MigBuster

Thats pretty much what some of the FAA pilots thought about the RAF - they dont sound to pleased at all in their books. The 801 commander makes a point of ripping the RAF apart at every opportunity - particularly the Black Buck missions direct quote: "801 was inevitably tasked with waking up the airfield defences for just before the Vulcan arrived on the scene, I got airborne with three 1000lb bombs , and at the pre-briefed time delived them on target. Then, as briefed, I continued to fly around the target area to attract the attention of the ground radars. The Vulcan arrived on scene, was quickly detected by the alerted ground radars, and when it fired its missiles the Argentines switched their radars off. The operators on the ground had already proved to be bright and professional, and had cottoned onto what was happening pretty quickly. The Vulcan returned home with 220,000 gallons of aviation fuel down the drain and no result. They would try again. I returned to the deck wondering how long the V-bomber Pantomine was going to continue.

That is what the RAF claimed or hoped to achieve (according to some biased FAA people) - and if it was true it totally came unstuck in this conflict. Wonder if they thought that sending a few Vulcans being able to reach the Falklands was acceptable coverage! "Picking up 39 contacts heading towards the fleet - looks like an attack force - 30 mins till they reach us" "Dont worry the RAF are scrambling their Vulcans and tanker support as we speak - should be here by tommorow doh!" In line with speaking about the press - they did a good job promoting RAF involvement - because I grew up thinking those SHARs were RAF - had no idea the Fleet Air Arm (FAA) existed tbh. Although sying that isnt FAA also "Fuerza Aérea Argentina"

It has nothing to do with Betraying your country - NOBODY in any country should believe 100% of what they are told by their government - particularly when it comes to war.

I dont think that was meant to be a serious comment from Dave

At a guess doesnt this mod need desert.cat to work from the original desert terrain? If so there is a work around for this if you have WOV/WOE in the Knowledge base I believe.

Atlantic Conveyor sailed down with: 8 x Sea Harriers 6 x GR.MK3 Harriers 6 x Westland Wessex 1 x Westland Lynx 4 x Chinooks (CH-47) When it was hit 3 of the Chinooks (with all the spare parts/tools/manuals etc)were onboard (AFAIK) and went down with the ship. The remaining Chinook (Bravo November) had to fly from East Falkland Island - and became a bit of a legend by all accounts for the work it now had to do by itself! Pretty sure the Harrier didnt stick around to operate from that Pad - it wouldnt have intercepted the Etendards anyway even if it could find them!

RAF GR-3s were on the Carriers - they came down later in the conflict though on cargo ships

Well the Argentine Mirage 3s would have been a massive threat still so they wouldnt have had it easy - Im not sure even with F-4s we could have had Air superiority over Argentina itself - though its something to think about Always makes me laugh on the claim that the Mirages were held back incase a single Vulcan tried to attack Argentina - im not sure even with wishful thinking a Vulcan would have got that far undetected enough to be intercepted and bought down with guns even!

Well I hope the SAMs are as good as they say they are if it comes to it an (apparently) radar less GR-7/9 with AIM-9s is even worse than the First Sea Harrier - at least that had a radar (albeit not a look down one!) With Phantoms/Gannet etc - Maybe the ability to actually detect low flying targets, and intercept the Etendards before they could get a shot in - because the Etendards could pretty much do what they like from what Ive read.

Also fought US F-5 aggressor pilots, and 4 F-15 pilots from Bitburg in mock engagements according to my sources. The Argentines knew about the SHARs reputation before the war started so gave it massive respect. Maybe one of the reasons that their Attack pilots were told to jettison their A-G load and disengage if they were caught by one. Should say that the French stopped supplying any more of the ordered "Exocet" missiles to Argentina - You have to wonder what would have happened if they had more than 5 of them!

This would have to be a hard coded feature of the game AFAIK - It was never implemented by Third Wire - Red Crown woman will always say there are no assets available. So you just need to practise and come up with better planning basically. Not sure what game you have - but if you find yourself in a flight of 2 Canberras and 8 SU-27s show up dont expect to be around for long. If you go on a single mission you can choose different types of jets to be in your flight - so you could have 2 F-15s as flight 1 to give you escort cover. In campaigns - if you are flying F-4s for example give numbers 3 - 8 anti-radiation missiles and A-A loadouts - then order them to keep the interceptors or SAMs busy - You need to do this anyway really because only your actual#2 Wingman will bomb a primary target (unless its CAS) fyi - pre WOI the AI is hopeless at going guns only on banking slow targets so you might be okay in the Canberra after all unless the SUs have missiles :) .

