MigBuster

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/

You can even take the F-35 to the Golf Course from the NATO summit in Wales today I think

Nicknamed Delta Dagger, the Convair F-102, which was referred to as “The Deuce” by its aircrew, entered service in 1954. The F-102A spent most of its career operating out of Alaska, Greenland, Iceland and in other NATO and SEATO (South East Asia Treaty Organization) countries to defend their airspace from possible raids conducted by the heavily armed Tu-16 Badger, Tu-95 Bear or Myasishchev M-4 Bison aircraft, three types of Soviet bombers introduced between 1954 and 1956 . Several accounts of the pilots involved in this kind of QRA (Quick Reaction Alert) service, are reported in Ted Spitzmiller’s book Century Series The USAF Quest for air supremacy 1950-1960. As the one in which George Andre, a former F-102 pilot, explains a typical alert base: “Most featured an alert hangar at the end of the longest runway with high-speed taxiways leading on to the runway for immediate scramble. […] Generally a pilot stood alert for 8, 12 or sometimes 24 hour period. We slept with our boots on, and always could make a less than 5 minute airborne time from the sound of the scramble horn.” Even if the interceptors were guided to the target by SAGE (Semi-Automatic Ground Environment, the system that coordinated the NORAD response to a Soviet air attack by providing command guidance for ground controlled interception by air defense aircraft) or by GCI (Ground Control Intercept) Radars, obviously the pilots remained responsible for flying the aircraft and for the weapon launch, as said by Roger Pile, another former Deuce driver: “On-board radar searched for the target, but it was up to the pilot to locate it, select the appropriate armament, lock on to it and fly the plane to the release point […] The pilot was also responsible to retain the attack in spite of radar jamming, dispensing chaff and to switch to alternative modes should it be necessary.” One of these “alternatives modes” was the installation on The Deuce of a passive infrared search and track (IRST) equipment, that could be selected by the pilot to avoid the enemy bombers counter-measures. Moreover the IRST could also be used to fire the Falcon missiles against the target as explained again by Pile: “It was a softball sized sensor-head located immediately in front of the center of the windshield. […] The pilot could select IR dominant with the radar in standby, search or slaved to the IR tracker after lock-on to the target. If the radar was in standby, the target might never know you were locked on to him as the IRST was a passive receptor only and did not emit any signals. If in “search mode”, he might think you were still searching for him. If the radar was slaved to the IR head, you might get “burn-through” (pick him up on the radar) to give you an accurate distance from him and lock on to him with the radar. This would also allow the radar-guided (AIM-4A) missiles to also lock on to him and be guided to the target as well as the heat seekers (AIM-4Ds).” But even if the Delta Dagger was basically a bomber interceptor, pilots discovered that, thanks to F-102’s lower wing loading, The Deuce had an advantage (in certain parts of its flight envelope) in dogfight against its opponents. “I flew the F-102 transitioning into the F-106. I was very impressed with its turning ability. Many pilots claim their aircraft turns better than other. Of course, aerial combat will prove this, but short of that, I found another way to measure the turning capability of different aircraft and used that for comparison. That is to take the aircraft to 10,000’ at initial approach airspeed and perform a split-S as tight as possible. The F-102 would do it under 2,500’. The T-33 about 3,300’. The F-106 at 3,100’ and the F-4 at about 7,000’. I repeat the F-4 at 7,000,” pilot Bill Jowett recalled. http://theaviationist.com/2014/08/17/pilots-explain-how-the-convair-f-102-delta-dagger-intercepted-soviet-bombers-in-the-1950s/

One of the most dangerous types of Cougars shown there - will be interesting to see how they live.