Gepard

Revers engineering is a very first step to learn how to build a plane. The soviets did it with german and american planes. The chinese learned the job by reverse engineering of soviet planes. The first french and swedish jet fighters based on german designs. Its a common way. It seem to be possible that Iran take the same way. Better good reverse engineered that bad self developed.

I removed the ; comment, but nothing happend. Thx to all who replied.

It seems to be, that the flaps on the TW DLC Su-9 Fishpod are not working. In game, on the runway, the flaps are always in up position, they never come down. In the su-9_data.ini i found the lines [LeftFlap] SystemType=HIGHLIFT_DEVICE CLiftdc=0.2739 CDdc=0.0405 Cmdc=-0.0079 DeltaStallAlpha=-3.39 AreaRatio=1.050 DeploymentMethod=MANUAL Setting[1].Angle=25.0 Setting[1].DeployValue=123.5 Setting[2].Angle=50.0 Setting[2].DeployValue=123.5 MaxDeflection=50.0 MinDeflection=0.0 ControlRate=0.2 AnimationID=2 ;ModelNodeName=flap_L >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I removed the ; before ModelNodeName but nothing happend. Any idea, how to solve this?

Sukhoi Su-9P, modernized Fishpod with GP-9 gunpod.

If the Sukhoi Su-9 would have been produced in license as Mirage VI.

Unfortunatly jump ramp carriers are not supported by the game engine. Some years ago i had seen a Kusnetzow class carrier as work in development at MarcFighters http://marcfighters.combatace.com/screens42.htm Here a picture from this site. Seems to be, that it was never released.

That problem we had seen some month ago too. After a short time the shop was online again. I hope it will be the same this time.

https://www.thelocal.se/20180725/watch-swedish-fighter-jets-drop-bombs-on-forest-fire To fight a forest fire swedish Gripen dropped GPS and laser guided bombs.

If you look closer to the fact you will see, that the opening of fire happend only when the intruder was deep in our airspace. Gardelegen was more than 30km away from the border, Erfurt more than 50km. Short violations of airspace and short high speed runs over some areas was a common thing in the bad old time. No need to open the fire. Civilian intruders sometimes flew up to 130 km from west into our airspace. Mostly Cessnas with old commiehater pilots. This ended in the mid 80th when the Mi-24 got the task to stop such intruders.

I see your point, but 2 km inside the airspace is nothing for a military jet. This is in the range of a normal navigation error. Especially it the IS targets are close to the golan heights. If we would have accted like the israelis in the bad old time and would have opened the fire if NATO planes entered our airspace a little bit WW3 would have started a lot of times. And i think vice versa, if soviet planes tested the west german borderline. The israeli shooters were a little bit over nervouse or simple trigger happy.

The Sukhoi was attacking IS forces close to the Golan heights. I think the IS is a bigger danger for us all than Assad. So the shot down was a mistake.

Since 2014 the game has updated a lot of times. Its still fun, but with a much better graphic engine. BTW, this is graphic setting nearly minimum.

In reality you can select the size of the salvo. In the Mi-24 it was possible to fire 1 rocket per pod, 4 rockets per pod, 16 per pod or all rockets at one time. In the AH-1 it was the same procedure.

There is no simple solution. The "easiest way" is to move the runway to a flat area. The other way is to use the TerrainEditor to flatten the area around the runway.

The F-104 Starfighter was the intended air superiority fighter for the USAF.

The runway is placed not on a flat area. Its a terrain issue, has nothing to do with the campaign.

Had Libya had MiG-23MLD? MS, MF and ML they had. but MLD?

Here a east german propagada movie. Interessing part starts at 1:00.

Some soviet cinema movies. Storyline: American are bad, soviets are brave good guys.

That would be file piracy and this is forbitten here. We are not in China.

With the MiG-23ML a new swing wing position was possible. For dogfight the wings was now moved to 30° which gave a much better turn rate than before. The empty weight was around 1 t lighter. I have seen MiG-23ML making a full circle in 22seconds.

What if East Germany will rise again:

The MiG-23 had had no automated swing wings. The pilot had to move the wings by "hand".

The soviet war literature is the same as the american. "We are the heros, the others are the dumb fools." An other thing were the military literature, which was intended to teach lessons to the new military generation. From tanks over planes to air defence. There were also analysis of different wars after WW2, from Korea to Falkland, and mostly without any idiological rubbish. Biographies would be also interessting. Pokryshkin, the soviet no 2 ace in WW2, wrote a very interesting one. Then there was a czech or slovak author. Franticek Faitle, who fought first in the RAF and then moved to the USSR and then was transfered into the area of slovak national rebellion to fight with La-5FN against the german Luftwaffe in Slovakia. Problem. All in german translation. I doubt, that english translations are available. Edit, the czech pilot was: František Fajtl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/František_Fajtl

Does it happen everytime or only at certain targets?