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100 vietnamese style MiG-17 skins are made so far. Are still in testing. 100 east german style MiG-17 skins are nearly ready as well.

I made it years ago for Israel terrain and used it later in "Persian Gulf" terrain and "Baltic Entrance" terrain. All terrains were made for WoE or WoI. A stand alone download you will find here: http://combatace.com/files/file/10946-nuclear-reactor/ A simple search in the download section by using the search function and the words "nuclear reactor"

As recon bird, the MiG-25 made a great job. It operated from Egypt over Israel in the early 70th and evaded HAWK missiles and F-4E fighters by high speed high altitude runs. There were rumours, that some MiG-25 were refitted to carry medium range Anti-Radar missiles (IIRC Kh-58 or so, with a range of approx 100km). I have never seen such refitted birds in real life.

The MiG-25 fighter versions were used only by PVO Strany, what means air defence, and not by VVS, what means frontline air units. The training of the MiG-25 pilots was only intercept, not dogfighting. The plane had had no dogfight capabilities. It was designed as a very fast, very high flying, fast climbing airplane with limited air search abilities. The pilot relied only on ground control for target search. He has a very limited field of view from his cockpit. No chance for dogfighting. Even the MiG-31 was intended only as interceptor. The ability to carry the R-60 missiles is only to see as a psychological aspect. Neither MiG-25, nor 31 had a internal gun or could carry a gunpod. With the R-60 the pilots had a little weapon for selfdefence, but with the poor agility of the MiG-25 or 31, they would never had a chance to use it successfully. It is like the R-3S Atoll missiles on a L-39 Albatros trainer. Nice to see, but no real chance to use it.

The MiG-25P was a pure intercepter. It was intendet to intercept the XB-70 Valkyrie bombers and when the USA decided not to produce the Mach 3 capable bombers the MiG had no real target. The SR-71 could be intercepted by MiG-25 only in a small corridor over the Baltic Sea, between Sweden and the GDR, where the SR-71 had simple no space for flight path changes. There the SR-71 was intercepted nearly every time. In the north (Murmansk area), the MiG-25 was unable to intercept the SR-71, because already slight flight path changes of the Blackbird were enough to evade the MiG-25. With the MiG-31 the soviets had a fair chance to intercept the SR-71. The MiG-25P were only used for intercept missions. Never for escorts, CAP, recons, air-to-ground etc. The MiG-25R flew only recon missions. The tactic was simple hit and run. Avoid enemy fighters by high speed, high altitude flying. Fire the missiles and run away.

Test mission over IsraelME stock terrain. SA-6 site SA-6 firing SA-6 missile on the way missile is coming in missile hit Nesher

Vietnam skins on the way.

The term "SAM_Launcher" give the game engine the order to place at this position a SAM system. Not which SAM System. The first entry in a target area related to SAM is "SAM_RADAR". The game engine decides randomly which type of SAM Radars is set on this place (depends on availability and year). The SAM_RADAR type is connected (networked) with a specified SAM missile type. (Fansong Radar is always networked with SA-2. Flatface is networked with SA-3, StraightFlash always with SA-6 and so on) In the _data.ini of the SAM_Radar you will find the line: NetworkType=SA-3 If no SAM missiles are fired in game it could have the reason, that the radar is not working (check wheter there are SAM Radars on the map), then it could be, that the missiles in the weapondata.ini have a different designation than in the, lets say, Fansong_data.ini line "NetworkType=SA-2" An other question. If you fly over North Vietnam, as you said above, do you has tried to press F7 button to see the groundobjects? If you do this, do you see missiles on the launchers? Do you see SAM Radars? Or are there no missile launchers at all?

