Gepard

Recon mission over Lympne Airbase. Its like holding your butt into a wasp nest. A squadron of Spitfires is lining up for fast take off And here they go:

View File F-5GN (Marines) F-5GN(Marines) Sea Tiger (What if) ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History (fiction) In 1969 there were decisive elections in West Germany. In reality, the Social Democrats won. A new foreign policy followed and a period of reduction of tensions between East and West. WHAT IF, the other side had won? What if the conservatives had won and Franz Joseph Strauß (an old bavarian Commie eater) would have become Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? And so it starts. In 1969 Strauß was elected as Chancellor. A period of rising tensions between East and West started. To protect the sea lanes between Europe and America the west german parliament Bundestag decided to build up a west german carrier force consiting of 3 carriers. The american gouvernment was pleased and offered to sell 3 carriers of the Essex class (subclass Ticonderoga). The first ship which was handed over was CV-34 Oriskany in 1969. Renamed in R-22 Theodor Heuss it was core of the first west german carrier group. 1973 CV-38 Shangri-La became R-23 Heinrich Lübke (later renamed in Walter Scheel) and two years later CV-45 Valley Forge became R-24 Gustav Heinemann. The americans offered A-4 Skyhawk and F-8 Crusader as planes for the carrier group. The Bundesmarine accepted the A-4, but rejected the Crusader, because the Bundesmarine wanted a more multi role capable plane, not only a pure fighter. At this moment Northrop entered the competition and offered a navalised version of the brand new F-5E Tiger. Under the designation F-5GN (German Navy) it should be produced in America and Germany. The west german government accepted the offer and the serial production of the F-5GN started. During flight tests on the way the US Marines decided, that it would be a good idea to replace their old F-8 Crusaders with F-5GN planes. So the F-5GN became a Marine plane. Later, when the Marines retired their attack carriers the surviving F-5GN were transfered to Top Gun school. In west german service the F-5GN stayed till 1995. Then it was replaced by F-31 Mustang II. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. CREDITS: The F-5GN(Marines) based on Centurions 2014 released F-5E package. A lot of files i have taken from this package. Thanks for this files! The skin: ~~~~~~~~~~~ The Marines skin is a mod of the Southvietnames skin available in Centurions Package The flight model : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The FM i made by using parts of the stock F-16A FM made by TK. ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip the folders into your SF2 mod folder ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- V. The F-5GN(Marines) and all other files are FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany May 2020 Submitter Gepard Submitted 05/18/2020 Category F-5  

Russian video of Kuz air group ops with the titel: "Mission in the Mediterrenian Sea"

Try it again. When i saw your post i have tried to upload a what if F-5GN for the US Marines and it worked fine for me.

Super Mirage 4000

View File Aircraft Carrier "Kuznetsov" ex Kremlin Class Aircraft Carrier "Kuznetsov" ex Kremlin Class ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History Since the 50th the Soviet Navy tried to get aircraft carriers. But the political leadership denied all attempts to build such vessels. So the Admirality tried to get carriers through the back door. They declared such ships would be neccessary to hunt down american submarines. So the big ASW ships Moskva and Leningrad were built. But the design was terrible. Thatswhy the project 1143 was developed, better known as Kiev class. The Kiev class was to small to operate conventional fix wing jets. So the ships were equipped with VTOL planes, the Yak-38. But this plane was no match for american or west european carrierbased planes. Thatswhy the flightdeck of project 1143.4 was made longer. The ship was named Baku. It was built for the supersonic Yak-41. A plan-B was to use the MiG-29K in the air group of the Baku. The next step was to make the project 1143 ships bigger and longer. 1143.5 was launched in 1982. First named as Riga, then Breshnev, then Tblissi and in 1990 renamed into Kuznetsov. When the USSR broke into parts the Kuznetsov was transfered to the russian North Fleet. The sister ship 1143.6, Riga was renamed in 1990 into Varjag (Viking). It was not operational when it was was given to the Ukraine. The Ukraine had not had enough money to finish the ship. Thatswhy it was sold to China. China finished the ship, modified it and named it Liaonang. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. CREDITS: This is a mod of the ship "Admiral Flota Sovetskogo Soyuza Kuznetsov", made by rokieborhgunder, which you can find here: https://combatace.com/files/file/17091-admiral-flota-sovetskogo-soyuza-kuznetsov/ ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip the folders into your SF2 mod folder ------------------------------------------------------------- IV. Known Problems: The mod is not perfect. Eight gun turrets are not of the correct type. The gun barrels looking always in the wrong direction. The SA-9N missiles does not start from the silos, but from mid of the ship. The Ship to Ship missiles also start from mid of the ship. ---------------------------------------------------------- V. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- VI. The Kuznetsov and all other files are FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany May 2020 Submitter Gepard Submitted 05/15/2020 Category Aircraft Carriers  

I needed 14 hits with Harpoon to sink the Kuz. Was hard work.

