MigBuster

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.

Atlantic Conveyor sailed down with: 8 x Sea Harriers 6 x GR.MK3 Harriers 6 x Westland Wessex 1 x Westland Lynx 4 x Chinooks (CH-47) When it was hit 3 of the Chinooks (with all the spare parts/tools/manuals etc)were onboard (AFAIK) and went down with the ship. The remaining Chinook (Bravo November) had to fly from East Falkland Island - and became a bit of a legend by all accounts for the work it now had to do by itself! Pretty sure the Harrier didnt stick around to operate from that Pad - it wouldnt have intercepted the Etendards anyway even if it could find them!

RAF GR-3s were on the Carriers - they came down later in the conflict though on cargo ships

Well the Argentine Mirage 3s would have been a massive threat still so they wouldnt have had it easy - Im not sure even with F-4s we could have had Air superiority over Argentina itself - though its something to think about Always makes me laugh on the claim that the Mirages were held back incase a single Vulcan tried to attack Argentina - im not sure even with wishful thinking a Vulcan would have got that far undetected enough to be intercepted and bought down with guns even!

Well I hope the SAMs are as good as they say they are if it comes to it an (apparently) radar less GR-7/9 with AIM-9s is even worse than the First Sea Harrier - at least that had a radar (albeit not a look down one!) With Phantoms/Gannet etc - Maybe the ability to actually detect low flying targets, and intercept the Etendards before they could get a shot in - because the Etendards could pretty much do what they like from what Ive read.

Also fought US F-5 aggressor pilots, and 4 F-15 pilots from Bitburg in mock engagements according to my sources. The Argentines knew about the SHARs reputation before the war started so gave it massive respect. Maybe one of the reasons that their Attack pilots were told to jettison their A-G load and disengage if they were caught by one. Should say that the French stopped supplying any more of the ordered "Exocet" missiles to Argentina - You have to wonder what would have happened if they had more than 5 of them!

This would have to be a hard coded feature of the game AFAIK - It was never implemented by Third Wire - Red Crown woman will always say there are no assets available. So you just need to practise and come up with better planning basically. Not sure what game you have - but if you find yourself in a flight of 2 Canberras and 8 SU-27s show up dont expect to be around for long. If you go on a single mission you can choose different types of jets to be in your flight - so you could have 2 F-15s as flight 1 to give you escort cover. In campaigns - if you are flying F-4s for example give numbers 3 - 8 anti-radiation missiles and A-A loadouts - then order them to keep the interceptors or SAMs busy - You need to do this anyway really because only your actual#2 Wingman will bomb a primary target (unless its CAS) fyi - pre WOI the AI is hopeless at going guns only on banking slow targets so you might be okay in the Canberra after all unless the SUs have missiles :) .

Im afraid these are NOT facts in any way shape or form and we know all governments are prone to lying (or propaganda as you call it) - or even SPIN as its called over here - that does not change the real fact that there is no conclusive proof to confirm these events. For example what you are implying is that Israel covered up their F-16 losses by importing extra jets from the States and giving them the same serial numbers as the ones shot down so no one will know better! OK what if they did - there is no way to prove it - its just someones word against someone elses. Ok lets take the Mig-21 Dogfight win against an F-16C: What block version of F-16C? What weapons did each side have? Who was flying it? ( for example a good pilot in an F-4 would probably beat a rookie in an F-16 guns only) What circumstances/rules were they fighting under? You need to gather the exact circumstances involved before stating that an airframe from the late 50s is superior to one that was designed specifically to destroy the Mig-21 in close combat - because none of your arguments hold any substance. There are many many factors that could have decided the outcome As another example about information with no evidence or substance behind it - look at this quote from Wikipedia: MiG-21-97 MiG-21-93 upgrade. MiG-21-93 re-engined with Klimov RD-33 engine. Russians have claimed that the evaluation at Ramenskoye Airport had shown that this version had beaten simulated F-16 in mocked dogfight with a score of 4:1. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-21 They may as well have written "My mate shot down 4 F-16s playing Wings Over Isreal" for all the relevant information that gives us!

Ive been going through some of the 100 missions recently and they actually feel pretty random due to the variety of things to do - been doing a mix of B-26, AC-130, C-130, AC-47, UH-1, and CH-53, HH-53 missions which are totally different to anything really and provide a really good challenge. In stock Randomly generated single missions you start at a different concrete airbase each time (no carrier ops) - the only randomness normally comes in the amount of Migs and SAMs that show up (the AAAs pretty constant) - oh and tanks if you add CAS missions - but been flying them for so long it was nice to have a change.

When WOE/WOV gets upgraded the stock jets will all have new flight models - but the 3rd party ones wont unless they are upgraded - which is some job when you think of how many people understand flight models. You will have to look around for specific jets that state they work with WOI. So just a case of hoping they are really - of course if you have some spare time to learn about the flight models.....

well done!

There you go - someone has actually done it - and I dont need to take the blame for you messing up your install (which im sure you wont) - but as easy as ThirdWire series games - no way .