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MiG-21K MiG-21KS MiG-21KST MiG-21Kbis

What for hell someone need a Uzi at home. For self defence? Why not take a Sherman or a Bradley? Stupid.

On US server i played in the last time a lot with my first Sherman. Its the M4A2E4, a gift for beta testers. I had it a long time in my garage, but i did not used it, till i found out, that gift or gold tanks are made for crew training. I moved my Easy8 crew into this tank and from this time the A2E4 became a nice vehicle. Its very rarely to see and a lot of folks are surprised that such a tank exsist and often they think that it is a Jumbo Sherman. Nevertheless, the normal Sherman has finaly a better gun with more punch, but with the A2E4 you get more credits. Thats nice. But it is difficult to get the Masterbadge. I needed a lot of battles, but finaly i got it.

After a long periode of looking for the reason of the FM problems it seems to be, that i was successfull. With a little bit luck i will release following carierborn MiG-21 versions: MiG-21K - navalized version of the MiG-21PF with improved engine R-13-300, canards and refuel probe MiG-21KS - updated version with stronger engine R-13F2-300, RP-22 radar and 4 wingpylons MiG-21KST - nuclear strike version in shape similar to the MiG-21SMT MiG-21Kbis - updated KS with engine R-25-300

I can tell you only about the LSK (EGAF), because the soviets sold only the plane, not the knowledge how to work it properly. When the GDR got the new MiG-29, the plane was used in the first weeks along the old CGI based doctrine. But very fast it became obviesly that this doctrine would not allow to fly the plane so that it could use all of his capacities. So it was intended to use the MiG-29 and MiG-21 together. In a similar way the iranians used their F-14s for a while to support their other fighters. But this periode was very short. At end of 1988 a completly new tactic was started to develope. It was more focused on aggressive fighter patrols along, over and behind the frontline with the task to achieve the air superiority over the combat area by annihilating enemy fighters, attackers and helicopters in dogfighting. It became closer to the western fighter doctrines. Parts of the new doctrine were already used during 1989 training routines, but by the end of the year it was not yet fully developed and implemented. So the time of dogfight training was more than doubled and the time of GCI intercept training was significantly reduced. It is rarely known, that the LSK had her own "fighter cup" competition and so looked the trophy (picture taken from Flugzeugforum.de) The Soviets had their own "Top Gun Fighter town" somewhere in Turkmenistan or so.

I read this article with certain smile on my face. It is full of statements like: "It wasn’t designed to do much besides intercept and shoot down adversaries who were flying not far from its airfield. Eastern bloc pilots were trained to slavishly follow ground controllers, so the Fulcrum’s systems, including its head-up display, were not highly developed, and the situational awareness the pilots got was very limited." Which show, that the design philosophy of the MiG-29 was not understood. The MiG-29 HUD gave you all information you needed. It looks different to a western HUD and was not as stylish, thats true. But it told the pilot speed, alttitude, course, angle of attack, target informations, climb and dive angles, distance to waypoints etc. And the statement of the slavish doctrine was only correct for MiG-21 and 23. For the 29 a completly new fighting doctrine was developed. This was not finished yet in 1990 but is was a big change. And so on, and so on, and so on. The best two statements i have read from pilots are: " The worst case for us is a German flying a MiG-29.", by a RAF pilot and a "They won the battles during debriefing with their mouth. We won it in flight.", by a german MiG-29 jock.

Its typical behavior of all sides. No need to worry. If a chinese recon bird would appeare 135 miles from Hawai US fighters would do the same stuff.

Das komische ist, daß bei höherer Anfluggeschwindigkeit die Fangseile fast jedesmal getroffen werden, bei geringerer Geschwindigkeit überschießt das KI Flugzeug die Fangseil. Blöde KI.

