Gepard

In german news TV N24 it was said, that they found glas fragments of vulcano ashes in the engine of american military planes which flow yesterday through the ahes cloud over Europe.

00 you can read in some contries at the doors of the WC. "Hey can we land at runway 00? We have an urgent need!!!"

Its all statistics. With statistics you can do everything. Or how Churchill said: "I trust only the statistic that i have forged myself." It is not important who has the fewest losses. The result is important. And so you sadly must say: Iraq was a defeat and in Afghanistan we are on a good way to the next defeat. With the use of high tech weapons you can conquer, you can win a open ground battle. This are the strong points of US military and and the other western armies. But to hold a territory you finally need the man with the rifle in the hand. And this man is unfortunatly vulnerable. The reduce the own losses the US sent to less troops in the Iraq and the western community has today to less troops in Afghanistan. Only a comparision. In the german sector we have 4500 german troops, plus some swedish, some hungarian, some latvian etc, lets say 5.000 men. The sector has the size of half Germany. After WW2 the allied forces (US, british, soviet, french) had 2 - 3 million troops to cover Germany and supress the Nazis. Imagine what would have happen if in 1945 only 5.000 or 10.000 men would have tried to cover Germany. I think the Nazis would have come back very fast. Same thing in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Empty mass is the mass of a plane without fuel, oil, weapons, ammo, pods and pilot.

I dont know very much about the US system. But perhaps a short view to the TP-23 of the MiG-23MF. It had a scanarea of +/-30° horizinal and +2/-13° vertical. The maximum detection range of a bomber size target (16 square meters) was 35 km under good weather conditions. A range measurement was impossible. The system was intended for a "silent" intercept of incoming bombers. The MiG-23 should have directed toward the target by ground controllers, then the MiG should accelearate to come in shooting position and fire. the advantage of this way of interception was, that the intercepted enemy would have no warning by RWR until the missile is launched. For offensive fighter operations a IRST is not really usefull. The F-4 main objective was rather offensive then defensive, thatswhy the IRST system was not so important for the Phantom.

Now the number of dead german soldiers is 43.

Norway is closed, Danmark is closed, parts of Sweden are closed, UK is closed. And only because a vulcano is heating a little bit

Heute verloren wir wieder 4 unserer Jungs. Nun sind es 43 die in Afghanistan ihr Leben verloren. Link zur Meldung im Spiegel

I think he means the one i made for DRV terrain ages ago. In the last version of this terrain it is included and there was a seperate download for the railwaystation in the download section. http://forum.combatace.com/files/file/1043-railwaystation/

I prefer the Near East conflict. Israels wars from 1956 to 1973. I think that the modern times avionics cant be handled well by the TK'games. For instance i miss the "silent shot" capibility of the modern soviet fighters or the multiple target capability of modern radar systems. Thatswhy nearly never past 1980.

I dont believe that is was a crash caused by the plane. The Tu-154 is a safe bird and the polish technicians and pilots are well trained and know their job. Their planes are safe. The accident is a sad and strange thing. Whats is know? What are hard facts? Point 1. The plane crashed and killed all people aboard. Point 2. The Smolensk airfield was covered by fog. Point 3. The pilot of the plane was a very skilled, high professional flyer. Point 4. The tower said, that landing at the Smolensk airfield was not safe and it would be better to go to Minsk or Moscow airfields Point 5. The pilot made 4 attempts to land. Point 6. The last attempt failed. On the first view a typical pilot error. But, its also known that on a travel to Georgia (The land in caucasus, not the US state) the polish president Kwashnewski had some times ago said to one of the pilots of the government plane that he made a insubordination if he wont land at a fog covered airfield. The president forced the pilot to land at Tiflis airport, while Tiflis airport was covered by fog. ... With this in mind .... I ask me what i would do in the situation of the pilot of the polish plane. Would i land under such no go conditions? Would i have the bravery to say "No Sir!"to the heads of government and military? Would i resist against the urges of the "big bosses" and risk my career? I dont know.

Its said that is was a pilot error. 4 landing attempts for a airfield covered by fog. Why he does not went to Minsk or Moscow airfields? Who decided to land at Smolensk? A lot of questions.

File Name: Battle of Britain terrain for the 60th and 70th File Submitter: Gepard File Submitted: 24 December 2009 File Category: Terrains Battle of Britain terrain for the 60th and 70th. ********************************* This terrain is written for WOE, but should work properly with WOI,WOV and SFP1. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ I. Short description: I made this terrain as a more modern version of my BoB terrain for all guys who want to fight a Battle of Britain scenario with jets. Maybe that you want to fight a France vs UK campaign or a NATO vs WP scenario with France captured by the red side. The terrain covers South England, the English Channel and Northern France. The differences to the WW2 BoB terrains are: 1.You will face a SAM fence along the English Channel and a second which is protecting the capital. 2.You will see more modern airfields. 3. An increased number of target areas (274 instead 229) 4. Paris is completly reworked. 5. A french Railwaynetwork is set on the map. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. INSTALLATION: Unzip all files into your Wings over Europe/terrain folder. Thats it. Q: What is to do to make it usable for WOI,WOV and SFP1? For WOI open file Battle of Britain 60.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat For WOV open file Battle of Britain 60.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\VietnamSEA\VietnamSEA.cat For SFP1 open file Battle of Britain 60.ini with notepad editor overwrite line CatFile=..\GermanyCE\GermanyCE.cat with CatFile=..\desert\Idesert.cat ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. Credits. I want to say thank you to all guys who helped my to create the BoB terrains ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 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 24 Dezember 2009 Click here to download this file

Nice pictures of your overloaded MiG-17. In reality i wount fire the missiles under the belly. They would cause a flame out of the engine. And by the way, i have never seen a MiG-17 armed with R-3S (AA-2 Atoll) missiles. I think it has to do that the R-3S had a minimum launch speed of 750 kph and the best combat speed of the Fresco was far below that speed.

