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no doubt trotski, it is his world and a made up one too. divergence from the main timeline is fun. but in somethings, i think its best to keep as close to history as possible. first rule of alternate history: smallest possible divergence from real timeline, with hte butterfly effects it causes going down the line. back to Eagle114th, unless your timeline China ramped up nuke production in the 1960s, it would not have had enough to give more than 1 to Zafir. However, one is not practical. it can be taken out easy in a strike like you detail, plus after that one shot leaves Zafir open for massive retaliation (nuclear or non) by many parties in the world. 8-12 is a better number, although by 1975 IRL i dont think China would have spared that although if done before Sept 1976 Mao might have been willing to give some up. the big question; whats in it for China? long standing friendship isnt enough in the case of nukes, there should be some geopolitical goal that Zafir having nukes is assisted by. and IRL China in 1975 wasnt that big a player (see how their incursion in Vietnam in 1979 went, and that was a neighbor) hey, it is your world. just giving my two cents in on it as an amatuer historian

ok, couple of nit picks here why did Zafir "invade" Israel? they are pretty far away unless Israel is in a different location in your world second, who gave Zafir a tactical nuclear warhead? by 1975, the US and USSR would be firmly against such activity. France and the UK would have no interest, and China and Israel would have too few to gift any. chemical warheads would be more realistic, and able to be created within Zafir changing these probably changes quite abit of the rest of the timeline

you missed one along the front of the canopy seriously though, while it is awesome to see the end product, it is also cool to see the start of the journey too

well, its been 30 years since the airlifts begans....

good logic. but if the Raptor or Panther were to visually see a hostile Typhoon IRL, something has gone astray. the general idea these days is to zap them BVR and yes, we have heard this tune before. but since the late 90s we've had the instruments to play it better. no so much in Vietnam, a few years after the BVR song was first written (and the usual goto for arguing against BVR engagements) finally, with exception to the smaller users that will go to all F-35 fleets, its meant to be an attack aircraft first, fighter second. the F-22 was built to be a fighter first, and had to take on some attack roles second to justify costs on the ones that were built. comparing the dogfighting abilty of a F-35 is like comparing the dogfight abilty of an A-7 to a F-4. yeah it can do it in the right hands and circumstanses. but it wasnt really designed to do that, just protect itself on the way to the main target.

awesome and huge project. especially across both TKs series, i havent heard of many huge mods for First Eagles take breaks as needed. people get burnt out working smaller projects, this one would rival most anything here currently when finally complete.

i dunno. Raptor is a rare enough bird, they might put the money into patching her up. but if not then yeah, she'll live on in the rest of the fleet

probably a mix of both, plus the Frogfoot isnt a featherweight either. later editions were developed with input from Soviet experience in Afghanistan (and in this case possibly Chechnya too)

if he isnt interested, you should consider it, with heavy credit to him probably a third of what v2k has done the last couple years got released under my account (but his name in the title) because he did the model, then i skinned it and ini edited it. still your baby your choice. but im not the only one that thinks its primed for what if land

if no one else can answer directly, heres a few places to look and especially this one

very lucky indeed. i ordered 15 volumes of WAPJ when i got my tax return last month for $55 and he covered the shipping. seemed a really great deal.... until i got them and every last one had pictures cut out of them! to his credit, the seller was legitimately shocked to hear it was like that. he was clearing out something like 20 boxes of books that were his dads. when shown pics of how they were he gave me a full refund no fuss. it just doubly suxked because he originally had it posted as alomst the whole collection, but i already had the first half. he was very workable and agreed easily to sell the 15 out of 30 volumes i wanted. so right now its back to pairs at a time

of course, all that work on the German Bugs, and they go and change their minds on you still good for a what if tho

nice collections Sundowner, have you had the WAPJ* volumes since they each came out wayback when? im currently working on building up my collection on those, and about halfway through otherwise, ive had to go more to digital due to moves, kids, and other hardships. most of what i have still is either had since childhood, gifts from folks now gone or a few new additions. edit* World Air Power Journal, the blue issues

if youre going to play Dhimar vs Paran, i would think you need the version they come in......

possibly part of it. i imagine a bigger reason the BUFFs got the 117s and the faster jets got the bigger mk 80 series was the B-52 could carry alot of bombs, anything with an F in front not so much. so the fighters got hte bigger bombs (mk 83, 84) to max out the tonnage in the limited weps stations curious about dimensions of the british 1000 lb bombs, as BUFFs carried them two or three missions out of Diego Garcia. cant recall at the moment if they were internal or external either though

Erik, that "frilly GUI" is one of the reasons im waiting to change (and debating doing so at all). my daughter updated her Surface, and when i went to do something on it a few weeks back, was definetly giving it weird looks and wondering where stuff was. can i deduce from your post that the general appearance/layout can be reverted back to something more familiar? i didnt mess with my kids system for more than 5 mins, and it was hers so wasnt gonna change stuff up thanks Muesli and Silberpfiel for your input too. and that Coastie bird looks good

bout as the title says. looking for opinions on both your experiences with it in general as well as SF2 specific experiences so far. evidently my school/VA computer is able to upgrade. wont do it before May (stick with what i know for the semester), but debating if i should or not at all.

talk to GKABS, hes from Kuwait

best as i can tell the straight nuclear bombers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taktisches_Luftwaffengeschwader_33 the Growlers get interesting, as wiki says these guys are primarily recon, but have operted the SEAD Tornado ECRs since 2013 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taktisches_Luftwaffengeschwader_51 my guess is that they move to a primary SEAD role, since recce is handle by drone more and more

off topic but in pic love the detail of the painted out tail markings

although i thought the KAF birds had the VIP windows. temporary brainfart on my part mandatory screenie

ummmmmm......... what does the revamped ODS have to do with the Vietnam expansion pack?

since hearing about the Nvidia issues (like a decade ago) ive gotten a 670 card in a 2012 laptop, 1070 card in 2015 laptop and 3060 in a desktop built last year. no issues whatsoever. im more worried after a microsoft update than a nvidia update (tho i run a test run on the game all the same when i know either updated) if youre shopping for a system someone else builds (rather than assemble yourself) look up xidax. pricey but worth the money. that 2015 and last years system are both from them, and even the '15 rig still makes this system im typing this post on feel slow (i7-9750H, 16 gb ram, 1660ti card )

although im guilty of it too, this is what i imagine on ravenclaw's side whenever we ask about another weapon seriously tho, get some rest. youve done quite a bit for us already

Practice.