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Hello to you sir What is displayed on the in game map is controlled mainly by HUDDATA.ini which if you have extracted or added with a mod will be in the flight folder here: C:\Users\<YOU>\Saved Games\ThirdWire\StrikeFighters2 Vietnam\Flight In it you will find (assuming you haven't stuck an old version in: [MapLabels] EnableLabels=FALSE <---------------make TRUE LabelFriendlyAir=TRUE LabelFriendlyGround=FALSE LabelEnemyAir=FALSE <--------- make TRUE LabelEnemyGround=FALSE <----------- make TRUE You can also remove them by adding ENEMYAIRCAFTICON.tga to the Menu folder. So check out if you have those files.

Quote: Press Release NEW CUSTOMER BONUS SYSTEM! DUXFORD, UK, February 19th, 2014 – The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics will reward our loyal customers with a new bonus system that will provide discounts with DCS product purchases. When purchasing a DCS product a full price (not on a discount sale, or discounted price), customers will receive a 20% bonus based on the price of the purchased DCS product! A bonus is applied to only the first purchase of a specific DCS product. If you purchase two DCS products at full price, you will receive a DCS bonus of 25% based on the value of the order. This bonus escalates with the purchase of additional DCS products: • 3 DCS products: 30% • 4 DCS Products: 35% • 5 DCS Products: 40% • 6 DCS Products: 45% • 7 DCS Products: 50% • 8 DCS Products: 55% • 9 and more DCS Products: 60% Customers that purchased DCS products at full price prior to the start of the bonus program can register their products and receive a bonus of 20% of the purchased price. These bonuses will be credited on the customers’ personal Bonus Accounts of the DCS website. Customer bonus funds can only be redeemed for the purchase of DCS products from www.digitalcombatsimulator.com. The bonuses for previous purchases can be reviewed at: English: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/personal/account/ Russian: http://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/ru/personal/account/ Note: Bonus accounts are based on the local currency of purchases. About DCS World DCS World is a vehicle combat simulation game created by Eagle Dynamics. DCS World uses a powerful engine that delivers realistic and engaging gameplay. The battlefield includes a spectacular mission area - the location of the Georgian conflict in 2008. Fly the Su-25T in a massive, semi-dynamic campaign to achieve dominance in the skies over Georgia! DCS World serves as the basis for which all DCS aircraft operate within. The huge variety of aircraft, land units and warships are included from countries such as the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and others. Units are controlled by sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) and they have an amazing level of detail. This all allows for the creation of engaging, real-world combat missions in this flashpoint region. DCS is a true "sandbox" simulation that can and will cover multiple time periods covering many types of combat and civilian units. About The Fighter Collection The Fighter Collection, as well as developing software for the entertainment and serious game markets, also operates, rebuilds and maintains Europe's largest collection of airworthy WWII fighters and is based at Duxford Airfield, in the UK. For more information visit our websites: http://www.fighter-collection.com/ http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=120893

That's got to be the best thing to happen to Zero G for a while!

Doh - thought you had some pics of the Aircraft Carrier

Most changes under the hood - but lots of new objects SF2-NA is the first SF2 game to really change the play http://combatace.com/topic/56091-whats-new-in-the-sf2-series/

Russian President Vladimir Putin has been awarded the highest rank in taekwondo, it is reported. While on a visit to South Korea, he received a ninth-degree black belt from Choue Chung-won, president of the World Taekwondo Federation, Russia's ITAR-TASS news agency reports. The Russian president has now eclipsed the likes of martial artist and actor Chuck Norris, who is reported to have an eighth-degree black belt in taekwondo. Vladimir Putin somewhat modestly said of the high distinction: "I'm not sure if I deserve this". He went on to suggest that the event be seen as a promotion of "this beautiful martial art". This isn't the first martial arts achievement by the Russian president, who also has a black belt in judo. He was also reported to have released a martial arts DVD called Let's Learn Judo with Vladimir Putin. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-24925270

