MigBuster

Not as bad as it sounds when you try it out Use TWS mode to lock up and launch multiple AIM-54s

Have added many nodes for the ground forces?

You should have a local copy of this as well http://www.thirdwire.com/man/sf2/Strike_Fighters_2.htm

Wow Spectacular sights! - you didn't see any J-31s then? Do you speak any Chinese or is it all sign language?

MiG-25 is WIP There should be some in ODS or Nato Fighters for SF2

The cost thing is a bit muddy because most costs you see don't say what's included - $230 - 250 million you say (what do you get for that? - A free F-35 T shirt?) The US might be getting them cheaper: Latest F-35 Deal Targets Unit Cost Below $100 Million http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_07_30_2013_p0-602401.xml&p=1 Problem is production run F-22 = 187 F-35 = ~2500 (projected) Even though the F-35 has a superior avionics capability (and probably range in internal Fuel) - I would be surprised if the unit cost didn't fall significantly for all buyers with those numbers.

Nice first post - welcome The one thing I would disagree there is that the switchology also becomes a big part of fighting - especially in say the P-51 where it not only has a throttle, but prop speed, and if you want to change something you have to look down into the cockpit to find it and click on it (as you would in reality ) in the middle of the fight. Even with a HOTAS in an F-16 there is a lot to think about in the fight - so although its a major PITA learning what everything does I find that gives you more realism for having to do functions the real pilot would - and once you get to know things they often give you more flexibility. Sims like SF2 are great because they get you into the fight with minimal training - you still need to invest time practicing dive bombing and dog-fighting - but doing this is a lot more fun than reading up about the EGI etc FC3 with its 6DOF pits, 3D models and AFMs looks to be a perfect compromise and a Jet handling the way it should is a great thing - but with that quality comes massive amounts of time to create them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hs_9s31Je7Y One of the benefits of Mark Anderson’s home security camera feed was that he could check to see if a package he had been waiting for was delivered while he was at work. It was delivered all right, but just how it was dropped off had the LaGrange, Ga., man flabbergasted. Anderson told TheBlaze Friday he installed the security cameras more to keep an eye on his disabled mother while the family was away during the day, rather than actual security issues (he has four Great Danes that he said good security assurance for that). Once back at his desk at work this week after a meeting, wanting to see if he received the package, he took at look at his private YouTube feed with his front door camera footage.... http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/10/04/its-almost-unbelievable-what-one-homeowners-security-camera-caught-a-u-s-postal-worker-doing/

The Ministry of Defence is to examine a US review into a Taliban attack on Camp Bastion in Afghanistan which criticises the British military for the way it handled security at the base. Two US marines were killed and over $200m (£124m) worth of aircraft destroyed in the September 2012 attack. This week, two US generals were forced to retire after an investigation. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-24415371

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=50156409n Most Americans know what happened during America's first battle against al Qaeda 20 years ago thanks to the Oscar-winning film, "Black Hawk Down." Now for the first time, they can see how the actual battle unfolded in never-before-seen footage obtained by 60 Minutes and from eyewitnesses. Lara Logan reports on Sunday, Oct. 6 at 7:30 p.m. ET/PT.

In SF2NA the carrier genrally goes down after a certain amount of cruise missile hits

Vo Nguyen Giap, the Vietnamese general who masterminded victories against France and the US, has died aged 102. His defeat of French forces at Dien Bien Phu in 1954 effectively ended French colonial rule in the region. He went on to oversee the Tet Offensive against American forces in 1968, often cited as one of the factors that led to the Americans' withdrawal. Gen Giap also published a number of works on military strategy. He was born into a peasant family in the central Quang Binh province of what was then French Indochina. At the age of 14, he joined a clandestine resistance movement. By 1938 he was a member of Ho Chi Minh's Indochinese Communist party and fled to China with Ho, ahead of the Japanese invasion of Vietnam. Gen Giap organised an army from his Chinese exile and returned to Indochina to wage guerrilla war against the occupying Japanese. While he was out of Vietnam, his first wife was arrested and died in a French prison. He later remarried and had three daughters and two sons. After his role in the war against the French, Gen Giap is also remembered for the 1968 Tet Offensive against US forces, when his troops attacked more than 40 provincial capitals and entered Saigon, then the capital of South Vietnam, briefly capturing the US embassy. After the war, Gen Giap retained his position as defence minister and was appointed deputy prime minister in 1976. However, he found himself sidelined by the regime and retired from government six years later. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24402278

