Gepard
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Russian soldiers/pilots in Vietnam?
Gepard replied to MAKO69's topic in Military and General Aviation
North vietnamese MiG-21 aces: Nguyen Van Coc......9 kills Pham Thanh Ngan.....8 kills Nguyen Hing Nhi.....8 Kills Mai Van Cuong.......8 kills Dang Ngoc Ngu.......7 kills and 8 pilots with 5 or 6 kills North Vietnamese MiG-17 aces Nguyen Van Bay......7 kills Luu Huy Chao........6 kills Le Hai..............6 kills Nguyen Nhat Chieu...6 kills I think the legendary Col Tomb was an imagination of the US pilots, an amalgam of all vietnamese ace pilots, caused by photos of vietnamese MiG's with a lot of kill marks, and the missinterpretation, that the killmarks means that the kills would belongs to a single pilot. Correct was, that the killmark was credited to the plane, not to the pilot. -
"Berliner Luftbrücke" - When Allied Airmen fed the isolated West Berlin
Gepard replied to Olham's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
Ehm. At this time West Berlin was not surrounded by the GDR. The GDR was founded on 7.October 1949, more than one year later than the start of the Airbridge and one month later than the Federal Republic of Germany. The "birthday" of the FRG was never an official celebration day, because also the most "smart" people of Germany would realise who had ruptured Germany into parts. West Berlin was never a part of the FRG, it was a seperate part of Germany under westallied occupation (you can called it protection if you want). The Berlin Blockade was started when the west allies made a surprising currency change. They changed the old Reichsmark into "Deutsche Mark West Berlin" under the condition, that only money on saving accounts were changed in a relation of 10:1. All cash money was not changed. At the same time the Reichsmark was the official money in East Berlin, so that billions of Reichsmark flew over the open border into the east and had a devasting effect of the east german economy (inflation) The soviet command had seen only one methode to stop the moneyflow and closed the border with military force. Then they organized a money change in the eastern zone of germany. and so on..... Perhaps we will see a similar behaviour of the EU states if Greece will leave the Euro zone. Maybe. Enough with backroundinfos. The british, american and french pilots made a great job. No doubt. -
Ich weiß, klingt nach einer blöden Frage. Habe gehört, daß die im Kosowo vor einiger Zeit die DM als Zahlungsmittel hatten. Ist das heute noch so? Wenn nicht, dann frage ich mich wieso die Bundesdruckerei Leipzig wie blöde DM Scheine druckt :dntknw: Oder hat das was mit unseren Ouzo trinkenden Artgenossen zu tun????? Grübel, grübel, grübel ............
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Norway Map?
Gepard replied to TheWarrior's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mission & Campaign Building Discussion
You cant expand an existing map. If you want it larger you must start from the scratch and build a new one. Unfortunatly. -
Also den Terminus "blaue Fliesen" habe ich nie gehört. Vielleicht war das eine lokale Angelegenheit in Berlin oder sonstwo, aber bestimmt nicht DDR-weit. Die Scheinchen aus Westgermanien hießen bei uns nur "Westgeld"
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Ja und wenn gegnerische Jäger auftauchen hast Du die absolute Arschkarte.
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Okay, back to the Catalina. One problem was that the soviets and the western states disagrred about the sea borders of the Soviet union. In western views, the bay of Riga was (in the 40th - 60th of the last century) open and international water, while the soviets claimed it as their own territory.
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Okay. To the KAL story. There was a RC-135 in the aera. That had sniffed around a lot of times, came over the radar horizon and hide behind it. Again and again, contiuse provocation over some hours. When the KAL007 appeared, the RC-135 was on the way home, but the soviets thought, that the KAL Jumbo was the RC-135 again. Missidentifikation is easily possible, because the RC-135 has a humpback like the 747. Some days ago, american planes violated the soviet airspace in big numbers, flew across Kamchatka penisula, which was seen as a humilation of the soviet air defence. The officers in Far east got serious troubles with STAVKA (soviet HQ), so that they were willing to stop every violation of airspace with using of fire. The americans were aware of the soviet alert situation and knew that the kAL was away from its course. In this situation they could have easily contacted the KAL plane or via Red Telephone the soviets. But they did nothing. The american side is as guilty as the soviet side for the dead of innocent people. You say, the plane was indentified. This is only partly true. It was identified as a 4 engine plane with humpback and lights on the side. In the soviet air community is gave the rumour, that the americans used camo lights to cover their SIGINT RC-135 as Boing 747, so the KAL Jumbo was seen as american spy plane and thatswhy shoten down. Of course this was a big mistake. But only some days later the same ground contoller ordered an fighter attack on a soviet IL-22 sub hunter, because it was missidentified as P-3 Orion.
