MigBuster

If you wanted to know more about all those targets in Strike Fighters you were blasting out of the sky all these years well now is your chance. Didn't the Red Eagles fly the MiG-23 and say it was rubbish and that is all I need to know? Unfortunately, the Red Eagles only flew (as far as we know) the MiG-23MS which was a very special version for third world countries. Special in that it was a modified MiG-23M airframe with MiG-21 avionics and short range IR missiles and yes the Red Eagles were right it was pretty much rubbish, but that should not be confused with the later ML/MLA/MLD types that were vastly improved. Part of the Middle East at war series this newly released book covers the MiG-23 types operated by Iraq, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Algeria between 1973 and 2018. The book also covers some of the technical differences between the types and the weapons they used and some of the situations the pilots faced both internally or externally. Of interest is one pretty detailed Libyan MiG-23MLD pilot account of a 2 v 2 mock dogfight he had got into against some US Navy F-14As in 1986. Austrian Tom Cooper has literally been on a mission from God for years now to get some truth over what happened to the other side in those many Mid-Eastern air wars we all know. He has amassed many contacts that were there at the time and has to be today, the western authority on the subject co authoring books with some of the most established and respected aviation historians. This all started with the massive six part Arab MiGs series which gathered a lot of research and even more contacts which has led to a lot of spins offs including the two part African MiGs, three part Libyan Air Wars, and Iranian Tigers at War (Taghvaee). The controversial Tom Cooper Prior to the Arab MiG series Cooper was somebody taking a lot of flak, not only on the web site ACIG but in relation to other books co-authored 2003 to 2005, the main one being Iranian F-14 Tomcat units in combat. Although the research seems credible the context of the book is misleading, written from only an Iranian view point with several areas where the book contradicts itself. This led to some angry exchanges with several Iraqis on forums and brought into question some of the books material. It is interesting to note that this new book makes little to no reference back to this earlier research and seems to make a big effort in providing information from mostly Arab and Russian/ Soviet sources. We at least now get some insight to the Iraq V Iran air war from an Iraqi viewpoint as well.

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7.33G corner of the real thing was around 390 to 440KIAS but don't advise horizontal turning - it is totally outmatched by most of them jets. If the AI decides to keep turning best you will normally do vs Ace AI (MiG-17F/MiG-19S ) is a neutral lufbery while you run out of fuel. Also the AIM-9s significantly reduce turn performance and not only that they are useless in a turn.

Very nice Beach, been a while since I did that the F-100 is a bit of a challenge. The Hunter (to Fmk4) is a bit like a MiG-17 in turn ability, whereas the Fmk6 is like the MiG-17F despite no afterburner still has a comparable T/W (on paper) so is no slouch. Against Ace AI your best bet is keeping speed and going vertical.....................................I don't recommend doing so again a MiG-19S however............ bad idea there are smarter ways.

I see they are $39.99 were they $29.99 before? If so I don't know what to think of that other than I hope TW are planning to do some more updates in future. There are things to do in DCS but once the module is learnt probably multiplayer or creating your own missions might be a way to go because the dynamic single player aspect is non existent compared to SF - I will let you discover the rest. I definitely draw some parallels because if you read the ED forums it is similar discussions to what was on here 10 years back :)

LOL well have fun with that - yeah the new planes tend to take a while.

I saw the F-15E but tbh that has been on the cards for years I thought.

50% off most modules 21 June to 5 July ( Sadly no money off the PC rig you need to run it like in the videos :) )

Interesting they have started this terrain....looks suspiciously like the Malvinas/Falklands although no sign of any of the aircraft that flew in that yet. So I guess chocks away in the Spitfire for a few years if it happens LOL

One major change on the MLD seemed to be a different flight control system and it did have auto wing slats despite the manual wing sweep. A goal seems to have been better high AoA handling at slower speed (similar to the slatted F-4E I guess) I wasn't aware that the Soviet MLDs were all converted ML/MLA/P airframes and confusingly I have there were only 60 new build MLDs actually built and they went to Syria and Bulgaria. Even more confusingly these new build MLDs were apparently MLA airframes with full up MLD avionics (Bulgaria) and export MLA/MLU avionics (Syria) and had none of the MLD airframe handling enhancements.

I have quite a few of the Technical Yefim Gordon books and the technical bits are very good however for some reason at the end of some of them he discards facts and demonstrates a clear lack of understanding by trying to compare various aircraft. Although not the only author to do this back then it would have been better staying as factual as possible IMO. A better read for anyone wishing to get an overview of Cold War Soviet fighters and their sub versions would be this by Bulgarian Alexander Mladenov from 2017: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Soviet-Cold-Fighters-Alexander-Mladenov/dp/178155496X Easier to read, more concise, and obviously cannot go into the detail Yefim does but still outlines a lot of the technical differences (data links, radars etc) of each aircraft variant. His recent books on the Su-25 and MiG-21 are also good IMO https://ospreypublishing.com/mikoyan-gurevich-mig-21 https://ospreypublishing.com/su-25-frogfoot-units-in-combat https://ospreypublishing.com/sukhoi-su-25-frogfoot

Not aware MLAs as built had any off the production line, although some may have gone to Iraq and I do know that Iraqi MiG-23MLs were modified with overwing expendables and ECM pods in the late 1980s (photos) but would literally need the serial numbers because they were all called MLs locally it seems.

