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I hope you made the white angles and stripes as decals. It are the signs of a group commanders plane. the other planes of the group had had different markings. BTW, nice job. Looks good, but the camo is very unusual for WW2.

American, soviet, french and swedish fighters in the 50th looked very similar. They based widely on german know how. The british had had their own style.

Fliegerhorst Caffier

fuel in kilogram 1 litre AvGas=0.72 kg 1 litre JP-4 jet fuel = 0.82 kg

If i remember correctly the soviets showed their first AESA Radar during Le Bourget Airshow in 1988 or 1989 on board of a MiG-31. What means: Wow!!! The EuFi now get what the soviets had already had 30 years ago!

L-39MS, alias L-59 Super Albatros

Reworked Fliegerhorst Marquise

Good argument. Thatswhy i have exerimented with planting some trees.

Fliegerhorst Audambert Fliegerhorst Marquise

L-59 Super Albatros. This was a L-39 with 30% more power and modern avionics. Intended to be the next standard training plane of Warsaw Pact countries.

If you say it so, at my Faroe islands terrain i had such strange encounters with egyptian Vampires. Strange because Egypt was not an allowed nation in this terrain. I deleted the Vamipe and all was fine.

The waving is part of the standard nonverbal communication between planes during intercept missions in peacetime. Its a friendly gesture. Aggressive gesture would be flying direct in front of the intercepted plane while the wingman would fly direct behind the intercepted plane.

Come on, this was usual behavior during cold war. No need to worry about. I remember how it was to look in a barrel of an american M-1 tank. Mock attacks from west were standard in the bad old time. No worry about. Its the behavior of young man with balls in size of a melon. They do such things. They have done it during my military time. They have done it during my fathers military time and they will do it in the next decades too. Boys!!! Simply Boys!!!

LOL. If western pilots do such stunts then it is a sign of outstanding skill. If the russians do the same it is unprofessional behavior. I would like to see how american press is crying if russian bombers would fly close to Florida.

TK stock Hunters or 3rd party Hunters?

First try to make a german fighter airfield.

RAF Christchurch with de Havilland Airspeed Factory. I used a moded version of Geezers Factory2 for WW1 to make this factory complex.

You find it in my book "Mi-24" on page 73.

Yep. here it is:

Its a nice docu. But there are some mistakes. First the Mi-2 was not the first turbine helicopter of the USSR. First came the Mi-6, then the Mi-8 and then the Mi-2. The Mi-8 chapter was much to short. Its the most important helicopter of the soviets. It was the basic for developing the Mi-14 ASW helicopter and the Mi-24 and later the Mi-17. The most astonishing fact is, that neither military nor political leadership wanted to have the Mi-8 (W-8 called as project and as prototype). They were satisfied with Mi-4. The main problem was Khrustchev, who was not a fan of helicopters, he loved rockets and missiles. Mil used some tricks to get the W-8 program to live. He sold the idea to the civil air fleet and this guys were impressed. So the W-8 developmend started. First with only one engine, the same which was used in AN-24 airplane. This was a demand of the military, which woked up and was now intersted in W-8 too. But Mil had a better idea, he wanted to have two engines made by Isotov, the TV2-117. The civil airfleet agreed. So the civil prototype was built with 2 engines, the military with one engine. During flight tests the two engine version showed much better performance. Now the military cancled the single engine W-8 program and wanted a 2 engine version too. So the Mi-8 was born. In the docu was said, that the soviet military doctrine was against a pure combat helicopter like the AH-1 or AH-56. This is wrong. In the Khrustchev time armed and combat helicopter were "forbiten" from above. Khrustchev hated this idea. When Breshnev came to rule, the combat helicopter development was started. But with a strategy of small steps. In the first step the Mi-8 was basic for development of a "transport combat helicopter", the later Mi-8TB and Mi-8TV. In a second step a "flying infantry fighting vehicle" was developed. This step was made because the development risks of a completly new design were to high. So the Mi-8 was basic for Mi-24 development. As many parts of the Mi-8 as possibly were used in Mi-24. Parallel to Mi-24 development, the development and testing of a real combat helicopter was started. There were a couple of design studies. (One looked like a small Mi-12.) After long years the Mi-28 was born. Today the Mi-28NM is in serial production.

RAF Shoreham, before the war Bristol Airport. During war used by Coastal Command, but sometimes by Fighter Command squadrons too.

I doubt that it has something to do with a terrain. Its a formation.ini issue.

I doubt that it is a good idea to teach robots how to kill.

R-13M AA-2D Advanced Atoll So it looks in reality: Grey head, green ring, white body and fins. In background R-2R missile.