MigBuster

hmm wonder what that was A-6/7? end of cold war budget perhaps? Its still a better policy than the UK - here we upgrade them then scrap them before even flying them. (See Nimrod MR4)

I think the F-15E will be a round a while for the USAF - and plenty of F-15s still in service around the world. The A-10 debate rages on - thing is they have only just been upgraded!

A Syrian Mi-17 helicopter was detected 2km (1.2 miles) inside Turkish airspace at 14.20hrs today, said the deputy prime minister. Turkish F-16s shot the helicopter down after it allegedly continued to violate Turkish airspace despite repeated warnings by air defense command, he said. There is no definitive news on the fate of the aircrew of the helicopter. However some reports have indicated one of the crew was captured by Syrian rebels. The deputy prime minister said the initiative taken by the Turkish Armed Forces (TSK) to shoot down the Syrian helicopter was based on the rules of engagement with Syria. Turkish General Staff released a statement and published the radar track history regarding the incident. 1. The Syrian Mi-17 Hip was first detected as possible intruder and immediately tracked by the Combined Air Operations Center (CAOC/BİKİM) in Diyarbakır at 13:41h LT, while it was 26 NM (nautical miles) from the border. 2. CAOC repeatedly issued warnings to the helicopters until it was 5 NM from the border 3. The helicopter intruded Turkish airspace at 14:25h near Guvecci Gendarmerie Post at Yayladag, Hatay province at 14,200 ft and 2km depth. 4. Two F-16Cs that were on CAP (Combat Air Patrol) nearby were diverted to intercept the helicopter 5. The helicopter was shot down at 14:27h and crashed at 1km within the Syrian side of the border. Mr Arinc said Turkey will provide the UN Security Council and NATO with a full report. Syria's northwestern border with Turkey is one of the few areas on the frontier still in the hands of President Bashar al-Assad, according to AFP agency. Last week, Turkey beefed up a military presence along its southern border with Syria in anticipation of U.S.-led strikes on the regime in Damascus. They deployed, among others, at least 25 additional F-16 fighter jets at its Diyarbakir air base. In June 2012, a Turkish RF-4E Phantom reconnaissance jet was downed by a Syrian Air Defense Unit. On Sept. 2, Assad launched two Syrian Air Force Su-24 attack planes towards Cyprus to probe British airbase’s air defenses; the aircraft turned back to Syria, after RAF Typhoons and TUAF F-16s were scrambled to intercept them. http://www.f-16.net/news_article4783.html

I used to have a HD5770 - mid end card - but could never max it out on a PC either. SF2NA obviously has major terrain differences - but the other SF2 games just got higher res terrains - so its not always easy to see why the game cant run too well on modern hardware. Higher poly aircraft objects, higher res skins, and parked aircraft no doubt make a difference

Hope it was worth it - suspect you will still be surrounded by 8 MiGs at close range.................

Just a few pit shots from the Beczl MiG-21bis for DCS

Northrop Grumman has begun company-funded development of a Directed Infrared Countermeasures (Dircm) system for fast jets, anticipating a requirement to protect the Lockheed Martin F-35 Joint Strike Fighter from heat-seeking air-to-air and surface-to-air missiles. “We believe the requirement is there, and coming quickly, and that the first opportunity will be on the F-35,” says Jeff Palombo, senior vice president and general manager of Northrop’s land and self-protection systems division. Northrop plans to begin testing a prototype of the Threat Nullification Defensive Resource (ThNDR) system in its system-integration laboratory by year’s end, he revealed at a briefing in Washington Sept. 12. The timing for development of a laser missile jammer to equip the F-35 “is still in question,” Palombo says, “but we want to get out in front of the requirement.” Northrop has supplied more than 3.000 Dircms to protect large aircraft and helicopters against heat-seeking missiles by directing a modulated laser beam into the seeker head to confuse its guidance. A Dircm is not part of the requirements for the initial, Block 3-standard F-35 now in development. But draft requirements already exist and Northrop says a laser jammer is now expected to be part of the scheduled Block 5 update. The system must meet low-observability (LO) requirements and be packaged to fit in a restricted space available inside the F-35. But it will have a smaller, more-powerful laser than current Dircm systems and require liquid cooling, Palombo says. The ThNDR, which includes the laser, beam steering and LO window, is packaged to fit inside volume available alongside sensors for the F-35’s distributed aperture system (DAS). There would be two jam heads, one on top and one underneath the aircraft to provide spherical coverage with minimal change to the outer mold line. The DAS, which has six infrared sensors located to provide a 360-deg. view around the aircraft, would provide missile warning, detecting and declaring incoming threats and cueing the pointer/tracker, or jam head Beyond the stealthy F-35 and Lockheed Martin F-22, Northrop sees requirements for a podded version to protect aircraft such as the Boeing F-15 and Lockheed F-16. “It can be put in a self-contained pod, and it can be air-cooled,” Palombo says. Tests in the system-integration lab will look at challenges such as the high-speed hand-off of targets between the upper and lower jam heads as the F-35 rolls at rates of up to 170-deg./sec., he says. The competitive technology-development phase for Circm is scheduled to end early in 2014. A request for information for the engineering and manufacturing development phase has been issued, and a request for proposals is anticipated early in 2014, Palombo says. http://www.aviationweek.com/Article.aspx?id=/article-xml/awx_09_12_2013_p0-615904.xml&p=2

