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DAT from the Wings Over Timor mod.

2001, and the first Hawk 125's arrive in Dhimar to supplement the earlier models, which by now were sporting the grey air defence scheme fleetwide They bring with them increased weapons capabilities including LGBs, and both Maverick and HARM and anti-radar missiles for stand off attack And AIM-120 AMRAAM air to air missiles to supplement the trusty AIM-9 Sidewinders Although that doesn't mean that dumb bombs weren't used where needed so that the crews did not lose their manual bombing skills. Operating in concert with newly acquired E-2C Hawkeyes the Hawks were in action very soon after arrival as Parani fighters probed the vast desolate desert border between the two countries to test Dhimari capabilities. A flight of obsolete MiG 17 Frescoes crossed the border, tasked with carrying out a bombing raid on one of the many Dhimari observation posts that studded the frontier. Scrambled from a forward airbase the Hawks would be waiting for them The result: Four MiGs downed for no loss

Where was BoB or the dogfights at the end of Aces High or Firefox? What about Blue Thunder vs Hughes 500MD, or F-14s vs Zeros in The Final Countdown?

I loved Janes Fleet Command and will always have a soft spot for the old Red Storm Rising sub sim game.

Dhimari Air Force Academy Hawk T1 Some Hawk 65s were assigned to air defence squadrons and were painted in in air superiority gray That didn't mean that they weren't used in the ground attack role when the need arose The vast majority of ground strikes, however were carried out by the desert camo'd Hawk 65s Primary armament initially comprised rocket pods and both iron and cluster bombs as well as the almost permanently fitted gunpod. Later upgrades would give the Hawk 65 PGM capability with 1000lb LGBs. These were initially designated by ground forces but later a number of Pave Spike pods were purchased to allow self- and buddy-designation. These were a precursor to the much more advanced weapons capabilities that the Hawk 125 and 205 would bring .... (Note that these aren't my skins and the decals are from Spinners excellent Dhimari decals pack. I've just tried to bring them together in my ham fisted fashion!)

Dhimari Desert Hawks Something I've been toying with for a while, but maybe Paulopanz will do a better job (hint, hint....) My premise is that Dhimar is a former British colony/protectorate (a bit like Saudi and the Gulf states) and has historically used British equipment. An oil rich country, Dhimar has plenty of money but no real need for advanced fighters, especially when Paran is primarily operating MiG 17s and MiG 21s. So, for over 35 years, from the time that the last Hunters were retired in 1981 until the arrival of the first Eurofighter Typhoons in 2017 (purchased to counter a Parani acquisition of Russian built Su-35s) the Dhimari air force operated essentially a single type of fast jet. After qualifying on the Hawk T1 a Dhimari pilot could expect to be posted to one of the Hawk 65 squadrons, which operated in both air to air and air to ground roles. As the Parani threat evolved and they purchased later model MiG 21s and then MiG 23s so the Dhimari Air Force moved to counter this in 2001 by purchasing Hawk T2s and the operational version, designated Hawk 125, and then in 2005 acquiring the single seat Hawk 205. The two seaters operated primarily in the attack/strike role while the single seaters took the air to air taskings, although both could, and did, swap as needed. Hopefully more pics to follow when I can sort out a screenshot issue (which I think is linked to memory on my ancient computer!).

Red Storm Rising

Shana Tova guys!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-29288277 Six Russian fighter jets were intercepted by American and Canadian planes off the coast of Alaska on Wednesday, US defence officials have confirmed. They entered what is known as the Air Defence Identification Zone (ADIZ), but did not enter US air space. The planes, two of which were MiG 31 jets, left the area without incident. Sounds like the beginning of iron Eagle II And in a nod to that classic movie, the BBC have posted a picture of a MiG 29 instead of a MiG 31!

Is that why the Superhornets' wings aren't folded on deck? But on land they do fold when parked

In case anyone needs any inspiration... http://ws-clave.deviantart.com/gallery/6112394/Fantasy-Vehicles

My sister in law's boss was a pilot on one that flew into Entebbe. More recently he was on one of the new Israeli C-130 Samsons presented to the airforce. I think someone posted a video of the ceremony here a while back.

That sorted it Eric! As long as FriendlyNation001=USN I get multiple naval groups. I'm now getting up to 3 USN naval groups when I generate missions around 1988 - a carrier group, an amphibious group and a surface group built around an Iowa class battleship. Thanks for all your help guys.

I'm not having any luck on the Libya terrain. I've checked the ground objects and both LPD-4 and LCC-19 are present. I've also edited the water.bmp so there are more than one CV zones, but when the game generates a mission there is just the carrier group and no other naval groups. I thought it might be to do with the terrain's nations.ini so I added Soviet as a second enemy nation. All it did was to make the enemy fighters Soviet instead of Libyan and didn't even add a Soviet naval group to fly against in strike missions. What am I missing?

Does anyone know why on some terrains the game generated single missions create a carrier group and also secondary naval groups built around amphibious ships or battleships but on some terrains (I'm playing a lot on Libya at the moment) you only get a carrier group?

I think that there's another P-3 in WIP. Wasn't Amokfloo doing one?

Nationalised version please.

Have you got RoyalNavy included as FriendlyNation00x in your ICELANDNA_NATIONS.ini?

Great pics. Are you sure that Venom isn't ex-Dhimari Airforce?

How about adding Marineflieger Sea Tornadoes (i.e. carrier capable Tornado IDS and ECR) to the airwing for strike, electronic warfare and defence suppression missions? They could also carry buddy refuelling pods to act as tankers for other Sea Tornadoes and Fulcrums.

Damn, that's a blast from the past! Spent many a happy hour playing that one on my Amiga.

I just flew a couple of RAF missions in Wings Over Africa and the voices are British. I know it's for WOE but there are conversion files available so you would be able to use that mod in SF2 if you wanted. Same with Wings Over Russia.

I'm not 100% sure but I think some of the DAT all in one installs include date appropriate ground controller voices.

@ Crisisloaner: Check your pms.

Lol. The Russian ones just need a new paint job. As Wrench once said 'a decent skin can hide a multitude of sins!'