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The French Air Force has conducted the first air strike on a terrorist target in Iraq. Two Rafael's, one C-135FR Tanker were involved in a 7-hour mission from Al Dhafra to Iraq (1,700 kilometers) to destroy an ISIS target in northern Iraq on Sept. 19. Four GBU-12 LGB (Laser-Guided Bombs) were dropped by the two multi-role planes to hit a munition and fuel depot near the town of Zumar. http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/19/photo-rafale-multi-role-combat-planes-conduct-first-french-air-strike-in-iraq/

Nice!

Can you get anything in lower resolutions?

The self defence forces are massing at the border

Congrats on being the only person who can afford that many monitors

FC3 level seems good to me - still a bit to learn and gives an appreciation - and ED could push out new modules a lot easier and quicker. My only issue with hardcore is the time it takes to produce new avionics etc - I don't see it being totally viable considering the dwindling amount of people that will buy them. That being said its great to have had the hardcore experience - it is bloody good.

Those MiGs would probably need tanks considering the shocking fuel consumption it had.................unless the engines have been replaced. The Polish did upgrade the avionics in 2013.

Happy Birthday sir

Seems to be the same set of people tbh - moaning over nothing as usual

For any who cant wait http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=130001

Wow - that looks really good actually Be thankful something is finally here I say

That's okay we can send some boats up there to get it - well within international maritime law - after a few changes

Who says Scotland will be keeping any of that The trouble with Scotland is that its full of Scots

Cant forget him - great villain

? A man who was taking publicity shots for a flying school returned home to find he had captured images of spacecraft from the new Star Wars film. Matthew Myatt originally thought his pictures of the Millennium Falcon and an X-Wing fighter were experimental aircraft at Greenham Common, Berkshire. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-29144135

Well if the Rep of Ireland is anything to go by prepare for an air force consisting of Helicopters and Cessnas

HELSINGBORG, SWEDEN, September 8th – Leatherneck Simulations, in association with The Fighter Collection and Eagle Dynamics, will release the DCS: MiG-21bis on September 18th as a digital download. We've finally reached the end of the road. While we still have a few last days of crunch ahead of us, we'd like to go ahead and thank each and every one of your for your support, patience and involvement in making this project a success so far. ENJOY! Key Features of the DCS: MiG-21Bis Incredibly detailed flight physics, utilizing an advanced component based simulation system. Highly detailed, six-degrees-of-freedom cockpit with high resolution textures. Fully interactive and animated cockpit. Use your mouse to control levers, switches and knobs! Fully modeled avionics and weapons suites – exactly as they appear and operate in the real MiG-21. Highly detailed simulation of the RP-22 Sapfir radar, including unique quirks and operator challenges. Highly detailed exterior model and textures, with advanced suspension and afterburner animations. Unique and Custom weapons, including the RN-24 and -28 Nuclear bombs! Incredibly detailed simulation of the MiG-21's hydraulic, electrical, engine, weapons and fuel systems and applicable subsystems. Full single player Campaign spanning dozens of missions. Fully interactive, guided and narrated tutorials, helping you quickly and efficiently learn how to operate the MiG-21. 181 Page illustrated manual, detailing every system and procedure of the aircraft. Translated and available in 5 languages: English, Russian, German, Serbian and Chinese. http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=129858

On Sept. 6, 2007 the Israeli Air Force (IAF) conducted a precision air strike, code-named Operation Orchard, against a Syrian nuclear installation. Even if Israel has never publicly admitted that some of its aircraft destroyed the facility, some details about the mission have been either disclosed or leaked throughout the years. Some of them are well described in the book The Sword of David – The Israeli Air Force at War, written by Donald McCarthy. According to McCarthy, who served in the U.S. Air Force from 1964 to 1968 before becoming a respected and well informed historian, the information for Operation Orchard is alleged to have come from Ali Reza Asgari, an Iranian general disappeared in February 2007, who may have been the source of the intelligence required by the Syrian nuclear site attack. After gathering the required details, the Israelis planned a secret mission that was launched on Sept. 6 2007, at night. At least a four F-16I Sufa (Storm) jets and another four F-15I Ra’am (Thunder) aircraft crossed the Syrian border, in bound to the nuclear plant located near the city of Dir A-Zur, in eastern Syria. McCarthy points out the fact that Syria as well as other Arab countries were equipped with advanced Russian air defense systems, such as the Pantsir-S1 (SA-22 Greyhound as reported by NATO designation), claimed to be immune to electronic jamming. At the time of Operation Orchard, Syria operated twenty nine of these advanced air defense systems, so it remains unclear how the IAF aircraft flew undetected into the night sky out over the Mediterranean Sea, across the Euphrates River and along their route to the nuclear facility. As explained by McCarthy, according to the most widely accepted theory the strike force included one or more Gulfstream G550 aircraft, equipped with the IAI Elta EL/W-2085 radar system. Indeed, the success of the operation was largely attributed to effectiveness of the Israeli Electronic Warfare platforms that supported the air strike and made the Syrian radars blind: some sources believe that Operation Orchard saw the baptism of fire of the Suter airborne network system against Syrian radar systems. This system, combined with the F-15Is electronic warfare capabilities, shut down Syrian air defense systems, providing the other airplanes the cover they needed to hit and destroy the Dir A-Zur nuclear plant. After the attack, the initial reports stated that the IAF aircraft had almost entirely destroyed the nuclear site, claims that were also confirmed by the comparison of pre and post-attack satellite imagery. Even if the incident was shrouded in secrecy, Turkish media outlets reported that external fuel tanks were found on the ground not far away from the Syrian border: as reported by Shlomo Aloni & Zvi Avidror in their book Hammers Israel’s Long-Range Heavy Bomber Arm: The Story of 69 Squadron, these external fuel tanks were identified by foreign press as belonging to F-15 aircraft. Operation Orchard showed the capabilities of the Israeli Air Force, capabilities that were most probably used to carry out an air strike on a weapons convoy and military complex near Damascus, at the beginning of 2013. As done in 2007, on the night between Jan. 29 and 30, 2013, Israeli bombers entered and egressed the Syrian airspace almost completely undetected by the Syrian air defenses: a sign that Syrian radars can do nothing against Israel’s Electronic Warfare systems, most probably further improved to embed the capability to inject malware from F-16s into enemy networks. http://theaviationist.com/2014/09/06/operation-orchard-anniversary/

One of the most dangerous types of Cougars shown there - will be interesting to see how they live.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-29075307 The Royal Navy's second new aircraft carrier, the Prince of Wales, is to be brought into service rather than sold off or mothballed, Prime Minister David Cameron has announced.

Thats any F-16C Block 40/42/50/52s that were upgraded with CCIP (Common Config Implementation Program) from about 2002.

You can even take the F-35 to the Golf Course from the NATO summit in Wales today I think

1. Whats this the AIM-7D? - what are you firing at? 2. AIM-54A/C & AIM-120 / R-77 are some active missiles - they are all in certain packs - the 54A comes with SF2NA for the F-14 3. Anything that doesn't have CCIP then you need to manual dive bomb old but still useful by Andy Bush - http://www.simhq.com/_air/air_055a.html

It all sounds good - be interesting to a have a game that uses DX11.