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Thats true. some systems which were developed in the late Soviet Union were designed to fight down enemy targets autonomous. Such systems you can find in the Su-22M4, the Ka-50 and Ka-52 for example. Originally it was intended, that the pilot/operator had to designate the target, all other things, including the opening of fire, layed in the "hands" of computers. Today even the target selection and designation can be given into the hands of the computer system. That such systems have a tendency to fire sometimes to fast and without friend or foe analysis we had seen 2 or 3 years ago, when a Ka-52 accidently attacked a truck with exercise spotters during "Sapad" big scale exercise in Russia. The computer took over control, detected a target, decided that the contact was hostile and opend the fire. The crew was surprised. Shit happens. For me such "accidents" are a clear warning, that autonomous weapon systems should be banned. The last decision over dead or live should be in the hand of man, not in the hand of computers.

In stress situation such things can happen, if the fire button is in the hand of trigger happy soldiers without strict control by commanding officers. Imagine. The persians expected, that the US would strike back after the iranian missile attack. A missinterpretation of radar signals caused the feeling to be under attack. In such situations some guys tend to fire first and ask later. Shit happens. All over the world. Its sad for the people in the civil plane. Really sad.

In peacetime the SAM batteries in WP were under strict control. They were integrated in a hugh air defence network with central command structure. Without order of the central command it was not allowed to open the fire. Even the activation and direction of radar was limited. Violation of the rules was punished. Trigger happy soldiers never had the chance to come close to the fire button.

And in the bad old times the so called scientists said: "the socialism will always win." and they were wrong. You have no guarantee that the scientist this time are right. And by the way, in the bad old time you were also allowed to say "2+2=5", but you had to live with the consequences. Same procedure as every time.

Do you made some progress with the terrain?

The main difference between me and you is the side of the iron curtain on which we grew up. For me it is a deja vue. 30, 40 years ago so called experts and scientists agreed, that the socialism will be victorious. For the main stream in my country the statement "the socialism will be victorious" had had the status of a law. It was written in books. It was proofed by scientists. Doubts were not allowed. To have a non mainstream opinion was punished. There were no discussions. Only the main stream was right. All others were shouted down or worse. And in such a situation we are again. Again there are scientist who lift a theory on a rank of a law. Again doubts are not allowed. Again people with non mainstream opions are shouted down. Again the mainstream is always right. "Die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht!" The party, the party is always right! Only the color of the party has changed. Not anymore red, now green. The philosophy behind it is the same. Make people fear. Make them to have panic. And you can rule them. Simple. Sorry, from such "things" i had enough in my lifetime. Thatswhy im sceptical if someone say that he has found the one and only truth. As the german proverb say: "Gebranntes Kind scheut das Feuer!" "Burnt child shies away from the fire!"

Is carbondioxyd CO² really that "big" problem? Its a problem, of course, but ... To say it clearly CO² is a fertiliser for plants. Without CO² no plant can survive. Without plants we cant survive. As more CO² as better plants can grow up. And who can really say, that the climate change is caused by CO². Where i live, in the middle of Germany we have very thick layers of sand. This sand came with the iceage from Skandinavia to Germany. 10.000 years ago we had an ice glacier which was more than 100m thick. In a relativly short time the ice melts away and formed the landscape we have here in north and central Germany. The climate change came very fast. In less than 30 years the temperature climbed by 6°. And surely it does not climbed, because our ancestors made to much Mammoth BBQ. Yes, there is an increase in temperature. And it is man made. One example. Not far away from me the airport Leipzig-Halle is situated. As all airports it has a meteorological station. And this station exist since the 1920th. And if you look on the temperatures you will clearly see, that it became hotter on the airport. But what you cant see is the reason, why it became hotter. In the 1920th till 1950th the airport had only grass runways. In the 60th one runway and some taxiways made by concrete were built. Concrete is a heat reflector. When the sun is shining the temperature climbs much faster than over gras areas. In the 1990th, till today, the airport was completly rebuilt. Very big areas are covered now by concrete. Of course it is now hotter there as in the time before. Our big towns, our big streets, parking areas, industrial areas and so on, are all mady by concrete or similar materials. Of course they are hotter than in the natural landscape. The town grew up, became bigger and bigger. Meteorological stations, which 20 or 50 years ago were situated on meadow areas are now mid in cities. How is it possible to compare the datas? My problem with the "Greta movement" is, that they have the strong believe, that they are 100% right. They believe to be infallible . And sorry guys, but such "thinking" i know from the bad old times. At the time, when here a party was ruling, wich believed to be infallible. They had a song "Die Partei, die Partei, die hat immer recht!" (The party, the party is always right!") and always, if i see and hear Greta and her followers this old damned song come up in my mind. I dont like it. Yes we have a climate change. But we cant stop it. We must adapt our society. Darwin said "survival of the fittes", not "survival of the strongest".

