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The default skin for a jet in single missions was always no 1 in the f-18e/f.ini for example [TextureSet001] Directory=USAFGrey1 Name=USAF Grey Nation=USAF StartDefaultDate=1 <-----------also check Specular=0.400000 Glossiness=0.400000 Reflection=0.200000 DecalNumberRandomize=TRUE DecalNumberEnd=199 In a campaign the skin should be defined for each squadron in the campaign_data.ini [AirUnit001] AircraftType=F-15A Squadron=7TFS ForceID=1 Nation=USAF DefaultTexture=USAFGrey1 <---------------- BaseArea=Spangdahlem Airbase

RIP to the brave crew - those F-14s should be in a museum!

There is a solo A-6 mission in YAP1 that gets you landing on a pitching moving deck I seem to remember.

Many Happy Returns :drinks:

Its beyond belief they were still charging down machine guns with horses in 1918! - utter suicide!

EOTS is a fantastic film either way - didn't realise that Christian Bale played the young Boy in it!

One film I actually want to see! - no UK release date I can find yet

Over here they are doing an unlimited card that we have - £14:99 per month - but you can see any film any time and as many as you like. Sometimes we spent over £20 just seeing 1 3D film so its pretty good value if you go twice a month....the only problem you get is finding something worth watching! - but yeah not sure I would have bothered with this otherwise - cinema is way too expensive IMO

Bet the pilots a skier!

Steven Speilberg + John WIlliams = GF in tears Very good film and didn't need to resort to gore to get though the horrors of war!:

Got it listed as being implemented in July 2010

Great you can reenact the P-51 and A-10C flypast and relive those classic airshow moments

SF2I (KFIR C2) 2 x Tanks, 4 x bombs, 2 x Sidewinders: Going from 2,000ft (about M0.8) to 10,000ft (3000m) it seems stable Going from 10,000ft (about M0.9) to 20,000ft (6000m) its as you described - When coming out of the turn use rudder or joystick to compensate - basically with all those bombs and in the thinner air it will not be stable. Trying the same without stores - it seems pretty stable to 6000m

Is that the stock Kfir you are using? How high are you going up? What is your speed when you roll out at the top?

The daggers have been out from the start - the amount of **** written in the press has been beyond belief - the analysis was basically - hmmm doesn't look as good as the F-22 so must be useless

Sorry what?? F-16C: (F-16.net) Dimensions: wingspan 31 feet 0 inches, length 49 feet 4 inches, height 16.6 feet, wing area 300 square feet. Weights: 18,238 pounds empty, 26,463 pounds normal loaded (air-to-air mission), 42,300 pounds maximum takeoff. Internal Fuel: 7,160lb F-35A: (LM Figures) Dimensions: wingspan 35 feet 0 inches, length 51 feet 4 inches, height 14.2 feet, wing area 460 square feet. Weights: 29,300 pounds empty, 70,000 pounds max. Internal Fuel: 18,000lb Its body is far larger than the F-16 which is why it can carry far more internal fuel and avionics and fit a weapons bay - the B even has a gap to fit a lift fan! Against 5th Gen a/c and advanced IADS the MiG-21 is a flying clay pigeon even with advanced missiles and radar - It needs a major airframe design to fit the avionics and range it really needs - and also RCS reductions to stand any chance whatsoever - it is proof that you can only go so far with an airframe. Against the Taliban though its fine Im sure - but so's a Super Tucano to some aspect. If stealth is required it wont be going in with external stores period Sorry by who? - actual RCS figures are not in the public domain for any of these birds - but everything points to the F-35 being in a different league compared to the SH and F-15SE which seem like desperate attempts to reduce the RCS on legacy designs. Well its down to tactics - might include stealthy UAVs and F-22s if such environment were encountered - This article is interesting reading - heres a bit from F-16 pilot Chris Shephard: Chris Sheppard: The legacy fourth-generation fighters, which we speak of being F-15s, F-16s, F-18s, have become more stealthy over time with each subsequent block upgrade as they have taken on some low observable treatments to help achieve a little more stealthiness. It’s really the advanced avionics upgrades that have always been a cornerstone of the new Blocks. Also, by leveraging global positioning systems (GPS) and laser-guide technologies, these aircraft become more effective and precise kinetically armed assets, especially with the evolution of advanced precision-guided weapons. But there are inherent limits to upgradeability of the legacy aircraft. The fifth-generation aircraft, the F-22 and F-35, are built from the ground up with many advanced capabilities in mind that can’t be attained from adding on or strapping on pods, et cetera, to ‘fourth-generation’ aircraft. Fifth-generation aircraft are designed from the ground up with very low observable stealth. This is very important from a threat perspective in the advent of already-fielded and future radar, avionics, and weapons. There’s also integrated sensor fusion, where primary sensors – like the APG-81 in the case of the F-35 – are highly integrated with the Electronic Warfare system or the electro-optical Distributed Aperture System (DAS). Sensor fusion is the kind of visceral capability that can’t simply be added to legacy aircraft or retrofitted on later. Sensors and accompanying software must be part of the design architecture from the get-go for fusion-compatible applications. There are other aspects as well — net enabled operations, the ability to gather information and then share the information with users who need the data real time. As I mentioned before, the F-16 was developed in the late 70’s with countries in the European Participating Air Forces (EPAF). Similarly the F-35 is being developed with eight partner nations, and in the United States with three services, the Air Force, the Navy and the Marine Corps. In addition, we have security cooperation partners who participate in the Program, with prospective foreign military sales; other countries are already inquiring about the aircraft. All of these partners will help the coalition with basing options, and the overall team capabilities will be significant. The fleet will have range and persistence, and as I mentioned earlier, the sensors; and the ability to share the information as a team versus having systems that don’t communicate or aren’t designed from inception to communicate with each other. While the F-16 has gained impressive capabilities with each subsequent Block upgrade, the one core difference with the F-35 is the bottom up approach for integrating capabilities. This includes stealth. Integration is a central idea from the beginning. The F-35 brings all partner nations into a unified advanced warfighting and interoperability standard in one giant leap. Read the whole thing: http://www.sldinfo.com/the-f-35-and-legacy-aircraft-the-case-of-the-f-16/ Some of it might be NG spin - but there are lots of similar views out there!

