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    ThirdWire Site

    Gepard replied to Gepard's topic in The Pub

    Thats a good news, that the shop is online again.
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    ThirdWire Site

    Gepard posted a topic in The Pub

    Today i tried to visite the shop on TW site. Just for fun. Lets say, i felt a little bit nostalgic. But i was unable to go to the shop. Is it closed? Or only temporary down? Any idea? The same with TW forum. Was also not available.
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    Have been in Kiev 1986. It was the cleanest soviet city i have ever seen. Everywhere the trucks of the city cleaning drove along the streets and sprayed water over it. On some street latirns hang strange traffic sights. IIRC they were yellow with red letters. "Chernobylski Rayon" and a arrow in which direction you had to drive if you wanted to go to Chernobyl. The girls were pretty and interessted, but when they found out, that we were germans ... okay, then the reaction was not as nice. Rather hostile. I could understood if old people looked strange to me when they found out that i'm german. For them the war was still present. But the young generation? Why they behaved so? Educated to hate? Everytime war movies in the TV. War movies in the cinemas. But this was in Kiev only. It never happend in Moscow or in the Ural mountains, not in Kirgisia or in Azerbaidzhan. Everywhere in the USSR we germans were the best friends, but not in the Ukraine. And in Poland. There i learned the polish greeting: "Svabske swine, swabske pies." (means "Kraut pigs, Kraut dogs.) Nice allies we had. With such allies you need no enemy!
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    Could it be, that your movie editing program made a little bit more than reducing the sound level? Changed it the sound file version? Maybe the game engine cant read the new version of sound file.
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    I have never heared, that a MiG-25 was able to carry flares. The efficency of the seeker head of the R-73 was as good, that the Luftwaffe decided to cancel the participation of ASRAAM program and instead to let develope the completly new IRIS-T missile. It was said in the Luftwaffe, that the R-73 was one generation ahead compared with the american IR missiles of that time. Maybe the technology of Stinger seeker heads which was captured in Afghanistan helped the soviets to make their missiles better.
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    The soviets gave out the figure, that the hit chance of a R-73 during enemy flares use was around 60%. But only if the flare was already in the sky, when the missiles was launched. When the decoy was started when the missile was already on the way, the hit chance was around 80%. Not all what Robert Hierl said, was really true. The number of flight hours of east german pilots was between 90 and 120 hours. That was less compared with west german standards. But if you count the number of missions which were flown, then the difference was not as big. What he not mentioned was that the LSK still was in a operational finding phase, how to operate the MiG-29. The soviets sold only the plane, but not the new developed flight and combat doctrine. And he said, that there was a east german pilot who learned english very fast, although the never had english lessons before. This is rubbish. English we learned in the school. And my own experience was, that after 4 years of learning english in the east german school, i was well prepared to live in south England for a longer time in 1991.
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    The french president Macron the view from Paris: and the view from Berlin:
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    Eure Meinung

