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seeing as the need is for air defense for CONUS you wouldn't even need a full up block 60. deliver it stock any how to keep lead in time down(same as how the Phantom kept its hook and folding wings throughout all blocks keep production rolling w/o interuption)but for that particular mission the only parts of the package you would keep is the conformal tanks and the aesa radar. even paint them in aggressor marking for a secondary tasking.

damn. and they just finished turning the last of the airworthy F-4E's into QF-4's.

"Our Army,I am sad to say, is nothing of what it was just 10 or 12 years ago. " brother ain't that the truth. i've been seeing stuff this deployment that boggles my freakin mind. the day after we hit green ramp i see doc to start my med board proceedings. day after reintegration i start acap. only thing keeping me in past 28 oct 10 is if doc wants to cut on my back. there are still some good joes out there. but theres gotten to be to much tolerance for the bad ones.

affordable block 60? we talkin F-16ADF 2.0?

and sorry if i seem a..h...ish about it but as a Non Commissioned Officer United States Army i've been irritated about this since seeing the picture. either the guy needs more self control in KBR's dfacs or if he was like that when he reported his chain of command shouldn't have deployed his butt. one look at the pic and you can tell that ain't muscle.

on the IRR bit i had a soldier in iraq who was an IRR callup. he was a cook. most of the IRR sent overseas doesn't seem so much about military specialty as putting bodies into slots(or this guys case two) i have also met plenty of soldiers at bragg particularly doctors who were called up to replace someone active duty who had deployed. back to my original statement i've been active duty for 13 years now. i remember people getting put out during the clinton years for failing to lose 10 pounds and not missing tape by 1-2%. or failing 2 pt tests in a row. then along came two wars and the army needed manpower. entry requirements got lowered and you have all the time in the world to lose weight if you fail to meet the standard. fail a pt test and you'll keep getting a diagnostic every week until you pass. it's starting to get fixed now that the army is surpassing its recruiting goals again but it will take a while to fix.

unless ODS is coming to an SF2 download section near you soon i vote for standoff capability agm-142 pls

also with that book(modders hint hint) is a pics section with the migs in american/soviet markings.

another good book on the topic is Red Eagles about the 4477 TES.(damn i wish i was home!) covers the Air Forces indoctrination program throught the late 70s and 80s using the -17, -21, and -23. generally as i recall they told pilots read into the program to get the -17 above 450kts and manuever against it and with the -23 to get into a turning fight but don't try to outrun it. it could pull away from even the F-15 but was more dog than dogfighter and all the american pilots hated it. even said putting the -23 in squadron service was best favor russia did for the american fighter pilot. but below 450kts above 20000 ft the -17 was the best thing since wonder bread.

you're right. type conversion should be super easy. i mean if randy quaid and bill pullman can fly em....

as the article said there is a precedent in doing that(F-4, A-7, joint use of EA-6B). however logistically it would be smarter to buy more F-16's. if congress drops the money for new build Vipers then i'm quite sure LM will build more Vipers. hell they're marketing a version of the block 60 to india right now. so why not? the ANG could have the most advanced F-16s and this time for defending AMERICAN airspace.

yeah well with two wars going on recruiting standards have gone down. evidence is in the fact they have a size of combat shirt that fits the guy. also looking at the patch i am pretty sure he's guard. many that i have personally met had attitude of "i'm a civilian in a uniform." not all but many of them.

tours in iraq and afghanistan and my wife was talking about moving to arizona when i get out next year. as this is a family site i'll leave my reply to the imagination. so yea i also see the logic in the cruise bit there.

not sure bout it plus i have SF2E not V they seem to have some differneces from what i read in posts. will look into it tomorrow thouhg.

if you look at the last 4 lines it discusses upgrading. didn't know you could do that though. pretty sweet

well i was originally mad at the internet company here. given the quality of service(it ain't time warner cable) i think i'll stay mad at them. appreciate the explaination

went down for me around 1700 local. the local internet company screens the sights you can go to. make sure we soldiers are good little boys and girls and don't look up porn or anything else bad. anyhow i got a message saying it couldn't connect and thought they had blocked CA! couldn't get through to column5 or most of the associated sites til this morning. was just abit annoyed.

will the eagles be released individually or as a pack/packs?

have you looked in (username)/saved games/thirdwire/strikefighters2europe ? when the game installs it should create that folder. the mods dont go into the main directory like before so there won't be any objects folders there. some of the objects folders you'll have to create. for more help read this thread http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=44026 it helps alot.

i deleted mine to clear up some space thinkin evry little bit helps. flew a mission and when i got back to home plate found a bunch of white F-111's on the ramp. hurried up and restored from the recycle bin and haven't had the prob since.not the a/c in flight just he ones parked. was still enough to make me put it back

i'll take WOE off my laptop at the end of the deployment. getting some guys in my company interested in it and that way i can do the multi player bit with them. however adding new birds is easier in SF2E in my opinion, i'm actually learning some modding by learning to change gen1 birds to gen2 slowly but surely and when NF4+ comes out won't have much other reason to keep the old game.

though maybe not that easy to defeat SA-2's could be defeated through last minute manuevers. sams were such a big problem early on because 1) most fighters at the time did not carry rwr tuned to the sams if at all. the way most were detected at first was to actually see the sam lifting off.2) the sam threat forced strike packages down low into range of AAA which is what shot down most planes for the duration of the war. APR-25, jamming pods and Wild Weasel/Iron hand were all devised to counter the SAM threat

the CAG from Top gun. OK so it's not an exact quote. my copy of the movie is 8000 miles away right now.

Maverick, you pull that stunt again and you'll be flying a trash-hauler full of rubber dog**** out of hong kong!

i believe the Slammer so far has a 100% record in combat and somewhere between 80-90% in training shots. theres reasons AIM-120 is called the Slammer and AIM-7 was called the great white hope.