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Everytime when the west drops bomb to bring freedom and democracy into the arb world it end in a disaster. Everytime if the west supports groups of freedom and democracy the final winners are the terrorists. It was in Afghanistan were the "so" democratic Mudjahedin became the taliban. And now it are the "so" democratic arab spring revolutionaries who showed a very ugly face. Does nobody learns from the mistakes of the past?

Would be very unhealthy in Isreal then. Very high radioactivity and it would become very cold and dark. Not really good idea.

When i came home from work at this day, i found my wife sitting for the TV watching something what i thought it was a Hollywood thriller. Burning Sykscrapers, it must be a Hollywood blockbuster. An so i said: "Do you have nothing better on TV, than this strange movie?" And she answered "Its no movie, its real." . . . A long silence and then my words : "Oh s**t!" and my thought "That means war!" I think the most of us know what they have done on this day and at the moment when the skyscrappes burned. Salute to the people who lost their live. Salute to the firefighters Salute to the rescue teams. Salute to all brave men and women. :salute: :salute:

You are right, that the Skoshi Tiger was the most agile plane in US inventory, but only if you see North and South Vietnam as one theatre. The F-5A and E were never used over the north. They were used only in South Vietnam, so that their air superiority was wasted. By the way, personally i believe that the small Tiger was the best US plane in that timeframe of Vietnam war, but i think other guys have other favorits. And to your second point. I wanted to show, what the manuals stated (the data i posted are taken from a east german flight manual of the MiG-21F-13) and that was a plane was able to withstand were two different figures. And i wanted to show how the max g loads differed at different fuel loads. That other planes could reach a max g of 12 or 15 is not disputed by me. The MiG-21 was not the strongest plane, there were a lot of types which were much stronger. And i also dont want to say, that the MiG-21 was the best of the best fighters. That american pilots were unable to get the maximum out of the MiG-21 had a lot to do with a completly different design philosophy. The american planes had very comfortable cockpits, while the MiG cockpits were very small. The data system are completly different, metric vs imperial, what means, that you must first calculate befor you can act if you have a bird with the wrong data display system. My personal experience is, that i get better results in game if i fly the F-4 with showing datas in metric than in imperial style. And an other experience i made: A lot of east german car drivers had had no problems to switch from the old and outdated Trabant car to modern western car and drove the western car in a good way. The other way was much more difficult, i have rarely seen guys who have learned driving on a comfortable western car who were able to drive the Trabi in a good and efficient style. Its simpler to "upgrate" than to "downgrate". Thats so in cars and for planes too. For an american pilote the step from Phantom to the MiG-21 was a very big downgrate, so he has big problems to drive the MiG to their limits. But this does not mean, that a guy, who had always been a MiG jock wont also be unable to reach the limits of a MiG-21.

My 2 cents with a view from the other side of the iron curtain. The MiG-21 had proofed to be able to outturn all jets which the US used in Vietnam in real combat. That was the reason, because the USAF cried for a lightweight fighter. The most agil plane in US inventory was the F-8 Crusader, which was close to the turn performance to the 21F-13. You must also understand, that a lot of vietnamese pilots were physically unable to bring the MiG-21 to the outer limits of their performance range. Soviet flight trainers said, that it happend very often, that the vietnamese pilots fall into blackout, while the soviet instructors still had not had problems with grey or blackout. If you talk about the MiG-21 you must say, which version of MiG-21 do you mean. While the MiG-21F-13 was so agil, that pilots said: "if you only think to move in a direction, the MiG is always turning from itself.", the MiG-21M was so stable and agil like a lorry (truck for our US guys). The MiG-21PF was called MiG-21 Sport or MiG-21GTI for its outstanding performance, while the MiG-21MF was not as loved. The flight performance of the MiG-21 versions depends a lot of fuel volume and flight altittute. MiG-21F-13 data by sources of the east german air force LSK (confirmed by MiG-21 pilots): below 12.000 meters the speed limit was set to 1.000 km/h (with armament or tank) or 1.200 km/h clean above 12.000 meters the speed limit was set to 2.150km/h clean and 1.650 km/h loaded. (You could go faster, but this was not healthy for plane and pilot) Empty weight MiG-21F-13 was 4.871 kg. Take off weight normal was 7.110 kg take off weight with 2 R-3S and one fuel tank was 7,580 kg take off weight with 2 FAB500 and one fuel tank was 8.386 kg spooling time of the R-11F-300 12 - 15,5 sec from idle to 100% spooling time of the R-11F-300 < 20 sec from idle to full afterburner restart time in air 38 - 60 seconds (below 12.000 meters possible) max g values for MiG-21F-13 with 2 R-2S missiles speed < Mach 0,8 + fuel >1.600 liters max g is 7,0 g speed < Mach 0,8 + fuel < 1.600 liters max g is 8,0 g speed < Mach 0,8 + fuel < 1.200 liters max g is 8,5 g speed > mach 0,8 + fuel > 1.200 liters max g is 6,0 g speed > mach 0,8 + fuel < 1.200 liters max g is 7,0 (During vietnam war max g of 10g's and more was achieved. If i remember right at LSK training the max g was over 11g.) max roll speed 90°/sec And by the way, forget the strange system of lbs, feets, miles, knots etc. The MiG-21 was a soviet plane, what means all data are given in metric system.

