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FORT STEWART, Ga. — A force of approximately 25,000 advisers from the U.S. Army’s 3rd Adviser Division is heading to Iraq to not participate in direct ground combat of any kind, the Pentagon announced Thursday. “Make no mistake, we are in full-on advisement against ISIL in the same way we continue to advise countries against al Qaeda and its affiliates,” Pentagon spokesman Rear Adm. John Kirby said at a press conference, using an acronym for the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. While noting the division was comprised mostly of combat troops from its former unit name of 3rd Infantry Division, Kirby cautioned that using this re-structured unit would not lead to advisement-creep. “It’s made up of three Brigade Advisor Teams (BAT). Among these are a mixture of various adviser types including Infantry Advisers, Armor Advisers, Artillery Advisers and Attack Aviation Advisers,” Kirby said. Sources confirmed the new unit was formed after Pentagon leaders realized direct ground combat and trying to impose U.S. will on the enemy had negative effects, and it was better to advise them into submission. “Geneva conventions do not specifically limit any type of advice, allowing the new 3rd Adviser Division to utilize the Vietnam-era M2 Advice-throwers,” Kirby said, also noting the deployment of the M1A1 Armored Humanitarian Relief Vehicle and the F-16 Fighting Advisory Falcon. Although the Pentagon officially declined to give much detail as to what types of advice would be used, sources told Duffel Blog the troops will be authorized to engage with 5.56mm and 7.62mm advice whenever necessary. In some instances and with higher authority, the division could use 105mm and 155mm advice, along with 500lb Joint Direct Advice Munitions. Read more: http://www.duffelblog.com/2014/09/pentagon-advisers-iraq-syria/#ixzz3Dsi7RmMo

Anyone have the pleasure? - wasn't good enough to make it to the UK it seems Disgraced Top Gun fighter pilot Butch Masters leads a rogue squad in recovery of a WMD. Masters must navigate a fractured friendship, a love triangle, and must take to the skies to reclaim his military and personal honor.

Pleased with my 780 - I need that much power to burn through the unoptimisation of a modded Falcon 4.

Some video of the French bringing some virgin love to IS:

Fantastic news - well done!

In that case an F-4E Kurnass might be more correct

Nice!

Can you get anything in lower resolutions?

The self defence forces are massing at the border

For any who cant wait http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=130001

Congrats on being the only person who can afford that many monitors

FC3 level seems good to me - still a bit to learn and gives an appreciation - and ED could push out new modules a lot easier and quicker. My only issue with hardcore is the time it takes to produce new avionics etc - I don't see it being totally viable considering the dwindling amount of people that will buy them. That being said its great to have had the hardcore experience - it is bloody good.

Those MiGs would probably need tanks considering the shocking fuel consumption it had.................unless the engines have been replaced. The Polish did upgrade the avionics in 2013.

Happy Birthday sir

Seems to be the same set of people tbh - moaning over nothing as usual

Wow - that looks really good actually Be thankful something is finally here I say

That's okay we can send some boats up there to get it - well within international maritime law - after a few changes

Who says Scotland will be keeping any of that The trouble with Scotland is that its full of Scots

Cant forget him - great villain

? A man who was taking publicity shots for a flying school returned home to find he had captured images of spacecraft from the new Star Wars film. Matthew Myatt originally thought his pictures of the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing fighter were experimental aircraft at Greenham Common, Berkshire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29144135

Well if the Rep of Ireland is anything to go by prepare for an air force consisting of Helicopters and Cessnas

HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN, September 8th – Leatherneck Simulations, in association with The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics, will release the DCS: MiG-21bis on September 18th as a digital download. We've finally reached the end of the road. While we still have a few last days of crunch ahead of us, we'd like to go ahead and thank each and every one of your for your support, patience and involvement in making this project a success so far. ENJOY! Key Features of the DCS: MiG-21Bis Incredibly detailed flight physics, utilizing an advanced component based simulation system. Highly detailed, six-degrees-of-freedom cockpit with high resolution textures. Fully interactive and animated cockpit. Use your mouse to control levers, switches and knobs! Fully modeled avionics and weapons suites – exactly as they appear and operate in the real MiG-21. Highly detailed simulation of the RP-22 Sapfir radar, including unique quirks and operator challenges. Highly detailed exterior model and textures, with advanced suspension and afterburner animations. Unique and Custom weapons, including the RN-24 and -28 Nuclear bombs! Incredibly detailed simulation of the MiG-21's hydraulic, electrical, engine, weapons and fuel systems and applicable subsystems. Full single player Campaign spanning dozens of missions. Fully interactive, guided and narrated tutorials, helping you quickly and efficiently learn how to operate the MiG-21. 181 Page illustrated manual, detailing every system and procedure of the aircraft. Translated and available in 5 languages: English, Russian, German, Serbian and Chinese. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=129858

On Sept. 6, 2007 the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a precision air strike, code-named Operation Orchard, against a Syrian nuclear installation. Even if Israel has never publicly admitted that some of its aircraft destroyed the facility, some details about the mission have been either disclosed or leaked throughout the years. Some of them are well described in the book The Sword of David – The Israeli Air Force at War, written by Donald McCarthy. According to McCarthy, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1968 before becoming a respected and well informed historian, the information for Operation Orchard is alleged to have come from Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian general disappeared in February 2007, who may have been the source of the intelligence required by the Syrian nuclear site attack. After gathering the required details, the Israelis planned a secret mission that was launched on Sept. 6 2007, at night. At least a four F-16I Sufa (Storm) jets and another four F-15I Ra’am (Thunder) aircraft crossed the Syrian border, in bound to the nuclear plant located near the city of Dir A-Zur, in eastern Syria. McCarthy points out the fact that Syria as well as other Arab countries were equipped with advanced Russian air defense systems, such as the Pantsir-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound as reported by NATO designation), claimed to be immune to electronic jamming. At the time of Operation Orchard, Syria operated twenty nine of these advanced air defense systems, so it remains unclear how the IAF aircraft flew undetected into the night sky out over the Mediterranean Sea, across the Euphrates River and along their route to the nuclear facility. As explained by McCarthy, according to the most widely accepted theory the strike force included one or more Gulfstream G550 aircraft, equipped with the IAI Elta EL/W-2085 radar system. Indeed, the success of the operation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems. This system, combined with the F-15Is electronic warfare capabilities, shut down Syrian air defense systems, providing the other airplanes the cover they needed to hit and destroy the Dir A-Zur nuclear plant. After the attack, the initial reports stated that the IAF aircraft had almost entirely destroyed the nuclear site, claims that were also confirmed by the comparison of pre and post-attack satellite imagery. Even if the incident was shrouded in secrecy, Turkish media outlets reported that external fuel tanks were found on the ground not far away from the Syrian border: as reported by Shlomo Aloni & Zvi Avidror in their book Hammers Israel’s Long-Range Heavy Bomber Arm: The Story of 69 Squadron, these external fuel tanks were identified by foreign press as belonging to F-15 aircraft. Operation Orchard showed the capabilities of the Israeli Air Force, capabilities that were most probably used to carry out an air strike on a weapons convoy and military complex near Damascus, at the beginning of 2013. As done in 2007, on the night between Jan. 29 and 30, 2013, Israeli bombers entered and egressed the Syrian airspace almost completely undetected by the Syrian air defenses: a sign that Syrian radars can do nothing against Israel’s Electronic Warfare systems, most probably further improved to embed the capability to inject malware from F-16s into enemy networks. http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/06/operation-orchard-anniversary/