Gepard

Poland : Greece 1:1

What we see in Syria is an religious civil war. The minority of the syrian people are shiit (like Iran and Iraq) and alawit (local minority). The majority is sunnit (like Saudi Arabia). Sunni Saudis and shia Iranians now play their own little and ugly game who is the leading power in middle east. And they play it on the back of the syrian people. Unfortunatly the west cant do anything in the right way. If we would support the anti Bashar forces we support the Saudis and their medieval style of islam. If we let survive Bashar, then we support the Iranians. Its a lose lose situation for us. Either the societey who was the basic for Al-Queda or the Ayathollas. What a mess!!!!!

Yes they were there. In my military time i heared from one Vietnam veteran who came back to a soviet SAM unit in the GDR (east germany). Soviet SAM sites there were neat and clean, the ways were well made, with white painted stone on the edge. And the veteran said to his new comrades, you only must paint some crosshairs on the sam site for the NATO, with no camo this site will survive no 5 minutes if the Amis really attack. His collegues found his words not very funny.

Cant also not land at WOE

I tried the Vulcan to fly. Normaly it is only a target for my Mirages when flying over BoB terrain. Now, when flying the bird i found, that the AI was unable to land this bird. Is it only at my system or is it an FM issue?

Such a reference file does not exist as far as i know.

For a scripted mission it is possible, but for a random generated mission it could be difficult for the AI planes to find the way to the runway.

30th February

The tail art is defined in the decals.ini of the camo folders of the plane. if you look into this files with notepad editor you find lines like: FilenameFormat=F4_SqTailL or FilenameFormat=A4_SqTailL A F-4 cant show tailart of a A-4, because it is an other picture file. it needs a F4_SqTailL.tga file and not an A4_SqTailL.tga to be visible. Thatswhy a squadron batch of a F-4 is not shown on an A-4 tail and vice versa.

Works fine with CAS, Armed Recon and Anti-Ship. All directed to IsraelME.CAT.

Speyer is not bad. Its worth a travel.

I put it in an April2012 patched installation (have only SF2Israel and NA) and it worked well.

so now the figures i have found so far to Korea: During Korea war the american press and the Pentagon had spoken of a 14 : 1 kill ratio. In a report written in 1954 for the Fiscal Year 1953 it was officially said, that 792 MiG-15 were downed while 76 F-86 were lost. Its a ratio now of 10.4 : 1. (This is an extract of the paper where the always stated 792MiG's and 76 Sabres come from.) Some years later the data were changed again to 757 MiG's shot down and 103 F-86 lost. Its a ratio of 7.3 : 1, what was only the half of the ratio which was claimed during the war. On an other place it is stated, that 118 Sabre pilots were killed in action and 26 were missed in action. If we add this numbers we get 144 lost F-86 pilots. And i think that it is impossible to lose a pilot of a single seat plane without to lose the plane. If we now calculate the number of MiG-15 which russian sources admit since the break down of the USSR (335 planes and 124 pilots) and the number of lost american F-86 pilots (144), so we get a ratio 2.3 : 1 for the Sabre or 1 : 1.2 for the soviet pilots. There were 26 soviet aces with a total score of 249 shot down american planes. But there were much more soviet pilots in Korea and it is more than possible that this guys had some kills too.

If i remember right the britsh sold their last Harriers to the USMC. THe USMC used them as spare part depot (damn what means Ersatzteilspender on english )

