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Another sleepless night ensued as we now have an F-4 squadron doing night ops not good for the old sleep thing... Anyway 2 more rounds with the reds today before Lunch... Standard loadouts 4 Ship First up was a nice escort mission escorting a 4 ship of F-111's at least we can keep up with them down in the weeds... Anyway take off and join up was simple after a 30 minute flight we approached the F-111 IP so we popped skyward rapidly and found a pair of Mig-21's willing to play but they didn't last too long and then it was back to nothing to do apart from walk the F-111's home... 2 kills Sortie 2 Standard Loadouts 8 Ship Yeah it was one of those flights 8 of us on an Intercept near Madburg to allow our ground forces to advance and to stop close air from the Reds screwing it all up... Anyway we blasted over there just under the Mach andfound a 4 ship of Su-17's working over our guys right soon put a stop to that I thinks but no I found myself going nose to nose with a Flanker everyone scattered on order and picked their targets I popped a sidewinder into the first flanker and down he goes which surprised me while my number 3 bagged his wingman and the other 2 flankers fell as well but they nailed one of our guys no chutes from that bird just disappeared in a ball of flame... After the escorts had gone it was down to low level and tidying up the Su-17's which the second flight had practically demolished and then the bosslady's in trouble with a Mig-23 in front of her and a Mig-21 behind not a good place for anyone her wingie flamed the 21 and she got the 23 as I nailed another 23 which was setting up for a gun attack on her... after that it was home for lunch... 3 kills...

Aaaah what a good laugh to wake up to in the morning...

Err Widow old chap you being from up Tyneside way and all that and you have the cheek to complain about Cockney... I spent 5 years up that way and somedays listening to the old Gordie like... was enough to drive anyone nuts...

In this case its more of a What goes down comes up...

Great Movie I might dig it out and watch tomorrow afternoon...

Well after a few days off recovering from my last escapde back into the seat again.... Well Fg Off Graham is still in the fight... after a unreasonable short stay in the hospital, turns out the shoulder wasn't too bad after all, I was kicked out and sent back to the Squadron drat just when the nurses where coming round to my way of thinking ho hum... Well here it goes 3 sorties today and all of them where a handful... First up was a CAP mission as to what happened I am still working that out. Got to the cap area okay and then the Mig's showed up and they where swingers as well Mig-23's mixed it with those for a short time but they all fell from the sky unfortunately the CAP area had a small problem ie... 2 SA-10 sites which knocked 2 wingmen down. One crew banged out but the others didn't get out. Didn't have too much time to think about it as we baled home 4 Mig-23's for the count... Next up was a 2 ship intercept... Nothing to it really up and back in 30 minutes 2 Mig-27's scratched on the scoreboard... Sortie 3 4 Ship Cap again... This time the capping was in what we thought was a relatively quiet area yeah as if thats going to happen... Capped the base and between us we took out 4 Mig-21's and then all hell broke loose 3 & 4 went off chasing some Mig-23's (Where are they all coming from) while my Wingman shouts out Flankers... crank the jet round and takes the first one out with a Skyflash surprised I was I only fired it to get him to plug his burners in for a winder shot anyway turns out the guy was a certified ACE Major Kumsonlov or something like that as we where advised by the elint boys... his wingie died shortly afterwards but he put up a fight... but a winder finished him off... and it was gather the lads up who had managed to bag a pair of 23's and home for tea and crumpets... Screenie for the interested... Looks like I am the killer of the squadron...

Honey that takes the fun out of it If I am going to get SAM Kill's I like to work for it... and Stick your right on that one it is a buzz..

Honeyfox it just made me chuckle thats all...

Greetings to the old looney bin...

Okay just did a quick flight in the RF-4C in SF2 Europe Nato Fighters 4+ I was the only Blue air mooching about as I was approaching the IP I had a wonderful sight of 4 Mig-23's coming to have a quiet chat with me to tell me this was their turf... Anyway tanks off down low and fast as in 20ft low scream over the target and the 2 SA-13's batteries cleared my way for me they unleashed all 8 of their lovely missiles and swatted 4 Mig-23's of my tail... laugh I almost crashed... and I forgot to take the screenshot... Now normally me and Mr SA-13 have a gentlemans agreement I dont bother them and they dont bother me but today I will provide them as many targets as I can all with red stars on of course... Its a hard life flying Recce without the Mig's trying to kill you... You know I have been playing this game since its first UK release SF1 and there are still some surprises left but this is most likely due to the wonderful work done on the NF4+ mod...

As to the cock ups as you so quaintly put it yeah they do make me laugh... Also I wouldn't want them to be overly realistic in the Topgun Iron Eagle etc way as it would take some amusement out of it... The best errors is that in Topgun is the fight at the end when it seems every missile fired comes from the port Sparrow rail I think... but hey its been awhile since I watched it...

No matter what it is still bribing... and once you do it once they will expect it everytime... and other states regimes will go down that road.

Also showing on the BBC looks like someone mated a Flanker and a YF-23... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8486812.stm?ls

I think you maybe able to pick up a WW1 Janes book over here Mr W for a fairly reasonable price just check through the cheap book shops...

Aaaah the classic English Understatement there Mr W.... rolled in Sarcasm and left to bake for 5 hours under a hot sun...

Herr Olham, There is nothing silly about sentiments such as this as its a link to the past and that is important to people so no there is nothing silly here.

There's always one isnt there...

Youtube thingy about Strutters thats the Sopwith variety of course...

I think most of the frequent posters on here have gone past 22 missions Unknown...

Well he will be hanging around with his old mate Sadman... sorry bad joke...

Check the link for the jet for SF1 http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=8772 Link for Data (I know its Wikipedia) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PZL-230_Skorpion

Careful or you may incur the wrath of those Lazercat guys and if that happens the eels will be unleashed...

Very powerful indeed is the google one...