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VSF Squadron/ VA Squadron detachment A-4B and A-4C Skyhawks. VSF Squadrons and VA Squadron detachments were assigned to small ASW carriers for air defense but with the escalation of the Vietnam war they returned to the attack role. VA-34 from the USS Essex actually flew a CAP/ escort mission during the Bay of Pigs invasion with the intention of protecting the Rebal A-26 Invaders but due to a timing cock up were an hour late and missed engaging the Cuban T-33A fighters. VA-93 painted fake black radar-domes and tail RWR receivers during one of their detachments. I modified some of Wrench's decals along with Nyghtfall's latest templates.

Randomly came across this on a F-106 FB group page.

I have removed the clean exhaust emitter from all my WWII aircraft in my WWII Europe and Pacific installs (it took a few days!) and the results for frame rates are amazing! I can now have multiple entire squadrons of fighters attacking multiple entire squadrons of bombers (think USAAF daylight bombing of Germany) without any major drop in frame rate! No lagging, stutters or game slow down at all. Previously this kind of major air battle would cause an annoying slowdown in frame rate when engaging mass bombing formations up close. Now I have no problem at all even with tracers, flack bursts, burning aircraft and contrails filling the sky. This is game changing for me! :-)

Oh ok that is weird all my WWII installs, Korea, ODS and Falklands etc are based off the SF2:NA exe as well which is why I asked. Would be a pain changing them lol

If you have a merged install that includes SF2:NA does that mean the sound bug will still be there if you start a game from say the SF2:E shortcut? And if you did that would you still have the SF2:NA naval features? I thought installing SF2 titles worked like installing game patches so any new features are applied to everything?

I have often wondered about this myself and like wrench u have always gone for the clean exhaust emitter. But from what is being said here I think I will change to no exhaust emitter now especially with the frame rate bonus. Anyone have any thoughts or pictures to the contrary?

First and the only AIM-120 AMRAAM capable NATO asset in Europe for a little while.

'In the summer of 1945, approximately 30 P-80As were sent aboard an aircraft carrier to the Philippines in preparation for the final assault on Japan. The planes were to be issued to the 414th Fighter Group, based at Florida Blanca. Unfortunately, the planes had been sent without their tip tanks and their aircraft batteries, so they sat aboard the aircraft carrier for 30 days waiting for this equipment. By the time that the batteries and wingtip tanks were delivered, the war in the Pacific had ended, so the P-80 never got a chance to enter combat in the war against Japan." http://www.joebaugher.com/usaf_fighters/p80_12.html 413th Fighter Squadron, 414 Fighter Group, Okinawa 1945/46 437th Fighter Squadron,414 Fighter Group, Okinawa 1945/46 456th Fighter Squadron,414 Fighter Group, Okinawa 1945/46 * First two are in the pearl grey paint applied to the first P-80A aircraft and wasn't used for very long as it didn't last in the field. Last screen shot is natural metal. Thanks to Wrench for the template and original 'what if' PTO P-80A 416FG

Here is a stand in:

Spitfires and Tempests over Palestine 1949. No. 208 Squadron Spitfire FR. Mk XVIII (FR.18) No. 213 Squadron Tempest F. Mk XI (F.6)

I found a big slow down was caused by all the tracers in the air from all the gun turrets of a large bomber formation. I had a good FPS increase by re-sizing all the tracer.tga textures 3 or 4 times smaller to 30x30. Visually it doesn't make any difference. Also try reverting to stock TW tracer smoke effects if you have a modded one. Also do this as again it worked for me: https://combatace.com/forums/topic/84199-frame-rate-tweak-for-nvidia-users/

Replacement PC arrived, it's not top of the range but considering it is an insurance replacement for one that was 8 years old I think I did ok out of it :-) PC Intel Core i3 8100 Quad Core 3.6Ghz, 8GB RAM. 1TB HDD, Nvidia GTX 1050Ti 4GB, WiFi, Windows 10 Home 64bit. Now time to re install everything....

Like with most of the stock Third Wire weapons, racks, objets and aircraft a higher resolution re-paint can do wonders. My suggestion is extract the skin for the rack, re-size it to 1024x1024 (or 2048x2048 if you have a decent PC) and re paint it from reference photos including panel lines etc.

Cheers for the info guys sounds like it should be pretty painless

A few days ago while I was on duty at work my beloved 3 year old daughter decided to squirt a bottle of lemon drink into our desktop pc at home. Insurance will cover a replacement gaming computer which means an upgrade at least. So my question to you guys is who has managed to get SF2 working on Windows 10 and what did you need to do? Old computer had upgraded modernish graphics card etc but still ran Windows Vista. Also the HD seems ok thank God, been a while since I backed up! We have a laptop running Windows 10 but never tried to put any games on it.

Thanks mate

It happened all the time during the Cold War https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air-to-air_combat_losses_between_the_Soviet_Union_and_the_United_States

Nice work keep it up

I read recently that this is a common miss conception due to air Defence Command using the F-104A as an interim interceptor. It was in fact designed and built as a daylight air superiority fighter which is the role the TAC squadrons trained for and where deployed for.

Cheers mate, from what I have read it's a pretty unusual load out other than for ground displays at air shows etc. Reason being it's very 'dragy' especially once the nose cones have been fired off etc.

Hi ravenclaw, any chance you could release these if their done? Cheers, dan

Royal New Zealand Air Force Canberra B(I).12 Interdictor through the years 1959- 1970. Used in action in Operation "Confrontation" against Indonesia 1964- 1966

NZ6202 A-4K Skyhawk No.75 Squadron Ohakea AFB New Zealand 1970