Started playing this when I wasn't in a state to use a PC - I quickly got bored of flying for Israel, was far too easy - so contract fly for the Arabs now. You do certainly get a semi historical education on all the different MiG-versions and the weapons they use.

What system and what SF games are you running today out of interest?

And don't come back Janeway! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24026153 The Voyager-1 spacecraft has become the first manmade object to leave the Solar System. Scientists say the probe's instruments indicate it has moved beyond the bubble of hot gas from our Sun and is now moving in the space between the stars. Launched in 1977, Voyager was sent initially to study the outer planets, but then just kept on going. Today, the veteran Nasa mission is almost 19 billion km (12 billion miles) from home. This distance is so vast that it takes 17 hours now for a radio signal sent from Voyager to reach receivers here on Earth.

Now's you chancre to get rid of that old iPad The company is offering at least a $200 token to go towards products such as the Surface RT and the Surface Pro. Microsoft is far behind Apple in terms of global tablet sales and market share. One US-based analyst expressed doubts that many people would swap their iPad for a Microsoft product. Microsoft has launched a US marketing offer for people to exchange "gently used" iPads for Microsoft products such as Surface tablets. "Do I think that many people will take [Microsoft] up on this offer? In a word, no," said Gartner mobile device analyst Van Baker. "The app ecosystem is the problem for Microsoft and this offer doesn't fix that problem." There was a far greater range of mobile apps available for iPads than for Windows devices, giving Apple a competitive edge, said Mr Baker. Microsoft has been engaged in an aggressive US marketing campaign to try to tempt Apple iPad users to buy Windows-based tablets. In May, Microsoft launched an iPad v Windows comparison website, coupled with head-to-head advertising campaigns. Microsoft has experienced problems trying to sell Surface devices. In the first quarter of this year, Apple shipped 19.5 million iPads, compared with 900,000 Microsoft tablets. In the second quarter, Microsoft shipped only 300,000 Surface devices, technology publication CiteWorld said. Although Microsoft announced a revenue of $853 million on Surface sales in itslatest financial regulatory filing, the company took a $900 million loss after failing to shift Surface RT devices. Microsoft's $200 (£150) gift certificate offer is valid in its bricks and mortar stores. A Surface RT tablet costs $349, and a Surface Pro retails at $799 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24079527

What a mess........... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24104304 Salvage experts in Italy are making final preparations to raise the wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship. The vessel has been lying on its side since hitting rocks off the island of Giglio in January last year, killing 32 people.

Quite a few of them taking off here

Yes your problem was mod related I suspect

or mini PC.......... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDAw7vW7H0c&feature=player_embedded#t=0

You have to assume variables in the flight model are incorrect for drag, and lift etc - not as simple as changing the power figure for the engine though.

Driver issue or resource issue could be Maybe post dxdiag.exe output

Anyone tried this: http://bitsum.com/about_cpu_core_parking.php Have seen improvements regarding stuttering on a DCS and BMS (only basic testing on SF2NA so far) Basically stops cores on your CPU being put into park mode and makes them available all the time. So if you have a multicore CPU like mine (mine has 4 cores and 8 virtual cores) then it may help Benefits depend on your system and configuration. Use at own risk. Yes you may be able to get better results by setting up your graphics drivers properly etc

In this case the difference is probably down to older applications such as Falcon 4 being designed for single core CPUs - whereas SF2 has had a lot of programming changes made specifically for multicore CPUs. The idea is if none of your cores are parked then they are all available instantaneously. I would have to check but in the single Core CPU days I would be surprised if parking was ever used except in prolonged idle states.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=DBI7uiDQA6Y

No improvements with SF2 for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tylMZPZeozQ&feature=youtu.be Noticed a Sea Vixen poster on the wall - wonder when that ones coming out

If you cut out and paste the mod folders to a different location does the game run okay in default?

Wow impressive!!

Ha ha brilliant - now that's a killing machine