Some data to the soviets in Korea: The 324.IAD (Fighterdivision) 6738 missions claimed to have shot down 215 planes lost 26 planes (written off) and 9 pilots (killed in combat) top scorer Yevgenij Pepeljayev with 109 mission, 38 dogfights and 19 shot down planes (15 kills are confirmed by american sources) 303. IAD unknown number of missions claimed to have shot down 302 enemy planes lost between 34 and 50 planes (written off) [there are various sources with different lost figures. Some state, that only 30 MiG-15 were lost, but two of the 3 fighter regiments (523.IAP + 18.GwIAP) lost 34 planes (16+18)] 18 pilots were killed in combat top scorer Nikolay Sutyagin with 21 kills (13 can confirmed by american sources) This 2 divisons operated in 1951 till January (?) 1952 in Korea. They were equipped with WW2 veterans, which already had fought against Nazi Germany and Japan. The later divisions which replaced the veterans were mostly "green" and had fewer pilots with combat experience. The results thatswhy became disappointing. The american system of constant replacement of pilots with an included learning by doing phase was much superior to the soviet system of replacing entire units. So the know how of the veterans could be learned much more effective by the rookies, then by the soviets. The Koljas learned this lesson very slowly. But in early 1953 the pilots of the elite divisions became trainers of the next soviet fighter divisions which were to deploy to Korea in late 1953 with MiG-17. In the memoires of Pepeljajew it sound like this course was a soviet style "Top Gun school" (By the way, the USSR had such a school, if i remember correctly in Turkmenistan) The caesefire of Panmunjon stopped this activities. Were are the informations from? This are mostly from the memoires of Pepeljajew. You must not forget, that the soviets denied till the end of the USSR that soviet pilots had fought in Korea. There were never kill : loss ratios published. In contrary to the western press it was in no soviet book to read what happend in Korea. In the books i could get in the GDR , you could read between the lines (i hope this is the correct english term) that there must have been something, but never a figure or a ratio. [Ergo nix brainwashing during commy times was all top secret] All data which were published after the break down of the USSR came from former internal soviet reports. This reports were "top secret" in the Cold war time. And it is doubtfull, that the soviet military had cheaten itself by extreme overclaiming. But there is also the word of Pepeljajew who said: "Not all was is called a kill was really a kill." Dave, the source of the "6hits are 1 kill" rule i will try to find in my archive. Could be a little bit timeconsuming. EDIT: one source i have found very quickly, but there are more which i'm still looking for: Jörg Friedrich "Yalu" Propylaeen Verlag published 2007 ISBN 978-3-549-07338-4 Page 414 "Ein Volltreffer wurde offiziell gewertet, wenn die "gun-camera" sieben Einschüsse oder drei Brände registrierte." translated " A kill was officially counted if the "gun-camera" registered 7 hits or 3 burns."

With "strange" (I set the word in " " with good reasons) i mean the kind how the american count their kills. In the most cases it is the perfect way of self cheating. And this is dangerous, because you get the tendecy to underestimate the enemy. This tendency of wrong counting kills is very old. Already in WW1 the Entente pilots counted a shot down german plane twice if two pilots fired on it or tripple if it was a 3vs1 dogfight. Its very good for statistics, but in reality the opposing forces are stronger then they should be. During WW2 the concept of shared kills was introduced but in reality it was often very different. I think i have told the story often enough here in this forum, but i will do it again to explain what i mean. The uncle of my mother was fighter pilot in the Reichsluftverteidigung. He had flown the Me-410 and Me-110. During one intercept mission he was attacked by 4 american fighters (his wingman had to fight the other 4 Mustangs). Both german planes were shooten down, both crews escaped by parachute, one american pilot tried to shoot on the men on the parachutes, but missed. At this day only 2 german planes were lost, but 8 american fighter pilots were credited with one kill. What means, that on the paper 6 planes were shooten down more as in reality. Same procedure in Korea. A MiG-15 was counted as shooten down if the gun camera showed 6 hits. Problem. Often the MiG-15 came home with 50 and more holes in the body, the record was over 250. And after a short repair the birds were in the air again. On the other side the american counting reduced the number of shot down own planes artificaly. So they got the fantastic 14:1 kill ratio. In the reality it was 1:1 against soviet flown MiG-15 and 6:1 against chinese MiG-15 units. If you ask on which side of the wall i grew up. I think it is obviesly, it was the eastern part. Thatswhy i know soviet technic by first hand, know their strenght and weaknesses. And after the change i had the chance to get hands on western technic. And so i can say, that both sides have their strenght and weaknesses. But to overestimate the own strenght and underestimate the enemies strenght can become deadly. Look to Iraq. During operation Iraqi Freedom in 2003 the US forces lost no single M1 Abrams. During occupation time, when the iraqis started the fighting, the US lost per week a M1, because they underestimated the enemy. Now im on the other side on the wall (and this is good so), but i dont want that we underestimate our opponents. Thatswhy im very critical with "shining reports".

