MigBuster

http://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=126712 Planned aircraft still include: - P-51D - Fw 190 D-9 - Bf-109K-4 - Spitfire - P-47D - Me.262A1 $1-19 Bronze Backer credit in manuals $20 Bronze Backer credit in manuals One aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $40 Bronze Backer credit in manuals Two aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $60 Silver Backer credit in manuals Three aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $80 Silver Backer credit in manuals Four aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $100 Silver Backer credit in manuals Five aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $120 Gold Backer credit in manuals All aircraft of choice and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map $140 Gold Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access $160 Gold Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product $180 Platinum Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt $200 Platinum Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt TFC hat and calendar $250 Platinum Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt TFC hat and calendar Two keys for each aircraft $500 Diamond Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt TFC hat and calendar Two keys for each aircraft One existing aircraft skin with your name below the canopy $1,000 Diamond Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt TFC hat and calendar Two keys for each aircraft One existing aircraft skin with your name below the canopy One custom paint scheme for the aircraft of your choice $2,000 Diamond Backer credit in manuals All aircraft and print-ready PDF manual Normandy Map Normandy Map Alpha access Copy of any Eagle Dynamics developed DCS product TFC Polo Shirt TFC hat and calendar Two keys for each aircraft One existing aircraft skin with your name below the canopy One custom paint scheme for the aircraft of your choice Your face on the pilot model of your plane of choice

I think Brazil have been shocking - 5-0 after 29 mins!!

At least someone was awake!

None of it's a surprise to me really - the project figures they came up with must have been based on blind optimism. A shame for Ilya - the promo videos were not exactly pro but he seemed to have a passion for it. At the end of the day you either need the money or do it as a hobby for free.

Fake but pretty good

The wait will be worth it - look at the quality I hope they go on to do another project after this despite the hardship - even if its just the MiG-21F-13 or something.

Didn't realize - the Naming ceremony took place today: That F-35 (model?) is the only things thats going to be on there for a few years.

Good find - had no idea this had happened

But like the man says in the video you can fit 3 football pitches on it - our teams need all the practice they can get!

Oh what - whens this gonna be done?

How did we get by without this............ http://www.geek.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/original.jpg (beware large image)

That was a mad extra time period - Tim Howard was was simply amazing!

Not cancelled yet...........

No doubt they will be sending you a PM with thanks for such a great idea. They look in better nick than the other lot - these one fly

Would say u that there must be some missing lines in the ini files considering the games you have. Transparent - could be a bad install - could be graphics related whats your system - can you post dxdiag.exe output?

Funky http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=879_1404076874

Unlikely - must be some vets about from the 80s they can call out of retirement? Think they might have to hire some Mercs to fly them.

Might take a while to rebuild these - hope they come with a massive tube of super glue

