MigBuster

Yes if the PSUs on the way out it will be struggling to put enough power through

posted on F-16 net Air Forces Monthly April 2010 Page 40, "Justifiably Proud!" The magazine interview Lt. Col. Fabrice Grandclaudon, the Commander of EC 1/7, the Rafale squadron that participated in the Advanced Tactical Leadership Course (ATLC) at the UAE's Air Warfare Centre where this encounter took place. AFM: You apparently said 'the Rafale rubbed F-22 - the most modern fighter of the USAF. During six encounters the F-22 hit its goal only once'. The 27th FS doesn't remember the engagements that way and say the F-22 scored several victories against Rafale. Did you offer DACT to the Raptors and did they decline? LCL G: I did not say we 'rubbed them', I said that there was only one shot claimed (ie a simulated kill) for the six that were set-up. I read in a recent issue of Air et Cosmos that it was two. As far as I am concerned, one or two shots of six Basic Fighter Manoeuvres (BFM) encounters is a victory for the F-22 but not an overwhelming one. Not like the one we claimed against the Typhoons after combat in Solenzara, Corsica during September (9 set-up: 8 to 1 for the Rafale*). The other set-ups versus F-22s were terminated for combat deck, an un-decisive situation or lack of fuel. We never shot them down, but we hope to do so soon since we are quite good opposition for them, and it is in the pilot's spirit not to give up! Like almost every nation, we offered Beyond Visual Range DACT, of course, but the F-22 was only authorized to do BFM 1v1 Within Visual Range (WVR) versus foreign countries (except the UK, with whom they did not fight even in the BFMs). I wish we could have done so, but we didn't - which bring me back to Air et Cosmos, where its information about BVR engagement with AMRAAM in stealth mode is wrong: besides the fact that we did not even fly BVR vs F-22s! F-22 was fitted with some specific device to increase their radar signature. It enabled us to have contact with them during work ups for example. But that's not the point here."

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Might get worse - for single mission aircraft: http://www.airforcemag.com/DRArchive/Pages/2013/June%202013/June%2018%202013/A-10,-B-1-Vertical-Cuts-On-the-Table.aspx The Air Force may have to eliminate an entire fleet of a particular kind of aircraft—possibly all A-10s or B-1Bs—................

Nothing in the SF2 F-8 section? http://combatace.com/files/category/621-f-8/

What are you trying to download? There should be newer SF2 versions on this site in most cases

Either monitor or graphics card related I would say Can you get updated drivers for the Monitor - if so do so

Thats awesome - all it needs to do now is drop white paint on cars as it flies over :)

Maybe best not to buy Watership down for Christmas btw Bunny will see you in Hell!! :)

That is brilliant - thanks for posting - like the way it gives an over view of the post war French involvement also

Might do with a bit of ini editing but not sure myself Not convinced an upgrade to TKs blanket could ever be better than this:

Wonder if I can order some of that classic American snow over the Internet? Also do the birds arrive on the branches to order - that's quite cooperative of them Praise be that the North Koreans have shipped in some coffee - they are truly great

The building placement - best ever also for the above terrain http://combatace.com/files/file/10958-beta-frtown-tiles-summer-season/ You could try this also http://combatace.com/files/file/11191-seasonal-town-water-tiles-spring-summer-fall/ Put the terrain in first - I guess I could package the lot up for FE2 format when I get some time

would recommend the Jan Tuma Terrain

Wicked - amazing photos - thanks for putting this up

Just another exercise vid - this doesn't really give any indication of platform capabilities (other than how much speed a Rafale can lose quickly)- need to know the ROE of the criteria of the exercise.

Amazing job on these thanks

Yuri Gagarin air crash details emerge New details have emerged about the air crash on 27 March 1968 that killed Yuri Gagarin - the first man in space. Fellow cosmonaut Alexey Leonov claims an "unauthorised" plane flew too close to Gagarin's fighter jet, sending it into a spin. Gagarin and his flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died when their MiG-15 went down near the town of Novoselovo, about 90km from Moscow. ............... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22940068

Is that the MarcFighter / BPAO Su-27? Are you intending to do the J-11 also?

There are already mostly ground war missions for Vietnam featuring ground troops etc for SF2V Gold - there is "Steel Tiger" campaign that has no red air at all that I have got so check that out - has mostly ground troops in it. For dropping cargo - YAP did that years back - supposed you have a crate as weapon and just press the fire button to drop it like a bomb maybe As for the aircraft most of them are in the SF2 WW2 section already - so check that out - maybe a few missing The French used Carriers as well so you can include those - check the ships section

File Name: Victor B1 & B2 File Submitter: MigBuster File Submitted: 15 June 2013 File Category: Other A changed Flight model for SF2 and upgraded files for the A Team Handley Page Victor B.1 and B.2 This does not include the model and skin - they are only available from the A-Team site Click here to download this file

okay that's revised cheers

Here's one for you guys............................(or not) The F-35 concept originally started out as a secret project started in the late 1960s at Mcdonnell Douglas. It was vastly rumoured that Robert Macnamara had approved the project along with the F-111 in the late 60s, and in his tenure at the World Bank it seems that he may have also had some financial influence in the defence industry still that allowed this secret project to unfold. Given a temporary designation of X-19 the project was set up as a counter to the Lightweight Fighter program. Several high ranking USAF officers in the Pentagon were most annoyed with some of the radical thinking being proposed in fighter design at the time and they wanted something could carry a lot of fuel and its weapons internally. The design was released in 1971 but there was concern from the designers that a powerplant could be found to overcome the drag and weight such a design would bring. A full scale prototype was ready in 1974, by then it would hope the design would cancel the need for the YF-16 and YF-17 that were also being readied. It was to use the same avionics and Engine as the YF-16, these being the best available at the time. Unfortunately the best available engine only produced around 14,000lbs of thrust in Mil and 23,000 lbs of thrust Max, and yet the empty weight of the X-19 was already over 29,000lbs. This meant the jet was woefully underpowered and in Mil power was vastly inferior to even the A-7D. It could carry nearly 3 times the fuel of the lightweight fighters, but its wide body gave it a much larger cross section and more drag. The angles on the body were supposed to provide RCS reduction, but manufacturing techniques and RAM coatings were no where near sufficient to achieve anything like this. Other problems began to crop up: It would need a cradle in the bomb bay to ready missiles like the AIM-9 to achieve lockon, but in doing so meant there was no space for anything else. This idea was eventually shelved so it was decided to carry A-A missiles externally. The AIM-7 was originally due to go in the bay but a design problem meant the bay was not big enough for this. Also electronics for the laser designator was not advanced enough to carried internally and thus would need to go in a pod. Many months of flight testing only produced a top speed of M1.4 leading to accusations that the fuselage was not area ruled properly. Since the project was declassified in 2011 one of the former test pilots made several comments including - "I couldn't see anything behind me and the visibility was terrible", "I didn't think the thing would get off the ground - I nearly ran out of runway!" and "The thing was slower than a turd stuck to a tortoise, and in an environment where you merged 99% of the time it was truly a clay pigeon against everything we flew against including the A-7D". Needless to say the whole thing was quickly swept under the carpet and not revived until the 1990s.............

Dont think this was actually banned

um - Its the What If Forum If proof were needed this stuff was convincing!