Zwei Probleme. No.1 Landeanflug auf den Träger. Mit wenig Sprit an Bord haben die Flugzeuge die Tendenz die Fangseile zu verfehlen und über das Deck hinauszuschießen. Das kann ich lösen indem ich mehr Fangseile über die ganze Länge des Decks anbringe. Aber No.2 ist nicht so einfach zu lösen. Die KI Flugzeuge fangen beim Anflug auf den Vorletzten Wegpunkt an "herumzueiern". Ich weiß auch nicht wie ich das beschreiben soll. Die Nase macht ständig eine 8 förmige Bewegung. Das sieht aus wie das Watscheln einer Ente. Sobald dann der Endanflug losgeht ist alles wieder i.O. Bis auf Problem No.1. Wahrscheinlich muß ich nochmal zurück auf Anfang und den ganzen FM Kram neu aufsetzen. Hier mal ein Bild eines MiG-21KST Buckelwals.

Nachdem ich zum wiederholten mal meine MiG-21K Varianten wegen Problemen mit dem Flugmodell frustriert fallengelassen hatte dachte ich mir, ich könnte mal was vernünftiges tun und eine modernisierte Mirage 5 der Luftwaffe basteln. Mirage 5AL Panther Das ist eigentlich nichts anderes als die Mirage 50 Pantera, die es hier in der Download Sektion schon seit 2008 gibt. Ich habe einfach die chilenischen Hoheitszeichen überpinselt und die Decals der Lufwaffe draufgesetzt. Deshalb meine Wahl der Typenbezeichnung Panther. AL steht für Allemagne. Und hier noch mal ganz schnell, quick and dirty modded eine Mirage F-1AL

RIP

For the name i must take a look into my archive. Hope that i will find something usefull. Maybe. What i can remember now is, that in the first moment after the shock of the appearence of the tanks in Germany hastily a lot of big caliber guns were requisitioned (i hope this is the correct term) from large annimal hunters. This guns were used for a while till the Panzerbüchse came to the front. For the nomal 98K carabine armour piercing hard core bullits were developed and were used from 1917 or so.

It is not only neccessary to punch a hole in a armour of a tank, but you must destroy critical parts in the vehicle too. Critical parts are ammo, crew, optics etc, but mainly the crew. It is relativly unlikly, that you will hit a crewmember directly by shooting through the armour plate. To increase the chance to harm the crew it is neccessary to increase the numbres of debris inside the tank. And a bullit with bigger caliber will cause more debris flying inside the tank. Thatswhy the bigger caliber was used. At beginning of the war the main caliber of AT guns, Panzerbüchsen in german language, was around 7.62 mm (depends on the country, some had 7.92, other 7.7 or so) but this small guns were not powerfull enough so that till 1941 the caliber was rising to 14.5 mm. And such calibred AT guns you could not only use for AT but for sniper tasks or sometimes in the Flak role.

I found this picture in the web. It is said, that it shows a part of the wreck of the crashed malaysian 777 flight MH17. For me the holes are not looking like hits of a blast fragmentation warhead or of a continious rod warhead. It looks similar to hits by gunfire of caliber 23 or 30mm. If this is true, then the story of shot down by Buk SAM is false. The question is, wheter the picture shows truely a part of the wreck of the 777 or is it a fake?

Cha-23 NATO designation AS-7 Kerry was seen on Yak-38M and during the AFG campaign the Cha-25 NATO designation AS-10 Karen was used. The screenshots show Cha-25MP missiles.

Da gibts schon eine ganze Reihe von Flugzeugen, die eigentlich nur einen anderen Namen und eine andere Tarnbemalung brauchen. Die haben unsere argentinischen Modderkollegen gebastelt. Schau mal hier: http://combatace.com/files/category/479-french-origin/?sort_order=DESC&sort_key=file_submitted&num=10&st=40 Die Canards und Lufttanksonden, die ich für meine fiktiven MiG-21 Versionen nutze stammen auch von dort. Alejandro ist der 3d Modder. Die Zusatzteile werden einfach der Fake Pilot drangepappt und im Spiel sieht das kein Mensch. Wenn man eine einfache Veränderung vorhandener Files von Alejandro möchte, bekommt man sie auch recht flott.

New gift tank for the european server. Japanese Tier 2 light tank Type 97 Te-Ke. Not to bad if you ask me. Was my first battle on this little tank. Not available on US server so far. Perhaps it will comes later.

