Gepard

L-39ZA Albatros, outstanding trainer Made in Czechoslovakia.

DHS Start (QRA take off, by using NATO terms)

Testing the campaign "Seelöwe"

At the moment i'm working on the ground battles. I found some bugs. Here a funny one: The british Hovertank.

Happy New Year! In Germany private fireworks is not allowed this year. Thatswhy i make this this virtual firework for you. May the health be with you!

I have no idea how to make a in game video.

The river Themse west of the City of London.

FWD KF-75 Sperber (Flugzeugwerft Dresden, Kampfflugzeug-75 .... Aircraftfactory Dresden, Combatplane-75 Sparrow Hawk), copy of Convair 201

View File F-5GN(Soviets) F-5GN(Soviets) (What if) ***************************************************** This mod is made for SF2. ---------------------------------------------------------- I. History (fiction) In 1969 there were decisive elections in West Germany. In reality, the Social Democrats won. A new foreign policy followed and a period of reduction of tensions between East and West. WHAT IF, the other side had won? What if the conservatives had won and Franz Joseph Strauß (an old bavarian Commie eater) would have become Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany? And so it starts. In 1969 Strauß was elected as Chancellor. A period of rising tensions between East and West started. To protect the sea lanes between Europe and America the west german parliament Bundestag decided to build up a west german carrier force consiting of 3 carriers. The american gouvernment was pleased and offered to sell 3 carriers of the Essex class (subclass Ticonderoga). The first ship which was handed over was CV-34 Oriskany in 1969. Renamed in R-22 Theodor Heuss it was core of the first west german carrier group. 1973 CV-38 Shangri-La became R-23 Heinrich Lübke (later renamed in Walter Scheel) and two years later CV-45 Valley Forge became R-24 Gustav Heinemann. The americans offered A-4 Skyhawk and F-8 Crusader as planes for the carrier group. The Bundesmarine accepted the A-4, but rejected the Crusader, because the Bundesmarine wanted a more multi role capable plane, not only a pure fighter. At this moment Northrop entered the competition and offered a navalised version of the brand new F-5E Tiger. Under the designation F-5GN (German Navy) it should be produced in America and Germany. The west german government accepted the offer and the serial production of the F-5GN started. During flight tests on the way the US Marines decided, that it would be a good idea to replace their old F-8 Crusaders with F-5GN planes. So the F-5GN became a Marine plane. Later, when the Marines retired their attack carriers the surviving F-5GN were transfered to Top Gun school. 1973 the government of South Vietnam demanded more F-5E Tigers to fight the communist forces. Because there was a shortage of F-5E the american leaders decided to send the first batch, which was intended for the Marines, to the Republic of Vietnam. So 40 F-5GN were handed over. On May 1st 1975 Saigon was taken by the communist forces. the war was over. 36 surviving F-5GN were captured by the north vietnamese. To pay war depts Vietnam handed all 36 F-5GN and 12 F-5E to the soviets. In the USSR the planes were tested very hard. Finaly the decision was made to use the F-5GN in the Soviet Navy. The canceled carrier project Oriol was revitalized and in 1976 the first soviet carrier squadron was formed. The soviets modified only the RWR and the air to air missiles. Air to ground weapons were taken from captured stores in Vietnam. The US Navy realized very soon that the soviets had a new plane. Analysts believed, that the soviets copied the F-5GN and gave her the designation MiG-28. The F-5GN alias MiG-28 had only a short service time in the Soviet Navy. 1982 the F-5GN was withdrawn from service. The reason was missing spare parts. Afterwards the planes were sold to Iran. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- II. CREDITS: The F-5GN(Marines) based on Centurions 2014 released F-5E package. A lot of files i have taken from this package. Thanks for this files! The skin: ~~~~~~~~~~~ The camo skins are mods of skins available in Centurions Package The blue skin is a modification of a grey skin available in Centurions package. The flight model : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The FM i made by using parts of the stock F-16A FM made by TK. ---------------------------------------------------------- III. INSTALLATION: -Unzip the folders into your SF2 mod folder ---------------------------------------------------------- IV. For remarks, comments, bugs, etc please use the forum or send me a PM. ------------------------------------------------------------- V. The F-5GN(Soviet) and all other files are FREEWARE. COMMERCIAL USE IS NOT ALLOWED! ------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------ Hope you enjoy it. Michael (Gepard) Made in Germany December 2020 Submitter Gepard Submitted 12/26/2020 Category F-5

In the last weeks i was busy with making TOD files for London. So it looks now:

What if the germans would have bought a small fleet of american carriers:

One carrier less.

The A400M is faster and it is a much more modern design. BUT it is build by a company that had never built a military transport plane before. Thatswhy i would prefer the most modern version of the american Herc, or the An-70 from the Ukraine.

In a campaign the squadrons are operating from airfields. In the data.ini of the campaign you can define which squadron is operating from one airfield. An airfield can operate only a certain number of squadrons. How many squadrons per airfield you find in the targets.ini of the terrain. For instance: [TargetArea001] Name= Lympne Position=839000.00,611000.00 Alignment=FRIENDLY Location=1 AirfieldDataFile=RAF_Lympne_Airfield.ini ActiveYear=0 Radius=4242.640625 NumSquadrons=4 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< This is the number how many squadrons can be operated from this airfield When the campaign is started, the game engine sometimes moves the squadrons to other airfields. If there are airfields without squadrons you will see no parked aircrafts. Only airfields with squadrons have parked airplanes.