WWII not really my thing outside of of the well known or less well known....have the Meteor Fmk1 Vs V1 flying bomb (WWII) Osprey book and even got another called Zeppelin Vs British Home Defence (WW 1) - very funny seeing some of the failed aircraft they had designed as Zeppelin interceptors. Have just started reading MiG-23 Flogger in the Middle East 1973 to 2018 which kinda follows on from the Arab MiG series so might be less of interest. https://www.amazon.co.uk/MiG-23-Flogger-Middle-East-Gurevich/dp/1912390329 The research collaboration and technical knowledge from this author has improved vastly compared to what he was putting out 14 years ago.

jsfAggie might be implementing Kelly McGillis in v2

The Arab Mig Series by Tom Cooper et al - remember Heck that Western writers that interview and source directly from the pilots that were there cant be totally dismissed. Some western writers have owned and flown some of them - not really any mysteries here.

Two I have: Air combat over the eastern front and Korea - Sergei Kramarenko Fulcrum A top gun pilots escape from the Soviet Empire - Alexander Zuyev

Mike "Dozer" Shower - Famous F-15C pilot

Where did you purchase the game from? I would suggest downloading the exe file again.

On March 3, 1969 the United States Navy established an elite school for the one percent of its pilots. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of aerial combat and to insure that the handful of men who graduated were the best fighter pilots in the world. They, Succeeded Today, the Navy calls it Fighter Weapons School. The flyers call it TOPGUN! What is it all about? Afraid you won’t be singing in bars and dating civilian flying instructors but you will be flying non-stop Air to Air against a selection of Navy Aggressor A-4s. So, if you have not flown much A-A recently this could be the thing for you with three campaigns set in different years with a selection of Jets to fly. The lesser striped A-4F Mongoose does not take prisoners -- great balls of cheese! The campaigns consist of: Campaign 1 1970 Select from the US Navy / Marines F-4B (1965), F-4B (1967) and F-4J to go up against A-4E aggressors. Campaign 2 1974 Select from the US Navy / Marines F-4J (1974) and F-4N to go up against A-4E aggressors. Campaign 3 1978 Fly the US Navy F-14A (1974) and go up against A-4F Mongoose aggressors. Oh yes and you need to try and survive 20 missions with only about 3 wingmen. Check your six or else an A-4 flown by such celebs as Viper and Jester will blow you out of the sky! The environment This is set over a reworked South West US Terrain and has a NAS Miramar runway layout like the real thing and some very nice looking features. Think Tactically So, as you can see you ideally want to avoid getting sucked into any turning fights and that also applies to the F-14A because the up-engined A-4F kinda cancels out the F-14s better turn ability. Keeping and supporting your AI wingman is a must and is key to dealing with the A-4 hoards and keeping your wingman alive is a must to complete the target of 20 missions. Your wingman is although not the most intelligent of pilots he is also vulnerable to your wayward sidewinder shots and general incompetence in issuing commands. If you have not flown the Mirage Factory F-14 the mod comes with, then there are a few different key presses for the radar and also advise learning how to use the radar (it helps!). Where'd Hollywood go man.......oh there he is - never never leave your wingman! We are the Mods The music it comes with is ace and (thank god) not a sign of “Lead me on” by Teena Marie. Those who had the soundtrack might still have flashbacks to some of the tracks on it. Anyway no need to touch the music or the terrain. I am using Starys SARCASM mod in this for environmental effects and also some Top Gun themed 1080 menu screens by Viper63a. The screens can be simply dragged into the Menu and Flight mod folders depending – also remembering to rename them to the correct file name so they show. You can of course change whatever else suits you for the environment you wish to replicate. Here Viper is telling me how my name will never be on the Top Gun trophy after losing all my wingmen in about 3 missions. Starting a campaign Important here suggest setting Campaign Difficulty as normal, and set Weapon Supply to Unlimited otherwise you will be down to AIM-9Bs by about mission 5. My first several campaigns had a distinct theme of running out of wingmen Do you think your name is going to be on the trophy? – You will need a lot more than ego to beat Viper and his souped up A-4 The F-14A took a while to get used to and best to use its advantages of radar with IFF. I have only used AIM-7Fs in these campaigns and do advise taking out the bad guys BVR if you can. With the F-4s you have less advantages but again playing to your strengths will allow you to prevail. Every now and then a cargo plane takes off on its flight to Hong Kong full of Rubber Dog s***. If you screw up just this much you might be on the next flight.

To be clear on win 7 or 10 If you install the Game on lets say the "D" drive, it will install the core files on D only. When you run a game it will still create the mod folders at C:\Users\<You>\Saved Games If you need to move the Mod folders location then that is the line given in the second post down.

Make a copy of the Mods folder (If you have any), uninstall the game via control panel or settings then start from scratch and reinstall the game on the drive you want to....I run mine from F which is another SSD.

Very Nice!

WOV does play on the latest Win 10 although not as well as SF2V - how far does it get? I have turned off all Game mode setting in Win 10 (was added in a recent update) Another thing added - If you right click on the desktop icon and go to compatibility tab then tick "Disable full-screen optimisations" You probably need at least 16GB for DCS if not 32 for 2.5 online - at the moment a 1070/1080 type gfx card seems to be the type of card you need for that. Obviously if Vietnam is your thing then there is nothing in DCS and be warned that the full modules are full on simulators nothing like SF/WOV.

Don't worry they can do wonders with CGI these days..just look what they did with Carrie Fisher in Rogue One