Einen Jaguar M für die Marineflieger finde ich nicht schlecht. Vielleicht als Bordgeschwader zu einem fiktiven Träger. Die Jagdbombergeschwader sollten anstelle der Mirage III die Mirage 5 erhalten Und die M2000 würde ich ganz weglassen. Stattdessen kampfwertgesteigerte M3, M5 oder F1 Varianten nehmen. So in der Art der Kfir mit Entenflügeln und Tanksonde. In etwa, wie die Mirages für Südamerika verbessert wurden oder die Cheetah für Südafrika. Den französischen Buchstabensalat könnte man umgehen. Einfach einen gutklingenden Namen und zusätzliche Buchstaben zur Version. Sagen wir mal Mirage III Falke, Mirage 5 Sperber und Mirage F1 Habicht. Dann wäre die M3C ein Falke-A die M3E ein Falke-B die M3R ein Falke-C usw.

For WOX series: http://combatace.com/files/file/5532-mig-23mk-carrierborne-flogger/

BBC news alert: East german Forgers attacked the Invincible battle group some miles west of the island of Rügen after S-300PMU SAM systems annihilated the Sea Harriers. The first strike hits the picket shipes, while the missiles of the main strike hit the british carrier and sunk it.

If Scotland really would vote for independence in autumn this year and it would become an own independent nation in some years, what would happen with the HMS QE. Will the ship be owned fully by the rest UK and Scottland will be paid for his share or will be the bow scottish and the stern english and the middle be owned by Wales and Northern Ireland?

Found this in a german forum: 2 islands? No kidding?

In 1968 the soviets wanted that the GDR took part in the CSSR invasion, but in this only one time Ulbricht (ZK Chef) resist against the soviet will. So the GDR forces stayed along the borderline on GDR territory. But it is true, that there are rumours about a german participation. This rumours are partly true. Some days before the soviet invasion the WP held a troop exercise in the slovak part of the CSSR with NVA participation. It were only a fistfull communication troops. 30 or 40 men or so. This tiny force was on the way home, when the soviet invasion started and they tried to avoid WP marching columns at all costs, so that the marchroute went trough the Riesengebirge along the polish czech border to the saxon swizerland mountains, were they arrived GDR territory without having troubles with the czech people. Perhaps it was helpfull that in the marching area still a lot of people were able to speak german language. Your point of animosities between us and the polish you are right. We had a proverb: "With Poland as ally you need no enemy." On the other hand i knew a lot of polish people which a good guys (and girls).

Fire exchanges between polish and GDR forces are new for me. Have never heared about it. That the polish Navy fired some rounds accidently on a west german ship in 1987, yes, that happend. But polish vs GDR? I doubt. In 1981 there was a big "chance" for a big bang between Poland and the GDR. When Poland was nearly broke down caused by the Solidarnosc thing the WP states prepared themself for an invation. The Militärbezirk V was ordered to make a covered mobilization of forces and 2 or 3 Divisions in the north of the GDR were set in high alert, got full wartime ammo and their staffs were already working on attack plans to reach Kolberg and the Leba Lake into 7 days. When Jaruzelski took over the power in Poland the planes were cancelled, but still during my military time in the end of the 80th i heard in some under the hand talks, that in 1981 "we had missed a big chance chance to get back, what belongs to us." I was astonished to hear such revanchistic statements, not only by ordinary soldiers, but by higher ranking officers too. Maybe a "Pommern" aircraftcarrier would fit into such a scenario.

Ehm, Pommern is a former prussian province. The major part of this province is located eastward of the Oder river, what means, that it is today part of Poland. And our polish allies would have been a little bit more than upset if the Volksmarine would have named a ship with the name "Pommern". Geographicaly correct would be "Vorpommern", but names like these were not used in the GDR. The country was devided in local districts (Bezirke), comparable with the french departement structure, so names like Thüringen, Sachsen etc were not used for naming of ships. Correct ship names were names of towns and cities or names of "revolutionary people". AFAIK in the last periode of the GDR only names of towns and cities were used. But it is a What If. Give it the name you want. I like it.