Gepard

A lot of fragments are in the air! Bye, bye!

And now the british, americans and russians are trying to locate the wrack of the plane. If the russians get it first the whole technology of F-35 would be compromized.

Rattlesnake hunting. (Test of a new designed SAM site for Socotra terrain WIP.) Engaging First drop missed the target Second attack run. Bullseye!! Retreat. And the fellows also hit the target. Return to base!

Since the roof of the tank is only 39 mm thick and a plane is shooting from above ... surely not. But it may change the result of tank ground battles.

If you take a look into the armour values, so you will find, that TK use only the nominal thickness of an armour and not the penetration distance to calculate wheter a bullit will punch through or not. The penetration distance depends on the angle of bullit impact. TK also neglects the fact that armor plates are angled in the frontal area. Example: The front plate of a T-55 is 100 mm thick. So it is in reality and in game. But the armour plate is angled by 60°. This value doubles the way which a bullit must go to penetrate the frontal armour of a T-55. So it would be "more correct" to increase the frontal armour value in the T-55_data.ini from 100 to 200 mm. And this must be done for all tanks. You must measure which angle the armour plate has and then you must calculate which penetration distance the bullit must overcome. This value you must use in the data.ini for the tank.

Who cares. Its a game. Not the real life.

Redesigned SA-2 (S-75 Dvina) SAM-site for Socotra terrain (WIP) first attempt (not satisfying) second attempt

Only a small test to give the SAM sites a more realistic look. (Socotra terrain WIP)

Its a mix between fuselage and wings of prototype Ye-2 and the nose of the MiG-21PF.

One SAM site less.

Hunting for rattlesnakes.

And touchdown!

I hate the Flak!

Could you make a T-62 tank for us? It was widly used by egyptians and syrians and IIRC by Iraq. The stock T-62 looks more like a chinese T-54 clone, but not like a T-62.

Not very much. I remember that there was a small book of a hungarian author about the MiG-21 units of the Vietnam war, which included a photo of vietnamese SA-3. I will try to find it in my archive.

The SA-3, soviet designation Neva, was delivered in 1972 to North Vietnam. It was used for the point defence of the airfields.

Tactical numbers and insignia for stock tanks. Here on T-72A.

Tactical numbers and insignia for stock tanks. Here on T-54.

New picture from Russia. Checkmate and Su-57.

Tactical numbers and insignia for stock tanks. Here on T-34-85s.

And touchdown!

MiG-21K over a barracks complex for one soviet motorized infantry company and one tank platoon. Socotra terrain WIP.

Do you see the 3 camouflaged Scud launchers?

Its better to call this plane Polikarpov Po-189. In 1940 the soviets changed their designationsystem from american style (I means istrebityel = fighter, or F in american system) to german style (First two letters from name of the chief of development bureau.)