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Sorry. Dont know were you got this "news". But forget this. There was no "victory" of the Phantom over the MiG-29. In 1991, in preparation for Desert Storm, there were mock combats between american F-16 and MiG-29. The result was the "destruction" of the Viper at 50km+. (later the F-16 won a mock combat with half full tanks and removed pylons, while the miG had a full fuel loading and a centerline tank ) The MiG-29 were the most welcome sparrings partner at Decci airbase (NATO fighter town). And in all close combat scenarios it proofed superior to all western planes. The only "weakpoint" of the east german pilots was that they had to retrain to NATO combat and communication procedures. But that does not mean, that they were bad pilots. In contrary. They had had training which west german pilots not had. Which west german pilot had ever trained to intercept low and slow flying objects (helis and cruise misiles)? Interception at all night and into the clouds was also no Luftwaffe training objective, but was common in LSK. and and and. The east german pilots had a different training schedule than the west germans, but they were not bad. Up today they are officers in the Luftwaffe. If you want third side info: Then ask danish pilots, who played catch me if you can with LSK MiG-23 over the Baltic, how the east german pilots were. You will get the answer: skilled, motivated and tactical good. This is the entry in a german forum about one of the baltic games: "Muss so 1987 gewesen sein, wir machten gerade östlich von Rügen ein bissel Abfangen in den Wolken mit Schnitt- und Gegenkursen, da meldet die Leitstelle "zwei Schnelle in 10.000 mit Kurs 150 Entfernung 90 km". Frag ich doch mal nach, wo die Bäckerburschen herkommen - offenbar aus Aalboorg (Dänemark). Da gabs ja nur F-16 und mit denen hatte ich das "Vergnügen" bis dahin nicht gehabt. Als ich mich so in 3000 m nach oben aus den Wolken mache, sehe ich Sie dann auch Dank Ihrer vorzüglichen "Tarnung" mit Kondensstreifen. Hinter mir kamen sie dann zügig runter (war im Periskop prima zu sehen) und hingen je Einer rechts und links neben mir. Da das F-16 Teil bekantermaßen in deren Version kein richtiges Radar hatte wussten Sie aber offenbar nichts von meinem Kameraden Wolfgang der ca. 15 km hinter mir noch in den Wolken steckte. Ich frag ihn also ob er die auch "sieht" was er natürlich bestätigt und bitte Ihn mir die Vögel doch mal zu verscheuchen. Nach dem Aufschalten der Zielbeleuchtung flog dem einen wahrscheinlich sein Warngerät um die Ohren und ich habe nie wieder einen Flieger so in Panik flüchten gesehen.... Wir haben uns noch tagelang drüber amüsiert."

Dont forget, that carriers acts in groups (CBG) with more than one carrier. Two or three carriers means the double or tripple of interceptors, so that the CBG could withstand a massive air strike. A CBG is very mobile, so that the enemy would have big problems to locate and track this group. The defence power of the ships with Aegis systems was outstanding. One fact would be interessting to know for me. If the carriers would launch their Prowlers to jam the recon and bomber radars and incomming ASM missiles, does they jam the own airdefence too? In central europe both german armies had had powerfull jamming devices on Marder or MTLB. The problem with this jammers was, that they blocked not only the enemy com lines, but also the own. How was it with the Prowlers and the Carrier groups?

As closer you are to the equator you can bring larger payloads into the orbit. The Soyuz carrier can lift 7 tons from Baikonour, but when they will start it from Kourou (european Ariana launch base in french Guyana) the can bring more then 8 tons into the sky.

Only 3 hours left, then the finals starts. USA vs Japan. The US girls looks much better. But the japanese team was the big surprise in this championship. Im very curious to see which team will win.

"Red Storm Rising", wasnt this the talesbook where the F-19 was acting, the NATO had the newest and best equippment and the Soviets came with T-55 and wire guided ATGM of the first and second generation? Forget Clancy.

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The AI can see at night as good as on day.

This problem is game immanent. Had been already in the first generation. SF is, as TK said, rather a game than a simulation. LOMAC is much more realistic, but SF is much more fun. The target designator outside the HUD you can solve. You must go to options screena and set "HUD display" and "visual targeting" from normal to hard

Yes the specific weapon station code is the reason of the problem. If you delete the F14, you must do it via weapons editor. Only editing the weapondata.ini with notepad editor is not enough. You must do it with WE. Or as second way, you add the line SpecificStationCode=F14 to all Phoenix stations as MigBuster had descriped already.

Buran way to expensive. Thatswhy it was cancelled. Its in museum now. You can see it at Sinsheim in Germany. This museum had had hoped to get one of the Shuttles too, but the NASA wont bring her birds outside the USA. For a future spacecraft i would like to see a modern version of the Dynasoar project from the 60th or the european Hermes from the 80th or the russian Kliper from the 90th. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_X-20_Dyna-Soar http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_%28spacecraft%29 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kliper

Lift off for Space Shuttle Atlantis. Good luck and good landing.

The discussion how to use the AIM-9B successfully we had a lot of times here in the forum. Major rules: 1. Be in 5 - 7 o clock position to the target 2. minimum range 800 meters maximum range 2000 meters 3. not moving during firing procedure 4. hope and pray

Hey this old Italieri modell kit i had had a long time ago too.

