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Waiting for the next mission.

Nowoiwanowka Airbase parking area Landing approach with view on parking area of Nowoiwanowka There are still 4 russian airbases to rework. If the progress is so as i hope, i think i can release a next Beta this weekend, maybe sunday.

MiG-23ML at Aeroflotskij Airport. In background squadron take off and some parked bombers.

MiG-23ML at Sewastopol Belbek Airfield An-26 parked at the same airfield

Scenery shots of Sewastopol Belbek Airfield

Seems to be, that for drones the time is over, that they could operate unharmed. Over Afghanistan or Nagorny Karabakh they were really game changer. In the first time of russian-ukrainian war too. But now, when facing a modern air defence, the losses of the drones climb steadily. Over Donbas area now it is nearly impossible to operate a drone properly. You can say that the success of the drones was a temporary surprise success. If the enemy is aware that drones are in the air and if he has a proper air defence, the drone will not live long.

Little Skorpion. A polish project for a low cost ground attack aircraft for the Warsaw Pact countries. Designation PZL-230. model released by Leonardo in 2009 for WOX series.

Taking off from Katscha Airbase at Crimean Peninsula (WIP Beta Terrain)

SitRep: The progress of terrain modding was yesterday slow. I wasted my time to find a bug, which was a transport plane, that randomly appeared middle on the runway. After hours and hours of searching i finaly found the reason for the bug. It was a simple typo. I wrote "." instead ",". And again the old wisdom proved true: It are the little things that cause big troubles.

L-410A Turbolet, a small prop plane made in Czechoslovakia, at Saki airfield, Crimean Peninsula.

Other sreenshots of parking aircraft at Saki airfield.

Yakarow79 made the Nitka Ramp for the terrain. Its the ski jump ramp where the soviet and russian carrier pilots trained the take off from carrier.

SitRep: The ukrainian airfields have now all correct parking positions. Now i'm working on the russian bases. Screenshot: Parking area for large aircrafts at Jewpatoria Airfield. In the background you see the parking positions of some smaler aircrafts.

Bad photoshoped picture of a MiG-29. The original shows a german MiG-29G firing a R-27 missile. So it is fake news.

Shadow Rhino

Thats a good idea. And done.

The worst job for a french? Surely taster in a british canteen.

SitRep: I made some progress with creating airfield files which put the parked aircrafts on correct positions. Here the flightline of Petriwka Airfield and the parking area for transport planes at the same base:

IIRC there is a way. You can create new formations in the formation.ini file. Then you must open the nations.ini file and add the new formations to the nation. example: lines from formations.ini: [FormationType010] Name=WW2GerFighter BaseLevel=2 Level[01].Name=Staffel Level[01].Size=4 Level[01].Formation[01]=StaffelTrail Level[02].Name=Schwarm Level[02].Size=2 Level[02].Formation[01]=Schwarm Level[03].Name=Rotte Level[03].Size=2 [FormationType011] Name=WW2GerAttack BaseLevel=3 Level[01].Name=Staffel Level[01].Size=3 Level[01].Formation[01]=WW2GerAttackSqd Level[02].Name=Flight Level[02].Size=2 Level[02].Formation[01]=WW2GerAttackFlt Level[03].Name=Element Level[03].Size=3 Level[03].Formation[01]=WW2GerAttackElm [FormationType012] Name=WW2GerBomber BaseLevel=3 Level[01].Name=KampfStaffel Level[01].Size=2 Level[01].Formation[01]=WW2GerBomberSqd Level[02].Name=Flight Level[02].Size=3 Level[02].Formation[01]=WW2GerBomberFlt Level[03].Name=Kette Level[03].Size=3 Level[03].Formation[01]=WW2GerBomberElm [Nation076] Name=Nazi Germany DisplayName=Luftwaffe Alignment=ENEMY PilotNameList=NamesGerman.lst RankList=RanksGAF.lst CallsignList=CallsignsUS.lst Formation.Fighter=WW2GerFighter <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< new Formation.Attack=WW2GerAttack <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<new Formation.Bomber=WW2GerBomber <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< new Formation.Transport=WW2GerBomber <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< new Formation.Tank=USTank Formation.MobileAD=USAD PilotTrainingStandard=NORMAL GenderRatio=0

The east german lightblue-grey camo was the best look for an An-26.

Afghani fighter is not wrong. A lot of them fought only for money. But perhaps Dollar fighter would be more correct.

You will surely have realized, that in the two Beta versions the parked planes were parking somewhere on the gras. I'm now working on this subject and creating airfield files with correct placement for parked planes. Its a puzzle job and will need some time.

The second Beta is released. Contains now reworked russian airbases at the Crimean Peninsula, a SAM network there, factories as targets, the Sewastopol Harbour and a little bit more. The number of target areas climed from 31 to 54.

I have uploaded version Beta 0.25 just now. Now an Admin must give his okay. Hope you enjoy the terrain.

Funny mustache.