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[Renewed] YFA-5 Tactical Tiger
This is a mod of Mirage Factorys F-5E Tiger II to make it look like a fictional plane for the US air force.
BACKGROUND:
The need for a fast, agile and versatile attack plane led to the construction of this plane. The R&D department of Northrop Grumman went a more unorthodox way: They took the F-5E Tiger II contruction plans and started modyfing some of the parts and remodeling the fuselage, wings and interior fuselage ompartments. The improvements were astonishing, even for the engineers from Northrop Grumman. The entire hull is composed of a titanium alloy coating a skeleton of carbon fibre and a steel/titanium alloy, making possible a high loadout both under the wings and fuselage.
General Electric improved the former engines of this plane replacing the injection system, using less parts and reducing the weight of the engines by using different materials. This improvements lets the engine develop more than 30% dry and wet thrust than before.
Also the avionics and the radar got modified enabling the use of the most air-air and air-ground-weapons. The radar used is the AN/APG-70V1.
This made necessary the removal of the left gun leaving the muzzle there for cooling purpose of the new and advanced electronic equipment. The right gun was replaced with a 20mm M61A1-Gatling Gun.
The "TacTiger" made its maiden flight on the 18th of October of 2011 and entered service in 2012.
The Upgrade Includes :
- AN/APG-70V1 AESA RADAR
- NEW AVIONICS
- ATFLIR TARGETING POD
- AN/ALQ-13 NAVIGATION POD
- IFF SYSTEM
- NEW ENGINES
- NEW FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM
- ENHANCED FLIGHT MODEL
- JHMCS PILOT
- NEW ECM JAMMING SYSTEM
ARMAMENT :
- AIM-9X SIDEWINDER
- AIM-120C AMRAAM
- ALL GPS GUIDED BOMB TYPES
- GBU-12D PAVEWAY 500LB LASER GUIDED BOMB
- GBU-24B PAVEWAY II 2000LB LASER GUIDED BOMB
- AGM-65G MAVERICK TV GUIDED MISSILE
- L003 ECM JAMMING POD
INSTALLATION:
Simply drop the Folders into your Strike Fighters Mods Folder.
CREDITS:
Thanks to all the people of the Mirage Factory for this plane and to Macelena for adapting it to SF2 Standards.
This is a combined mod produced by two people, so the special thanks goes also to Teras for his help!
Outer modding: NazGhul
- MARPAT Skin
- Loadout changes
- initial Data modding
Inner modding: Teras
- Cockpit changes
- Avionics modding
- Radar modding
- final Data modding
We hope everybody enjoys this mod
Teras and NazGhul
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Submitted01/08/2015
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[Fictional] P-47N IDF Skins
Two fictional skins for Russo's great P-47N Thunderbolt representing
1. a two color camo skin during the Suez Crisis
2. an all-metal skin for the 101st Squadron
You'll need SF2 Israel Expansion Pack 1 for the proper decal use.
Installation:
Get Russo's P-47N Thunderbolt here: http://combatace.com/files/file/12780-p-47n-thunderbolt-ww2-pto-by-russouk/
Simply drop into your P-47N-15 Thunderbolt aircraft folder.
Credits:
Big thanks to RussoUK for this great plane and to Wrench for bringing it to SF2 standard.
Enjoy!
ValAstur
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Submitted01/08/2015
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Well, that is a question only a real cuban who knows his folks would be able to answer to.
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You can add this to your nations.ini:
[NationXXX]
Name=NewCuba
DisplayName=New Cuban Air Force
Alignment=FRIENDLY
PilotNameList=NamesSpanish.lst
RankList=RanksUSAF.lst
CallsignList=CallsignsUS.lst
Formation.Fighter=USFighter
Formation.Attack=USFighter
Formation.Bomber=USBomber
Formation.Transport=USBomber
Formation.Tank=USTank
Formation.MobileAD=USAD
PilotTrainingStandard=Average
GenderRatio=0
DebriefSuccessMusic=DebriefSuccess.wav
DebriefFailMusic=DebriefFail.wav
DebriefKilledMusic=DebriefKilled.wav
SpeechFile=USAFSpeech.cat
SpeechTextFile=USAFSpeechText.cat
Medals=MedalsUSAF.ini
MedalTextFile=MedalsUSAF.str
ActiveDate=1964
AlternateDecal=USAF_OLD
These are the Camo Color Values (RGB) I used for the skin:
Dark blue 93,110,126
Bright blue 130,153,176
Grey 150,149,145In the Rar-File are both the proposed flag and insignia...Happy skinning.
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[Fictional] MiG-19G German Farmer for SF 2
Fictional mod of the stock MiG-19S to make it look like a fictional fighter plane for the westgerman Luftwaffe.
YOU WILL NEED SF2:E AT LEAST TO GET THIS PLANE RUNNING!
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Drop the folders into your Objects folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes.
CREDITS
Big Thanks to Thirdwire for the games and the superb models they have.
To Volker (ravenclaw_007) for the PilotGAF6 and
finally to Soulfreak for the german stencil markings.
Have fun!
ValAstur
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Submitted10/25/2014
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What, if the Invasion of the bay of pigs would have been successful and Cuba would have not remained comunistic...
Until the end of 1964, the new Cuban nation remained under the protection of US armed forces since it did not yet have a working military system after the comunistic fall.
At the beginning of 1965, the new Cuban country got fully accepted as a nation by the UN assembly (with exception of the Soviet Union and other comunist countries), Cuba was able to rebuild the industry with the support of US and european companies.
At the same time, the new cuban armed forces began establishing a chain of command and acquiring military equipment, which consisted mostly of used american material, both in air and on ground.