Total waster - far too many of them in the wrong positions!!

The F-35B is okay though - hook not required

Only in the later SF2 patches - check out this from the default F-4E_loadout.ini - whether it actually works is a another thing [AirToAir_Egypt] Nation=Egypt DefaultFor=CAP,INTERCEPT Loadout[06].WeaponType=AIM-7F Loadout[06].Quantity=1 Loadout[07].WeaponType=AIM-7F Loadout[07].Quantity=1 Loadout[08].WeaponType=AIM-7F Loadout[08].Quantity=1 Loadout[09].WeaponType=AIM-7F Loadout[09].Quantity=1 Loadout[10].WeaponType=AIM-9P Loadout[10].Quantity=1 Loadout[11].WeaponType=AIM-9P Loadout[11].Quantity=1 Loadout[12].WeaponType=AIM-9P Loadout[12].Quantity=1 Loadout[13].WeaponType=AIM-9P Loadout[13].Quantity=1

Wow http://courtesyaircraft.com/Current%20Inventory/ZK-JTL%20Cessna%20A-37B.htm BACKGROUND AND RESTORATION: The aircraft was built in 1971 (s/n 71-854) and was part of the last shipment of A-37B’s from the U.S. to Vietnam. The aircraft was obtained from Bein Hoa Airbase in 1991 and shipped to New Zealand where it had a very complete restoration at Ardmore Airfield by Aero Technology. During the restoration, reconditioned engines were obtained from Vietnam and these are the ones currently on the aircraft. During the restoration, the aircraft was paint stripped. New rubber fuel bladders are fitted and a lot of the original but surplus military wiring, radios and armor were removed, along with the heavy anti-flak cockpit padding, which was replaced with a look-alike material. The ejection sets were also disarmed and the ejection hardware removed. The 7.62mm mini-gun was also removed. A New Zealand Certificate of Airworthiness was issued in February 1994 in the Restricted Category- Air Transport not permitted, aerial work and private use, VFR only.

If someone can upgrade the MiG-21 with a full 360 degree sensor EODAS coverage - good luck with that - and you will still waste your money and end up with a obsolete airframe with no range - with a tiny nose for the radar thanks to sticking the intake at the front (which probably disrupts airflow having it so far forward) - you would be looking at a new airframe as a minimum! As for what it can carry - EODAS - 360 tracking of any object around it - which seems almost like a combat sim on easy! - does the F-22 have such SA - no....and it doesn't need draggy external targeting pods like the legacy jets. And the point was that the F-35 is supposed to fly through airspace denied to A-10s and Harriers - which can fly in when the airspace is safer for them - the A-10C is going to be around for long while yet! I think people take for granted the cutting edge integrated computer systems going into this bird - like any computer system there will be bugs to be ironed out - but given a few years it will be solid - these things take time. One cool thing I saw in a Grumman paper on Laser weapons was replacing the lift fan in the B at some point with a solid state laser - introducing a new form of DEAD - whereby a single F-35B protects the strikers by just shooting down advanced SAMs in the air - well maybe one for the future

haha - nice

Bout time