since thousands of years. At the place were i write this lines at the moment was 10.000 years ago a glacier. Iceage. The ice is not gone, because the Neandertalers grilled to many Mammoths and blowed to much CO2 in the air. It is gone, because the climate has changed. 1.000 years ago the Vikings called Greenland Greenland because it was green there, not full of glaciers and ice. The climate is changing constantly. Our human influence in this development is marginal. Its like the attempt of ants to stop a rolling rock. If you want to do something for the world, then buy products which are produced close to the place where you live, plant trees, dont try to make english lawn, but let flowers bloom and and and. Make the small steps. Not only speak. Act!!!!

For me the word ideology come from idiot. People who follow ideologies are idiots. No matter what kind of ideology. An ideology gives you the strong feeling, that you are allowed to do everything, because you are the "good guy". To be against an ideology does not mean, that you are right. Perhaps you are only a follower of an other ideology. Also an idiot, but in the other way round. Scrapping history is the wrong way. Its easy, but wrong. I remember the time after the political change in eastern germany. Monuments were scrapped, streets and even cities were renamed. The postal service was less orientation for month, because they were unable to find the adresses. New ones, old ones. Chaotic! The monument are gone, but the people remembers them. In the early days of the GDR (east germany) monuments were scrapped or removed too. But some decades later, still in GDR times, before the change, a lot of monuments came back. Bismarck, Friedrich der Große, the heros of the liberation war against Napoleon and so on. From one moment it was clear, that you cant conceal the history of the people. Historical persons are part of our history, wheter we like it or not. It depends, how to deal with it. Pro or contra. Write both on the memorial plate. Thats the right way, i think.

An electric car emits nothing? Really? The exhaust of the electric car is the next powerplant. The waste of the nuclear powerplant is a nice gift for the generations to come. If the Neandertaler would had driven Teslas powered by eletricity of nuclear powerplants, we still had to care about their nuclear waste. This is ecological nonsens and inhuman. The most polution producing car is a Tesla driven by 100% coal electricity. And by the way, Tesla car company never made profit, only losses. Its a toy of a super rich person, not the solution of the ecolocical problems of the world.

A Tesla driven with electricity made by nuclear power or coal energy is much more dangerous for the world clima than a car driven by petrol, diesel or Oxygen (fuel cell). There is even a way to produce normal petrol from air. You need electricity (solar, wind, water power), then you need Carbondioxid CO2 and Hydrogenium H2. In a first step you can create Methan CH4 and Oxygen O2 from Carbondioxid CO2 and Hydrogenium H2. In a second step you make synthetic Methanol CH3OH from Methan, the Methanol you can further make to C2H5OH Alcohol and in further steps you will get synthetic petrol. Its a proven technology. It based on the german systhetic petrol development from the 1920th, which used coal to produce high quality petrol (IN WW2 nearly all fuel for aircrafts in Germany was synthetic petrol). In 1970 the synthetic petrol based on only CO2 and H2 was invented. Its no technical problem to make it in this way. Only the oil industry and their lobby is shooting wild against this way. Synthetic fuel is a way to make the electricity by green energy storable. Electricity you cant store really good. Batteries are a bad way. But sythetic Methan, or Hydrogenium, or sythetic petrol you can store easily. An if you burn systetic methan or synthetic petrol, you will set free only the CO2 which you has used earlier to creadt the systhetic fuels. Its a closed circle. Its good for clima. Its good for the world.

I have seen the pictures of Houston in the news now. Looks really terrible. Reminds me on the big flood catastrophes we had in 2002 and 2013. The behavior of the people is always the same. They are shocked, speechless, helpless and dont know what to do next. Its sad. Truely sad. And the worst is still to come. The storm was bad, the flood of water is worse, but the worst you will face if the water is gone. Mud, dirt, cadavers of dead animals, is smells everywhere, moskitos, million of moskitos. And if the mud dry out, then you get the dust, the ugly dust. And if you had back luck, diseases will come. Make sure you're vaccinated. Tetanus, jaundice you can get.

A campaign in SF world is not linear. It is dynamic. The frontline moves in the same way, as the ground troops capture or lose startegic nodes. This has nothing to do with the date.