The Royal Malaysian Air Force and the United States Air Force engage in an air combat exercise called Cope Taufan. Haris Hussain joins the ‘furball’ “FIGHT’s on! Fight’s on!” ‘Mogwai’ immediately picks up his target off the port side. He’s chugging along at a fairly fast clip. Together, the closure speed of both aircraft is nudging north of 900 knots. As the two fighters merge and pass within an eyelash of each other in a blur of black and grey, Mogwai doesn’t even have time to flinch as he rolls the jet, yanks the control stick back into his gut and reefs his big fighter into an eye-wateringly tight left turn. G-forces rip into his body and Mogwai sucks in a lungful of oxygen as he cranes his neck to keep his adversary, a United States Air Force Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor, square in his sights. He works the throttles and makes constant changes to the engine settings. His eyes are fixed on the target but one eyeball is cocked to the airspeed reading on his heads-up display (HUD). At this turn rate, he’s bleeding off airspeed and energy like they’re going out of style. Dogfighting is all about energy management. The two jets are in a classic turning fight at 15,000 feet (4.57km) over the air combat range in Grik, Perak. Mogwai and ‘Smegs’, his weapons systems officer (whizzo in RMAF parlance), are flying the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s latest and most capable aircraft, the Sukhoi Su-30MKM Super Flanker multirole fighter. Outside, the twin nozzles of their thrust-vectoring Lyulka AL-31FP engines crank up at a crazy angle and Mogwai begins to “walk up” the nose of his huge fighter onto the Raptor’s centre fuselage. Up front, Mogwai eyeballs the Raptor, which is also blessed with thrust-vector control, but only in the pitch plane. The target designator box (TDB) on his HUD is locked onto the stealth fighter. The trick now is for Mogwai to bring the “pipper” or gunsight square inside the TDB before he can squeeze off a shot. In the back seat, Smegs provides a running commentary of the unfolding fight. “Makan dia! Makan dia, beb! Lagi! Lagi! Lagi!” Smegs yells into the hot mike in his Ulmer oxygen mask. His job is that of part tactician, analysing the threat picture, part cheerleader, pushing his pilot on, and as an extra pair of eyes for Mogwai. This particular evolution is a 1v1 (one-versus-one) engagement, which calls for the employment of short-range air-to-air missiles or guns. The Raptor is armed with the AIM-9M Sidewinder heat-homer and an internal, six-barrel, Gatling-type 20mm M-61A Vulcan cannon. The Super Flanker is carrying the super-agile Vympel R-73 Archer air-to-air missile and has the 30mm, single-barrel Gsh-301 cannon embedded in the starboard leading edge root extension (LERX). Launching off from Fightertown RMAF Butterworth, this is the second engagement for the two fighters as part of the biggest air combat exercise in the country. Called Cope Taufan, the joint biennial exercise between the RMAF and the USAF is primarily to enhance bilateral training in a realistic environment, ramp up combined readiness, and improve interoperatability between the two fighting forces. In the first “hop” earlier, the advantage went to the Sukhoi boys. Because both aircraft were still hauling bags of gas, the exercise director gave the go-ahead for another fight. ‘GUNS,GUNS,GUNS!’ The outcome of a dogfight hinges on a number of things — the aircraft’s aerodynamic and engine performance, fuel load, the position of the sun, the individual aircrews’ learning curve and the ability to adapt and react to a fluid and rapidly changing set of circumstances. The advantage enjoyed by one aircrew could be lost and shift over to the adversary in the blink of an eye. A gun track can last only one or two seconds. Miss that shot and you’re toast. Just as Mogwai is close to getting a gun solution on the Raptor, the USAF pilot rolls his jet level and pitches the nose up in a high-G manoeuvre. Vortices stream from his wing root as moisture is literally squeezed from the air. The American plugs the afterburners on his twin Pratt and Whitney F-119 turbofan engines and his nozzles belch out tongues of blue flame. He goes vertical and grabs sky like a homesick angel. “Pacak! Pacak! Dia pacak, bai!” screams Smegs, as he instinctively grabs the speed handles on his instrument panel in anticipation of the onslaught of Gs. Pacak, in RMAF fighter lingo, is to go vertical. Mogwai sees the move but he’s nanoseconds too late. The Raptor has so much excess thrust that by the time Mogwai bangs on the throttles and selects Zone 5 on the afterburner, he and Smegs might just as well have been talking to themselves because the Raptor is looong gone... STEEP LEARNING CURVE Back on the ground, the RMAF pilots whom Life&Times spoke to said the training and experience they received in the two weeks of Cope Taufan was invaluable. “The objective of these types of exercises is not to see who wins or loses. It’s more of an opportunity for us to learn new things and expand our mission scenarios and capabilities. It also gives us a chance to validate our procedures,” said a Super Flanker pilot. Sometimes, they have to make things up as they go along. For instance, fighter pilots use what is called EM or energy manoeuvring charts to figure out how best to tackle an adversary. “We had EM charts on the F-15s but had nothing on the Raptors, since it is still highly classified. So we had to rely on other sources, go online and even make educated guesses based on the aircraft design to come up with a plan to capitalise on its weaknesses,” added the Sukhoi driver. “There were a lot of things that we learnt from the Americans. The use of large force employment, planning of strike packages and, overall, how to use our forces effectively were some of the lessons we learnt from Cope Taufan,” added an F/A-18D Hornet pilot with No 18 Squadron, based in Butterworth. A MiG-29N fighter pilot with the famed Smokey Bandits squadron, home ported in RMAF Kuantan, summed it up best. “Bro, both sides’ learning curve went right through the roof. On the first day! We both went home with a mutual and healthy respect for each other’s capabilities. And to have these (USAF) guys say that we were s*** hot is the biggest compliment you could give a fighter jock.” Note: For security reasons, the call signs of the aircrew are fictitious and the engagement is a composite of several dogfights as recounted by RMAF pilots. Star attractions THE star attractions for this edition of Cope Taufan were undoubtedly the United States Air Force’s Lockheed Martin F-22A Raptor and the Royal Malaysian Air Force’s Sukhoi Su-30MKM Super Flanker multirole fighter. For the Americans, the Su-30 is an exotic beast, blessed with immense power and agility. The Russian type’s nose-pointing ability, thanks to its thrust-vector and fly-by-wire flight control system, is second-to-none. If there’s one aircraft that can pose a serious threat to the USAF in the air-to-air arena, it would be this baby. On the flip side, the prospect of going head-to-head with the world’s only fully operational, fifth-generation stealth fighter sent RMAF pilots into a tizzy. Many were itching to go up against this much-vaunted fighter. Although the results of the engagements were classified, it was learnt that several RMAF jet jocks acquitted themselves well against the Raptor. The F-22As are from the 154th Wing, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii and are the only Air National Guard unit equipped with the type. They were joined by a number of Boeing F-15C Eagles from the 131st Fighter Squadron, 104th Fighter Wing, Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, and other support units. While RMAF pilots had tangled with the Eagles in previous exercises, Cope Taufan 2014 was the Raptors’ first outing in Southeast Asia. Cope Taufan is a biennial large force employment exercise designed to improve the US’s and Malaysia’s combined readiness.This year’s edition from June 9-20, collectively involved close to 1,000 personnel. http://www.nst.com.my/node/7204?d=1

