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MiG A-144 (made by Logan) Alert take off On the way. Engaging! Success! Retreat. Heading home.

Herm, a small island east of Guernsey Screenshots made at flightlevel 1.000 meters over ground.

In summer 1940 the Battle of France was fought. British, belgian, dutch and french troops were defeated by the "Sichelschnitt", a surprising move invented by General von Manstein. In his book "Verlorene Siege" wrote v.Manstein, that his Divison got the order as part of the 9th Armee to take part in the invasion of England in an area between Bexhill and Eastbourn, Beachy Head. Close to Hastings, the last battlefield where a invasion of the islands was succesfully. Manstein wrote, that the german leadership had, after the surprisingly fast victory over France, had no plan how to continuing the war. So it came to a delay till the decision was made to try the "Operation Seelöwe" and as preludium the Air Battle of Britain. Manstein said, that if the decison to engage England would have made one or two weeks after the victory over France, german landing forces would have landed on Englands beaches around August 15th 1940. Mansteins idea to fight England was a surprise attack with no previous Air Battle. All should end in a major Battle, The Luftwaffe, Heer and Kriegsmarine should attack at the same time. For Manstein the british ground forces were the minor problem. They lost nearly all heavy weapons in Dunekirk, so that the Royal Army would have been no real danger. Dangerous could become the Air Force and the Royal Navy. But Manstein wrote, that the Royal Navy would come to late to prevent the landing of the first german wave. The Royal Navy would try to stop the second and all other landing waves. At this time it would be the job of the Luftwaffe to sink the british ships and the job of the Royal Air Force to protect the british ships. In the last weeks i have started to rework the tileset of my very old Battle of Britain terrain and soon i will start to rebuild the target areas, so that we have the chance to fight a "Operation Seelöwe" style battle in SF2. Here some screenshots while WIP. New farmtiles, but still old airfield tile. New airfield tile. A mixture between old and new coast tiles. View from high altitutes. Test of a London tile. Buckingam palace is not yet on correct place.

In eastgerman military slang this defence move was called: "Steil Hochziehen" what you could translate with "Sharp Pull Up".

A first attempt to make the Channel Islands look more realistic. Here: Alderney Its still a lot to do.

Su-9 flight lined up on runway of a soviet airbase at Kurile Islands. Here we go! Patrol over the woodland of the islands. Patrol along the coastline of the Kuriles. Landing approach. (What a pity, that TK had not modeled the flaps of the Su-9.) And touchdown.

Okay, the "swing wing" at the nose of the Dassault Milan is rather small, but it is a "swing wing".

MiG-33 Grom alias JF-17 Thunder

What if the MiG design bureau would have not sold the blueprints for the JT-17 to China, but would have built the plane as MiG-33 Grom (Thunder) themself.

Depends on the ammo. The 100 mm Hohlladungsgranate (HEAT) was able to penetrate 390 mm steel, which is enough to kill Leo 1 and M-60 with one shot. The Unterkaliberpfeilgeschoss (sub caliber darts, APFSsomething in NATO slang) penetrated 310 mm at 1.000 meters distance and 290 mm at 2.000 m. It had not had a problem to destroy a Leo 1 and M-60. With the T-55AM (soviet designation), T-55AM2B (east german designation) the missile Bastion was part of the ammo. Up to a maximum combat range of 4.000 meters this missile could kill all tanks of the late 1980, when used in top attacker mode. Useless against tanks were the Panzergranate (AP) and Splittersprenggranate (HE). The HESH, HEAT and APFSDS ammo of L-7 gun of Leo-1 and M-60 (okay, the americans called the L-7 M68, but it was mostly the same gun) were able to kill a T-55 at a range of 2.000 meters. But they were not able to penetrate the frontal armour of the T-55AM (T-55AM2B). The chance to survive of a T-72 depends a lot of the version. It had changed through the years dramatically. There were T-72 version which a Leo 1 could kill at 2.000 meters, while other T-72 versions were nearly unvulnerable in a duell situation at 500 meters distance. Here some examples how the frontal armour of the T-72 changed through the years:

If you read the novells of Tom Clancy, or watch the post Gulf War stories in TV you were indoctrinated, that the soviet tanks were all rubbish and the western tanks are all invincible. The reality is different. Here some pictures of the invincible M 1 Abrams: Burned out after a tank killer team throw some handgranades in open hatches. Bad tactics. Turrent blown off after road bomb strike. Burned out after an RPG hit the ammo bunkier. Heavily damaged by RPG, but the inner armour seems to be intact. Burned out after RPG strike. On fire. Completly destroyed and turret blown of after road bomb strike. Ammo bunker is burning. Burned out wreck of an M 1 Abrams. But the german Leopard is not better. German media believe it is the best tank of the world and invulnerable. The reality looks different. Turrent blown off after hit by ATGM. Completly destroyed after hit in ammo rack, left side of hull front. Turret blown off, ammo rack in back of turret explodes. Ammo rack in back of turret explodes, tank burned out. Conclusion: There are no unvulnerable and invincible tanks. To believe the own propaganda is deadly.

Would be nice if someone could make the Izumo carrier for SF2.

There is a limit of Flak, SAM and Radar units per target area. The game engine will handle only 16 units per target area. If you have more, the engine ignore such units.

FW-187 Falke. Fighter Sweep over southern England in August 1940.

Is there a way to get two or more carriers in one battle group? If yes, i perhaps should start thinking about a rework of my old Midway terrain from 2008.

The screenshots are looking great!

When you create a campaign set "Weapon Supply" to "Limited" and "Campaign Difficulty" to "Hard". Should work.

MiG Ye-8 over South England.

Nice reference. But your values about armor is not detailed enough. The thickness of armour is very different at a tank. For instance the british Chieftain MBT. The hull has a frontal armour plate of 120 mm, with an angle of 72°, what make a penetration distance of 388 mm. The upper hull side armour is only 50 mm and has an angle of 30°, what makes a penetration distance of 57 mm. The lower hull side armour is 38° thick. The stern hull armour is 35mm thick. The turret front is 195 mm with an angle of 60°, what makes a penetration way of 390 mm. The turret side is between 120 and 195 mm thick. The angle is between 20 and 35°, what makes a maximum penetration way of around 220 mm. The turret stern is only 45 mm thick.

Tiger UHT

Super Fury F2J-4. Landing approach. And touch down.

The designers and creative artists often have no idea about planes. They take the most cool looking birds for their work and to be honest the Su-57 looks much cooler than a F-35 or F-22.

Su-9 with gunpod GP-9

FW-187A Falke is hunting.

Egypt Air Force Su-20