    Gepard replied to Florian's topic in Deutsch

    Sieht gut aus. Aber Leute, wer trinkt denn Bier aus ner Büchse? Okay, ihr sagt dazu Dose, aber trotzdem! Bier gehört in eine Flasche oder in den Mund. Niemals in eine Büchse oder ein Glas. Pfui Deibel!
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    Nice bird. I love it. One problem i have with it. I can load laser guided bombs but they are useless, because i cant load a laser designator pod, nor the plane has an internal laser designator.
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    InSky is known for file piracy. Thatswhy their files were deleted some years ago.
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    The TakeOFFHead is the starting position of the player only in single take off. If you want to make a mass take off, then you need no TakeOffHead. Without TakeOffHead parameter all planes starts from their positions in the direction of the runway. The positions of the single planes you set with the parameter TakeOff[xx] Maybe, that it is possible to use the parameters TaxiHead[xx] and TakeOff[xx] together. That the AI planes roll from taxi positions to their designated takeoff positions and start the take off run from there.
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    Very nice article. Well done. One comment to the low rate of vietnamese trainees who became pilots. The most of the first trainees were physically unable to fly a combat plane. It lacked the physical strenght. Soviet pilot instructores said, that it very often happend, that the vietnamese trainee fell into a blackout during combat training flights, while the soviet instructors still had no problems at all. To overcome this problem the soviets decided to bring very young vietnamese trainees (teenagers, as younger as better) into the Soviet Union and in a first step the trainees became "european food". Meat instead rice. A lot of sport lessons to make them stronger. When they became old enough to fly a plane the pilot training started with good results. The Vietnamese people are well known for their studiousness.
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    What if Germany would have bought the Gripen? SAAB JAS-39T Tysk Gripen
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    Over Hokkaido, Japan
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    Make sure that the line: CatFile=..\IsraelME\IsraelME.cat is in the ini file of the terrain.
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    That the PM could be the MF i doubt. Because the MiG-21 came in 4 generation. The first generation was a daylight fighter without radar. The second generation was designed as interceptor with radar. The P was the symbol of that generation. It stands for perekhvatchik, interceptor. The third generation was multi role capable. Thatswhy the M for export models and S (saphire) for soviet used versions. The bis was the 4th generation. I think the PM is a never existing version, like the PFMA, which you find often in the literature, but not in reality. The PFL i found in Gordons book. I think he is wrong, because he cant tell us for what the L should stand. Topeczer repeated only what Gordon wrote. Why i say that? Because all letters have a meaning. P stands for radar equipment, F for stronger engines, S either for SPS System (border layer blowing system) or Saphire radar. T stands for more fuel (toplivo), -13 for equipment with K-13 missile. FL means "Frontline". The single letter L has no meaning. It could have been used for "light" (lyokhki), but the plane Gordon mentioned was not lighter that the average MiG-21PF. It was a little bit heavier. The V has a meaning, it stands for vetnamski (vietnamised) and was an indication for improved corrosion protection and additional protection against water and wet weather conditions (for instance the cooling slots in the radar cone were sealed). Gordon wrote, that the designation PF-V is wrong and was never used. And he is right. The designation was PFV, without "-". In russian laguage it is written so: МиГ-21ПФВ.
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    You wrote: " MiG-21PF/PFL/PFS/PFM (PFL and PFM used by the VPAF in Vietnam along with the gun armed F-13 and PM)" I have never heard about a MiG-21PFL and MiG-21PM. There was a MiG-21FL export model for non allied costumers like India or Egypt. The Vietnam version was called MiG-21PFV. A gun pod could carried on late MiG-21FL (made for India first) and late MiG-21PFM. The MiG-21S also had only a gunpod, not an internal gun. This came with MiG-21M for export and MiG-21SM for soviet use.
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    For WOE
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    Could have ended much more tragic. In the flight plan was the start of Soyuz-2 ordered some hours after Soyuz-1. Soyuz-2 had a 3 man crew (IIRC). It was planed that Soyuz-1 and 2 link up. Two cosmonauts had to make an EVA, go from Soyuz 2 to Soyuz-1 and had to land with Soyuz-1. When shortly after the launch of Soyuz-1 mailfunctions appeard the launch of Soyuz-2 was canceled.
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    Gagarin had a flight "ban" for some years. He was not allowed to fly planes anymore. He became the chief of the cosmonaut group and was sent to foreign countries for good will tours. After some years he started to fight against the flight prohibition and in end 1967 he was allowed to fly again. After 7 years of non flying Gagarins flight skills were not good anymore, so he began the jet flight training from scratch again. Starting with L-29 trainers, then MiG-15UTI, as next step the MiG-21 was announced. .... It ended in a grave at the Kremlin wall at Red Square in Moscow. IIRC side by side with his college Komarow who died in the Sojus-1 crash in 1967.
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    Yuri Gagarin, the man who was the first who had seen our planet from orbit an April 12th 1961, lost his life on this day 50 years ago. He was flying a MiG-15UTI training plane, that crashed after the plane was forced into a spin. The recovery of the spin failed. Some sources stated, that the flight recorder showed, that if the spin would have entered 150 meters higher the recovery would have been successfull. Why the MiG-15UTI with Gagarin on the controlls crashed was investigated, but the results were never published. Alexey Leonow, a college of Gagarin and the first man who left a spacecraft, said, that two Su-7 crossed the fight way of Gagarins MiG at very close distance and caused the spin, who cost the life of the man who was the first in space.
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    At the moment you are to sell, lets take me an example a Volkswagen Golf 1 as Golf 6, and say, sorry that he does not looks like in reality. And this is pity. There are a lot of argentian modders who used the fake pilot to make planes appearance fitting to reality. A lot of Mirage versions they made. And they are very good. Perhaps you could ask them to make some fake pilots to make that your MiG-35 looks more like a real MiG-35. I'm sure, that they will help you, if you ask them. When i ask for help to modify the MiG-21 in a fictional carrier based MiG-21K, i got help from there. A real MiG-35 would be very welcome here, i think.
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    In the reality the problem is, if you store IR missiles as close as possible, that the smoke of an starting rocket engine can harm the IR sensor of the other missiles. Even dust and fume can reduce the efficency of the IR seeker in significant way.
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    I must fill water in your wine. The aircraft shape of the bird you used is an early MiG-29K from the late 80th. Not the MiG-35. The MiG-35 has always a big "two seater" canopy. Even the single seater MiG-35 has this big canopy, the place of the second seat is used for fuel or additional electronics. The MiG-35 has no hook. It is not intendet for carrier operations. The emergency landing procedures for eastern planes are different from western land based planes. While NATO ground based planes are using cable systems to prevent an overrolling the runway, the eastern system is basing on a net, similar to US carrier net barriers for emergency. The flaps of the MiG-35 are much bigger. They are the same as in the MiG-29K for India. The same with the airbrake. The air intake protection system of the MiG-35 is similar to the Su-27 family. Auxilary air intake on the upper strakes are not longer available. At this place a fuel tank is installed.
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    Nice story, nice skins. BTW, had the vietnamese planes a flag on the tailfin? Cant remember.
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