MigBuster

Happy Easter one and all!

A true hero Ed "Too Tall" Freeman - Glad him and snake got the MOH eventually http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Freeman Both are immortalised in the film "We Were Soldiers"

Nice one dude - prepare for the interview though - you dont wanna stuff that up!

Iraq aims to buy 18 F-16 fighters in '09 By Jim Wolf WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iraq wants to buy an initial squadron of Lockheed Martin Corp F-16 fighter aircraft this year to help guard against perceived threats from Iran and Syria after U.S. forces leave, the head of the Iraqi Air Force told Reuters on Tuesday. Lt. Gen. Anwar Ahmed said he hoped to sign a contract for 18 advanced F-16s as the centerpiece of billions of dollars Iraq is expected to spend on arms in coming years. "This is very important to us," he said in a telephone interview while visiting Washington. "It is a priority." Provided funds are made available by Iraq's Parliament, he said his goal was to acquire up to 96 F-16s through 2020. He cited the F-16C/D Block 50/52 models now being produced for Poland, Israel, Greece and Pakistan. "We need this aircraft for defense of our country," Ahmed said. He mentioned Iran as a potential threat along with Syria, which he said has been a gateway for "terrorists" aiming to destabilize the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. If the funds are freed and a deal is wrapped up this year, the first two Iraqi-piloted F-16s would be patrolling Iraqi skies by 2012, he said. By that time, all U.S. armed forces are due to have left Iraq under a bilateral pact negotiated last year. The Iraqi Air Force chief said the initial F-16 squadron would cost roughly $1.5 billion, including logistics, spares and pilot-training plus a trainer fleet of 15 T-6A Texan aircraft built by Hawker Beechcraft Corp. FOLLOW-UP TALKS Ahmed, 54, said he had met a U.S. Air Force team in Baghdad on March 18 to discuss F-16 purchases and held follow-up talks with Pentagon officials on Tuesday. So far, he said, U.S. officials supported Iraq's push to acquire the F-16, one of the world's most advanced multirole fighters and a powerful symbol of ties to the U.S. military. A spokesman for the U.S.-led Multinational Security Transition Command-Iraq, which advises the Iraqi Defense Ministry, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The potential sale was a government-to-government matter, said Joe Stout, a spokesman for Lockheed Martin, which has delivered more than 4,400 F-16s worldwide. U.S. reviews of possible arms sales can take a year or more. They involve the departments of State and Defense as well as Congress and weigh power balances, technology security and other thorny issues. Iraq's push to buy the fighter jet could spark concern about advanced arms in the hands of a country still facing major internal challenges. Ahmed, who took over as Air Force commander on January 1, said Maliki and Iraq's defense minister, Gen. Abdel Qader Jassim, were solidly behind the acquisition of the F-16. "In the future you leave our country," he said in imperfect English. "You must have some aircraft like the F-16 in the country." Ahmed was to attend the third Iraq Aviation and Defense Summit, an industry conference taking place outside Washington on Wednesday and Thursday to highlight Iraq's procurement plans. Asked whether the Iraqi Air Force would be ready to defend the country by 2012, he said it would take more time. Among other things, Iraq would have to first acquire an air defense system, more fighter jets and complete the buildup of its ground forces, he said. "I can't give you a specific timeline" for when Iraqi forces would be capable of defending the country on their own, Ahmed said. About 20 Iraqi Air Force cadets were being trained in the United States, including pilots, control tower technicians and logistics experts, with plans to boost this number over coming years. So far, the U.S. Congress has been notified of potential arms sales to Iraq totaling nearly $9 billion, including the M1A1 tank by General Dynamics Corp, light armored vehicles from various contractors, armed reconnaissance helicopters from either Boeing Co or Textron Inc, and Lockheed's C-130J cargo aircraft. The majority of the deals have been developed over the last two years, said Charles Taylor, a spokesman for the Pentagon's Defense Security Cooperation Agency, which administers U.S. government-to-government arms sales. (Reporting by Jim Wolf; editing by Tim Dobbyn) From http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/i...lBrandChannel=0

I think some are beta - others may not be to a high level of detail - but i couldn't tell without comparing them to actual photos - unless he does an F-16 of course. Have you got any screen shots of the problems?

Make sure you put the effects that came with the 22 (if any ) into the effects folder - if not Look in the engines section of the F-22_data.ini and change the afterburner emitter names for both to the generic one.

Again the EF like the F-22 came out of a time when they were required to combat the USSR Jets - okay so perhaps they are not as needed - its easy to see what happens with hindsite - maybe we should have just stuck to the F-3s at least it would be a fairer fight if we had defend territory against a country with Flankers etc. The EF can still be a pretty good CAS platform - will get to the scene a lot quicker than an A-10 and with PGMs its still gonna be accurate enough to help ground forces. As for the F-22 - if you were an air force would you even bother starting anything against that?? and its been said already would the US be okay to fall behind if another country developed 5th Gen fighters first and took the lead - because they are being developed by others regardless.

