MigBuster

Yeah I would think Holland are the favourites for that one - they have been the best team by a mile so far. I want to see Spain do well this year personally!

:rofl: That show must have been some comedy - whens it on again btw?

Well nothing lasts forever - and most things are got round eventually - however you can guess at what the future might hold like everyone else - maybe they will, maybe they won't etc What we know is that currently there is a large force of F-22s manned by some very highly trained personnel that cant really be touched in A-A combat (if Red Flag is anything to go by).

Well you never know when the next war will be - doesnt it normally happen when you think there isnt one round the corner? For the record we are currently at war in two conflicts (Iraq and Afganistan) with air support being used every day. The F-35s are needed to plug a massive gap left by the Sea Harriers that are now retired (and no the GR7/9s cannot replace the SHARs A-A capability)

In the Weapons Editor you can select your Jamming pod to do one or either - although I suspect pods in the real world may be able to do both. Whether it works in game (like the HOJ option) Im not sure. There was a bloke who claimed to work in this area came on here a while back with some interesting things. "Most sims have a fairly decent representation of deception jamming. Noise jamming I don't think I've seen in any sim except Jane's F/A-18. Incidentally, it also has towed decoys, so if I had to choose a sim with the best EW modelling it would have to be that one. If Falcon 4 has noise jamming modelled I haven't noticed. Only played LOMAC a little bit so I really can't say there. The most modern ones are pretty simple operating wise. Turn them on when you get over Indian Country and leave them on until you fly out. They stay silent until a valid lock from a threat emitter is detected, at which point it can safely be assumed whatever cover you had is blown, and throw out some deception jamming. Done properly, deception jamming shouldn't offer a target for HOJ missiles* as the jammer is simply mimicking the threat radar's signal (hence the 'deception' part). The idea is for the jammer to 'seduce' the radar's track gate, then walk it away from the jet. Which is why you sometimes hear deception jammers referred to as 'gate stealers'. If your advantage in jamming is large enough, the missile will miss completely without any further action required. If the threat radar is particularly capable (or your jammer a POS relative to it), then you'll have to hope for a increase in miss distance while you do the missile avoidance drill. More advanced jamming systems are alleged to have an active cancellation capability, wherein they take a threat signal and broadcast an exact copy 180 degrees out of phase, cancelling it out. Of course, due to limitations just how large a transmitter a fighter could haul, it wouldn't cover every radar out there (unless we've done some real miracles in EW technology), but it could conceivably cover enough to provide a VLO-esqe penetration capability to conventional aircraft. Noise jammers are a whole different ballgame though the objective is the same. Noise jamming could be compared to blasting someone with a fire hose so they don't realize it's raining on their head. The further away the hose is, the weaker the spray and the more likely they are to notice raindrops. If the raindrops increase in size (RCS) the hose's spray needs to be stronger to cover them up. Of course that isn't a perfect analogy, because it's generally lopsided in the OTHER direction, with the hose being relatively weak while the rain is strong, but hopefully I got the point across. There are a few counters to it, frequency diversity/agility/hopping, alternate tracking methods such as IR or EO, home-on-jam missiles, but for the most part it's something you learn to work around. Frequency shifting techniques are good because it forces the jammer to either play catch-up to your freq changes or waste a lot of power covering your full operating spectrum. Dual- and multi-band radars really shine in this sort of arena, because the have a huge range of freqs compared to legacy radars. * Regarding HOJ against aircraft: You really shouldn't be happy if a missile goes HOJ, especially at long range. In real life, HOJ removes target range from the missile, creating a situation where the missile has to fly lead pursuit throughout it's flight. At longer ranges, that means that even slight variations in the target's heading equate to large variations in the predicted intercept point. And since the missile doesn't know how far away the target is, it reacts to those variations as quickly as possible, G-ing away it's energy in an effort to maintain lead pursuit on the target. In contrast, with range data available (ie not HOJ), the missile is able to fly a much smoother, more energy efficient proportional navigation course to intercept, only switching to high-G manuevering when the intercept point is suitably close. More energy in the terminal phase of flight, a better chance of getting that aircraft inside Region R and filling the sky with hair, teeth and eyeballs."

You can fly any plane just by renaming a file - pretty pointless though - in AF you can only use the F-16 pit anyway.

turning on NWS by default is SHIFT and / Dont worry loads of people ask for that one.

