Gepard

You wrote: " MiG-21PF/PFL/PFS/PFM (PFL and PFM used by the VPAF in Vietnam along with the gun armed F-13 and PM)" I have never heard about a MiG-21PFL and MiG-21PM. There was a MiG-21FL export model for non allied costumers like India or Egypt. The Vietnam version was called MiG-21PFV. A gun pod could carried on late MiG-21FL (made for India first) and late MiG-21PFM. The MiG-21S also had only a gunpod, not an internal gun. This came with MiG-21M for export and MiG-21SM for soviet use.

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Could have ended much more tragic. In the flight plan was the start of Soyuz-2 ordered some hours after Soyuz-1. Soyuz-2 had a 3 man crew (IIRC). It was planed that Soyuz-1 and 2 link up. Two cosmonauts had to make an EVA, go from Soyuz 2 to Soyuz-1 and had to land with Soyuz-1. When shortly after the launch of Soyuz-1 mailfunctions appeard the launch of Soyuz-2 was canceled.

Gagarin had a flight "ban" for some years. He was not allowed to fly planes anymore. He became the chief of the cosmonaut group and was sent to foreign countries for good will tours. After some years he started to fight against the flight prohibition and in end 1967 he was allowed to fly again. After 7 years of non flying Gagarins flight skills were not good anymore, so he began the jet flight training from scratch again. Starting with L-29 trainers, then MiG-15UTI, as next step the MiG-21 was announced. .... It ended in a grave at the Kremlin wall at Red Square in Moscow. IIRC side by side with his college Komarow who died in the Sojus-1 crash in 1967.

At the moment you are to sell, lets take me an example a Volkswagen Golf 1 as Golf 6, and say, sorry that he does not looks like in reality. And this is pity. There are a lot of argentian modders who used the fake pilot to make planes appearance fitting to reality. A lot of Mirage versions they made. And they are very good. Perhaps you could ask them to make some fake pilots to make that your MiG-35 looks more like a real MiG-35. I'm sure, that they will help you, if you ask them. When i ask for help to modify the MiG-21 in a fictional carrier based MiG-21K, i got help from there. A real MiG-35 would be very welcome here, i think.

In the reality the problem is, if you store IR missiles as close as possible, that the smoke of an starting rocket engine can harm the IR sensor of the other missiles. Even dust and fume can reduce the efficency of the IR seeker in significant way.

I must fill water in your wine. The aircraft shape of the bird you used is an early MiG-29K from the late 80th. Not the MiG-35. The MiG-35 has always a big "two seater" canopy. Even the single seater MiG-35 has this big canopy, the place of the second seat is used for fuel or additional electronics. The MiG-35 has no hook. It is not intendet for carrier operations. The emergency landing procedures for eastern planes are different from western land based planes. While NATO ground based planes are using cable systems to prevent an overrolling the runway, the eastern system is basing on a net, similar to US carrier net barriers for emergency. The flaps of the MiG-35 are much bigger. They are the same as in the MiG-29K for India. The same with the airbrake. The air intake protection system of the MiG-35 is similar to the Su-27 family. Auxilary air intake on the upper strakes are not longer available. At this place a fuel tank is installed.

Nice story, nice skins. BTW, had the vietnamese planes a flag on the tailfin? Cant remember.

At the moment the "bad russian bear" is walking through all newspapers and TV news. Theresa May has a problem with the Brexit, the russians are to blame. A british hacker attacked the german Telekom, the russians are to blame. Russian planes are flying in international space over the Baltic Sea from St.Petersburg to Kaliningrad, the russians are to blame. Its snows like the hell in Germany today, the russians are to blame. Do you really believe, that Putin placed special agents in every polling booth in the USA to force the poor american voter to make his cross for Donald T.? If our beloved peace nobel price laureat Barrack B. and his smart and peacefull Hillary C. would not have sent strong forces to the russian border, the russian bear would behave in an other way. How to call into the forest, it comes out. Our western propaganda is as bad as the russian propaganda. Both is stupid. We should ask the old question: Who benefits? And i think the answer we would not love.

Take off from Nakashibetsu Airport.

Oh come on. Calm down. Kinshal is far away to be operational. Its a prototype. In Russia is Presidental Election time. Putin wants to show strenght. Thats all. No need to worry about it.

The estimated loss rate for a WW3 scenario in Central Europe in early/mid 80th was around 80% per mission. The lifetime of tanks was calculated in less than one hour after entering battle. The area would have been full of Flak and SAM. Ground targets would have been mixed with lots of decoys. Do you remember the Kosovo war 1999? NATO stated to have killed hundreds of serbian tanks. After the war only 13 destroyed tanks were found, but hundrets of destroyed decoys. Here decoys of the NVA (east german army) BTR-60 decoy Torpedo boat Type KTS decoy Cheap and easy to build. From fast moving plane difficult to distinguish from real object. The only task of the decoys was to lure out the enemy to fire cost intensive precision weapons. A LGB costs perhaps 10.000 US$ in the late 80th. A decoy less that 100 $. I think we had more decoys, than the NATO had missiles.

I would think, that a commie Spain would use the markings of the Republic during Civil War 1936 - 39. Perhaps in the style of the I-16 Mosca (called Rata by the fascist forces). Red fast ID markings and the flag of the spanish republic on the siderudder.

If so, the skin must be changed. The black cross on white field was a fast ID marking for Franco planes. A commie Spain would have never used it. Instead a red, yellow, lilac flag on the tail.

A plane like the F-20 as export fighter for countries with low defence budget would have been great. Not only for third world countries, i think on Switzerland, Austria, Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary, the baltic states and Germany too.

There is no Yak-130 available. A plane with similar design would be the chinese L-15.

Town of Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido.

View File F/A-18A made by TMF (TheMirageFactory) This is the old and original F/A-18A Hornet made by TMF. The original host place is gone. So i upload the file for all of us, who still love it to fly the first generation Wings Over .... sims. Below the readme: F/A-18A Hornet made by The Mirage Factory **************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------- I. This mod is written for WoX +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. CREDITS: This plane is made by TMF. SFP1 Model Plane 3D : Flying Toaster Mapping, SFP1 import : BPAo Base Textures : Column5 VMFA-122 Markings : USAFMTL FM : Column5 Cockpit 3D : Flying Toaster/BPAo Textures : BPAo, HUD from Kesselbrut Effects : BPAo Bidons 3D : BPAo Textures : Column5 Test Team Camouflage, Manetsim, Sony Tuckson, Column5, Tom Venom, USAFMTL My little part was only to repack the files into 7zip format. ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip all files into your Wings over Europe or Wings over Israel or Wings over Vietnam or Strike Fighters folder. ------------------------------------------------------------ IV. This mod is FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL use is NOT ALLOWED. ---------------------------------------------------------- V. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM. Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) February 2018 Submitter Gepard Submitted 02/11/2018 Category F/A-18 Hornet  

I have loaded the plane into the Download area. It still need the Okay of an admin. Then you can fly and enjoy the original TMF F/A-18A.

I think its the same file:

I think i have found the original on my harddrive. The file has the name FA_18A_Hornet_V1.0, it is from 2007 12th of April, Size 10.355 kB If you want i would upload it or send it to you via PM.

Same with me. No access to the link.

AFIIK the site is not longer available. BUT: You can download a modified version of the plane here: The olny thing is, that you must open the f/A-18A_data.ini with notepad editor and change the entry NationName=KUWAIT into NationName=USN save the file. Then you need a american Navy Skin like these:

The codes in weapons.ini and plane_data.ini must be exactly the same.