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  1. Eurofighter will remain operational up to 2060

    daddyairplanes replied to GKABS's topic in The Pub

    only if its the exact same plane if its been maintained, upgraded and is still useful in some role, why not keep using it? a B-52H is only about 50% the same aircraft that left the Boeing line in 1961.....
  2. weapons checks, while on brief break from serial hunting
  3. if you downloaded from the site from Aug 2013 onwards its a given you have July 2013 SF2, SF2 Europe, SF2 Vietnam, SF2 Israel, SF2 North Atlantic. thats what i mean to give a visual to what allen said, this is the file path you should follow and place in NOT This one
  4. should really use a chase plane for some of the check flights
  5. it wont if the game is installed properly which version did you get? i dont think it will affect the F-89 but it would be helpful
  6. i concur with EricJ, looks good but dont ever remember seeing it. seems more like a firebase or CSM is bored thing than what the gunbunnies would actually do on their own (esp setting it back up after every fire mission!). shoot and scoot doesnt allow time for camo nets, the mission from halt to go should only be a few minutes so you get outta dodge before counter battery fire comes n if you proceed with it, use it for the firebase established postion model, not the stop shoot and go model. and move it out from in front of the barrel, even an illum mission would shred the netting
  7. good to hear youre doing better of course now that you are good enough to check in, i have to ask which you had, the steak or the fish?
  8. boom
  9. ok, this shows my ignorance of ground object behaviour, but does the gun stop to shoot or does it shoot on the move (in game, i know how RL goes) if it stops, is it possible for the blades in back to be up on the move, then drop to fire? other than that nitpick, looks awesome! whenever you might get to it, dont forget the CAT (M992 ammo carrier) uses the same chassis as the Paladin, intro to service 1982 (so in service for ODS)
  10. early anti glare
  11. he forgot. i havent gotten that far yet moving along...
  12. you volunteering? tonights work, limited as it is (quite abit on the RL front today) some more metal and clean up of the bays speaking of volunteers, anyone willing to produce three new models of the relevant nuke casings? pm if you are interested bitte....
  13. probably stop here for the night. if the doors dont irritate me in to fixing them shiny
  14. well heres my take on classic naval aviation
  15. mild change of plans. unit marking info is scarce online, so ordering a few books on ebay. in the meantime, time to cut some metal

  16. Beefed up Vietnam What If

    daddyairplanes replied to macelena's topic in Military and General Aviation

    even if they werent in country, they'd have been there within about 72 hours. kind of like other parts of Nickel Grass, but for ourselves
  17. off topic of the RWR, you say you can only get the MiG-31s to show in Iceland. i am going to guess you do not have Expansion pack 2 or the mission editor DLC? if you had either you could set up an engagement between those two without waiting for the game to arrange a meeting

