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Congratulations!

Many happy returns!

Nice! I know what you were watching on telly last night! :wink2: Wonder who would take the female lead if it was a Brit flick?

It's almost like an episode of the legendary Yes Prime Minister: Prime Minister David Cameron gets off the phone from the UN PM: Right that's the no fly zone sorted. I've told them we can get a carrier off the coast of Libya and start launching some raids on the Mad Colonel in the next 24 hours. Defence Minister: Yes Prime Minister, but we retired HMS Ark Royal last month. PM: Blast! Forgot about that. OK, then we just fly the Harriers to Bengazi and they can fly from there and support the rebels at the same time. DM: Of course Prime Minister, but we retired the Harriers too. PM: Oh, OK. Well we've got those new Typhoons, they can bomb the cr*p out of Gadaffi's forces can't they? No sense in letting the French have all the fun is there? DM: Yes Prime Minister, but the Typhoon's air to ground capability isn't fully operational yet. They'll have to be used in the air to air role. We'll use Tornados for air to ground work, but you are of course aware that the Tornados are based in Scotland so they'll have a 3,000 mile round trip, costing about £200,000 per aircraft. PM: Right, OK then, so we double the types of planes we're sending and make the deployment bigger and more complicated and more expensive. Still, never let it be said we couldn't punch above our weight with the best of them. Anyway, at least we've got those new Nimrod spyplanes that'll be able to tell us where the Libyan's have got their forces and where Gadaffi's hiding in case we want to send in the SAS to get him. DM: Yes Prime Minister, but we scrapped the Nimrod's a few weeks ago. PM: Well unscrap them. Are they in one of those desert boneyards the Americans are so fond of retiring their aircraft to? DM: Unfortunately not Prime Minister. We cut them up and turned them into scrap metal. They're probably razor blades or baked bean tins by now. However, we have saved £2 billion over the next ten years by scrapping them. PM: But they cost us £4 billion already and we've not even flown them! Do you mean to say that we've totally cocked up the Defence Spending Review? DM: Yes Prime Minister......

Rafales according to the BBC. Also, the downed MiG 23 may have been a rebel bird. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12795971

Apparently it's not just 'no fly' but no attack, so allied forces will be free to engage Libyan ground forces that threaten the civilians. Looks like it might have started already. BBC are reporting a Libyan fighter downed over Bengazi: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12794623 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12794589 From the pics it looks like a MiG 23. from the film there don't seem to be any AAA bursts around the plane before it explodes, so maybe hit by a missile. So the next question is SAM or AAM?

What, no Israeli skin? (j/k)

How about Ruach = Ghost? Plays on the stealthyness of the plane.

Many happy returns! Yom Huledet Sameach!

Many happy returns!

MiG 37 Ferret

What if The Final Countdown had been a Japanese movie... (Hint: Checkout the name of the B-29 )

Lavi please...

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When I saw the title of the thread I thought it was from TK about the Tomcat sim!

Some Bucc shots

There are some Desert Storm repaints here http://www.ukmil.org.uk/download.php?list.61 Including one of a reserve aircraft XX893 that looks to be an unmarked pink skin. You could also try contacting the modder who did them to see if he's got any templates?

Looking forward to downloading them!

Many happy returns guys!

Great series - Independence Day meets The Winds of War

Something like this, though obviously the stripe on the Weasel needs to be fixed:

OK, when the F-4G's arrive Bull Morgan says "C J is bringing in six G-models in for us from the States." So they would have the code from a CONUS based (TAC?) unit when they arrived. But later Waters says "I'm putting the Weasels under Steve Farrell in the 377th." My interpretation would be that the Weasel det was integrated into the squadron and took on the Stonewood tailcode. When the action starts they fly in mixed G & E hunter-killer flights. Didn't the Spang units operate similarly? So if you stuck with the ST code would it simply be a matter of renaming the F-4e bmps for the 377th skin to F-4G and editing the decals .ini and making a decals folder for the F-4G to get the tail codes & stripe to show?

Kevin is there any chance of a skin for the F-4G_89 to represent C J Conlon's 6 plane detachment? They were assigned to the 377th according to The Book. If you're too busy I can have a stab at it.