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File Name: KA-6D - VA128 File Submitter: allenjb42 File Submitted: 8 Apr 2007 File Updated: 12 May 2007 File Category: A-6/EA-6 KA-6D Skins Readme To install just extract the skin to your Objects/Aircraft/KA-6D folder, load up your sim and then go fly! The skin should be available in the drop down menu of the KA-6D Hangar Screen loadout section. Thanks must go to the following: Paul Nortness for his work in creating the skins (I just converted them for use with the KA-6D) and for his kind permission in allowing me to bring the skins to the SF community The creators of the A-6 and KA-6 for bringing us these planes to play with. TK for SF, WOV, WOE, FE and who knows what else. Have fun, and good hunting... Allen (allenjb42) Burton Any problems, find me at combatace.com, simhq.com or column5.us Click here to download this file

One for the Navy guys: Did the KA-6Ds wear the same markings as the regular Intruders in their squadron?

Good news. Paul has given me permission to convert the A6 skins for the KA-6D. Watch the skies...

Thanks for the info guys. So here's the thing, I'd like to mod Paul Nortress's A-6A & E skins to use them on the KA-6D. I've done one as an experiment, VA35-91, as below: The only problem is that Paul seems uncontactable so I can't get permission to release these, even with giving him credit for creating the skins. So, how do I get round this? Well, the easiest way is to tell you how to do it yourself: 1) Just copy an A-6 skin folder into your KA-6D and then change the names of the .bmp files from A-6E_1 to KA-6D_1 etc (This should also work with A-6A skins too). 2) Then go into the decals .ini and change any path references from ,say, A-6E_TRAM to KA-6D. 3) Go fly. If anyone out there can speak for Paul and give me permission I can get to work and release the skins. I could also mod the KA-6D skins that came with the aircraft for use on the bomber A6s too. ps. Has anyone got a good copy of SidDogg's A-6E skinpack?The one that was posted here was corrupt and I'd love to get hold of those skins.

It's doable in SFG too...

No, what I meant was are you still going to make the 3 variants, E, F & G?

So are you guys doing all three models now Eric?

So the stock reply to cut and paste when anyone asks about the Superhornet is: The single seat E model is being done by Marcfighter, and the two seat F and G models are being done by Flanker562 And they'll be ready in 'two weeks' Correct?

Anyway, who's to say that the F-19 and Talon are fictional....

Flanker, that looks pretty good so far, and I for one can't ait to download it when you release it. I emailed Daisuke Yamoto a while back, who made the superhornets (E, F & G) for FS2004, to see if he would be willing to convert his bird to SF but I never got a reply. It's nice to see someone took up the baton. OT: SidDogg, I sent you a pm re. your A-6E skin pack got no reply yet. (why don't people answer my emails?)

Many happy returns Dave.

Was it this series? http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/d/keith-douglass/

From a thread over at SimHQ back in March 2005 (was it really that long ago?): Richard Herman Jr - Warbirds, Force of Eagles and Firebreak are my favorites of his books, although wouldn't Force of Eagles just be a one-off mission rather than a campaign? I'm typing in my lunch break at the moment so I'll work up some aircraft lists at home tonight, but off the top of my head (and this is a bit stream of consciousness so excuse me)I'd like: Larry Bond: Red Phoenix (Korea terrain) Cauldron (EAW terrain) Vortex (Madagascar terrain?) - Cuban\Soviet backed invasion of South Africa (Mirages IIIC & F1C, Cheetah/Kfir?) Barrett Tillman: Warriors (Israel terrain) - Mid East war with invasion of Israel by frontline states and Iraq, and focusses on a Saudi wing of F-20 Tigersharks led by British & US mercs. There are some huge air battles, including F-15 vs F-15, a strike by Saudi Tornados on Jerusalem and Israeli nukes dropping all over the place at the end. The Sixth Battle (Madagascar terrain) - Another invasion of South Africa, focussing on a US carrier air wing attacking the invasion and the Soviet carrier battle group (2 x Kutsnesov carriers) that is supporting it. There is a great sequence where the virtually the whole US air wing launches an Alpha strike on the Russian carriers with Intruders, Hornets, Prowlers, Tomcats and even the Vikings get in on the act and carry out air strikes later in the book. Tom Clancy: Red Storm Rising (EAW terrain of course, but also a North Atlantic one if available) - This is the motherload! Take your pick - a Central Front war with A-10s, Tornados, F-15s, F-111s, F-19s (please!) and anything else NATO has got against pick a number and put MiG, Su or Tu in front of it! or a Navy campaign with Tomcats & Hornets vs Backfires (we could use Blinders), Badgers and MiG 29s. Debt of Honour - US carrier battle group vs Japan, namely Tomcats & Superhornets vs F-15s & Mitsubishi F-2s (an F-16 skin?). The F-22 also makes an apprearance. Finally... David Axton: Stolen Thunder (Libya terrain) -This would be a one off mission. From Amazon.co.uk:- 'B52 bombers used against North Vietnam now stand obsolete in the Arizona desert. Six ex-military personnel, including a woman pilot, hijack one of them and set out on a 12,000-mile flight to Libya. Their mission - to bomb a terrorist training camp outside Tripoli, to avenge a young pilot's murder'. You could fly as the BUFF, as a US or Russian carrier pilot, as a British Tornado F3 or Hawk pilot (excellent dogfight sequence with Tornados and Hawks vs Libyan MiG 25s and 21s) Oh...B-52s.... Dale Brown - Flight Of The Old Dog anyone? DBS terrain. Now that would need some work on a plane! And that brings us back to where this thread started! BTW Dave, do you remember your reply to my post above?

Good man! You beat me to it.

The SWIP (Systems Weapons Improvements Programme) upgrade allowed the A-6E to carry AGM-65E & F Maverick, AGM-84A Harpoon, AGM-84E SLAM and AGM-88 HARM. Previously Intruders could carry AGM-45 Shrike for defence suppression. Will we get those on v1.2? Alternately, you could release a seperate aircraft with these capabilities - A-6E SWIP - which started being delivered to squadrons in 1990/91.

An updated DS terrain would be great, and a campaign even better. It'll give me something to do with my DS install. Feel free to use or edit the DS breifing ini I uploaded in my briefing pack. Also Dave, I've got table giving the Air Order of Battle for Desert Shield/Storm in one of my books. I can scan and send it you if you want. I used it to populate my Aircraft folder, and we have a fair few skins that would be appropriate too that I can highlight on the table.

If you've got the F.3 then you must have downloaded Florian's Tornado package. His GR.1 and IDS do have Sidewinder rails. AD's versions do not. As for ALARM, maybe it will be in the next weapons pack. But you could always fly the ECR and have HARMs instead.