EricJ

Redux... Me: F/A-18F EPE with 2 x AIM-9X, 8 x AIM-120 and gun Opposition: Two F-14A IRIAF with 4 x IRIS-T, 4 x AIM-7 Sparrow (think M), gun Hot and heavy and done within 1 minute and 12 seconds. Again my mantra is not to hang around and play too much when you got aircraft with high-off boresight missiles. I think in a way it's not realistic since of course the Tomcat never survived long enough to incorporate it... but it does give the Turkey a better chance of killing more maneuverable aircraft. Though I still have to fix the pylons as they're not loading the 9Js... In any case the wingman broke left trying to be the shooter/maneuver while lead continued north as the bait. At first I targeted the wingnut and tracked him then switched to the lead but felt that "hey wingman has HOBS heaters." So I retargeted the wingman who went past me to the south in order to come around and spike me. No way so I took the opportunity for a HOBS 9X shot, and splashed him. By that time lead took the opportunity while my F1414s were on AB to turn hard into me and locked me up within a couple seconds. It should be noted at that range the ASPJ does not jam the first model AWG-9 at that range but I instinctively turned it on anyways. We were both generally pointing at each other and I took the initiative to fire a 9X in his face while I inverted pulling the stick into my lap, ejecting flares as I knew he was in a great position for an IRIS-T shot. The 9X kept him defensive smacking him in the face. Two down. Takeaways. As said this isn't Top Gun (the movie) where you are dealing with older model (though of course during that time the "MiG-28s" had 9Ls) Sidewinders and gun. And of course setting the radar for lower frequency makes it a more enjoyable experience)...

I've done a DACT mission with an A-7 and overall was surprised at how eventually I killed him with a gun kill. Of course it was a Phantom so...

He's aware of that man just that when you have three kids as he said things get pretty distracting when it loads and when he's taking care of them

Almost done...

I actually did three bouts, one with the F/A-18E, and the F/A-18F EPE. Opponents were 2 x F-15D(85) and 2 x F-14A IRIAF. They all had missiles but both Super Hornet bouts ended with the same thing. The wingman drew me out and the lead or wingnut kept going north. In both cases I shot the mover and then I shot the north opponent. Only difference I shot the F-15 with an AMRAAM and both F-14s (Fox SH) were guns kills. I think in both Super Hornet bouts it is due to my radar setting being higher (to reflect that older aicraft simply don't have the freq for the AESA installed, realism). Me: F/A-18A with 2 x AIM-9M and 2 x AIM-7M, gun and one center tank Opposition: 2 IRIAF F-14As with 4 x IRIS-T and 4 x AIM-7M, gun Since I had a "normal" jet immediately once things got started both F-14s turned to the right, one went high, and one went low. I don't remember what exactly happened from the start to the first screehshot but I did drop the "F this" bomb since they had HOBS missiles and were close enough... Ahh now I remember, I turned to the left in order to catch the maneuver jet and prior to the screenshot I tracked the southernmost one (north is up on the screenshot) and shot my AIM-9M in his face. No way am I dealing with that kind of threat and not live with it. In any case I switched targets and went with the second one, dropping flares in order to at least increase my chances of survival. It worked as the Iranian shot past me and headed west coming around. Utilizing the high turning rate of the Hornet I turned into him and tracked him for some time, managing to send a shot across his bow. He turned north porpoising and me managing to land some shells on him. Since he was still trucking I launched my remaining AIM-9M which went up his tailpipe. And I swear before ejecting the pilot hit the autopilot switch or something as the plane kept flying for another less than a minute. Takeaways. Get rid of the jokers as fast as possible say I and will continue to believe in that theory. Since the opposition this time had the benefit of advanced missiles there's no percentage in trying to fight a battle like that especially when you're looking to be the turkey, and not them. Had the northern jet been on the ball he could have locked and shot me with the IRIS-T easy even though both were on Excellent or at the least taken a Sparrow shot. Also to get better results I have to also make my SH radars more detectable as this bout was better than the previous two. Also for some reason the shots are out of sequence

A lot more cleanup and she should be done tomorrow.

VFA-195 Dambuster CAG (What If (technically since a scheme isn't yet done) WIP

You mean like this?

more work And just so you know I have to bounce around between a few files so I can't just do everything at once...

Yeah.... I'm not finished relax... I'm working on it...

Ahh! Yes I haven't added numbers and such man, it's all good

This is a CAG skin...

Okay I'm still lost... Are you talking about that "racing stripe" on the fuselage?

Huh?

I'm not using decals...

Look man I said I don't do decals. One, Ive spent nearly ten years doing texture work personally and professionally (click on my "Resume" link on my signature), and not going to cheapen it by doing decal work especially since it's working very nicely so far. Second of all, after I got this far and still about halfway done (the tanks are going to be real fun) I'm not going to drop what I'm doing and restart over. Like I said, if you want a decaller talk to SidDogg, not me. If you're still not happy download GIMP and do it yourself.

Nope, then you'd really have to ask SidDogg to do it as I don't do it via decals. I'm not a decaller just a texture artist.

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More work.

Not so hard...

You'd have to go on Airliners.net or ask SidDogg as CAG jets routinely change with CAGs (or at least that's how I understand the method). But if I read the topic title it shouldn't be too hard to make an F/A-18E version.

It is Me: F/A-18E stock with 2 x AIM-9X and 8 x AIM-120 Opposition; Two MiG-23MLD with 4 x R-60, 2 x R-23C, gun and tanks Well Ceasar upped the ante and gotta go with it. Started this again behind them. Once they "saw" me one went high and one went low with the first targeted (by me) going west (I initially start facing north) and tracked him. For the most part he wanted to scissors me and let me get ahead. A lot of people naturally complain about how much of a lemon of the Super Hornet is and sometimes it can be an advantage since you can work your way out of a scissors. And I did that while I avoided going ahead of him and he accelerated and I set myself up for the first 9X shot. His wingman went high upon "seeing" me and stayed high and lazily stayed heading north, northwestish, apparently waiting his turn until he tried to shoot me. Lead was turning back to his wingman so I didn't want to take the chance of getting in a 2 v 1 defensive and shot the 9X which tracked him and killed him. After getting my screenshot I targeted the second MiG-23 and it's just game logic that once you down the lead, the wingman out of loyalty wanted to down me. He turned into me and I turned into him setting up for the second 9X shot. After a couple energy circles I managed to bring my nose into him as he leveled off high for some reason (lack of energy?) and allowing me to setup and execute a rather easy 9X shot, downing him. Takeaways for me in my personal view is don't play around too much with multiple opponents especially if you're not IRM heavy or if you have better things to do. I can and have used AMRAAMs in knife fight situations but for the most part don't like using them if I got the gun left or I have a good shot. As mentioned above once I got the warning bell on what the lead was doing I had to get rid of him quick and get myself into position so I can take his wingman out. In another scenario I would have either shot an AMRAAM at him or worked a 9X shot in, only keeping the engagement "Fair" out of just getting some experience in battle management. Plus in this case the lack of visibility on the Flogger kept me from dealing with too much as well.

View File EA-18G VX-9 2008 From a reference from Afterburner Decals this is an EA-18G assigned to VX-9 "Vampires". Other than the drop tank texture the skin can be used for SF1 as well. Drop in the EA-18G folder and go fly. Eric Johnson 2011 Submitter EricJ Submitted 03/14/2011 Category F-18  

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