tiopilotos

Great! Do you plan to release?

Better use the terrain which is included in the complete pack. Adding an another terrain (of the same region) you may experience bugs or crashes.

How to create a new mod folder tutorial for SF2 View File This is a tutorial which I made long time ago for a friend who had installed SF2 and wanted to play multiple campaigns. Since he didn't know how to create mod folders he requested some help and that's the reason I made it. There's a related post at SF2 Knowledge Base which can be found here: https://combatace.com/forums/topic/62302-what-is-the-mod-folder/ However this tutorial is far more instructive since it was made for people who are unaware of how to install mods. I decided to upload it since it might be useful for begginers. Submitter tiopilotos Submitted 05/31/2018 Category Utilities / Editors

WIP terrain...

Strela soldiers can be anywhere... Direct SA-7 hit...

Every Patriot launcher has 4 missiles. The reason why this system fires at the same time missiles from every single launcher is the missile guidance. It is known that game engine is responsible for many bugs. In SF2 a SAM system equipped with active radar homing (or other type such as radio command) missiles acts like Patriot. During one engagement all launchers will fire against the target, so if you normally have 6 launchers, you will find yourself under attack by 6 Patriot missiles. That's the reason why Patriot is so deadly. You can drop many chaffs to evade a single missile but against 6, I guess kill probability is almost 100%. If you want to change that you must edit the launcher_data and limit the yaw values. By default you have this: YawLimited=FALSE MinYaw=-180 MaxYaw=180 Change them to: YawLimited=TRUE MinYaw=-30 MaxYaw=30 Now the system will normally fire 1-2 missiles instead of 6.

I'm not sure you can find fake pilot as an individual model. There are many most notably western aircraft packs which include the fake pilot model. I don't remeber specifically which but try some US aircraft packs. Normally you should find one.

IRIAF Fighters...

You can find a large variety of aircrafts (different variants including), ground objects, terrains, missiles of all types, SAMs, AAAs and general game improvements from ww2 to modern aviation era! The best part? A very active community with people who answer questions, solve bugs and problems apart from offering mods which improve the current stuff! Just unique!

On the basis of a review from Durasoul I would like to remind something. Durasoul said that he flew a skyhawk at 250-300 ft and despite the fact that the missile was launched, it was not able to track effectively and hit the target. We should keep in mind that: 1. SA-7 is a first generation MANPADS, which is able to engage hellicopters, propeller driven aircraft and low speed combat jets. A skyhawk flying at 250-300 ft with a speed of 450 kts is a difficult target even for the real SA-7 system. 2. Real system has a minimum altitude engagement of 50m (165 ft). 3. According to some sources a large number of vietnam SA-7 victims were flying higher than 1000m. So, according to some historical info the effectiveness of the system seems to be limited at lower altitudes. 4. In SF2 world low altitude is equal to "noise" in terms of missile performance. You need higher noise rejection values to make a missile effective at low altitude. But remember, here we have Strela not Igla! Noise rejection higher value would make the missile much more effective than really is.

Obviously yes. These missiles are IR guided. They will fly an interecpt path to the impact point as long as their seeker can track the target until they run out of fuel.

View File SA-7 Grail / 9K32 Strela-2 MANPADS Pack SF2 SA-7 Grail / 9K32 Strela-2 MANPADS Pack 1.5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This pack features the famous SA-7 "Grail". It is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude, infrared guided surface-to-air missile system (MANPADS). It is widely exported and has been in use in nearly every regional conflict since 1969. Despite its operational limitations, it has been proved quite effective in the hands of tactical armies and rebel groups. During War of Attrition on 19 August 1969 Egyptian soldiers brought down an Israeli A-4H Skyhawk some miles west of the Suez Canal using Strela-2. According to some sources this might have been the first successful combat use of any MANPADS in history! Following variants are included: 9K32 Strela-2 (SA-7A, 1968) - First variant. 9K32M Strela-2M (SA-7B, 1970) - Improved variant. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ New features: - Updated missiles data which offer more realistic performance - Fuze distances have been increased since the SA-7 had lethality limitations after hitting a target. Now a target can be hit but it may return back home safely - New launch effect and sound ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Known issues: - Due to game engine limitations concering missile guidance, 9M32 (SA-7A) missile's target aspect has been set as Rear 180 despite the fact that in reality it could be fired only at the rear. After massive failed launches it became clear that it was extremely difficult to achieve a single hit by setting 9M32 as Rear 60 even when some other values such as FOV and track rate had been increased. - Helicopters have higher survival rate per hit because in some cases missiles hit the tail rotor without causing significant damage. I guess this is another game engine characteristic. - Low altitude (lower than 600-800m) performance is downgraded for current missile values. By increasing noise rejection the missile becomes capable of hitting targets in lower altitude but at the same time the single shot hit/kill probability is being increased to an unrealistic level. - Fuze distances are longer compared with the actual lethal and damage radius of the system. In SF2 world the real high explosive warhead quantity is big enough to destroy a fighter size target even in 10 meters! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As always open readme.txt first to see installation instructions and credits. Lot of research and hard work was made to make this SAM as realistic as possible. More than 2000 launches took place! Enjoy as much as you can this mod and leave comments with your in-game experience in the support topic! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- License: This is a freeware; yet it can be redistributed only in other CombatACE mod packages. You are free to make further modifications for own use but if you plan to release a modified version of this package you must request permission first. In that case you must include original read me file. This mod may not in any way, shape or form be used in any payware additions. Submitter tiopilotos Submitted 03/10/2018 Category Ground Object Mods

It happens in real life! That's how radars work. Doesn't matter the altitude of the SAM site. Either your site is on the top of a mountain either at sea level your missile will be guided as long as the fire control radar can track the target. For long range SAMs such as SA-5, MIM-14, Bloodhound etc you need to have "stronger" radar beam because radiation strength becomes less "stronger" in longer distances. In simple words the greater the distance, the higher the possibility to loose track. Obviously a SAM site located on the top of a mountain will be able to send a missile at higher altitude but it will be guided only as long as it flies within the radar's maximum altitude.

There are two factors which you need to determine in order to set your desired max vertical range. 1. Missile's max range: a missile with a maximum range of 15 km in level and straight flight is obviously not able to reach an altitude of 20 km when fired from a large angle. Even if the missile had 20 km range in level and straight flight probably it would not be able to reach the 20 km alt when fired from a large angle (like in your image) because the gravity force would resist to missile's thrust throughout the flight. So let's suppose that you need a missile capable of reaching at least 20 km altitude. You should edit the missile to have a max range of at least 5-10 km longer than your desired altitude limit (20 + 5/10 = 25/30 km). Keep in mind that the higher the angle of missile flight the higher the resistance from gravity force. It's just physics. 2. You need a fire control radar which will be able to guide missiles to the desired altitude. Open radar's data.ini and find this line: RadarMaximumAlt= and set your desired value. Remeber, this is the radar's maximum alt which means that in higher altitude the radar can not see, can not track and can not guide missiles. Above this limit guided missiles become ballistic missiles.

Also when you hear the characteristic "SAM Launch" while is being displayed in red, press R and then the ground unit which fired the missile against you will be shown with the classic red box.

VVS Mig-21Bis FAPA jet during Operation Modular SA-3 in Iraq WIP stuff - "Grail" "Gaskin"

Nice model Spinners! Did you built it?