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Sprey was a very outspoken civilian defense analyst at the Pentagon in the 60s/70s - he had no Military experience prior that. His main involvement was with the A-x (which became A-10) - Coram credited him with writing specifications for it and leading a technical design team. He was part of the Fighter Mafia with 2 ex pilots John Boyd and Everest Riccioni and It is very hazy what if anything he had to do with the F-15 and F-16 apart from try and push their argument for a Light Weight Fighter concept. These guys it seems were in a position to influence and specify initial requirements - but not much else. Luckily the A-10 was the only one of their concepts that made it to production. Some points from Coram - states Sprey wanted the F-16 to have less fuel (for more performance) - which Boyd rejected, that the F-15 engine was not good enough for the F-16 , credits him with working with Boyd on Draft LWF plans (what putting his name on them?) If I find evidence on where he has admitted he has been wrong on anything he said I will let you know. Regarding the YF-16 from http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=131 The YF-16 Design The General Dynamics Model 401, as the YF-16 was known in-house, was the product of a lengthy design study and wind tunnel test program that had been executed during the preliminary discussion days with John Boyd, test pilot and defense analyst Col. Everest Riccioni, and by the General Dynamics chief project engineer Harry Hillaker, who had guided the project through several years of low-level company support. To perform the prototype contract, company vice president and program director Lyman Josephs and director of engineering William Dietz were assigned to the program in November 1971. Additionally, a total of 650 personnel participated in detail design and fabrication of the prototypes. The project was divided into twenty-eight work breakdown structure elements, with a manager responsible for engineering, tooling, fabrication, and assembly budget in each element. The concept of the YF-16, as formulated by Hillaker, involved the prudent application of integrated advanced technologies and design innovations to achieve an aircraft that could satisfy the conflicting requirements of high performance and low cost. Emphasis was placed on small size and low weight in the selection of technologies to realize the best balance of combat capability (turn rate and acceleration) and lowest possible mission weight............... http://www.codeonemagazine.com/article.html?item_id=131

hmm.......... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-28042302 Iraq's Prime Minister Nouri Maliki has told the BBC that he hopes jets from Russia and Belarus will turn the tide against rebels in the coming days. "God willing within one week this force will be effective and will destroy the terrorists' dens," he said. He said that the process of buying US jets had been "long-winded" and that the militants' advance could have been avoided if air cover had been in place. Isis and its Sunni Muslim allies seized large parts of Iraq this month. Mr Maliki was speaking to the BBC's Arabic service in his first interview for an international broadcaster since Isis - the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant - began its major offensive. "I'll be frank and say that we were deluded when we signed the contract [with the US]," Mr Maliki said. "We should have sought to buy other jet fighters like British, French and Russian to secure the air cover for our forces; if we had air cover we would have averted what had happened," he went on. He said Iraq was acquiring second-hand jet fighters from Russia and Belarus "that should arrive in Iraq in two or three days".

These things are expected to happen really - expect a few crashes as well before IOC I have been doing more research into Pierre Sprey past Corams Boyd - and it doesnt look good - seems he has been ranting similar clueless crap for many years.

hmmm trash journalism at its best? North Korea has promised "merciless" retaliation if a forthcoming Hollywood movie about killing Kim Jong-un is released, say agencies. A North Korean foreign ministry spokesman said in state media that the movie's release would be an "act of war". He did not mention the title, but a Hollywood movie called The Interview with a similar plot is due in October. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28014069

Definitely with Suarez in the team. He has snapped like that before but its a bit weird - Italy's defenders were winding him up for most of the match and it nearly paid off!

Posted a review a while back - looks like a winner for flight fans! http://combatace.com/topic/82905-new-aircraft-simulator/

Hmm - well remains to be seen if the code is more optimized or whether they do a TW and just hope everyone is happy to upgrade again Waiting for the Nvidia 880 to come out myself..........

USA nearly did it and were far better IMO - great to watch for the neutral. Germany are top class for sure - but anything can happen in Football..........

No - you would need to use FRAPs or something similar

Always comes down to where you hit it I guess - its certainly overmoddled if you take DCS P-51 as accurate in that regards An adjustment of the gun data can probably be done to reduce effectiveness - more akin to First Eagles Have looked into this before - its almost like the A6M Zero verses the Hellcat Have looked into this before - seems almost like the A6M Zero Vs F6 Hellcat but reversed! The F-86 had a better gunsight - but needed it to put in the required amount of ammo.

Traced the photo source back to the RAF site http://www.raf.mod.uk/news/archive/baltic-air-policing-18062014 another

Laugh or cry?

If you have access to BBC iPlayer - nice intro to WW1 dogfighting http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0211xzr/ww1-uncut-8-combat-in-the-skies

I was thinking that it didn't look right before I posted it - are you sure? The Su looks a lot brighter for sure - should look like this