Thought that was the way it was supposed to be done! - when I hear mission accomplished I often keep attacking the ground targets in a suicidal manner - then when shot down sit there thinking "why did I keep attacking that gun when there was no reason to". In the YAP missions it even tells you not to stick around to long - but do I listen!

Good luck out there Zagnut

Are you adding any mods to WOE after you are reinstalling it? Are you installing the correct patches?

Just saw the second half - Croatia were the better team and deserved it overall IMO Not that im taking that much interest in Euro 08 myself - f*&%*&^ Steve Maclaren :angry2:

So is that a "star sighting system" in effect there? It doesnt look like missile fire trails - wouldnt they fade out?

Bit strange they have cut off their only means of revenue like that - Eightlein where are you!

Lost count the amount of times ive died thanks to sight seeing - the F6 key can be lethal!

It is rumoured that Nigel "Sharkey" Ward is actually Chuck Norris with a different beard trim - no other way to explain his feats

The total loss of energy seems like its making a bad move and it probably is - but the attacking fighter wont get close if after breaking lock you fire your BVR missile (albeit with very much reduced energy) - this may be "similar" to the tactic Sus used 1 v 1 against those F-15s by the account given. Depends on the situation really - it probably wont stop the attacker firing its BVR missile at you anyway - and if it does can you pull another Cobra? it may put off a Semi Active homer (AIM-7) - but would no doubt hasten your death otherwise. Yep maybe a desperate attempt in a guns only situation (if one was to occur again)

Is that diagram from that paper by an Australian (forget his name) that wants Aus to have the F-22 at all costs over the F-35? Well id be interested to know who made up those figures - considering the F-35 isnt in service yet - and even if it was the above would still be a guess based on ??? nothing. I would suggest ignoring the bit at the bottom that says Lockheed Martin, US Navy and Sukhoi data because the only credible info on there is the shape of the planes and their names

I wonder if it could be used to break a pulse doppler lock temporarily at range? For close in ACM (without missiles) I guess it could be used to force an overshoot - depends on how alert the attacking pilot is :blush2:

Not sure really - suppose you could alter the flight model for every Plane and reduce the top speed and stall speed perhaps. If not - play it on a very old computer :umnik2:

Actually you may be right here - depends on what means the Argentines had for tracking low level targets - did any of their jets have look down radars for example - if not then relatively easy - well compared to a Soviet fleet. And as for the Argentine IADS (if there was one) would it have been any where near Iraqs 1991 level even - potentially the jets would would be on their way home before the AAA would even know they were coming!

Thats pretty much what some of the FAA pilots thought about the RAF - they dont sound to pleased at all in their books. The 801 commander makes a point of ripping the RAF apart at every opportunity - particularly the Black Buck missions direct quote: "801 was inevitably tasked with waking up the airfield defences for just before the Vulcan arrived on the scene, I got airborne with three 1000lb bombs , and at the pre-briefed time delived them on target. Then, as briefed, I continued to fly around the target area to attract the attention of the ground radars. The Vulcan arrived on scene, was quickly detected by the alerted ground radars, and when it fired its missiles the Argentines switched their radars off. The operators on the ground had already proved to be bright and professional, and had cottoned onto what was happening pretty quickly. The Vulcan returned home with 220,000 gallons of aviation fuel down the drain and no result. They would try again. I returned to the deck wondering how long the V-bomber Pantomine was going to continue.

That is what the RAF claimed or hoped to achieve (according to some biased FAA people) - and if it was true it totally came unstuck in this conflict. Wonder if they thought that sending a few Vulcans being able to reach the Falklands was acceptable coverage! "Picking up 39 contacts heading towards the fleet - looks like an attack force - 30 mins till they reach us" "Dont worry the RAF are scrambling their Vulcans and tanker support as we speak - should be here by tommorow doh!" In line with speaking about the press - they did a good job promoting RAF involvement - because I grew up thinking those SHARs were RAF - had no idea the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) existed tbh. Although sying that isnt FAA also "Fuerza Aérea Argentina"

It has nothing to do with Betraying your country - NOBODY in any country should believe 100% of what they are told by their government - particularly when it comes to war.

I dont think that was meant to be a serious comment from Dave

At a guess doesnt this mod need desert.cat to work from the original desert terrain? If so there is a work around for this if you have WOV/WOE in the Knowledge base I believe.