After installing the Phoenix do you has opend file weapondata.ini with Weaponseditor? Dou you has clicked on button "save" before closing Weaponseditor? If not do it. To your question: Phoenix is set AHM look for and check this lines in the F-14A_Data.ini [PhoenixStation1] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=5 StationGroupID=1 StationType=EXTERNAL AttachmentPosition=-0.45,0.9,-0.6 AttachmentAngles=0.0,2.0,0.0 EjectVelocity=0.0,-2.0,0.0 LoadLimit=2280 AllowedWeaponClass=AHM <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< THIS AttachmentType=USN,USAF,NATO ModelNodeName=suppphoenix01 PylonMass=55 PylonDragArea=0.02 if this is okay, then check following lines in your weaponsdata.ini [WeaponData036] <<<<< Make sure that you use your correct sequence number TypeName=AIM-54A FullName=AIM-54A Phoenix ModelName=aim_54a Mass=453.000000 Diameter=0.381000 Length=4.010000 SubsonicDragCoeff=0.120000 SupersonicDragCoeff=0.222000 AttachmentType=USN SpecificStationCode= NationName=USN StartYear=1974 EndYear=1984 Availability=2 BaseQuantity=4 Exported=TRUE ExportStartYear=1977 ExportEndYear=1984 ExportAvailability=0 WeaponDataType=1 RailLaunched=FALSE RocketPod=FALSE Retarded=FALSE FinStabilized=TRUE SpinStabilized=FALSE HasGrowl=FALSE EffectClassName=LargeMissileEffects ReleaseDelay=1.000000 WarheadType=0 Explosives=60.000000 FusingDistance=3.000000 ClusterBomblets=0 ClusterDispersion=0.000000 GuidanceType=13 Accuracy=80 MaxTurnRate=15.000000 MaxLaunchG=3.000000 LockonChance=75 LaunchReliability=80 ArmingTime=2.000000 SeekerFOV=6.000000 SeekerGimbleLimit=40.000000 SeekerTrackRate=16.000000 SeekerRange=130000.000000 MinLaunchRange=3700.000000 MaxLaunchRange=130000.000000 Duration=300.000000 CounterCountermeasure=25.000000 NoiseRejection=40.000000 CapabilityFlags=0x1000000b LoftAngle=0.000000 DescentAngle=0.000000 MaxLoftAltitude=0.000000 CLmax=14.000000 MinFreq=0.000000 MaxFreq=0.000000 BoosterStart=0.500000 BoosterDuration=6.000000 BoosterAccel=16.250000 BoosterEffectName=MissileFireEffect BoosterSoundName=Missile BoosterNodeName= BoosterPosition=0.000000,-1.835150,0.000000 SustainerDuration=240.000000 SustainerAccel=18.250000 SustainerEffectName=MissileFireEffect SustainerSoundName=Missile SustainerPosition=0.000000,-1.835150,0.000000 InFlightEffectName=MissileInFlightEffect InFlightSoundName= ReleaseAnimationID=-1 EODisplayFlags=0 CEP=0.000000

Good idea.

Also das mit dem Landen eines Hubis auf der Plattform klappt nicht. Aber ich denke gerade darüber nach die Bohrinsel als Groundobject in der Klasse Warship zu definieren. Dann könnte ich sie wie ne Fregatte mit nem Flugdeck ausstatten und den Pott zudem noch mit nem Fla-Raketen-Starter ausrüsten. Sagen wir mal so 10 Stingers mit Abschussintervall ewa 10 Sekunden ....

Ich bastle ja schon eine Weile am Persischen Golf Terrain. Von Russo habe ich ne Ölbohrplattform bekommen mit der ich allerdings so ein paar Probleme habe, aber das nur nebenbei. Ich wollte nun die Bohrinseln nicht einfach nur so rumstehen lassen, sondern einige von ihnen bewaffnen. Einfach ne leichte Flak draufstellen oder ein paaar Stingers. Seit gestern Abend fummle ich schon rum, bekomme es aber nicht in Griff. Hat jemand eine Idee wie ich ne Stinger oder ne ZU-23 of die Bohrinsel bekomme?

The MiG-23 should get a proper cockpit, not only a repaint. Same with MiG-17, -19.

The idea with the DLC shop is not bad, but honestly the planes TK offers i can do myself in a few minutes. In case of MirageIIIC i had done it last year. I had taken the bird from WOI and put it into WOE, gave it a french skin and it looks very similar to TK's french MirageIIIC he offered. If he would offer a MirageIIIE or a MirageF1 or a F-5 Tiger or a F-86 Sabre or a MiG i would buy this birds with pleasure, but not the 3 he had done till now.

The game decided that you are wounded and the the wounds are so heavy that you died. Simply reload the campaign and the the mission again. Works at my computer. But in record screen you still has a lost campaign. s**t happens.

Oh oh. That sounds unhealthy. Afghans are not known for respecting the Convention of Geneva.

Brasil won yesterday and Australia too. Okay, they were the better teams, but they had a 12th teamplayer, called referee. I dont know how the referees are selected for the championship. I have seen very good referees, but also some who were blind like a mole! In match Germany vs Nigeria, the south korean referee acted onesided to favor the Nigerians. In match Brasil vs Norway the referee favored Brasil, and dont punished harsh fouls. In match Australia vs Ivory Coast an australian girl catched the ball by hand in front of the goal and the referee smiled in the camera and the match went on.

Not at the moment, my son had broken the joystick, so it is a little bit difficult to fly.

I think this skin is not yet existing. Nobody has done it before. So the old rule comes again: If you want that it is done, so do it yourself.

And the US girls had won today. Lets see how far they are coming. They play a good football. Fascinating is the japanese team. Good were France and Sweden. England and Germany are more or less disappointing. If i had to vote now, i would bet for Japan. They played the best Football so far. But does they have the energy to fight down teams like Germany or USA?