Gepard

Somewhere in Argentina.

Blueprints of the Convair 201 were stolen by east german intelligence service HVA. The plane was reengeneered by aircraft factory Flugzeugwerft Dresden. From 1985 ist was built as FWD-85 Bussard.

Nice mountainsides you also find at Formosa Strait terrain in the east of Taiwan.

10 minutes ago, Stratos said:

Fingers crossed, I really enjoyed the Hind book.

Maybe one day a MiG-21 book.

I had started to write a MiG-21 book some years ago, but an other author was faster and offered his manuscript to the publishing house, while i was still on writing. Bad timing.

On 4.4.2024 at 6:06 PM, daddyairplanes said:

one: how the hell do ya have a Phantom parked on the runway?

 

A parked plane middle on the runway is a sign, that one of the parking positions in the airfield.ini is wrong. It's the terrainbuilders fault.

Mandatory screenshots: Belgian Thunderstreaks over the English Channel.

A black plane means, that there is no texture file available. Often the LOD need a jpg file and only a bmp file is in the texture folder.

I think with 500 tod objects per tile you are on the safe side. Maybe 700 will also run. But this must tested.

I found an other Eiffel Tower lod on my harddrive. And to be honest: it's ugly:

I think that there is a limited number for TOD objects, that are accepted by the gameengine. The others are simply ignored by the game and will not appear.

I saw this behaviour of the game when i tried to set to many trees on the tile. With buildings, i think, it's the same.

7 hours ago, Wrench said:

is that a new tower, or the very old one from the EAW WW2 Euro map? THAT one is fouled up very badly

It's a new tower. But new is relative. I have it since 2005 on my harddrive, but never used before.

Strange thing.

I placed an Eiffel Tower on the map, mid in Paris. In game it does not appear.

Then i placed it at Paris Le Bourget airport over a hangar, for orientation reasons. Again the Eiffeltower is not visible in game. Then i flew my test plane exactly over the said hangar and the plane collided with the invisible Eiffeltower.

One of the strange miracles of SF2 world.

L-410UVP-T Turbolet

Each east german MiG had had their own unique camo sceme.

MiG-21F-13 over the Baltic Sea.

German carrier operations

with A-4 Skyhawk

and Convair 201

Elephant walk.

Recon run over Sark island.

The captured F-5E Tiger during soviet flight evaluation.

And for the guys who dont believe, that the Soviets had one:

6 hours ago, JamesWilson said:

This is outstanding info!!!

How did you get those? Is there any link or source? I'm looking for so long for infos regarding 1st and 2nd Gulf of Sidra Incidents and i can't find much, it's like the dynamics have already

 

Here the libyan view: https://warisboring.com/the-libyans-describe-a-different-version-of-their-1981-battle-with-the-u-s-navy/

It comes from a book by Tom Cooper Libyan Air Wars, Volumes 1 & 2.

12 hours ago, mehlhorndirk said:

Hello,

concerning the incident over Syrte in the year1981 it is not clear if the Su-22 or Su-22M were armed with either the R-3S or the more advanced R-13M. It can be that an R-3s was fired by mistake or that an R-13M was fired with an “limited” head-on look. If the seek of an R-13M were close to the heat source it could be possible to look on head-on. But the distance was normally too close as that the missile could guide properly. Therefore, the term “Limited” Head-On capability.

 

The R-13M, Advanced Atoll, had not had a head on capability. It never had, not even under optimal conditions. The first soviet all aspect AAM was the late R-60 (AA-8 Aphid).

If you read the american story of this dogfight you will find, hat the libyan Su-22 fired the missile at a range of 300 meters or less. This is deep in the so called "dead zone", also the distance were the missile is not guided and is flying only ballistically. The "dead zone" of a R-3S is 1.000 - 1.500 meters, the R-13M had a dead zone of 600 to 800 meters. In this zone the missile will hit nothing. And the pilots knew it very well.  So it is doubtfull, that the fight happend so, as it is publicated in western media.

The Libyans tell another story. They say, that the Su-22 came in the back of a F-14 pair and fired one missile, which hit one F-14. They showed this photo as evidence:

This photo is not an evidence of a kill, but only of a hit. Maybe the Tomcat was only damaged and made it back to the carrier.

The Libyans admit to have lost two Su-22 at this day. They say, that six F-14 were vectored toward the Sukhois to save the attacked Tomcat pair. And this six F-14 shot down the Sukhois.