  18. Beefed up Vietnam What If

    daddyairplanes replied to macelena's topic in Military and General Aviation

    gotta think big picture up until linebacker, the US wasnt deploying its big war fighting toys up north in a large fashion. testing some of the latest (F-111) or keeping stuff down south (B-52 Arc Lights) but not waves of the big bombers for most of the war. the missile boats and Tu-22 and possibly the Yak would definitely been used to attack the fleet at Yankee Station or airbases in the south, causing a massive retaliation. with expectaion of Russian support after that retaliation. that wouldnt have flown in the Kremlin MiG-25 probaably wouldnt have been sent, too many direct US recce assets that would have loved to record that radar. plus they were desired for motherland defense, Linebacker being too quick of a development to train North Vietnamese on them before the end of hostilities (after which they were needed) the arab air forces got new stuff mainly because they 1 werent Communist and so it wasnt a matter "Socialist fraternity against the Imperialists" (or however you want to phrase it) 2 paid hard currency for their toys 3 fought an enemy using mostly US/NATO origin weapons, but had little chance of directly engaging US forces (gonna call the flare up in 1973 a fluke, typically the superpowers didnt get officially too directly involved) the North Vietnamese were exactly opposite all these points, and major escalation to save an ally could have been bad (again, see the fluke of 1973) Zeus 23 was deployed in 1975 during the invasion of teh south. Again, the Soviets probably were not in a hurry for the Americans to get a good look at the radar on that. an issue in 1972, but not in 75.
  19. looks pretty good. but change the dark spot by that exhaust. heat rises (and blow back opposite direction of travel)
  20. well, thats the nice thing about being a cook; you aint getting fed even MREs unless i have some kind of vehicle. i will say though that my FA time saw alot more regular soldiering than my time with signal. Guard, QRF, rolling with LOGPAC when one of the battery's supply trucks were down and killing the burners for breakfast to join stand to. Signal pretty much left us alone so long as chow was good
  21. depends on the unit, and sometimes even that particular commanders preference. convoys through Iraq turn signals were used to indicate where fire was coming from not which way to turn. high beam flashing could also used (typicla for vehicle or radio issues) to signal because even at daytime a flashing white light stands out. didnt run with lights fully on mind you, but didnt cover them up either. some mirrors got folded in but typically not. you very rarely backed up without a ground guide and ideally had two: one in back and one in front. but conditions were rarely ideal either. typical was to have one ground guide in back, and stop if you couldnt see them. hard to pull off if you aint got not mirrors. same experience with an field artillery unit still playing in the "stop them in the Fulda Gap" mindset in the late 90s. somebody would come along talking tactical, then some accidents would happen, and it would be back to using stuff on the move. it got covered only when you were in a position longer than 30 minutes (hoods raised on trucks too to cover the direct LOS reflections off the windshield)
  22. B/O, or blackout drive. turned of the regular bulb, and shone a light through a slit with white instead of clear plastic. could just barely see shit with it in the woods as i recall, unless you were using NODs. but that had its own set of problems (headaches coming back just thinkin of them). but it was bright like regular highbeam usage if you did use blackout and NVGs. course thats for the old 5 ton trucks, but it was the same control switch for the 88s, humvees and LMTVs so i dont see why it would be any different for the Paladins for GKABS, dirts on a little thick. it actually lightend green vehicles as i recall (when dried) and was hard to tell on tan vehicles unles you were right up on it or washing it. was always a suprise seeing how much dirt came off the cab and sides of the trucks when washing them for teh customs inspect going home also go splotchy, a vehicle coming out of the field usually looked like it had a dozen shades of paint on it until it hit the washrack. i gues think of a ghostly camo pattern with barely different shades of the same color all over some darker (towards bottom where water and mud get to) some lighter (towards the top where dust goes and flung mud dries faster) . outer tracks look good, you posted the two pics above that covers my commnets on the inner track/roadwheels sorry to be picky, i do have a bit of history with the later model of this beast (as well as EricJ iirc)
  23. its a nice idea, but impractical one because mix ups through history create non standard mix ups (look as SEA Phantoms in the 70s with the pale green in place of tan on some, the mismatch colors on C-5s in the early 90s, faded paints all over when budgets were tight) also an issue , the modders themselves. present a complete system to a hundred modders and 70 will declare it good. 5 will explain why its not in their opinion. 25 will say nothing. of those 70, 15 will actually use it. 3 will ask a year later if there is such a system. and five will not like it, and do theyre own. best bet is to refer as much as possible to FS 595 (the US governments color guide), RAL (color guide for the european colors) and whatever such guide there is for the Russian birds. to boot, if you were to say google "FS36081 hex" youd get the number to plug into PS or Gimp for use ( 5b5e5f for my example). i know there is such a guide for FS 595 with the color and the hex and RGB values. pretty sure theres one for RAL as well back on topic, those look great GKABS. had me worried on the first pic of tan, but the wrap up looks good
  24. much closer to the mark, and good for a factory fresh track. of course in country theyd have a tannish or red-brownish tint from the dirt and mud. for desert storm, it varies. some vehicles were still green. a few (24th Mech comes to mind) got painted before going over. a lot got painted in theater. the ones painted in country seem to be the "whitest" og the tan vehicles, perhaps to make sure the green didnt show through. new version looks much better now dirty it up
  25. and some shots from Kosovo 30 years later. i know i guy that was ther back in 2000. these are from the powerpoint that was made end of deployment
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