Olympic games in Munich. The unbelievable, the never expected happend A group of palestinian terrorists entered the olympic village and captured some israeli sportsmen. Two of them they shot to death. And the bavarian police and the west german federal police proofed to be incompetent. West german military was forbitten to liberate the israelis. Israeli anti terror commandos was not allowed to come into Germany to free the sportsmen. At Fürstenfeldbruck an incompetend attempt of the bavarian police to liberate the sportsmen ended in a fiasco. All israelis died, all terrorists were killed, one munich police officer lost his life. To be honest. Nobody had an idea, that such an assault could happen. Nobody had thought about this possibility. Nobody was trained for such moment. So it came to the disaster. The lessons were learned worldwide. Anti Terror Commandos were formed. The GSG-9 in west german, the alpha teams in east germany. Salut to the dead sportsmen. May it never happen again.

For WOV editing you must use the second version of TE, not the first one which was for SFP1 only.

Could you imagine that Obama or Romney or an european state leader could do such stunts like Putin? Perhaps the former italian boss Berlusconi? But no he prefered bunga-bunga parties. Or the gay german foreign minister Westerwelle? If he would do it, i would hope he would hit one of this cranes. Or perhaps the german cancellor Angela Merkel? Hey, she would need a kite with much more lift, but why not? :no: :no: There are 100 good points to be against Putin. He is no democrat, he is an autocrat, his election was not fair ..... and so on. But he is still an impressive person.

An other Horten Nurflügler called Ho Parabel

Its the Alexejew I-215. This was an experimental fighter based on captured german design know how. Further informations you find here: http://www.aviastar....kseev_i-215.php Perhaps one early Horten Nurflügler design from Germany in the 30th or 40th like this: further infos to Horten Nurflügler projects: http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/Horten_Biography/horten_biography.html

Its said, that he got 10 years for this.

Its astonishing for me, that such an old guy was able to penetrate the outer skin of the Tiger in cockpit area with a simple axe. I always thought that a combat helicopter should withstand rounds till 12,7mm calibre but this crazy aussi showed us the contrary.

Russian developers tend always to made russian (soviet) birds, weapons tec better than they were in reality. And american developers do the same but with american technic. Look to SFP1, in game it was very easy to outcurve a MiG-21 with a F-104. In reality it never happend. No need to worry about it.

ehm, could it be that you choose a low resolution in the options menu?

The flame ball was caused by the cover material. They used a lot of straw to reduce the blast wave. But the forgot to make the staw wet (or not wet enough). So the bomb explosion not only blow away the straw, but also ignit it. So it came to a lot of minor fires.

Vielleicht liegts auch am Grafikkartentreiber. Aber wahrscheinlich hat die Grafikkarte einen Hieb weg. (Kommt mir irgendwie bekannt vor. Meine letzte Grafikkarte hatte auch solche Allüren, wenn sie zu heiß wurde gabs zuerst ein paar Anomalien (violette Punkte in den Wolken) und irgendwann wurde der Bildschirm schwarz.)

Its not ussual to detonate bombs of WW2. Normaly the bomb sweepers made the job to remove the detonator fuse. More than 100 times a year here in Germany. In Munich it was a long time delay fuse which worked on chemical base and it was to corroded to remove. So it was decided to explode the bomb. For such detonation the bomb will covered with light material to reduce the blast wave. In case of this bomb it worked not as it was supposed to be, so that some houses were dameged. Two of them beyond repair.

Mock combat between german MiG-29 and american F-15C showed very different results.

Theoretically you can do such a terrain. You must merge both tilesets into one tileset. But: But practically i dont see a way to avoid a lot of handtiling of the terrain.

I prefer the USS Defiant.

I'm a little bit confused about the Cobra versions. Especially the Q and the S version of the Army Cobras. Some folks say, thet the AH-1Q had had the Lycoming T53-L-703 engine. While others say, that it had the old Lycoming T53-L-13 and the Lycoming T53-L-703 fittet the Army Cobras versions AH-1S, P, E and F. Now my question to the wisdom of the net community, whats correct? :helpme:

thanks

Irgendwo habe ich gelesen, daß man selbst wenn man sich jetzt durchringen würde eine Bordkanone einzubauen nur 40 Schuss Munition mitführen könnte. Zu mehr ist in der kleinen Nase des deutschen Tigers einfach kein Platz.