Here you have a simple F-14A recon mission. No enemies. Only take off from carrier fly to East Germany and come back to carrier and land there. F-14A_Recon.zip Unzip the file into your missions folder. thats it. Here are the lines: [MissionHeader] AircraftType=F-14A MissionMap=GermanyCE MissionType=RECON StartTime=8:30:00 StartDate=05/08/1982 [MissionData] FriendlyAirActivity=1 EnemyAirActivity=1 EnemyAirDefenseActivity=2 FriendlyAirDefenseActivity=2 PlayerMissionID=1 PlayerPositionID=1 MissionNumber=5123 AdjustStartPosition=FALSE AdjustBaseWaypoint=TRUE [Weather] WeatherType=SCATTERED WeatherAlt=2000.0 WeatherThickness=500.0 FogAmount=0.6 ContrailAlt=8000.0 StartWindDirection=120 StartWindSpeed=5.57222 WindGustingAmount=0.57222 [AircraftMission001] AircraftType=F-14A Name=SHOWTIME FormationType=USFighter Size=2 RandomChance=100 MissionType=RECON ObjectiveID=5 RatingForSuccess=100 StartOnGround=TRUE Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Heading=295.0 Speed=0.0 Alignment=FRIENDLY CarrierBased=TRUE Nation=USN AircraftNumber=10 Squadron= PilotTrainingStandard=EXCELLENT Loadout=Recon Waypoint[01].Command=TAKEOFF Waypoint[01].Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Waypoint[01].Size=0.0 Waypoint[01].Speed=0.0 Waypoint[02].Command=DEPART Waypoint[02].Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Waypoint[02].Size=0.0 Waypoint[02].Speed=0.0 Waypoint[03].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[03].Position=320000.00,805000.00,1000.0 Waypoint[03].Size=500.0 Waypoint[03].Speed=240.0 Waypoint[04].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[04].Position=517000.00,833000.00,1000.0 Waypoint[04].Size=1500.0 Waypoint[04].Speed=240.0 Waypoint[05].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[05].Objective=TRUE Waypoint[05].Position=539900,763000,1000.0 Waypoint[05].Size=1500.0 Waypoint[05].Speed=240.0 Waypoint[06].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[06].Position=507000.00,753000.00,1000.0 Waypoint[06].Size=1500.0 Waypoint[06].Speed=240.0 Waypoint[07].Command=APPROACH Waypoint[07].Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Waypoint[07].Size=1500.0 Waypoint[07].Speed=240.0 Waypoint[08].Command=LAND_LINEUP Waypoint[08].Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Waypoint[08].Size=0.0 Waypoint[08].Speed=0.0 Waypoint[09].Command=LAND_TOUCHDOWN Waypoint[09].Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Waypoint[09].Size=0.0 Waypoint[09].Speed=0.0 [GroundMission001] GroundObjectType=CVA-63 Name=Kitty Hawk FormationType=Single Size=1 RandomChance=100 ObjectiveID=0 RatingForSuccess=100 Position=329000.00,780000.00,0.0 Heading=295.0 Speed=10.0 Alignment=FRIENDLY NavalObject=TRUE Carrier=TRUE Nation=USN ShipNumber=25 Waypoint[01].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[01].Position=205000.00,803000.00,0.00 Waypoint[01].Size=1413.925781 Waypoint[01].GotoWaypoint=1 Waypoint[01].Speed=16.459999 [GroundMission002] GroundObjectType=SumnerFRAM2 Name=Sumner FormationType=ShipConvoy Size=6 RandomChance=100 ObjectiveID=1 RatingForSuccess=100 Position=327000.00,781000.00,0.0 Heading=295.0 Speed=10.0 Alignment=FRIENDLY NavalObject=TRUE Carrier=FALSE Nation=USN ShipNumber=14 Waypoint[01].Command=WAYPOINT Waypoint[01].Position=205000.00,803000.00,0.00 Waypoint[01].Size=1413.925781 Waypoint[01].GotoWaypoint=1 Waypoint[01].Speed=16.459999

No carrier groups north of Peenemünde. Its to shallow there. Better to place the carrier somewhere north of Bremen.

Mike Dora, does your problem happen at all terrains, or only at certain terrains? A common mistake made by terrain creation is to place to many air defence units at one target area. The game engine accept only 16 units. If you have a lot of Flak and SAM, only 16 units are active. The others does not appear. The next problem is the timeframe restriction. You should check, wheter you are flying in years with operative SAM systems. Then you should check, wheter the SAM Radars appear in game. Without Radar no missile is fired.

The question is, wheter you want to have a high tech toy for a fist full pilots or a reliable weapon, which you can build in large numbers and which is usefull on real combat. Dont missunderstand me, the F-22 and F-35 are innovative and outstanding planes, but they does not really fit the needs of the military in field. A restart of the A-10 production would have had a much better effect in the last years than all F-22 together. The F-22 is like a Battleship in the 1930th, great, outstanding, techologically the best of the best, but not really usefull in fight. Why i say this? The enemy today are terrorists like the IS. How usefull was the F-22 in fighting the IS? The enemy of tomorrow will be rather China than Russia. And China you cant beat with a fistfull of high tech fighters. You will need masses of planes, but if you set your cards on the overpriced F-22 or F-35, then you will never get enough planes, because you cant pay them.

