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Wrong family, i fear! This should be the right Momy:

How about this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarantul-class_corvette used by: Soviet Navy Russian Navy Bulgarian Navy Volksmarine German Navy Indian Navy Myanmar Navy Polish Navy Romanian Naval Forces Ukrainian Navy Vietnam People's Navy Yemeni Navy Egyptian Navy United States Navy Turkmen Naval Forces

If you want something, then do it yourself. Or shut up!!!

GKABS 122mm Howitzer at Socotra.

Vietnamese chinese boder war in 1979

Every single jet of the East German Air Force LSK had had its own, unique camo.

Aero L-59 Super Albatros

F-15J

Tysk Tunnan. Republic of Germany 1958.

The ukrainian Hind pilots are combat proven. They have learned the job on the hard way in Donbas since 8 years. So they found out, that you must fly very low to avoid Manpads. And very low means 2 meters over ground. Guys who can fly a heli fast at this altitute must have great skills and big balls. And i think the Ukrainians have such pilots. The Mi-24 is for such an attack run a perfect helicopter. It is fast and has an armament which allows to open the fire outside the close air defence of the opponent. I think it is possible, that the Ukrainians had flown this strike. And it was an outstanding job.

It depends. The major problem is the difference between metric and imperial system. Its a mental barrier, which is not easy to overcome. Its a diffrence wheter a HUD is showing 100 and means meters (which is low, but save) or showing 100 and means feets, (which is damn low and not very save). The reeducation from one system to the other needs a lot of time. Of course a pilot could fly the plane, but he could not fly it perfect, because he needs time to recalculate the values which shows the instruments into the system in which his brain is thinking. The transistion time is surely more than one year.

We know, that the F-22 had a better agility than the F-35. And we know, that british Eurofighter Typhoon had beaten the F-22 in close combat scenarios during Red Flag some years ago. So i guess, that the F-35 is not as agile as the Eurofighter Typhoon.

To buy the F-35 seems to be a fashion today. The only advantage of this plane is stealth. But stealth depends on the computer capacity of the radar system which tries to detect a stealth plane. and the computer become more and more efficient. So radar systems can detect today much smaller radar echos than 10 years before and in 10 years they will be able to detect much much more smaller radar echos. What means, that a point will come when the F-35 s no stealthy anymore. And at this point the weak points of the F-35 will count, as there are: bad agility compared with a F-16 or F-18, lower weapon load capacity, high maintenance costs. Finally it will be that Air Forces who buy the F-35 will have a very expensive plane, but will not have the money to operate it properly. I think a plane like the F-18E or the Eurofighter or the modern Gripen, equipet with a state of the art jamming system, will be on long run a much better and cost efficient solution for the most Air Forces of this world. For Germany, for example, i would wish we would buy 250 Gripens instead 35 F-35.

In early 1991 12 MiG-23ML of the former Jagdfliegergeschwader 9, based at Peenemünde, were ferried by former east german pilots to Ramstein AFB. It was the last flight of german MiG-23s. The planes were a present of Germany to the USAF for the preparation of the Gulf War. The 12 MiG-23ML were shipped to the USA and were used their at Nellis AFB as part of the Aggressor Force of the Red Flag exercises. Before the USAF got the german MiG-23ML the Aggressor pilots called the 23 as a bad plane. After flying the MiG-23ML nobody of them called the Flogger as a bad plane anymore. And finally a real picture of the MiG-23ML at Ramstein AFB. Today one of the german MiG-23ML is to be seen at Evergreen Air & Space Museum Oregon in its original camo and insignia. http://www.theedges.org/Aviation/Aeroplane_Museums/Evergreen/evergreen_Mig23_Flogger.html It is also said, that one 23ML is exhibited at Nellis AFB museum, but with iraqi camo and insignia.

It looks expensive. I think in near future the combat plane will play the same role like the battleship in WW2. Technically masterpieces, but outdated by more modern systems. And the systems of the future will be drones.

I love the Tiger!

Slowly the terrain looks like it should be. Big thanks to Mue for his great TOD-tool!

Of course. No problem.

Dont worry. In the 1970th the MiG-21PF had had the breakchute in cross design. So your model is correct, for the 1970th and 80th.

Nice model. I like it. Only one remark. The early MiG-21 used round breakchutes. The breakchute in cross design came later. It was invented in East Germany, IIRC in the early 1970th. Here a picture of a MiG-21F-13 with round breakchute: With the MiG-21PF it was the same system.

Its not really a MiG, its a S-105, the czech licence version of the MiG-19S. 104 planes were built. Some say all were used by the czechoslovakians, but others say, that some S-105 were sold to Egypt. The S-105 were of better quality than the soviet original planes. It was used between 1958 and 1972 by the Czechoslovakian Air Force. BTW the MiG-19 was called "Warzenschwein" (Warthog) by the East Germans.

Shadow play.

It is possible as you see in the screenshot. Different planes with different armament. In the loadout screen you can change the planes, so that you can have different planes in the flight. If you change the plane then the armament load is set to 0. You must select the armament for each plane by yourself. You can only select the weapons which are availabe for the first plane, what means if you have a mix between friendly and enemy planes in your flight, that some planes will have no weapons. The game will not automatically add the weapons of the first plane to other planes. Thats a game issue.

If the terrain is flat like a mirror, then it is possible, but when the terrain becomes hilly, then parts of the "flat road" are either under the earth or "flying" over the terrain.

MiG-23ML of Jagdfliegergeschwader 9 "Heinrich Rau", home base Peenemünde. Yep, the same place where Werner von Braun built the V-2 missiles.