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Cant really judge it - TK has to trade off performance against accounts, game play and take into account that the AIM-4D is easy to employ in the game. Of course we can just tweak the parameters to make it a bit better - the AIM-26B in game is an add on so is bound to be set up for game play. Ive used the AIM-4A/B/C/D/E and F in game so have changed some of the params - just to get them to be consistent with each other and sometimes hit bombers flying high and straight! - its still painful using them though !

The SF2 games are running better than ever on my i7 now with the latest versions - almost definitely the multi core changes!

The AIM-4D was only meant for high flying big bombers thats for sure if what Ive read is anything to go by Wasn't as easy to use as the AIM-9 (even the AIM-7 was preferred)- its said it was the most complex missile to operate anywhere - and this is the real issue! Its firing sequence (not modelled in this game) was a nightmare, a long lock on time (4.2 seconds to cool) and once you had set off the coolant you had a limited time (~3 mins) to fire it before the coolant ran out and it was useless. No way to set up a quick lock on and fire - F-4D pilots had to decide 90 seconds before the missile would leave the jet they were going to commit. It says unbelievably that the AIM-4 had better flight dynamics than the AIM-9 The lack of proximity fuse though was just the icing on the cake. Those 5 kills were a miracle - the missile was no use in a Dogfight - they should have wasted them all on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. I think the statistic you need is the amount of times the bandit had moved out of the engagement zone after going through the AIM-4 setup!

Yes the ask for help command now works in later SF2 versions

Pass - have installed all 5 games on Win 7 and havent seen any such messages. Make sure you are on with an account that can install programs.

Spot on Vampyre - the F-16 got larger tail Elevons/stabilizers from Block 15 on. The Netz were bought as Block 1/5/10 type and thus had the smaller Elevons The F-16E looks to have an island more bulbous and probably larger then the F-16C - whereas the F-16D originally had a tail similar to the C but later blocks seem to have eradicated the island and used a full length dorsal spine (F-16I/F/D+).

Does that include both the Block 50 Big mouth for the GE engine and Block 52 small mouth for the PW engine?

So its always going to be summer now in sunny Russia? - thats a selling point at least

Mirage Factory did show an F-16C but no word on whether it was GE or PW powered. There might be an old model with the big mouth in the SF1 section - Block 30/40/50/60 are GE birds - but Mirage Factory/thirdwire models are F-16A only.

BBC are reporting this - but say its unconfirmed: French warplanes have shot down a Libyan plane in the first incident of its kind since enforcement of the UN no-fly zone began, a US official said. The incident happened near the besieged western city of Misrata, reports said. Dozens of coalition missiles have already hit military bases, with the aim of ending Col Muammar Gaddafi's ability to launch air attacks. UK officials said on Wednesday that Libya's air force no longer existed as a fighting force. Coalition forces have pounded Libyan targets for a fifth consecutive night. The French military said their planes had hit an air base about 250km (155 miles) south of the Libyan coastline, in an incident apparently unrelated to the shooting down of the Libyan plane. French officials did not give any further information on the location of the target or the damage. One US official quoted by Associated Press news agency said the Libyan plane shot down by France was a G-2/Galeb, a training aircraft with a single engine. The French plane involved was a Rafale fighter, the same US official said. from http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-12850975

Good luck chaps - the BBC did report the rockets I noticed but it was hidden below the Japan and Middle East goings on.

Would take the F-4F ICE every time - far superior with those updates

Posted on wikipedia - from here http://www.defense.gov/news/DJS_Presser.pdf

Happy Birthday

Behind him his F15 Strike Eagle was a burning wreck. He had parachuted into a field of sheep somewhere near Benghazi airbase and needed to escape - his fellow crew member had landed in another field nearby. Raising his hands in the air he called out "OK, OK" to greet the crowd. But he need not have worried. "I hugged him and said don't be scared we are your friends," said Younis Amruni, 27. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/8397953/US-jet-crashes-in-Libya-airman-would-not-have-known-if-he-approached-friend-or-foe.html Make of it what you will Looks like we even get the Serial number of one of the AIM-120s from that BBC vid

haha nice one Allen

Ahhh - that clip of the goalie throwing it in his own net still gets me.

Yep its from that site alright. The Flight model is porked the AI were unable to take off in it so if you get it and want a revised model for SF2 just say.

Hello and welcome - hope you continue to enjoy the site as much as everyone else If they are not in downloads - somebody might be working on them

Thanks for the link - the Tornado F.3 was one of NATOs best interceptors of the cold war IMO - not my type of fighter but great in its role. Sad to see it go.

Crikey - No way to tell from that video what hit that - an explosion underneath with no indication of the source direction(ok maybe not from directly above ). Any Allied jets there by now? What happened to the ceasefire they declared yesterday!!

Nah - only got as far as the tail as a template - but good enough if you are doing standard Grey - you can use bits from the complete 2048x2048 hi res skins: http://combatace.com/files/file/10845-f-16a-hi-res-tail-template/ http://combatace.com/files/file/10777-pack-3-hi-res-f-16a-royal-netherlands-rnlaf/ http://combatace.com/files/file/10778-pack-4-hi-res-f-16a-usaf/ http://combatace.com/files/file/10776-pack-2-hi-res-f-16a-royal-danish-af-rdaf/ http://combatace.com/files/file/10774-pack-1-hi-res-f-16a-belgian-af-baf/

No technology will ever be 100% reliable and the shuttle has proven to have been very reliable in its service period for what it has to do - you may never see anything as reliable again! Like Concorde retiring this just seems like one giant leap backwards for me (Despite the issues with both) Where do people get the notion that going into space is an easy formality and should be risk free!!