Arent the canadian and the US airspace a common air defence area? So i have heared it 20 years ago. If this is correct then US planes over Canada should be not seldom.

File Name: Saab J-35 Draken with changed Flightmodel for oct2008 patch File Submitter: Gepard File Submitted: 03 April 2010 File Category: Saab Aircraft Saab J-35F Draken ***************** ---------------------------------------------------------- I. This is a mod of the Draken of the Mirage Factory with the aim to fit the flightmodel to the October2008 patch and include minor changes. Sony, thanks for your permission. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ II. Changes: -The original FM was under the Oct2008 patch oversensitive. I made some little changes so that the Draken is again a pleasure to fly -This mod is using the F-4E cockpit instead the F-104 cockpit. - I made changes on the radar and included a fake IR sensor. - i modded the original skin a little bit and included a modded version of Hoarmurath green danish Draken skin +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ III. CREDITS: I want to say thank you to Sony of TMF for the permission to mod the original Draken (the original readme you find in the Draken folder) Then i want to say thank you to Hoarmurath for the permission to mod his green Draken skin. ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. INSTALLATION: -Unzip all files into your objects/aircraft folder. ------------------------------------------------------------ V. This mod 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 April 2010 Click here to download this file

Today we lost 3 man. 5 are heaviely wounded.

If the TSR.2 would have been fielded the Luftwaffe certainly today would not have the Tornado. I think the west germans would have looked for an other european solution, perhaps a cooperation with France, so they perhaps would have a twin engine version of a french bird, maybe a Mirage F-1 clone or a Mirage4000. The intention to build the Tornado was to strenghten the german airplane industry. Dont forget that the Airbus development was in that time frame and today Airbus industries is one of the big players in the civil branch. A licence manufacturing of american planes would not have been so efficient (profit keeping ) than building an own bird.

Tja, the american claims! Its a story of his own. I want to tell you a story that i have heared from the uncle of my mother. He was fighter pilot in the Reichsverteidigung (air defence) and has flown the Me-410. In one combat he was shot down after mixing with 4 american fighters. After the war he learned that all american fighters were credited with a kill because all of them had shooten on the Me-410 and all of them were credited that they hit the Me-410 with 7 bullits, what meant an official "kill". So in reality the germans loss one plane, the americans claimed 4 kills. A very similar story are the american claimes in Korea War or Vietnam. Or to say it with the words of Pepelyayev, the Korean War top scorer: Not all claimed kills are really kills.

Two examples of F-16C with long tail parachute housing: Easily to find in the SFP1 download section

File Name: MiG-17F pure fighter version File Submitter: Gepard File Submitted: 31 March 2010 File Category: Mig-17 Fresco MiG-17F Fighter Version (Vietnam) *************************************************** I .Credits *************************************************** This is a mod of TK's stock MiG-17F. The Pilot is a mod of one of Troopers Red_Pilots_Part1 pilots. The cockpit is taken from Zurawskis F-86. Thanks to all whos files i have used to make this MiG-17PF. *************************************************** II. MiG-17F Fighter version *************************************************** TK's MiG-17F based more on the fighter bomber versions which the polish or east germans used in the late 70th and early 80th. In this mod i made the pure fighter version the soviets delivered to the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in the 60th. This version had no wiring for using air to ground weapons in their wings. So they were unable to drop bombs or fire missiles or use rocket pods. On the other hand the soviet delivered MiG-17F had a radio range finder, a radar warning reciever and a 5 shot flare dispenser in the right side of the tail fin. Later the vietnamese got chinese J-5A (MiG-17F copies) which had not such devices. ********************************************** III. INSTALLATION ********************************************** 1. unzip into your aircraft folder subfolders will be automatically created Thats it! Enjoy flying. ************************************************ 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) Made in Germany March 2010 Click here to download this file

VVS is the wrong term. This is the soviet air defence. Yaks were used in the frontal aviation. Its a big difference. In Korea the units of the frontal aviation fought very successfully while the VVS units failed. To the descriped combat. It is not uncertain, that such things could happen. Unkown types of planes in the sky and suddenly one of the own is falling with a smoke trail. Its easy to guess what you would think and do in such a situation. Especcially if there is no way to communicate with each other. I dont think that the americans could speak russian and vice versa. In one of Koshedubs interviews after the fall of the soviet union he said that the numbers of the planes he had shot down was beyond the 100. One or two of them were Mustangs, he said. But only 65 of his kills were accepted by the soviet aviation authority.

Nice bird and a great video!