Good predictions - I might take Costa Rica over Greece on current form

Some points I found discussing some of Spreys comments in the video. The F-15 Is Loaded Up With A Bunch Of Junk... A Bunch Of Electronic Stuff That Has No Relevance To Combat ..........Then there is the undeniable combat record of the Eagle, yet Mr. Sprey seems to think that the F-15 is a loser even after four decades of incredible success, not to mention the fact that it has never been bested in air-to-air combat and retains a kill ration of 105.5 to 0. This denial of clear historical reality is a startling indication that Mr. Sprey may be living in the 1970s when it comes to air-combat doctrine, or maybe he simply does not want to admit that his stripped down, all super-maneuverable light-weight visual fighters or nothing initiative was not the right path for America's air combat forces after all. The fact is that the F-16, the same aircraft that Mr. Sprey is said to have had such a great input into during its genesis, has gained thousands of pounds in avionics, targeting pods, fuel tanks and other "frivolous junk" continuously since its introduction into service and some see this as a testament to how inaccurate his light-weight fighter prophesies of the 1970s were. Mr. Sprey's views are questionable considering that the F-15 remains more deadly than ever even after forty years of continuous service in the USAF, not to mention that its even more complicated and heavy brother, the F-15E Strike Eagle, is the most all-around useful machine that the USAF has in its inventory. Additionally, the F-15 Strike Eagle derivatives are still thought of as one of the top-of-the-line fighter aircraft available on the world market today. Bottom-line, the idea that Mr. Sprey still thinks the F-15 is a dog when every metric and battle has proven him otherwise is more indicative of a character flaw than an argumentative one. 'The Marines Have This Mindless Passion Now, Recently, For Vertical Takeoff Airplanes' Is Pierre Sprey really Doc Brown who traded in his Delorean for a time traveling F-16 that runs on banana peels and flux capacitors? FACT: The USMC introduced the AV-8A Harrier in 1971 and it has been a mainstay of their air arm ever since. Much of the Marine's combined arms combat doctrine is built around a STOVL capable fixed-wing attack platform. So the Marine's STOVL requirement is not something that is going to go away anytime soon, nor should it, regardless of the F-35 debate. http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pierre-spreys-anti-f-35-diatribe-is-half-brilliant-and-1592445665

ha - any weight that's not associated with what PS wants on his jets is very bad as we know. EOTS (AN/AAQ-40) is pretty much a combined Sniper TGP and IRST from what I know - I cant see it being bad considering how good some of the older systems were . But the ultimate frustration for the Air Force was often the Critics simply did not tell the truth. The most prominent but by no means only example of this was when the Critics said that the AIM-7 was not useful in BVR combat because the Air Force did not have a system that could identify a radar target as an enemy aircraft. In fact, such long range identification systems had been available since World War II, and an Air Force system, called Combat Tree, had been used successfully in Vietnam from 1971-1973. Additionally, a newer and even more effective long-range identification system, called Non-Cooperative Target Recognition (NCTR) had been developed for the F-15 to use with the AMRAAM. Sprey had worked on fighters in DoD since the mid-60s and certainly knew that Combat Tree and its follow on systems existed, but to make his point against the AIM-7 he ignored it, as did Spinney, another DoD employee very familiar with weapons systems.73 Because Combat Tree and the NCTR systems were classified, the Air Force could not publicly counter the Critics false contention that Air Force fighters with radar missiles had no way to identify targets at long range. One is left to wonder if the Critics deliberately made this false argument knowing that, because of classification, the Air Force would not refute it. (THE REVOLT OF THE MAJORS: HOW THE AIR FORCE CHANGED AFTER VIETNAM (Marshall L Michell III, 2006)