Im afraid these are NOT facts in any way shape or form and we know all governments are prone to lying (or propaganda as you call it) - or even SPIN as its called over here - that does not change the real fact that there is no conclusive proof to confirm these events. For example what you are implying is that Israel covered up their F-16 losses by importing extra jets from the States and giving them the same serial numbers as the ones shot down so no one will know better! OK what if they did - there is no way to prove it - its just someones word against someone elses. Ok lets take the Mig-21 Dogfight win against an F-16C: What block version of F-16C? What weapons did each side have? Who was flying it? ( for example a good pilot in an F-4 would probably beat a rookie in an F-16 guns only) What circumstances/rules were they fighting under? You need to gather the exact circumstances involved before stating that an airframe from the late 50s is superior to one that was designed specifically to destroy the Mig-21 in close combat - because none of your arguments hold any substance. There are many many factors that could have decided the outcome As another example about information with no evidence or substance behind it - look at this quote from Wikipedia: MiG-21-97 MiG-21-93 upgrade. MiG-21-93 re-engined with Klimov RD-33 engine. Russians have claimed that the evaluation at Ramenskoye Airport had shown that this version had beaten simulated F-16 in mocked dogfight with a score of 4:1. from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG-21 They may as well have written "My mate shot down 4 F-16s playing Wings Over Isreal" for all the relevant information that gives us!

Ive been going through some of the 100 missions recently and they actually feel pretty random due to the variety of things to do - been doing a mix of B-26, AC-130, C-130, AC-47, UH-1, and CH-53, HH-53 missions which are totally different to anything really and provide a really good challenge. In stock Randomly generated single missions you start at a different concrete airbase each time (no carrier ops) - the only randomness normally comes in the amount of Migs and SAMs that show up (the AAAs pretty constant) - oh and tanks if you add CAS missions - but been flying them for so long it was nice to have a change.

When WOE/WOV gets upgraded the stock jets will all have new flight models - but the 3rd party ones wont unless they are upgraded - which is some job when you think of how many people understand flight models. You will have to look around for specific jets that state they work with WOI. So just a case of hoping they are really - of course if you have some spare time to learn about the flight models.....

well done!

There you go - someone has actually done it - and I dont need to take the blame for you messing up your install (which im sure you wont) - but as easy as ThirdWire series games - no way .

Are you getting the Original Falcon 4.0 or Falcon 4:Allied Force? I only have Falcon4:AF so will tell you that it comes with a nice big manual in pdf form - that you are advised to print off if you can do. Work through the training missions first to get a feel of it all - and once you have been through training the manual seems a bit more understandable :) Once you have played it a bit there are several forums where you can pick up good advice on how to play the game, how ECM really works and how to avoid missiles/SAMs etc (the manual won't help you with this!). fruglsworld has loads of useful stuff also.

I have read of several ways to do it but its not that straight forward - I have seen some recent threads at frugals world on this so my advice is to go there and read up on it.

Woah - take it easy - and dont come back till you feel fit enough to do so

Think I know the name - similar to a band among other things - will let someone else answer though

well you have to put some easy ones in I guess! yes - it is the Messerschmitt BF109 V1 in 1935 - well done ah the Irony!

Not too sure about the Pony thing anyway... Which prototype of a pretty famous fighter plane used a Rolls-Royce Kestrel VI (695hp) engine?

I dont think anyone has implied that Russia has an F-22 have they? We import loads of things from China - though its more to do with cheaper cost than having any dependency on a single country. and I think currently an ICBM would quite happily disagree with any countries economy by wiping it out regardless.

Yes I think so - saw something that said it may not be wise to contact them face to face because they may not be immune to things like the common cold etc

So does air superiority balance out power or is it more to do with economies now? Personally I think the balance of power these days is more down to nuclear weapons - look at Russia - economy aint the best - and as far as Air superiority goes they have a model of an F-22 with red stars on the wing - however they can wipe any nation they like of the planet with the press of a button. ok back OT