Developed in the late 1960s to protect US Navy Carrier Battle Groups (CVBG) from the raids conducted by the Soviet bombers armed with long-range cruise missiles, the F-14 was the best fleet defender thanks to its weapons system, the AWG-9 radar. This radar featured a large antenna, giving to the radar the possibility to scan huge part of airspace and the ability to track up twenty four targets. Furthermore, the AWG-9 could support six AIM-54 missiles attacking six different targets simultaneously at unmatched distance of one-hundred mile range and each Phoenix included a small onboard radar to guide itself during the last part of the run against the target. No contemporary aircraft, friend or foe, can match Tomcat since all these features gave to the F-14 unprecedented and unparalleled mission capabilities. But to have an edge above its adversaries by using this complex weapon system, the pilot was not sufficient on board the F-14: in fact it requires another skilled crew member in the back seat, called Radar Intercept Officer (RIO). The RIO had the responsibility to chose among four search radar modes, he selected the scan pattern of the radar from a dozen choices and assured the radar antenna search the correct portion of the sky. Once the targets are detected, the RIO advised the pilot where to fly to optimize radar performance and set up for the attack. He could also launch long range missiles pushing the red button in the rear cockpit. In other words a trained RIO would have been essential against a Soviet bomber raid. But the F-14 RIO was also responsible for communication and navigation and he assisted the pilot for the checklists. But also during a dogfight the RIO can make the difference giving its contribution reporting airspeed or fuel state and reporting to the pilot even more important information like the position of the bogey during the air to air combat. “Even though you’re doing the flying, I’m right here with you in the fight”, with these words a real Tomcat RIO, Dave “Bio” Baranek, in his book Topgun Days: Dogfighting, Cheating Death and Hollywood Glory as One of America’s Best Fighter Jocks, describes the crew coordination, the term which became an essential skill for every Tomcat crew. According to Topgun Days, a large fighter like the F-14, thanks to its design could win an engagement also against a smaller and more maneuverable fighter: a result that can be achieved only with an aggressive and trained crew. To help the reader to understand the challenge of flying the F-14 Tomcat, Bio provides inside his book not only the full story of his career as Naval Flight Officer (NFO), but also some short intelligence briefings where you can even find several details about the history of the legendary Fighter Weapons School, the official name for the unit known as Topgun. But the book is not only a detailed source of F-14 technical information since, as the title implies, Topgun Days also covers some never revealed before features about the realization of the most famous aviation movie, Top Gun. So we discover that the first intercept of the MiG-28 (the movie fictional name of the F-5) was filmed over the Pacific from a Learjet 25 belonged to the air-racing legend Clay Lacy on board of which there was film’s director, Tony Scott. After two head-on passes between the F-14s and MiG-28s, during which the two formations had been much closer than the normal 500-foot of separation generally required for safety purposes during training flights, the adrenaline that filled pilots was enough to make unforgettable that kind of experience. But Tony Scott commented on the radio “Can we do it one more time, only a bit closer?” Film’s director request was due to the fact that during the crucial passes between the black-painted bandits and the American Tomcats there was too much space between the aircraft and the two sections could not be fitted in the same frame. For pilots this meant that they had to fly an even closer pass. So, after the Tomcats made their turn, the lead Tomcat’s RIO called the distance every two miles, every twelve seconds and after this third thrilling faceoff at 700 MPH, Tony Scott eventually came up on the radio saying “That’s great gents! Super!” Baranek’s book also includes more secrets about the making of the movie, because “Bio” took part to Top Gun flying in the rear cockpit of the only F-5 in a two seat configuration among those used in the movie and this is perhaps the best feature of Topgun Days: the perspective whose flew with the best trained American fighter pilots. http://theaviationist.com/2013/10/02/top-gun-days/