So it is:

Kuz is fighting off a missile attack. Lets say, release date less than one week.

Is not satisfying but if it is so, then it is so. And i forgot a issue no.5: I cant sink this f..cking ship!!!!! There must be something wrong with the hit boxes! It drives me mad!

I have some issues with the old Kuz.lod 1: the guns are wrong orientated. The gun barrels move wildly and always in the wrong direction. This is a problem with the LOD. Is not to solve. 2: 8 turrets are of wrong type. They should be Kashtan double guns with SAM containers side by side. LOD problem, not to solve. 3: The missiles from VLS silos does not start from silo, but from center of the ship. LOD problem, not to solve 4: The chinese Ship does not appear in game. I have a J-15 Sea Flanker, i have a terrain with setting EnemyNation1=China. And if i start a mission with the J-15, it takes off always from a land base. This is the entry in the Kuz_data.ini [MissionData] NationName=Soviet ServiceStartYear=1990 ServiceEndYear=2050 GroundObjectRole=WARSHIP WarshipClass=AIRCRAFT_CARRIER Availability=RARE FormationSizeBase=1 FormationSizeVariation=0 Exported=TRUE ExportStartYear=2010 ExportAvailability=RARE CarrierBaseSize=MEDIUM CarrierNumSquadrons=2 If i change the line NationName=Soviet to NationName=China The J-15 starts from carrier. But soviet planes in other terrains does not use the carrier anymore. Issue 4 should be to solve, but at the moment i'm to stupid to find the solution of the problem.

Liaoning Okay, this is a quick and dirty mod. I have only changed the decals.ini and used USNshipNumbers.

Liaoning could be a repainted Kuz. Sinking the ship is at the moment a little problem. It withstand a lot of hits and the CIWS is very effective. I attacked the Kuz with 16 F-18, fired 32 Harpoon and it happens very often, that all 32 missiles were destroyed by CIWS and short range SAM. It needs finetuning.

"Sokol to Kuz. Request permission for fast and low flyby." "Negativ. Sokol." "Sorry Kuz. To late!" "Job twoi "

Two weeks.

Correct. The cliffs are made as LOD. GKABS made them for me. Thanks. It works fine now for me.

Back to the roots. I have gone one step back and started to mod the old, already uploaded Kuz to make them working. The LOD had some malefunctions. the guns does not look in the right direction. The gun turrets mostly are of wrong type. But as a first step ... I tried to include the skin of the new Kuz into the old one. I added names and shipnumbers, which i had already done and, and, and ...... So it looks now: Not perfect, but better than nothing.

I asked GKABS for new White Cliffs of Dover. Thats the result:

I need the wisdom of our great community. My question: Is it possible to limit the timeframe in which a Force (air and ground) can operate in a terrain? For instance my old Afghanistan terrain: Can i somehow limit the soviets to operate from 1979 till 1989 and the western forces from 2002 till today? Or my Battle of Britain terrain: How can i limit french or american planes to the historical correct timeframes whithout to mod the planes? Is it possible to mod the terrains_nations.ini file?

Do you mean my old Afghanistan terrain which was made for WoI? If yes here are some files for a quick and dirty fix to make it work in SF2: Afghanistan_data.INI Afghanistan_NATIONS.INI Afghanistan_targets.INI copy the files into Afghanistan folder and let overwrite the old ones. Then you can make screenshots like this:

What if the Korea War would have fought one year later and the Tommys sent out their first Hunters.

Thats a pity. Then the best solution would be a special installation for SF2 especially for Afghanistan terrain, as i have done it in the old WoX days. Thanks for your answers.

The tactics for combat missions in manpad infested areas is following: Before you enter the area where manpads are suspected, you should start to drop flares. Every 4 or 5 seconds one. Continue this procedure till you leave the suspected area. Since range and maximum altitude of manpads are known it is easy to avoid their fire distance. And in doubt, drop flares. Better one to much, than one to less.

The most simple solution is a bucket of diesel. The Wasps or Hornets think it is water and when they drink it, they are poisoned. Simple. Its better than try to shoot every single Hornet or worse shoot into a nest. One failed shot and you need to get outa there ASAP.