Born as a long range escort fighter for U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command (SAC) bombers, the McDonnell F-101 was developed in several versions. Both were involved in the Cuban Missile Crisis. The McDonnell F-101 Voodoo was a supersonic fighter plane which flew with the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF). The F-101B was configured as a two seat interceptor for the Air Defense Command (ADC), the F-101C was used as tactical bomber relying on its beefed-up structure, and the RF-101C was the tactical reconnaissance version of the F-101C. These three models were used or kept on alert during the tense moments of the Cuban Missile Crisis. When a U-2 revealed the presence of the Soviet R-12 (SS-4 in NATO designation) theater ballistic missile sites in Cuba on Oct. 14 1962, post-mission analysis highlighted the presence of SA-2 surface to air missiles. With several SAM batteries surrounding Cuban missile sites, subsequent reconnaissance missions had to be flown by fast tactical aircraft flying low level “recce” missions. Tactical Air Command (TAC) RF-101As and Cs as well as by U.S. Navy RF-8A Crusaders were tasked to spy on Soviet progress on the island. Image credit: U.S. Air Force After President Kennedy announced that photos from American reconnaissance planes had disclosed the presence of Soviet surface to surface missile armed with nuclear warhead at Cuba, U.S. homeland air defense forces were put on heightened alert status, preparing for the imminent war. “In the Air Force, while our bombers reinforced their around the clock airborne alert flights, fighters deployed to and near Florida, in preparation for tactical strikes, while our air defense units sent interceptors to emergency fields, for both survival and readiness should Soviet bombers attack,” Jonathan Myer, an F-101B pilot, recalls in Ted Spitzmiller’s “Century Series The USAF Quest for air supremacy 1950-1960” book. “I remember our 13th FIS (Fighter Interceptor Squadron) aircrews listening tensely to President Kennedy’s October 22nd speech, as some of us prepared to deploy from Glasgow AFB (Air Force Base), Montana, to the municipal airport at Billings.” The deployment was accomplished with the F-101Bs loaded with both the pair of AIR-2A Genie unguided rockets with nuclear warheads and the pair of infrared-homing AIM-4C Falcon missiles, mounted in the “rotodoor” (the F-101B weapons bay’s rotary armament door). “We flew there fully loaded, in pairs and with our AIR-2A nucs and IR missiles ready for war, while maintenance and supplies followed by truck. Landing on Billings’ unprepared runway incurred a few cut tires, while our makeshift alert area was cordoned off and a 24 hour phone alert set up in a hangar. […] Fortunately, no Soviet escalation ensued and a couple of weeks later we returned to Glasgow to resume regular alert and training,” Myers says. Bon Hanson was instead an 81st TFW (Tactical Fighter Wing) F-101C driver, who gave his account to Spitzmiller, explaining the preparations for a nuclear strike mission that had to be undertaken across the Atlantic Ocean, after the take off from RAF Bentwaters: “I was on alert the day the Cuban Missile Crisis balloon went up. It was around 0900, and we went to RED cockpit alert until nightfall, and then reverted to 15 min. But, initially we really thought we were going! And for the next week or more the whole wing was loaded and ready to launch! It was serious!” Eventually, the Soviets withdrew their missiles from Cuba and the U.S. removed their Jupiter missiles from Turkey and later from Italy, thus avoiding World War III. RF-101C Voodoos flew the reconnaissance flights that the provided Washington the required evidence that Soviet nuclear missile site were being removed from Cuba. Top image credit: U.S. Air Force via Aircraftinformation.info http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/20/f-101-voodoo-cuban-crisis/

Aerial combat between U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptors and F-15 Eagles, seen from the inside. The image in this post was taken from a U.S. Air Force F-15 Eagle from the 131st Fighter Squadron, 104th Fighter Wing, Barnes Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, during a close range aerial combat exercise against a U.S. Air Force F-22 Raptor from the 154th Wing, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. You can clearly see the two planes maneuvering at very close range, pulling Gs, with the F-22 releasing flares counter measures against (simulated) heat seeking air-to-air missiles. The dogfight took place off the coast of Penang, Malaysia, Jun. 16, 2014, during “Cope Taufan 2014″ a biennial LFE (large force employment) exercise taking place June 9 to 20 designed to improve U.S. and Malaysian combined readiness. Both aircraft are currently deployed to Royal Malaysian Air Force P.U. Butterworth, Malaysia. The exercise, that marks the F-22′s first deployment to Southeast Asia, featured also some interesting mixed formation between U.S. planes with Royal Malaysian Air Force MIG-29N Fulcrum, Su-30 and F-18 Hornet jets. Image credit: U.S. Air Force It’s not clear whether the F-22 has flown DACT (Dissimilar Air Combat Training) against Malaysian Migs or Sukhois; if this is the case, it would be interesting to know which ROE (Rules Of Engagement) were applied and the outcome of the confrontations between the Russian multirole planes and the U.S. most advanced fighters. http://theaviationist.com/2014/06/18/close-aerial-combat-f15-f22/

The Royal Air Force detachment flying Eurofighter Typhoons in support of NATO’s Baltic Air Policing (BAP) mission had an interesting day at the office in Lithuania earlier this week. On 17 June, the quick reaction alert at Siauliai air base was put into action, in response to “four separate groups of aircraft in international airspace near to the Baltic States”. These turned out to be a Russian air force training formation of a Tupolev Tu-22 bomber, Beriev A-50 airborne early warning aircraft, four Sukhoi Su-27s and an Antonov An-26 transport. The Crown Copyright image below shows how close a look the pair of RAF Typhoons took at their counterpart fighters, which the UK says were monitored and then “escorted on their way”. The RAF’s 3 Sqn has been supporting the current Polish air force-led BAP rotation at Siauliai since 1 May. http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/the-dewline/2014/06/name-su-27/

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There are a few photos of the Argentine A-4Cs having the 5 hardpoints as well as the one above - must have been upgraded before handing them over in the 70s

OK only lost again - but luckily all we need to do now is hope Italy beat both Costa Rica and Uruguay - then we have to beat Costa Rica about 4 nil

Looks to be correct - wonder if they got a new wing Their A-Bs (A-4P/Q) still looks to have the 3 A-4C Some other upgraded C/Ls A-4SU A-4PTM

Chile were good - but Spain looked like they would rather be on a beach

Not in anything I have outside of test firings the A-4E can though which is my fave version Argentina had a few Cs - just thinking where they would fit outside of Vietnam