The new Terrain looks amazing so wont be disappointed there. I expect the FMs and pits to be the same level as the P-51 and they say they are doing the ground objects for that era then it should all go well. The low level ground detail is something else for a flight sim

Numbers can make a difference agree there. The MiG-21 is a viable threat against a radar significant target only in the situation you have described - otherwise not sure what you think they are being directed onto. Actually I would say the F-35 and F-16 are far more survivable against AAA than the A-10 on account of speed. The A-10 flying low and slow will get hit and can soak up some small arms fire - but its no match against a 23mm Shilka. The A-10 is the best for CAS in insurgency type wars - but in that regards its almost become a modern day Stuka

You have to judge for your self - the first gen stuff is long gone from my HD There is a list of changes here is you are interested http://combatace.com/topic/56091-whats-new-in-the-sf2-series/ SF2NA is the biggest change regarding actual game play. It runs better on multicore hardware I would say and there are some good mods for it on here. Did you not even have a copy of the receipt so you can redownload from TW?

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/508681281/dcs-wwii-europe-1944/posts/618787 Our First Backers-Only Development Update: WIP Bf.109 Cockpit Good morning backers! Let's try this out. With 24 hours to go on this kickstarter, we have a combined total of $139,871 + $3,317.82 = $143,188.82 That's less than 7K to go in the last 24 hours. I think we can do it! One very important point. First off, PayPal witholds about 5% of the total. Secondly, the amount shown is pledges, not charges. Backers' credit cards do not get charged until after the campaign ends, and there are always some backers whose pledges do not go through for one reason or another. That can be a few more % shaved off the total. We are taking the KS fee into account. That won't derail anything. However, we are not taking the uncharged credit cards into consideration because they're impossible to estimate. One or two $500+ level backers whose charges do not go would have some impact on the project, but again, we will recover and we will find a way to do the Me.262 even if say 5% of the backers' cards do not go through. Why am I saying all that? Another thing that a lot of kickstarter campaigns go through in their last hours is many backers decreasing or canceling their pledges because they see that the total's been reached. Say we're at $151,250 two hours before the campaign ends, and a couple of $100 backers figure, oh, we're there anyway, I might as well go down to $40. That might have a avalanche effect - people follow the leader - and end up pulling us down below 150K. And, in conjunction with some of the credit cards that do not go through, that will have even more of an impact on the total the team eventually receives. So, if your only reason for doing so would be "we've reached the goal anyway, my pledge is not needed" - please don't decrease or cancel it. It IS needed. And very much appreciated. Thank you everyone who put your faith in this project. Today we'll show you some WIP images of the Bf.109 cockpit. We'll do regular updates after the campaign ends. We'll probably find some sort of a regular schedule by type of update. Say, landscape updates on Tuesdays, 3D updates on Fridays, something like that. I have a HUGE task on my hands with setting up the infrastructure for the closed forum with invitations to KS and PP backers, the form that allows you to select your matrix-style rewards, etc. It will take a little while to get ready, so I'll provide updates on that as well. Anyone who has selected a DCS World P-51 reward should be receiving their license keys via email next week. If you suddenly decide you do not want it, please change your reward selection before this campaign ends! Anyway, until we have a closed forum, the only option for posting backer-only images is right here on kickstarter. Where images get shrunk down to 560 pixels. My only option right now for posting full-size versions is somewhere open to the public, so that kind of defeats the purpose. So I'll post the screenshots as is, shrunk down, and then take a few close-up crops of the same shots showing more detail in better resolution. Hope you guys like it! The pit is about 50% complete at this point. About six weeks left.

