MigBuster

It looks like Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, the legendary division that designed airplanes which represented a giant leap for their times such as the F-104, the U-2, the Blackbird family or the F-117A stealth fighter jet, has eventually revelead to AW&ST’s Guy Norris the existence of a project for an Hypersonic strike aircraft dubbed SR-72. “After years of silence on the subject, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works has revealed exclusively to AW&ST details of long-running plans for what it describes as an affordable hypersonic intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and strike platform that could enter development in demonstrator form as soon as 2018. Dubbed the SR-72, the twin-engine aircraft is designed for a Mach 6 cruise, around twice the speed of its forebear, and will have the optional capability to strike targets.” AW&ST has the detailed story of the new platform, that guided by the X-51, Falcon HTV-2 and other hypersonic development programs on which U.S.’s perspective strike capability is being tailored, will be capable to hit or perform ISR of fast-moving targets, located in high-lethality areas at intercontinental ranges. Interestingly, a Lockheed SR-72 concept image was released. The shape is coherent with the most recent hypersonic designs and it is quite similar to at least one of those published in April 2013 on LM’s Code One article about the configurations studied since the early ’60s for an SR-71 Blackbird replacement. Noteworthy, the shape and operational speed of the U.S. next generation strike bomber is much different from Russia’s next generation stealth strategic bomber PAK-DA concept. http://theaviationist.com/2013/11/01/sr-72-unveiled/

Another: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CvW4JUuH7-I

The first four F-105Bs had those little transparencies - inherited from the RF-84F The internal bay was still there - just with a non jettisonable fuel tank in it The Thunderbirds flew the B

Falcon 4 Allied Force is of no use to run BMS - you need the original Falcon 4.0 disk tor BMS - although cost should be negligible In response to the above. DCS A-10C is basically the USAF ANG Desktop simulator with a few classified bits taken out from what I understand - and IME although there are less systems on the A-10C but it goes far deeper into the systems than BMS does currently - and you can tell this by comparing IAMs , JDAM, TGP and some other things - the nav systems a nightmare and it uses SPIs If you want something even more challenging than the old Ace MiG-29S in BMS for dogfighting boresight - try the EF2000 or F-22 in guns only..................

We all wish we had a mum that cool!

Looking at 4 sources including the paper and the wiki page - they all agree that the political objective of LBII was to get Vietnam back to the negotiating table in a very short period of time - which was achieved.....all the military targets were also hit - so although each source spouts a lot of detail they all show a clear political and military success for the US. From a Strategic point of view (the Vietnam war) whether they were forced back or not Giap et al signed the papers which got rid of the US once and for all...................... Although the loss rate was relatively high (for Nam) - I'm not sure Nixon gave a toss about the 28 lost - its minor detail and actually not a bad return when you consider the scale, sophistication and experience of the SAM operators who could use various techniques with various versions of the SA-2. In the scale of things................and with over 3000 airframes supposedly lost in Vietnam.....whats a few more to get out of there with a deal!

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Haven't used it much - but for example when I set up an intercept in SF2V - I had to set the incoming bomber flight that would arrive over their target (my home base ) 5m 49s after starting the mission so the bombers started about 30 miles away. It might refer to so many minutes after or before a main flight hits the attack point also.....

http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/documents/Patterns-and-Predictability.pdf A detailed analysis of Linebacker II from Soviet sources apparently - might be of interest to some. Suppose it wants to present some positives to the Soviets - such as trying to count jets that flew back to base damaged as being "shot down" One stat I haven't seen in there and the only one that matters is: Number of targets actually defended by Air Defences = 0

Even if B-52s have been used to test it, the B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is the only aircraft in the U.S. Air Force inventory currently capable to carry and release the heaviest U.S. bomb, the 30,000-lb GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). The heavy GBU-57 is a 20-foot long GPS-guided bomb believed to be able to penetrate 200 feet of concrete before exploding, thus being capable to hit and destroy deeply buried targets. http://theaviationist.com/2013/10/28/b-2-mop/

High Res FA-18 action and some MiG-29Ns! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vItrT3AoJZA

You need the Falcon 4 disk There is scalable difficulty - but really everything is geared for full realism settings in BMS - no point learning easy systems and then have to start from scratch with harder stuff later on!. If you have just downloaded DCS A-10C then - um..............do you play flights sims full time because you might best to stick to 1 hardcore job for now.

I don't have the manual but TKs pits are usually pretty accurate:

So whats changed - any MS patches lately or are you all using the same AV software?

You depress the bomb site an amount of mils depending on the angle, alt, speed you are bombing at before you do the bomb run as I understand The F-16 in BMS has a fully working one - although you dont need to use it! - I remember flight of the intruder having the charts etc for such a thing. In SF I think it can only be hard depressed from the cockpit ini

Back over Nam

Another routine affair in the A-10A

Made me laugh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkBDRUO8hAo

Just http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZp7BvQJnU8

Good to see you and many congrats on getting married.

Amazing stuff http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4z1Z-WEZZGM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1F_UJaaP1A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOXxUApaaWo

Cool - wonder if it was manually depressable

Nice vid of an old story http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3M2XZEYqIpQ

I will take 3 at that price - will open a chain of seabourne hotels and nightclubs