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GermanyCE from WOE has roads. All FE terrains have roads. Formosa terrain has roads.

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I think the F-104 flight model is overrated. The Starfighter turns and accelerates better tahn in reality. But we should not forget: its a game!

The main reason for the big RCS of the Su-27 family was the fan of the engines. In head on maneuvres the radar of the enemy got a perfect view on the fan. Same problems had MiG-29, F-15 and in some aspects F-16. Coating of the air intakes are a big improvement. The americans did it with the F-16, the soviets tested it with the MiG-29M (i'm not sure wheter they have introduced that feature in real life service) The RCS of the MiG-29A was 15 square meters (nearly that of a Tu-16 bomber) the RCS of the MiG-29M was 1.5 square meters.

Why the people only want to fight yesterdays wars! Neither the Raptor nor the Flanker are usefull in our todays conflicts. You spent enourmous amounts of money for nothing. Its like building battleships between WW1 and 2. Worth for nothing. Today we need combat helicopter and planes like the A-10 or Su-25.

Stay low and then fire a KH-25MP on the Hawk position. You get a nice firework on the ground.

Maybee they only want to give their pilots a cheap flying machine. If you see what it cost to hold a F-15 or F-16 one hour in the air, then you can understand that they will use the good old reliable and cheap Fishbed. High tech fighters are senseless in Iraq.

Sorry guy, that article is rubbish. There has someone looked on a warshaw pact map and saw all designations in cyrillic letters. And so the tale starts ...

Süßes Teil. Echt cool.

The Tomcat was a very nice bird. No question about it. It was well promoted in the cinema with "Top Gun" movie. A lot of its reputation came from this movie. The Tomcat had an outstanding performance as interceptor. It was designed to defend the US carrier battle groups against soviet bombers. It was the first plane with lift body design but it was the last fighter with swing wings. And the swing wings are the weakpoint (not only at the Tomcat, also at the MiG-23 etc.) The swing wing design is heavy and potential dangerous for the pilot. Cracks on the swing wings grounded very often the entire Tomcat fleet. As a dogfighter the F-14 performed not very wellagainst german MiG-29s, while israeli F-15s made a much better job in test fights against the german Fulcrums. The design of the Eagle is much more reliable. This plane had an outstanding performance to withstand battle damages. In one case 1982 a syrian MiG shot a missile on an Eagle and the half wing of the F-15 was blown away. The F-15 managed the way home. In an other case a SAM destroyed a whole wing of a F-15 and also this bird came home safely. I doubt that a Tomcat would have survived such battle damages. A better reliability, better battle damage resistance and a great performace in combat. Thatswhy i vote for the Eagle. But the be honest: the Tomcat looks better ;-)

I think the Eagle was better. Its in service still today, the Tomcat isnt.

Have a small problem. I wanted to try out the LoFi outfit of the forum and now i find no way to reset the old HiFi style.

Its a good point. And it would be nice to confirm the statement of the remark. That a western nation like France has broken the own embargo is not really surprising for me. Politicians say often one thing and do exactly the opposite. The german example would be that officially it is not allowed to sell german weapons to middle east. In reality West Germany sold Israel the M-48 tanks which fought in 6 day war.

Hot girl. But this is no R-73 missile.

An other picture from an israeli Museum i found in the net: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Israel---Ai...1399c12c90ba151 interessting is the remark: "501 (cn 1) Despite the official story that this is an IAI Nesher, a check of the aircraft ID plates in the wheel wells reveals that this is really the first production Dassault Mirage 5J. On display in the Israel Air Force Museum."

All you cant understand is german. An update will come when my microphone is working again. At the moment it is striking and i dont know why.

I made the tutorial "my way to make terrains" for the SFP1,WOX sims. It works with FE too. Simply look in the tutorials. try it out and if else problems, then ask again.

No it was intended as the soviet counterpart to the F-111 fighters. In the hands of excellent pilots the 23 had an excellent perfomance. But with normal pilots at the controll the 23 was an underperfomer. And with bad pilots it was a nightmare. The same like the Fokker DR.1 in WW1.

Normaly the fabrication numbers are placed in the wheelbay. At the MiG-21 it is in the main gear, but also in some cases in the front wheel bay. Its only a guess, but i think at the Nesher it could be placed at the same places. I would try to look at this places and try to find out wheter there are some sort of fabrication type shields with the name of the manufacturer or the "Made in Israel" or "Made in France" or such things.

The MiG-23MLD polk in the GDR (east germany) was left there in the late 80th because a lot of staff officers of the Soviet HQ in Germany were pilots and were only trained on the MiG-23. To keep their pilot licence they had to fly a certain amount of hours per year. They found simply not the time to make their staff job and at the same moment do a reschooling (hope this is the right term) on the MiG-29 or Su-27.

To believe is one thing, to know the truth is different. And to know the truth it would be neccessary to check it out. I found following picture of the Nesher in the net: http://www.airliners.net/photo/Israel---Ai...next_id=0841989 It is taken at Hatzerim IAF museum, if i have understood it correct. But Hatzerim is some 1000 km away from my home, so i cant check it out myself. Perhaps one of our Israeli friends could do it?

Yeah, true argument, thatswhy the ? in the title. I think it should be possible to check it out. Perhaps a Nesher is displayed at a museum, and so it should be possible to look wheter they have type shields and production numbers which indicated that they are made by France or not. Perhaps our Mr Nesher from Holon could visit an israeli museum (isnt there one at Hazor?) and check it out. I dont know where else the Nesher bird is displayed.

In the german air magazin "Fliegerrevue" i found an interessting article by Tom Cooper who wrote that the widly known story that the Nesher was made in Israel by IAI was a fake. Cooper wrote that the Nesher was built by Dassault in France and was secretly shipped with US transport planes to Israel. American technicians reassembled the planes in Israel and then handed it over to the Heyl Ha'Avir (IAF). He also wrote, that the prove that the Nesher was made in France is the fact, that the planes have french fabrication numbers and signs (Typenschild is the german term). Fliegerrevue 7/2009 page 64 If this would be right, the often told story that the Mossad had stolen the Mirage 5 blueprints from Switzerland would be also a fake.

Poor mans aircraft were they called. Its time that this old outdated expensive and often unreliable beasts are phased out.

Its an ekranoplane. It was designed as a very fast ship (500km/h) which can also hover over land. Armed with Sunburn ship to ship missiles is was a considerable threat to NATO surface vessels.