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That's what I was thinking. There have been times when I've lined up an enemy and fired thinking I'd had a IRM or something cued up but instead had an armed maverick. My Mavericks have never fired at another aircraft. Not even ones on the tarmac. I've had to use standard ATA or unguided weapons to take them out. Like so (this is me hammering the trigger... but nada) Kct, are you talking about lining up an aircraft between your mav and it's target? Is that how you almost tagged your guy Fida?

Yeah, but how many civilian aerodromes did they clear for it? Boxkites don't count! Seriously though, they do have a large amount of serviceable aircraft. A lot of people make the mistake of underestimating the IRIAF's strength given their predominantly US based platforms and the decades of arms embargos. But they really have worked wonders in trying to duplicate what they need to maintain a fair sized air force. I'm not saying it's a world leader, but it's certainly no North Korean AF! I mean, they still have something like 20 Tomcats flying... that's no small feat.

Were you awake at the time Tailspin? You sure it wasn't gas dude?

I've been thinking about the same thing, even been making a few butternut skins for Heinkels and B-25s. Made a St. Andrew's cross for their battle flag with the intention of using it as their decal... ...but it's too small I think. From what I read, based on the aircraft described, I got the distinct impression that the CSA 'Mules' were essentially just Ju-87s, the US Turbojets were essentially Me-262s (even down to their troublesome engines and vulnerable landings). The 'Asskickers' were pretty vague, but it gave the strong impression of a strong winged monoplane (maybe along the lines of a 109 or something Spitfire-esque). I thought he referred to the IJN planes as Zeros and the only real life plane I remember were the B-17s mentioned by Flora Blackford, on their way to strike Richmond... or something. Got no idea what the artillery spotting 'Grasshopper' was. Based on these observations, you could suggest that maybe the US aircraft industry of the day was influenced by is larger, more influential ally, the Germans. Or maybe these were just specific examples used to tell the story. Although I do like the idea of the British influences of the CSA and the possibility of CSA Spitfires and Hurricanes too. I'd be interested to see the Tsar's air force and it's technological developments (or possible lack there of...).

As far as I know, you can't actually fire a Maverick at a plane in the Strike Fighters series. At least, I can't seem to on mine. I've heard you can in LOMAC and I'm pretty sure I've seen a screencap of it, but I can't quite recall... Only odd weapon I've noticed you can take out another aircraft with that you shouldn't normally be able to is an LGB.

You don't like Banana's?

That's good to know Wrench, cheers for the links. No, I thought I could get away with adding the new entries to the old controls config file. Doesn't look like you can... Damn!

...Is anyone else having problems with the key bindings not sticking? I'm trying to remap the toggle engines/rear view, but even after clicking 'accept', nothing seems to happen and they're returned to being unassigned. I'm thinking that it may have something to do with my copying over the older controls config file...

You graduated in BS...?

Ray Winstone? Dov? LOL!

It's the community that makes this game, we just hold the keys to the liquor cabinet...

The carriers are very nice in LOMAC though! The Kuznetsov is a ball to fly from. And having a Su-33 trap on the Kittyhawk is odd looking, but fun.

Not that I wanna sound to like I'm towing the Flanker agenda, but the Flanker is superior to the Eagle in lots of areas. Only problem is that it's all out of context in LOMAC. In a 1v1 fight between similarly trained pilots, the Flanker should be getting a better than 1:1 kill rate if only because it's design was learn from the developments on the F-15 and improve on its characteristics. However, when you bring Russian missiles, AWACS, avionics, pilot training etc into the equation, the Su-27 is still on par with the F-15 and this should not be the case if one is keeping things as true to life as possible. The differences between the two teams and their toys in LOMAC isn't bad. There'll always be trainspotters claiming the stats are off (not directing that at you Phantom! ). But when you play Flaming Cliffs, you'll see R-27s with comparable operational (and success) profiles to the Aim-120s which should definitely NOT be he case. The R-73s reminded me of the QAAM missiles from Ace Combat with their lethality in FC (particularly with reduced the missile effectiveness bar lowered) and this is not to mention the US weapons systems seemingly being much less effective and more prone to spoofing. Doing what I do to get an Aim-7 kill in LOMAC results in a much lower kill rate which for me was somewhere in the vicinity of 4/10, as opposed to around 7/10 in LOMAC. I just got the distinct vibe that the US weapons systems were neutered somewhat whilst Russian systems were a bit too effective. And I love the Russian toys, but it just seemed a lot easier for them in FC. And people online seem to think its the differences seem to stem Russian dev team of FC. I hope this isn't the case as it would imply that there'll be two new types of Sim in the future, one based on effective US weapons systems and one based on effective Russian ones...

That depends. What are you looking to do? Are you looking to take an existing weapon and give it what is effectively a nuclear warhead?

If you ever need to find out what's being worked on and by who, enter WoI/WoE/WoV/Project-1 Mods & Skinning Chat and look for the sticky (here)"The Mods Thread" anything that someone's announced they're working on for the SF Project (all the Wings Over titles) will be listed in here. Read through what's there and you'll have a good idea on who's who and what's what. REMEMBER!!! The last post in the thread will always be the most up to date one!

There aren't any servers set up specifically per se, however there are servers set up from time to time by players or you can connect to other players via hamachi and other similar programs. StreakEagle used to have a WoV server set up on Hyper Lobby for example and I've played several other members from here (CA) on that (although there are some issues with it and Aussie users from some reason). I've spoken to a local ISP here that hosts other games and in theory setting one up shouldn't be a problem for us here in Oz, but I don't know what kind of lag issues there would be for anyone outside of Oz. I also haven't seen any WOI games online either, so I'm not sure if that's a bad thing or not.

Does that process use a standard KC-135/10/whatever or is it a specialised aircraft?

Bastardo! I fell for that too!

I gotta say, I dig it with the stabilisers under the engine and the IRST looking wart under it's snout, but not the canards for some reason . But hey, different strokes for different folks! Nevertheless, it's good stuff Blackbird! '2 weeks'? :yes:

I wonder what the Gripen would look like with canards... Hmmmm.

I'd heard that too. In fact (not to bash Boeing or anything) I'd heard that they were starting to panic about the lack of export sales at one point that they were offering 1 for 1 trades to export customers, specifically Malaysia and then eventually us as well. I wonder why that didn't go through, that is, I wonder what scotched it, other than losing a crapload of $ on 1 for 1 trades for 70+ legacy Hornets... Because initially the idea was to only replace around half the fleet with Superduds, wasn't it?

Looks like one of the women I used to play ice hockey with. On the ice, she was all snarls and claws... Best damned defender I've 'acidentally' been drilled into the boards by.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23458556-2,00.html What a champ! I'd buy this guy a round or three...

You can change this at any time though, if you'd prefer some Mig on Mig action. That reminds me, I've got to add some enemy F-4s!

Sounds like the United Airlines flight I took from New York to Toronto in 2K6. The Captain's excuse was something like a sudden downdraft seconds before touchdown. Yeah... I believe it. Pigsy, is that a confirmed skin for the Superdud? I remember seeing something similar (almost identical) on the cover of the Oz Aviation mag a couple months back...