In February 1965, The New Cuban Air Force (Nueva Fuerza Aérea Cubana - NFAC) first received a batch of used Fairchild C-123 Provider Transport aircraft and 24 F-4B Phantom II from the USN in order to rebuild a working air defense capability. In April 1965, the NFAC received another shipment of 36 used F-4Bs. In the same month, the NFAC renamed itself to FAC (Fuerza Aérea Cubana).
McDonnell Douglas F-4B, Nueva Fuerza Aérea Cubana, 12th Squadron, 1965
Maybe somebody can create a nicer background story...
Feel free to contribute...also with other aircraft...
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Henry Morgenthau was the finance minister of the US during WWII. In 1944, he proposed a plan to eliminate the german thread by simply stripping them from all military equipment and the removal of all the necessary indsutrial installations needed for warfaring.
According to him, Germany should have become a land of farmers only. The plan was withdrawn, but Germany nevertheless became a land of farmers, but not of those Morgenthau wanted...
Dornier/Mikoyan Gurevych MiG-19G "Farmer", JG71 "Richthofen", 1960
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[Renewed] Boeing/Mitsubishi FA-18FJ Super Hornet
This is a mod of the Super Hornet F from EricJ to make it look like fighterplane from the japanese air self defense force.
BACKGROUND:
In 2011, the actual minister of defense, Toshimi Kitazawa, wanted the air force to be more powerful and well equipped than they are now. Even the F-2 and the F-15J and DJ seemed not to be modern enough. Kitazawa was of the opinion, with the rising of China and the becoming dangerous of northern Korea, the air force as main line of defense had to grow in strength.
During that same year, Japan and the US signed a contract over more than 120 planes, primarily F-Type, of the Super Hornet. Being modified by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries for being capable of using the modern japanese missiles.
Being odd at first sight, the new aggressor camo of the first squadron to receive the plane reflects the mood of its pilots, showing the enemy that there will be no retreat..just like Samurai. The unperfect camo concerning some stains along the colour borders are wanted and shall recall the japanese calligraphy.
The first planes will enter service in 2012 in the 8th, 302nd, 303rd and 305th Hikotai.
INSTALLATION:
Simply drop the Folders into your Strike Fighters Mods Folder.
CREDITS:
EricJ – Purchased Model of F/A-18F from http://www.mesh-factory.com, Main texture artist, ini editing.
FastCargo – 3D model work for all versions. Used some of his images for reference.
JAT81500 – FM, ini adjustments, decals.
Dave – Decals and always a swell guy. Also did the Hangar and Loading Screens. Reference photos. Also for modifying some weapons for SF2, and for adjusting his afterburner texture from the Eagle Superpak.
Vampyre – Technical Reference and consultant who works with the aircraft on a daily basis.
Column5 – Use of the Mirage Factory F/A-18A Textures, and FM data adapted from the MF F/A-18A.
AmokFloo – Initial optimization of the F/A-18F model.
Bpao – F/A-18A pit used with permission.
STORM – F/A-18E Loading Screen Image, taken from his special vantage point.
starfighter2 – Newer RWR texture.
Serverandenforcer – F/A-18F FM tweaking.
Silverbolt – Extracting the textures for the cockpit for SF2.
MigBuster – Tutorials in the Knowledge Base for adapting the aircraft to SF2.
SidDogg – Assistance with getting the VFA-102 CAG bird tanks right.
Spillone104/Spectre8750 – Custom sound, Spillone104 for initial, and Spectre8750 for tweaking.
ArturR: For his use of his avionics mod. FastCargo mentioned it and after checking it out was impressed… Thanks!
Special thanks go again to EricJ for giving me his template for the VMFAT-Skin. Otherwise the skinning of the aggressor skin would have taken a long time. Thanks again.
Enjoy.
ValAstur
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Submitted10/21/2014
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[Fictional] Grumman/Mitsubishi F-14J Tomcat
Fictional mod of the stock F-14A_77 to make it look like a fictional fighter plane for the japanese military aviation branches.
YOU WILL NEED SF2NA AT LEAST TO GET THIS PLANE RUNNING!
Mod contains the following skins:
1. Grey skin for the 301st Hikotai
2. Two-tone blue skin for the 8th Hikotai
3. Three-tone camo for the 305th Hikotai
4. Dark blue skin for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces
The folder "Alternative Skinfile" contains the nose skinfile for the 8th Hikotai skin without anti-glare panel.
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Drop the folders into your Objects folder. If asked to overwrite, click yes.
CREDITS
Thanks to pappychksix for his awesome Tomcat templates.
Big Thanks to Thirdwire for the games and the superb models they have.
Kindest regards
ValAstur
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Submitted10/21/2014
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F-14J, 8th Hikotai, 1996
Upload will also feature a version of the skin w/o Anti-Glare as shown in the model which was used as base for this skin:
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thanks for this my new fav mount. have you thought of a mig-29 for Argentina? They were looking into the mirage 2000 but havent been able to acquire. Since they bought some mi-8's a few yearas ago for antarctic ops why not the mig-29 as a what-if? just a thought.
Argentinian MiG-29 already exists, only for Navy though.
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Comrades defending the austrian Alps
in Thirdwire: Strike Fighters 2 Series - Sci-Fi/Anime/What If Forum
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MiG-21F-13 Fishbed, People's Republic of Austria Air Force, 2. Luftüberwachungsregiment, 1968
MiG-21F-13 Fishbed, People's Republic of Austria Air Force, 5. Jagdbomberregiment, 1968
These ones are based on a pic Stratos sent me, but which I can't find right now.