The true story behind the picture above is quite different. In fact this photo was taken on the 1988 Dependents’ Day Cruise of the USS America (CV-66) and the F-14 Tomcat driver who performed this incredible super low, super close pass is Dale “Snort” Snodgrass, a pilot who has become synonymous of Tomcat. Grown at Long Island, Dale’s dad was a test pilot and “Snort” set a new standard within the naval aviation program becoming the first flight school graduate to be selected for the newly formed F-14 pipeline as explained by Snodgrass himself in the book Grumman F-14 Tomcat Bye-bye, Baby…! : “I was the first ensign to complete day/night Tomcat quals, right out of flight school. I was rewarded with the privilege of picking up a brand-new Tomcat at the factory for delivery to the west coast. To make the flight truly historic we stuck another ensign in the RIO (Radar Intercept Officer) seat.” Before arriving to the Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar, Dale and his RIO made a fuel stop at Luke Air Force Base(AFB): “We’d let the Air Force get a close-up look at the Tom. We were the first F-14 ever seen at that huge base. A general came to greet us at the VIP parking ramp. Luke was scheduled to receive its first F-15 Eagles the next day. At that time no one under the rank of O-4 major had flown the Eagle. Let’ em get a load of a real fighter, Navy style! The final flight over to Miramar was short, so we whacked the Air Force a final time with a sunset takeoff. Zone V (which was the maximum afterburner thrust setting for TF-30 engine) burner to 20,000 feet and still over their runways! The departure controller watched in amazement and then asked our aircraft type. My RIO responded, “We’re an Eagle Eater, Baby…!” In the Navy, Dale amassed more hours in the F-14 than any other pilot, and is considered the “highest time Tomcat pilot”, with over 4,800 hours and more than 1,200 arrested carrier landings and for 14 years he has flown F-14 demos that people still talk about today. Nowadays “Snort” is still in the air shows circuits and he is qualified in the F-86 Sabre, P-51 Mustang, F4U Corsair, T-6/SNJ Texan, MiG-15, MiG-17 and MiG-21. About the low pass over the USS America, “Snort”, at the time Executive Officer (XO) of VF-33 Starfighters, released this interview to John Sponauer: “It’s not risky at all with practice… It was my opening pass to a Tomcat tactical demonstration at sea. I started from the starboard rear quarter of the ship, at or slightly below flight deck level. Airspeed was at about 250 knots with the wings swept forward. I selected afterburner at about ½ miles behind and the aircraft accelerated to about 325-330 knots. As I approached the ship, I rolled into an 85 degree angle of bank and did a 2-3 g turn, finishing about 10 – 20 degrees off of the ship’s axis. It was a very dramatic and, in my opinion, a very cool way to start a carrier demo. The photo was taken by an Aviation Boson’s Mate (by an ABE3 who was the petty officer of third class Sean E. Dunn that was in charge in Launching & Recovering Equipment) who worked the flight deck on the USS America. Just as an aside…the individual with his arms behind his back is Admiral Jay Johnson” who became the Chief of Naval Operations for the Navy.” At this point one question may raises in our minds: was the tactical demonstration well performed the day after this training? Take a look at the photo and judge by yourself. By the way, the image on top is the one of the flyby, the one here below depicts the rehearsal.. http://theaviationist.com/2014/02/12/f-14-buzzes-uss-america/

1992 AIM-7 and AIM-120 it was 10 SAM sites in the SCANG story - 2 jets per site - they had ECM pods and RWR (ALR-69) - & limited EF-111 support from 60 miles away as only 1 of 2 could make it. SAMS were SA-2, 3 & 6. You should be able to see some physical differences on the ADF

Had provision for them from about block 15 - they were even test fired in the 70s - although not used till 89 Politics involved potentially (to do with F-15) - also read the AIM-120 was being thought about in the 70s so they thought they would wait. The SCANG story from Desert Storm is immense - F-16A Block 10s with dumb bombs and no F-4G weasal support hitting around 10 SAM sites - most SAMS launched at 1 flight in the history of aviation - got rewarded with an upgrade to F-16CJ Block 52 afterwards.

Get the impression from Vipers in the Storm most USAF F-16s went in big formations dropping MK82/84s with CCRP (well at the start anyway) - almost like F-105 / B-17s

Well deserved - showed courage to get the guy out.

Due for release in March 2014 as a DCS module

Not good - if you take the files out of the mod folder does the game start okay? Which files did you extract from menutext.cat?

