GunnySonics

Here's a thought I had today whilst reading a book about cold war military aircraft:- Imagine for a moment that the UK had not been a member of NATO after WW2, imagine we decided to become a member of the Warsaw Pact!!! For the likes of myself growing up at RAF bases in the 70's and 80's I may have been watching TU95's flying around Scampton and MiG 23 Floggers flying over RAF Machrihanish, how different our country would have looked in the skies. Dont get me wrong team, Im not saying it would be a good thing, I am actually in the Royal Navy (20 years to date) so I am a patriot through and through, im just saying how different our skies would have looked through the last 40 years!!! Just a strange thought........give me the Vulcan, Hunter, Phantom and Bucanneer any day!!!

i made sure the wife and kids got all that they wanted, and what did i get......well i got nailed over Hanoi on my first experience with SF2/V

Many thanks for the quick reply guys, thats just the answers I was looking for!!

Hi team, having only just purchased SF2 I/E/V I am a little bit confused after just watching a SF2 Vietnam movie on Youtube where all the enemy red target labels seemed to be missing which I thought made the game look a bit better especially if there are that many targets around you cannot see what is actually below. Is there a mod to remove the target labels or even a default key, i have read through the manual a few times but found nothing other than how to lock on to a target. Also is there a way of zooming out and scrolling around the map, i find I can zoom out so far but not actually move around the map to see whats ahead of me? Bearing in mind I have ony had the game for 2 days it is completely stock with no mods included, I will eventually begin modding the game once I am actually skilled enough to keep my ass in the cockpit and not spend my time floating through the air in a parachute with bullet holes in my flightsuit. Any advice on these questions will be much appreciated

I can remember being woken up in the middle of the night as a kid when I lived at an RAF base in Cyprus, the noise just happened to be a squadron of USAF F111's that had just bombed Tripoli in Libya, they were stopping over for a refuel before leaving, that was 24 years ago but I remember it like it was yesterday, that is the one and only time I have seen an F111 in the air in my life, a memorable time!!! My linkhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/15/newsid_3975000/3975455.stm Subsiquently the base I live at was attacked by Libya terrorists a few months later a short history lesson on the F111 in combat...

Thanks guys, your welcome greetings remind of the heat of a phantoms afterburners!!!

Hi team, I just thought I would introduce myself to the site, i joined yesterday after downloading Strike Fighters 2 Europe and Isreal from Thridwire. Im a 37 year old Submariner in the Royal Navy living in Plymouth, ive been playing flightsims since 1985, my first cockpit was a ZX Spectrum, if anyone can remember them!!! I have also been lucky enough to grow up at various RAF bases around the world as my Dad served in the Royal Air Force for 25 years, at the age of 7 it was a common site to see Avro Vulcans flying over my house which was an amazing site especially when they were armed with Britains Nuclear weapons. Anyway, I have been simming mainly with FS2000-FS2004 for the last 10 years but I finally decided to give up on Microsofts Flightsim due to stability issues and after a bit of Googling I found Strike Fighters 2, and after only 24 hours I am well impressed, I must admit though I only purchased these games due to the mod support it has from this site, and after looking at the downloads, without installing any yet I have already decided to subscribe and give somthing back as this site is obviously a Mecca for military flight simmers. No doubt I will be asking you guys for a bit of support in installation questions etc having just started out with SF2, my main interests are RAF aircraft from the Cold War period, so any recomendations on mods from this era will be greatly appreciated. Great To be a part of such a fantastic website, and a happy new year to you all Gunny.