Wheter parked aircrafts appear in game has nothing to do with a campaign or with NavalMap=True or False. The parked aircraft are defined in the terrain, especially in the xxx_airfield.ini. Here as example the desert_aifield1.ini: [Runway001] Heading=0 Offset=0,0 Length=2500 Width=90 TouchDown=0,-918.5 LaunchAll=TRUE TakeOff[01]= -10,-1100 TakeOff[02]= -30,-1110 TakeOff[03]= 10,-1110 TakeOff[04]= 30,-1120 TakeOff[05]= -10,-1150 TakeOff[06]= -30,-1160 TakeOff[07]= 10,-1160 TakeOff[08]= 30,-1170 TakeOff[09]= -10,-1200 TakeOff[10]= -30,-1210 TakeOff[11]= 10,-1210 TakeOff[12]= 30,-1220 TakeOff[13]= -10,-1250 TakeOff[14]=-30,-1260 TakeOff[15]= 10,-1260 TakeOff[16]=30,-1270 ParkingChance=60 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< modify this line between 0 and 100. Value is in percent ParkingMaxSpan=18.0 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< setting how big the parked plane can be Parking[01].Heading=180 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<heading of the parked plane value in ° Parking[01].Offset=333,-122 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<position of the parked plane in relation to centre of the airfield values in meters Parking[02].Heading=180 Parking[02].Offset=375,-122 Parking[03].Heading=180 Parking[03].Offset=396,-122 Parking[04].Heading=180 Parking[04].Offset=459,-122 Parking[05].Heading=0 Parking[05].Offset=354,-173 Parking[06].Heading=0 Parking[06].Offset=375,-173 Parking[07].Heading=0 Parking[07].Offset=417,-173 Parking[08].Heading=0 Parking[08].Offset=480,-173 Parking[09].Heading=180 Parking[09].Offset=375,-197 Parking[10].Heading=180 Parking[10].Offset=396,-197 Parking[11].Heading=180 Parking[11].Offset=417,-197 Parking[12].Heading=180 Parking[12].Offset=480,-197 Parking[13].Heading=0 Parking[13].Offset=333,-248 Parking[14].Heading=0 Parking[14].Offset=354,-248 Parking[15].Heading=0 Parking[15].Offset=417,-248 Parking[16].Heading=0 Parking[16].Offset=459,-248 Parking[17].Heading=180 Parking[17].Offset=333,-272 Parking[18].Heading=180 Parking[18].Offset=375,-272 Parking[19].Heading=180 Parking[19].Offset=438,-272 Parking[20].Heading=180 Parking[20].Offset=480,-272 LargeParkingChance=15 <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<modify this line between 0 and 100. Value is in percent LargeParkingMaxSpan=48.0 LargeParking[01].Heading=217 LargeParking[01].Offset=353,368 LargeParking[02].Heading=217 LargeParking[02].Offset=395,337 LargeParking[03].Heading=217 LargeParking[03].Offset=436,305 LargeParking[04].Heading=270 LargeParking[04].Offset=530,277 LargeParking[05].Heading=270 LargeParking[05].Offset=530,225 LargeParking[06].Heading=270 LargeParking[06].Offset=530,173 LargeParking[07].Heading=0 LargeParking[07].Offset=436,25 LargeParking[08].Heading=0 LargeParking[08].Offset=384,25 LargeParking[09].Heading=0 LargeParking[09].Offset=332,25 LargeParking[10].Heading=180 LargeParking[10].Offset=436,125 LargeParking[11].Heading=180 LargeParking[11].Offset=384,125 LargeParking[12].Heading=180 LargeParking[12].Offset=332,125 LargeParking[13].Heading=0 LargeParking[13].Offset=436,175 LargeParking[14].Heading=0 LargeParking[14].Offset=384,175 LargeParking[15].Heading=0 LargeParking[15].Offset=332,175

What if the Germans would have selected the 201 too:

London Hydepark Below the Spitfire: Kensington Palace, the round building right of the plane is the Albert Hall

Some trees around Buckingham Palace

MT-LB was a wide family of armoured vehicles. From artillery recon vehicle, anti-tank-gun pulling device, SAM or ATGM carrier and so on and so on and so on. It was a maid of all work. The diverence between MT-LB and MT-LBu was the number of wheels. MT-LBu had had 7 wheels, MT-LB only 6. Here a link to pictures of some MTLBu versions: http://www.militaertechnik-der-nva.de/Bestimmungsbuch/5gepKetFhrmitTurm/53/MT-LBu/532.html And here MT-LB: http://www.militaertechnik-der-nva.de/Bestimmungsbuch/5gepKetFhrmitTurm/53/53.html

Only the islands of Guernsey, Alderney and Jersey were conquered by the germans in reality. Operation "Seelöwe" was a military plan to fight Great Britain on english soil. This terrain will come with a campaign for this never realized german plan.

The channel convois are now part of the map Next step will be to include the ground battles in South England. The main problem is, that in the download section of our forum no british tanks of the year 1940 exist.

"Wenn vor Fehmarn die Royal Navy im Meer versinkt, und am Himmel die bleiche Sichel des Mondes blinkt. Ziehn Piloten mit ihren MiG's zum Kampf hinaus und sie werfen in weitem Boden die Bomben raus. Explosionen zeigen ihnen am Firmament das Bild das jeder Jagdbomberpilot kennt. Und von Bord zu Bord das alte Lied erklingt, hörst Du nicht, wie man singt? Royal, Royal, Royal Navy Komm hau ab sonst komm ich zurück morgen früh! Royal, Royal, Royal Navy Vergiss das nie!"

I placed Railroad Bridges (plus Flak) and Road Bridges on the map.

Recon mission over the Port of Dover The Flak fire was heavy. Suddenly my fighter escorts cried for help. They were ambushed by countless enemy fighters. Spitfires and Hurricanes. A lot of them. The Messerschmitts fought for their live. I decided to engage the enemy, to show them how superb a He-100D4 is. Kill one: Splash two: At the end of the day my wingman and i shot down 17 Tommy fighters. What a wonderfull day!