Yeah even in YAP1 the flak was lethal and a bit of a shock - you cant ignore that!

The SE is not that cheap either - I dont think its a viable option myself. 2030 - id hope its a lot longer than that - the F-15/16s could be about till 2025 apparently

Um - Have you not seen the F-15 Silent Eagle? http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?showtopic=38352

From http://www.f-16.net/news_article3358.html April 6, 2009 (by Asif Shamim) - F-16s from 176 FS scrambled by the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) intercepted and chased a stolen Cessna 172 over three US states before the pilot landed on a highway in Missouri and ran away. The pilot, Adam Leon, 31, stole a Cessna from a Canadian flight school in Thunder Bay, Ontario around 1430h local time before crossing into American airspace, prompting a response from NORAD. F-16s from the Madison based 176th Fighter Squadron scrambled to intercept Leon at the Michigan-Wisconsin border but he refused to respond to their commands to land, and then the chase continued over Michigan, Wisconsin and Illinois before the Cessna finally touched down at Ellismore, Missouri. As the plane neared Dane County, the Wisconsin State Capitol Building in Madison was evacuated. Mr Leon's plane had enough fuel for an eight hour flight, according to Mike Kucharek, spokesman for the North American Aerospace Defense Command in Colorado. He was flying erratically, and although he acknowledged seeing the F-16s he refused to obey their non-verbal commands to follow them, said Mr Kucharek. After crossing into Missouri, the Cessna landed on a stretch of US Highway 60 near Ellsinore in Clark County around 2200h local time. Leon fled on foot, according to the Clark County Sheriff's Department, but was apprehended after about thirty minutes at a local grocery store. "We tailed it all the way," Maj. Brian Markin said. "Once it landed our aircraft returned to base."

A tragic outcome!

Totally disagree - both were conceived to fight in a cold war scenario but the R&D and dev work was carried out from the 80s and you probably dont know this but the YF-22/23 were actually flying in 1990 - and even though the USSR fell apart then it would have been pretty naive and pathetic to think about cancelling such projects in an uncertain world - particularly when the US could easily afford to do it and needed to replace the ageing legacy fleet - also the Soviets had already developed the SU-27 / Mig-29 /MiG-31 which put them on par or better with current western fighters. The F-22 is in service now and no one can match it so therefore its a pretty flippin good deterent - after all who said it should be a fair fight??. Good modern Russian SAM systems are relatively cheap but very effective against 4 - 4.5 gen fighters - so as a tin pot dictator i might be able to deter any one from my military by buying loads and doing exactly what the hell I like - so if they invade a friendly country do you just threaten to nuke them or ignore it completely - whats the solution there? I know it wont solve world poverty - but im afraid the money and power in this world is in the hands of politicians so nothing ever will!!

cheeky get - Cant have been fun flying at near stalling speed!

If it shows in game then check out the attachment types and the allowed weapon types maybe - and see if the pylon your adding it too has the correct weight limits etc. you could always try and force it using this: [RightInnerStation] SystemType=WEAPON_STATION StationID=6 StationGroupID=3 StationType=EXTERNAL AttachmentPosition= 4.498,-2.65,-0.0 AttachmentAngles=0.0,0.0,0.0 EjectVelocity=0.0,0.0,-1.0 LoadLimit=1500 AllowedWeaponClass=AHM,IRM,SAHM AttachmentType=WP,SOVIET ModelNodeName=RightinnerStation PylonMass=86.18 PylonDragArea=0.02 SpecificStationCode=AA10 <------------------------------- you need to add that code into the AIM-54 weapon also - (sorry when i say that code i mean AIM54)

Some 3rd party models need to be flown in "Normal" aka the YAP choppers to the get the realistic handling but ive read TK say for his 3rd wire models then hard is the "setting" of course its easy to switch depending on what you fly.

thats a shame I reakon the Polish paint scheme is one of the best ive seen for 16s

Nice work on this mod - much appreciated

ahh see youve got 2 threads going - may want to merge this mods

Hmm sounds like you were hit by something - not sure of the damage behaviour in easy mode though because ive never used it.

WOV only allows planes up to about the year 1973 by default - but this can be changed. Of course you would probably need to add in some other modern planes and weapons if you did that to act as adversaries in later years.

wow - dont you just hate it when you eject and the plane misses the water and starts climbing!

Not seen this before - i dont mean the dodgy film - the uploader has put little pop up boxes telling you exactly where the obvious mistakes are hahaha

Off to get my A kicked again it seems! Iraq enters the war!