Gepard

Make it easy. Choose a flyable american fighter unit and replace it with the australian unit and give it the Mirage as plane. No need to add a new unit and cause unexpected troubles.

Good job!

Looping over Guernsey island.

Slow but steady progress, while placing TOD objects on Guernsey. To set up to 800 trees and up to 500 buildings per tile on the map needs time.

It is an old tactic for soviet combat helicopters. I found it in a tactical document of the East German Army. It is called "Angriff aus dem Hochziehen" (attack while pull up).

The pilots did not loved this kind of attack, because the helicopters had no aiming device for it. The tactics said, that you need a two ground controllers on the ground. Or two orientation points. The line between the two points or controllers marks the flightpath. When reaching the second point you must pull up to a specific angle, with a specitic speed and start firing the unguided rockets. This had to be done very accurate. If not the rockets hit anything else, but not the target. Even the wind direction and wind speed must be in the calculation.

A direct hit on a small target, like a tank is nearly impossible. Areal targets can be hit with a certain degree.

After the pull up maneuver it was orderd to fire masses of flares, dive down and go over to very low flight level. And run away.

In SF2 world you will see no or less success with this kind of attack.

I dont think, that we will see the Su-33 flying from a carrier again.

3 hours ago, Nightshade/PR said:

The orientation of the czech insignias is wrong. The rule is: The blue part is always directed to the front, the red part is always directed toward the fuselage, the white part is always directed outward. It must look so:

Top Gear Police Department helicopter

MiG-21SPS-K, alias MiG-21PFM

Jagdfliegergeschwader-9 (JG-9), Peenemünde, 1971

Let's discuss about Brexit.

My 2 cents have nothing to do with the 3d model. For me it looks great.

My 2 cents are about the flight behavior of the Shafrir. Pilots said, that the Shafrir made very heavy curls while flying. Much bigger than the Sidewinder or the soviet R-3S (AA-2). It was also said, that Shafrir, which made not such big movements hit nothing.

I dont know, wheter this behavior can be simulated in the SF2 world.

To come back to the discussion which task had the small plates below the auxillary air intakes.

Here a small photo of an indian MiG-21bis, which is firing the GSh-23L gun.

Ths muzzle flash is astonishing big and under certain circumstances gun smoke could come into the small air intakes, if there wont be the small protection plates.

MiG-21SPS-K, alias MiG-21PFM

MiG-21 first and second generation

MiG-21 first, second and third generation

MiG-21 all 4 generations

Here some pictures of a MiG-21SPS-K (MiG-21PFM with gun capability), which i had taken some years ago:

Super Mystere over Guernsey

There were two kinds of colors. Black and the strange color, which you call turquoise. Some planes came with black, the other with turquoise cockpits. Later were the blacks repainted to turquoise. It was said, that it had a psychological reason. It should "rise" the moral. The turquoise should have been better for the eyes too. It was said, that it was easier to detect the instruments. This is what i have heared during my military time.

Here some detail photos of a MiG-21 cockpit. IIRC it is a MiG-21bis cockpit, maybe a MiG-21MF cockpit.

EDIT: I have looked into my archive. The photos were taken at Flugplatzmuseum Cottbus. It is a MiG-21bis, subversion SAU. The MiG-21bisSAU is the version with the arrow shaped antenna under the air intake. The other version MiG-21bisLasur did not had this antenna.

With crash, do you mean crash to desktop or worse?

Do you use a clean installation of the game or do you use mods?

Uruguay. I know it is fiction. They never had the Skyhawk. But i love their insignia.

Somewhere in South Atlantic 1982

After Falkland War were rumors, that the Soviet Union tried to sell MiG-23 to Argentina.

Brazilian Tigers

Is an modder working on the new russian FAB-3000?