The screenshots are from which game (SF2 or WOX). And which terrain is it?

Which tileset do you use now? Can you post a screenshot? I have seen, that at least one or two new tiles still must created, for rivermouth into the sea and a riverfork.

The terrain is made with 500x500m tiles to get a better look in FE. For SF2 tiles with 2000x2000m are needed. So it is not usable for SF2. To make it work in SF2 a complete new retiling of the terrain is neccessary. I download your files in this moment. I will check them out. Edit: I have installed your files and on my computer the terrain runs fine. Perhaps the tileset neeeds to much ressources for your computer. You could try to replace it with a more simple tileset or the stock tileset from FE.

Post the ostpreussen.hdf, the ostpreussen.tdf and the ostpreussen_data.ini files here. I will check it out.

The antenna which is formed like the tip of an hunting arrow is the so called SAU antenna. SAU is a automatically landing approach system, which enables the plane to perfom an autonomous landing approach or on more modern systems an autonomous landing of the plane. SAU is part of the RSBN navigation system. RSBN is comparable with the american TACAN, but is much more precise. Normally you has two such antennas on the plane. One under the nose, the other on the tailfin. Here the SAU antenna on the tailfin of the MiG-21bisSAU

This happens only in this terrain? If yes, than it could be that a corrupted Ostpreussen_data.ini cause that problem. What editor do you have used? Could it be, that you tried TK's TerrainEditor? This editor has negative influence on file Ostpreussen_data.ini. If you use the TerrainEditor you must make a backup of the *_data.ini file and after editing you must use the backup file. To solve this problem you can take the Ostpreussen_data.ini file from my here posted Ostpreussen.zip as backup. There is one rule for terrain making: make backups! If something goes wrong you can go one step backward and try it again.

What exactly does not work? The entire terrain after your changes?

I think the line: NationName=GENERIC should work properly.

For my old Afghanistan terrain i made a Muli with a Taliban. Its old and was made for WOE, but better then nothing. Here a screen frm LOD viewer. In game the muli is grey. TalibanEseltreiber.7z Unzip in your groundobjects folder. It will appeare in Armed_recon mission as target in columns, like the Trucks. edit: ingame screenshot from Afghanistan terrain.

Cool skin!!!

Retaliator. Nice idea.

Looks like a North American project NR-349 Retaliator, but without third engine.

Someone had a E-152 as WIP. Cant remember who.

There is the possibility to change the callsigns of the flights. Its in one of the ini files of the flight folder.

Perhaps ShipSmoke? Its a stock effect.

Sorry, my fault. You are right, it would be perfect for 1939 and 1944/45.

There i cant help you. I have never heared, that a physical map can used in TFD tool. I use maps from my old school Atlas ord historical maps from net. The placement of target areas are more or less a guess. Orientation points can be structures in the HFD file which can identified, like rivers, coastlines, mountains.

Do you have an idea where we can find this map? To use it would make a soviet-polish war scenario so much easier.