The IAI Kfir, (“Lion Cub” in Hebrew) has just received an upgrade program to extend its life for another 40 years (possibly). During the late 1960′s the Israel Aircraft Industries were forced to look inwardly after France had imposed an arms embargo on Isreal (which lasted 42 years) after Israel had paid for development work by Dassault on the Mirage V, a fair weather ground attack aircraft to replace the Israeli Mirage III’s in that role. In short, avionics were removed from behind the cockpit to increase the fuel capacity and to lower maintenance costs and, in response to the arms embargo, Israel produced an unlicensed copy of the Mirage V and called it the Nesher, after it is thought that the blueprints for the engine and air frame had been acquired from third party Mirage producers. After the Six Day war, supplies of Mirage III were pretty low so producing a domestic version made sense and got around the embargo completely. The Kfir program began whens the need to enhance the Nesher became apparent due to the improving Soviet era jets that Israel’s neighbours were acquiring at the time. The first thing the Kfir designers were to look at was an engine; two engines were looked at: the Rolls Royce Spey Turbofan (which had been used in the Blackburn Buccaneer, F-4K Phantom in UK use and by the AMX project in Italy) and the General Electric J79 Turbojet, the same as in the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom of which the Israeli Air Force (IAF) were just starting to take delivery of, which was selected and produced locally. Due to the need for increased cooling of the J79, the Israeli engineers shortened the Mirage III rear fuselage and widened it to accommodate wider air intakes and an additional air intake was also introduced to the bottom of the vertical stabilizer. A modified two seat Mirage IIIc took to the skies in 1970 powered by the new J79 engine shortly followed thereafter by a J79 powered Nesher during September 1971. But it was June 1973 when a highly modified Nesher powered by the J79 took to the skies for the first time, along with the Israeli avionics on board and re-arranged fuel tanks to improve range. The finished article entered IAF service during 1975 and saw its first combat during an air strike into Lebanon during 1977 and even got its first kill, a Syrian Mig-21, in 1979 the same day as the F-15 took its first air to air kill. By 1982 the Kfir was used mostly in the ground attack role, leaving the F-15′s & F-16′s to take on the air superiority role. The Kfir was retired from IAF service in 1996 but is still used by several export customers. Due to the J79 being a U.S design it meant that Israel had to gain permission from the U.S State Department to export the Kfir which did limit the export potential but was bought by Colombia, Ecuador and Sri Lanka and have been used extensively by those nations. Twenty five examples were also used by the U.S Navy as aggressor aircraft operating out of NAS Fallon and were given the name of F-21A. Israel has recently announced a new upgrade program to extend the life of the existing export examples named “Block 60.” The upgrade basically strips the aircraft back to its fuselage and then performs a nuts and bolts rebuilt, upgrading avionics and other systems including a new data-link system, something the Kfir never had being a third generation aircraft. IAI state that the improvements bring the Kfir up to a fourth generation aircraft and something that is suitable for the 21st Century. All of Colombia’s Kfir jets have gone through this program as well as the further twelve examples that were acquired; IAI is hoping that it can sell the Block 60 upgrade to the other two operators. http://theaviationist.com/2013/09/30/kfir-upgrade/

TrackIR should work as default - you may have to mod if you want a bit more head movement but should be fine

Id agree the video lacks credibility because I have a copy of that RAND report - and despite having RANDs name on it appears to show amateurish comparisons and a total lack of understanding - even goes as far as showing the F-105 as having better wing loading.(hmmmkay) btw if that EODAS thing works you wont want to be dogfighting against the F-35 in anything - and its touted as having FA-18 handling anyway so I'm really not seeing why people think its going to be bad close in.

Never played this........Im sure so many people cant be wrong http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpk2el7e2EE&feature=player_embedded#t=152

The B-1R stars in Dogfights of the Future (History Channel ) in a hypothetical scenario launching loads of AIM-120s as you say Never mind the B-1 can still be used to carry the rather large missile with 100s miles range.

Having watched the video - well I might have just put my foot down if I was in that Range Rover also Surrounded by how many bikers - then one of them intentionally slows down so you have to stop or hit them - The guy had his family in that car didn't he - yet that article runs a sob story for the biker. Don't know what was said but it spiraled out of control - and luckily one of the morons had a go pro on his purple helmet.

The film adaptations were very good I thought - RIP to the guy - big loss for military fiction writing

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