What if Westgermany would have bought Mirages instead Starfighter:

I think i fixed it.

The model, we see in the screenshots, is an early Mi-24W or in english letters Mi-24V. It has no internal flare dispensers, only the addon flare containers below the tail. The antennas for the EWR are also not to see. And the EWU cooling device at the engine exhaust is also not there. To make it appear as Mi-24D you need only the launch rails for the Phalanga ATGM. The Mi-35 was a simplyfied export version of the Mi-24V.

After releasing the 100 camos for east german MiG-21's i want to do 100 camo skins for north vietnamese MiG-17F. A first test showed following result: As you see the outer wings are lighter than the rest of the plane. I found out, that it has something to do with the decals. But i dont know, how to handle it. Has someone of you an idea to solve this problem?

File Name: 100 east german MiG-21 camos for MiG-21 File Submitter: Gepard File Submitted: 07 January 2017 File Category: MiG-21 Click here to download this file

File uploaded. Should be available soon. Some small issues caused by anomalies of the LOD files are still existing.

In real life there was never a MiG-27K. I had "invented" it as "what if plane" in old WoE days.

100 skins are made now. Two different ways of decalplacement are tested. I hope that i can release the random skins for the MiG-21F, PF, PFM and MF this weekend. Further i tested wheter the skinset would fit on other planes, just for fun. I found some anomalies. Unfortunatly.

Nope. That was not intended. The german Phantom should have been a single seater, lighter weight version without Sparrow missiles and without air refuel capacity. It was canceled in favor of F-4F, because the demanded development costs were to high.

Ist es nicht nett, wie sich die Chefin der Grüninnen Simone Peter über die Kölner Polizei aufregt. Da haben doch die bösen Bullen die armen nordafrikanischen Intensivtäter als Nafris bezeichnet! Das ist rassistisch und böse und hundsgemein! Und dann hat man diese armen Flüchtlinge auch noch kontrolliert! Das geht doch gar nicht! Wie kann man den diesen armen Menschen so behandeln. Die haben doch schließlich auch Rechte. Und Artikel 1 des Grundgesetzes sagt ja, die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Was für ein Skandal! Die armen Nordafrikaner konnten diesesmal keine Frauen begrabschen, bestehlen oder vergewaltigen! Wie kann man diesen armen Menschen nur so den Silvesterabend versauen! Ironiemodus aus. Ich bin froh, dass die Polizei durchgegriffen hat. Gut gemacht, Leute! Und wenn sich ein paar Grüninnen daran reiben, ach Scheiß drauf! Was kümmert es eine deutsche Eiche, wenn sich ein Schwein an ihr reibt! Und all jene, die wieder einmal anfangen mit dem Grundgesetzt Artikel 1 zu wedeln, sollten das GG genauer durchlesen. Dort gibt es auch einen Artikel, der den Geltungsbereich des GG definiert. Dort steht drin, dass das GG für alle Deutschen gilt. Es ist die Sammlung unserer Rechte und Pflichten. Nordafrikanische Straftäter stehen nicht unter dem Schutz des deutschen Grundgesetzes. Nachzulesen in der Präambel des GG sind folgende Worte: "Damit gilt dieses Grundgesetz für das gesamte Deutsche Volk." Ergo Nix Tunesier, nix Albaner, nix sonstewer.

Isn't stealth overrated? Modern IRST systems are said to be capable to detect a plane at around 150 km. What if the enemy is unable to detect a F-35 by Radar, but can detect and track it with IRST systems? While mockup fights between Eurofighter in F-22, the EF was able to detect and track the Raptor at combat relevant distance. And this was in 2010. The development goes forward. It would be careless to rely only on stealth.

IIRC there was a map Anatolia or so. Perhaps this could be ....

If there is no red campaign, then it is not as difficult to make a own one. Try the knowledgebase of SF1 http://combatace.com/topic/72817-adding-new-air-services-in-a-campaign/ Here i descriped how to make a new airforce, that is already included in a campaign usable for the player. It is for WoE, but SF2 is very similar. If you have problems with it, then ask here, not post in knowledgebase.