File Name: Baltic Entrance (Ostseeausgang) File Submitter: Gepard File Submitted: 28 May 2012 File Category: Terrains Baltic Entrance Terrain (Ostseeausgang) ***************************************************** This terrain is written for WOE. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I. Short description: The terrain covers the baltic entrance, the bottleneck of Denmark which is blocking the free way from the Baltic Sea to the north Sea. You can fly over entire Denmark, to most southern part of Norway and Sweden, northern Poland, Northern east and West Germany and a very small part of the Netherlands. The terrain is set as a cold war scenario. You will find the NATO with Norway, Denmark, West Germany and the Netherlands as blue power, the WP states GDR and PR Poland (plus soviet bases in this contries) as red powers and the neutral Sweden. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. INSTALLATION: Unzip all files into your Wings Over Europe /terrain folder. Put folder UnimogBW into your objects/groundobjects folder. Thats it. Q: What is to do to make it usable for WOI,WOV and SFP1? For WOI open file Osteeeausgang.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat For WOV open file Persischer Golf.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat For SFP1open file Persischer Golf.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\desert\desert.cat Then you must download a tileset which is made for WOE GermanyCE terrain and install into the Ostseeausgang folder. Be aware, that there are some new tiles, so that your terrain could be look something strange. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. Credits. I want to say thank you to all guys who helped me to create the this terrain, and made the new ground objects like cars, fireengine, run- and taxiways, shelters, Unimog etc... ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IV. This Terrain 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) Made in Germany 28 May 2012 Click here to download this file

I dont say, that the soviets wasnt there. In contrary. During my military time, i heared some stories about it. But a lot of statements are simply rubbish. Take this: " An F-105 Thud pilot, Jack Broughton, was the author of the book Thud Ridge, where he saw a VPAF F-6 (Chinese MiG-19 Farmer clone) flown by a Soviet pilot. He looked up close and personal with the pilot and saw his blond hair and blue eyes. It was obvious that he was a Soviet." He saw his blonde hair! Wow? And i stupid boy always thought that the pilots had helmets on their heads. He saw his bule eyes! Again WOW!!!! And i stupid boy always thought that pilots had their pilot goggles. Maybe american eyes are better than the rest of the world and they can see trough plastics and leather helmets to realize which color the hair of an other pilot has. And perhaps they also see through a pilots goggle to realize the color of the eyes of an other pilot. Maybe ... I cant do it. If you ask me which color have the eyes of someone who is 20 meters away, then i have my problems to realize it. At 50 meters i'm happy if i can realize the white in the eye of on other, but ro realize the color of the pupille ... No way, this i cant do. The story of Col Tomb was always an american story. It came up when pictures of a MiG-21 were seen with 13 (?) litte red stars. But the western observers mixed the western credit system with the vietnamese system. While in west the pilot was credited with a kill, the vietnamese credited the plane. The 13 kill marks does not mean, that one single pilot had 13 kills, but that the plane was flown in 13 successfull combats. Mako. You ask wheter i'm a little bit bitter. You are right. When i grew up i was sick to get to much "red light" nonesense, but i'm also sick to hear "back, blue or whatever light" nonesense. I'm not bitter about the fact, that is said, that the soviets were in vietnam, its the kind how it is said and how true and false informations were mixed and all on the level of the yellow press. By the way SayWhatt, the guy you mention was a SAM operator (hope that it is the correct english term), not a pilot. But it is true, that soviet SAM operators fired missiles during Vietnam war and shot down american planes. And it is also true, that the vietnamese SAM crews were trained by east german standard procedures and timeframes (only difference, they needed up to 3 times more personal to do the same job like a east german crew, and they had pure women SAM crews which we had not had)

Yeah, that is the "strange" kind of kills which american fighter pilots often use. The real story is, that the MiG-21U was heading home after a training mission when it was attacked by F-4. THe soviet instructor pilot took over the control and evaded all missiles which the Phantoms shot on the MiG. When the MiG runs out of fuel he gave the oder to eject and left the plane with his vietnamese comrade. When the plane went down without pilots and engine power it was shooten down by the Phantoms. Only american rules count such incidents as a "Kill". And by the way, your source is not reliable. Why? The writer stated that he had interviewed a former VietCong, who said ..... bla bla etc. VietCong was in South Vietnam in North Vietnam it was NVA. MiG's does not operated in the south till spring 1975.

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Leck? Why not.

a translation tour for our only english speaking friends: english: airbase dutch: Vliegbasis danish: Flyvestation swedish: Flygplats polish: Lotnisko russian: Aerodrom (with Aerodrom marked airfields were used by soviet forces during cold war) east german: Flugplatz west german: Fliegerhorst

Low flying? No problem! :grin: :grin: :grin:

Does it happen with a "clean" installation or do you use some mods? For instance, a CTD can happen, if you try to fly a plane which needs a large airfield while the terrain has no large airfields.