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Russian Huey what-if?
Gepard replied to dsawan's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Sci-Fi/Anime/What If Forum
Make a netsearch for Mi-22 and you will be surpised. -
Ich stimme meinem Vorredner völlig zu. Als alternative Taktik hilft nur das Ziel selbst zu zerstören und den Flügelmann mit Luft-Luft-Raketen auszustatten um ihn als persönlichen Geleitschutz zu verwenden.
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Norway Map?
Gepard replied to TheWarrior's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mission & Campaign Building Discussion
Norway is difficult to make as terrain. You has a lot of fjords, the land is rough. Not easy. And as closer you come to the north pole the warp effects of the terrain editor become more and more important. What means, while the north south distances are more or less accurate, the west east distances are wrong (in the north more than in the south of the map). -
The KAL007 shotdown was a bad game on the back of the passengers. And it has a very bitter taste, because the american intelligence community sacrificed innocent life by doing nothing. It was a "nice" trap and the soviets were catched with trousers down.
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There were a lot of western planes shot down by soviet fighters in this time. Of course all of them (i mean the western planes) had peacefull intentions or made navigation errors and the bad soviets were trigger happy to shot down the innocent western planes.
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And it happend. Some hundred hooligans, mostly polish, made their own little ugly war. The police should have captured them all and send this self declared "heros and defenders of the motherland" to Afghanistan for mine sweeping, but without mine detection equippment. The game Russia 1 : 1 Poland, was not bad. This was football and not this terror the brainless fools made outside the stadium. The polish newspaper "Rzespospolita" had today the headline "SHAME". Greece 1 : 2 Czech Republic. After 6 minutes i thougt, that the czech will have an easy way, but after the 1:2 they were really shocked. But they won.
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THe cease fire between France and England after the 1:1 was boring. Today evening Poland vs Russia. Seems to be that some russian "fans" want to provoke the polish people with a "independence day march" in Warsaw. Could be an ugly hooligan fest if the polish police cant suppress it.
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Mirage F-1C-200
Gepard replied to ludo.m54's topic in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Mods & Skinning Discussion
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Some Detail about the "Pour-le-Mérite"
Gepard replied to Olham's topic in WOFF UE/PE - General Discussion
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MiG-23PFM Fishtail-D Beta ***************** ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History This is a "What if" plane. It was not real, but could have been it if the E-8 development line would not have been canceled in 1962. Imagine: A lot of MiG ingenieurs did not agree with Mikoyans decision to stop the E-8 program. They made a proposal to use proven elements of the E-8 and the MiG-21PF to start a new project called E-9. Mikoyan agreed and intended to use the E-9 as gap filler till his favored project E-11, the later swing wing MiG-23 Flogger, was ready. In autumn 1963 the E-9 was ready for flight tests. It was a combination of MiG-21PF engine, wings and avionics with a new fuselage, tail and canards. The E-9 was accepted by the soviet air force in spring 1964 and entered the production line in summer 1964 as MiG-23F. In 1966 the Soviet Air Force demanded to equip the new fighter with state of the art avionics and to increase the range. So the MiG-23 Fishtail got a bigger fuselageback fueltank, a modified vertical tail, a mirror on the canopy. Other modifications are the more powerfull R-13 engine and the Saphir-21 Radar, but in the version RP-23. It is not widely known, that the Saphir 21 was originaly developed for the E-8. Only with a smaller antenna it could be fitted in the MiG-21 as RP-22. The smaller antenna reduced the detection range of this radar by 10 km. An other welcome addition of the PF is the ability to carry one gunpod under the left wing root. In 1970 the last and most advanced version of the Fishtail was accepted by the Soviet Air Force. New features were the R-25 engine and the big backfueltank. The combat abilities were incresed by a now internal GSha-23 gun, double short range IR missile rails and chaff flare dispensers. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. Known issues. It is still a beta. I know that the flight gear movement is not perfect. I know, that the skin is only a test shot, quick and dirty. etc. I will try to make it better as fast as possible. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. CREDITS: I want to say thank you to a lot of guys who helped me with files, ideas and hints. First of all i want to say thank you to Ricardo Batalha whos MiG-21 gmax file was the basic for this bird. Thanks to EricGen, Amokfloo, Blackbird, Wrench ... for their hints and ideas. A big thanks to Paladrian for the Cockpit. And again a big thank you to TK for the MiG-21 flight modell that i modded to make this bird. ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. INSTALLATION: -Unzip all files into your objects/aircraft folder. Thats it ---------------------------------------------------------------- V. The MiG-23PFM Fishtail-D is FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED. ---------------------------------------------------------- VI. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use CombatAce forum or send me a PM. Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany March 2009