Works on Vista - download at Benchmark sims forums havnt seen any zero A-A campaign mods

Well - call me Mr pessimistic Remember that little "surprise" we had for the DCS crowd? well here it is: Announcing the Mirage 2000C for DCS, with a superb model from Metal2Mesh (creators of some of the finest models around) we´ll bring to DCS this magnificent product. We have learned so much during the T-2 development process that we decided to move forward with this high performance and high profile fighter. Does this means we cancelled the T-2? not at all, gentlemen, it´s just being moved aside for the time being. But enough of the chatter, let´s put some pics here!.. Also, we´ll have another big DCS surprise shortly, regarding other models being readied for DCS, all these will have an AFM , aiming for the highest fidelity possible, in a combat simulator. Gentlemen, we officially announce, the RAZBAM Mirage 2000C for DCS https://www.facebook.com/RazbamSims

BMS is the latest and greatest Falcon version. Falcon 4.0 is still payware so can only suggest looking harder for the disk or getting a copy from ebay etc. If you like hardcore combat sims then the only alternative is DCS World ( A-10C). regards

I remember I remember an RAF pilot saying a very similar thing in an interview - either John Nichol or John Peters (shot down in Tornado GR1 1991) - so expect its same all round. Unless the jets flying in a straight line I expect you probably don't really get a say where the shells end up twisting all over the sky!

Got to say that Mission editor is truly a marvel (and no I didn't request it) - makes it really easy to make realistic YAP style missions and makes modding far easier - sadly i guess most cant be bothered to do that. gawd even if the source code became available - that would need to be coordinated team effort - just like BMS in fact - dedicated C++ programmers working for years and years and staying friendly during that time.

Well had nothing else to do so thought I would piece together the legacy - should be mostly there

Welcome and thanks for your opinion. Being true DX10 SF2 has far greater potential than BMS currently in the graphics department. BMS has a terrain engine similar in scope to the older SF2 games - however BMS has less resolution and fps potential and the water is not flat in places. With SF2NA (which I gather you don't have) a new terrain engine was created - but probably didn't turn out as good as TW hoped - but the Sea is pretty spectacular.

No I don't think so - I don't have access to the models so never bothered with them.

Hello everyone, A very busy week here in the office. I’ve finished the alpha version of the Fw 190D-9 manual. Really enjoyed it. Starting on the 109K-4 manual next week, should be easier and quicker. Had a lot of fun scouring gigabytes of scanned original documents looking for info on cockpit controls, system diagrams, procedures, numbers, etc. Totally new experience for me, even after what, 14 years of doing flight simulations. Thanks to the manual and a certain button in the Dora cockpit, we have a new office meme. We’ve always been a memetastic group. Most people don’t realize just how juvenile a bunch of flight sim developers can be. One minute we’ll have an aircraft designer with 20 years of experience designing real planes fill out the whiteboard with formulas in order to double-check some flight test curves, and the next minute he’s bellowing animal sounds and making Gumbys faces. We were woefully short on a DCS meme, and now, thankfully, we have one. We could not be happier. There is a little thing stuck in the far back corner of the Dora’s left console that the manuals call the Flugzeugvernichter, that is, Aircraft Self-Destruct. Somehow the word Vernichter just really stuck, and now the entire office presses invisible buttons and yells “Vernichter”. We also have to add it to the end of every German aviation term we can. Spreizklappenanzeigen? Spreizklappenanzeigen Vernichter! Kraftstoffverneblerleitung? Kraftstoffverneblerleitung Vernichter! What do you call a device that destroys your ability to disable the self-destruct button for your aircraft? A Flugzeugvernichtervernichtervernichter. As any inside joke, it’s probably weird to anyone outside out small group of old friends, but, well, we enjoy the heck out of it right now. Now, another really exciting thing we’re doing this week is playing with Oculus Rift. It’s pretty good, although the implementation is pretty basic at the moment. No 6DOF yet, and the world outside is a bit warpy and it looks like you’re inside an egg, but the immersion of being inside the cockpit is just superb. It is such an incredible breakthrough, the feeling is so life-like, that words simply cannot describe it. Once I put it on, I don't want to take it off. Could spend hours just flying over the landscape and watching things move around. Also, it’s really fun to bug people wearing a full face mask while playing a game. As you can see everything they’re doing on the screen, we love to add extra immersion by kicking and poking the player at the right moment. Also, it’s extremely annoying and maddening when those louts at the office break my immersion by kicking and poking me while I’m trying to enjoy an awesome gadget. And finally, here’s a sneak peak at something else that's really beginning to shape up nicely. Hope you guys have a good weekend!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nL3oWtr0lZk

Not up to speed on the X-47 - I've seen it land by itself on a carrier - but any weapons drops would have to have the usual UAV team of humans to authorize it first. Suspect its remote controlled with a limited autonomous type ability. Wonder if it can take evasive action by itself - execute evasive pattern delta 3 You thinking of buying one then - says they are small fighter jet size - might not fit in the garage :)