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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.

Ye-8 144 Mission for today: Intercept incoming B-52 raid. Take off Shadow games heading for enemy result of first attack run second attack run Escape

RAF Wittering

An other user of the Mi-24, which i forgot to mention, was Vietnam. Vietnam got the Mi-24A when the soviets replaced their Mi-24A by Mi-24D. So the Mi-24 was not used during Vietnam War, but in the cambodian campaign against the Red Khmer regime after 1979.

Mi-24B was never in operational use. It was only prototype because the pilots disliked the glashouse style cockpit. Thatswhy the Mi-24D was developed. It had the weapon system of the Mi-24B and the new cockpit design. The MI-24A was used by the Soviets and Afghanistan, as far as i know.

BUFF kill.

My holiday time is over. Now i will make new airfields for Battle of Britain 2 terrain. RAF Fowlmere, a satellite airfield of RAF Duxford.

All values in SF2 world are metric. All speeds are given in meters per second. The climb speed in the flight model has nothing to do with real values. It is set approx 10 - 20 % below cruise speed. If you would use real life values the AI would not be able to handle the plane.

Spitfire Mk.I over dispersal area of RAF Exeter

RAF Exeter, the most western british airfield in terrain.

If you want to make them shooting with silver bullits, then yes. If you want a little bit reality lower the values. The values means % hit rate.

Target for today: RAF Filton near Bristol. FW-187 Falke over Bristol Channel near Cardiff Task: Escort six Ju-88 which attack RAF Filton. Its only a diversion attack, to lure RAF fighters away from main strike. The plan was working. A Hawker Hurricane squadron took off and tried to attack the bombers. Our fighters engaged them and shot them down. Here: kill one! An other Hurricane is doomed. The result of the attack: The airfield was missed, but the bombs hit the Bristol Aircraft Company factory. The home of the Blenheim bombers is a ruin now. Heading home after sucessfull mission. No bomber lost. No fighter lost. 8 Hurricanes shot down. Well done everybody! The last few meters, then we had dry feets and a daywork was done.

You need gunners and guns. For gunners look in the files of the Tu-16 as example. You find there this lines: [DorsalGunner] SystemType=GUNNER_STATION SeatID=3 GunnerID=1 PilotModelName= SetCockpitPosition=FALSE ShowPilot=FALSE Position= 0.0,12.06,1.14 MinExtentPosition=-0.25,11.58,-0.01 MaxExtentPosition= 0.25,12.59, 1.20 PitchModelNodeName=FwdTurretBase YawModelNodeName=FwdTurret GunRange=2000 GunnerFireChance=75 GunnerFireTime=0.8 GunnerAimOffset=0.050 GunnerAimAccuracy=60 PitchAngleRate=45 MaxPitch=60 MinPitch=10 DefaultPitchAngle=15 YawLimited=FALSE YawAngleRate=45 DefaultYawAngle=180 [VentralGunner] SystemType=GUNNER_STATION SeatID=4 GunnerID=2 PilotModelName= SetCockpitPosition=FALSE ShowPilot=FALSE Position= 0.0,-14.38,0.82 MinExtentPosition=-0.25,-14.86,-0.33 MaxExtentPosition= 0.25,-13.85, 0.88 PitchModelNodeName=AftTurretBase YawModelNodeName=AftTurret GunRange=2000 GunnerFireChance=75 GunnerFireTime=0.8 GunnerAimOffset=0.050 GunnerAimAccuracy=60 PitchAngleRate=45 MaxPitch=2 MinPitch=-60 DefaultPitchAngle=0 YawLimited=TRUE YawAngleRate=45 MaxYaw=275 MinYaw=85 DefaultYawAngle=180 [TailGunner] SystemType=GUNNER_STATION SeatID=5 GunnerID=3 PilotModelName= SetCockpitPosition=FALSE ShowPilot=FALSE Position= 0.0,-15.56,1.32 MinExtentPosition=-0.25,-16.04, 0.17 MaxExtentPosition= 0.25,-15.03, 1.39 PitchModelNodeName=TailBarrels YawModelNodeName=TailGunTurret GunRange=2000 GunnerFireChance=80 GunnerFireTime=1.0 GunnerAimOffset=0.050 GunnerAimAccuracy=90 PitchAngleRate=45 MaxPitch=50 MinPitch=-30 DefaultPitchAngle=25 YawLimited=TRUE YawAngleRate=45 MaxYaw=250 MinYaw=110 DefaultYawAngle=180 Then you need guns. Here the lines from Tu-16 [DorsalGun1] SystemType=FLEXIBLE_GUN GunTypeName=23MM_AM23 GunnerID=1 MuzzlePosition=-0.07,10.20,1.17 MaxAmmo=500 TracerLoading=5 BurstAmount=10 MinExtentPosition=-0.45, 8.61, 0.38 MaxExtentPosition= 0.45, 9.56, 1.34 [DorsalGun2] SystemType=FLEXIBLE_GUN GunTypeName=23MM_AM23 GunnerID=1 MuzzlePosition= 0.07,10.20,1.17 MaxAmmo=500 TracerLoading=5 BurstAmount=10 MinExtentPosition=-0.45, 8.61, 0.38 MaxExtentPosition= 0.45, 9.56, 1.34 [VentralGun1] SystemType=FLEXIBLE_GUN GunTypeName=23MM_AM23 GunnerID=2 MuzzlePosition=-0.07,-7.00,-1.09 MaxAmmo=700 TracerLoading=5 BurstAmount=10 MinExtentPosition=-0.45,-8.60,-1.21 MaxExtentPosition= 0.45,-7.65,-0.25 [VentralGun2] SystemType=FLEXIBLE_GUN GunTypeName=23MM_AM23 GunnerID=2 MuzzlePosition= 0.07,-7.00,-1.09 MaxAmmo=700 TracerLoading=5 BurstAmount=10 MinExtentPosition=-0.45,-8.60,-1.21 MaxExtentPosition= 0.45,-7.65,-0.25

A 99kt warhead. 10 times more than the Hiroshima bomb. Its a little bit overrated. Doesnt it?