MigBuster

Too right - the MiG-23/27 in the first post looks like its just fired some Rockets!

There was a way to refuel in SF1 (YAP2 uses it) - although needed individual aircraft edits - but a I believe that loop was closed in SF2 at some point. As for expendables nope.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3LdYDyE_1c

Maybe - sounds like the sort of stuff you find on Ministry of Sound chilled dance music compilations.

That's brilliant - bodes well for the future with techniques like this - especially if it cuts down dev time.

Great job - Really like the shots you put in these!

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Dunno http://www.f-16.net/f-16-news-article619.html

not looked into it much - but common thinking here is that they had to get full air superiority so they could then take out the RN with impunity.

Well yes all A-G - however a pilot does state he strafed an unknown IrAF aircraft sitting at Balad.

Flying at M3 / 80kft with a massive afterburner plume out the back of it I suspect the F-12 would have been as detectable as the SR-71 (aka very). Then at that altitude detecting smaller very low flying targets in ground clutter is a massive issue despite the pulse doppler tech that had come about. You might have had to put radar and IRST on the bottom of the jet to keep any lower targets in sweep considering the closing speed etc. Easy to see why the YF-108/12 was scrapped because the concept could only be used for recon or high altitude bomber interceptor (also see MiG-25 v Iran & Israel in the 80s). In OIF in 2003 most of the aircraft in theatre used their guns (even F-14s). The 77th EFS (F-16s) fired over 7000rnds - some of that was literally when they were out of other ordnance - so they are still used - although suspect a show of force can be effective in some situations for a/c without them.

Somebody has claimed to get it working with a dev model I assume: Just in case anyone is interested I have managed to get all the SF2 series games working perfectly with the Oculus Rift with only very minimal hacking! You basically need 2 bits of software, Opentrack 2.0 which is free for the headtracking and Nthusim HMD early access build which takes care of the image split, Nthusim site here:- http://www.forums.nthusim.com/viewforum ... 62b71521fc It only in 2D for the moment as Nthusim are still working on the 3D side of things but the experience is really immersive and very playable, flying the Lightninig and Hunter in VR is something I've dreamed of doing for years! Only hacks I had to make were in the options.ini to set the Aspect Ratio to 1.00000 (this is due to a bug with the latest build of Nthusim) and I then hacked the head motion yaw and pitch limits for each aircraft so you can turn your head wherever you want which feels much more natural, I used the following limits:- MaxYaw=210 MinYaw=-210 MaxPitch=180 MinPitchFront=-90 MinPitchRear=-90 If anyone is interested I can do a full write up of how to get it all working, it really is very easy though and I can also upload the hacked aircraft files to drag and drop if anyone really want them? Enjoy! Des PS I also got AeroflyFS and Xplane 9 & 10 working with the Rift now!

Are you saying it was rolling to one side like it wasn't trimmed properly (or had more weight on one wing like a single drop tank?). If its only this jet then - was it rolling for the entire flight? Could be FM error Could be you were hit by flak did you have any stores Could be an old bug - jettison stores used to fix it (there is no trim in this)

Did they or is it just releasing a lot of flares?

Okay is an Su-27 in the photo (Russian Knights paintscheme?) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2587292/Turkey-says-shot-Syrian-fighter-jet-violating-airspace.html

Yes you get good and bad drivers - especially with older games - I still use an older driver for Falcon 4s benefit - newer ones will work but its often a case of trial and error.

You mean CD? - no TK went totally download only for SF2/FE2 The SF2V exe is about 490 MB for example - not too bad - but TK will refund you if you cant DL it

Ha - yep that's just the mainstream press for you (thought it was a MiG-29 personally)

You might be able to change some of it If you see this lower res set http://combatace.com/files/file/6686-guitarclassic55s-replacement-menu-screens-no-movie/ you will see the menu is moved around and replaced with Bitmaps.

TK rearranged the cat files at some point so I expect some of the files that were used in SF and WOE are not included.

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It will need to be at a certain level first - when you try to install the patch it will moan and tell you. So Mar 2012 - but to get from where you are will require certain other patches - but I cant tell you what you need. If you brought SF2V via the download you will be able to get the latest version directly - if you have the email receipt & password.

I have an SF2V May 2013 exe that I downloaded a while back - so I would say you must be able to go to 2013