Svetlin

United States Naval Test Pilot School Thank you for the skin, EricJ

Hi EricJ, have you considered making the USNTPS skin for the F/A-18F? I have come across pictures of just 4 aircraft in that scheme, numbered 00, 01, 02, 03 (00 is in the picture above).

@ trimmermedal833 Which stock weapon models are you looking to improve? Chances are we may already have better models of these weapons from our great modders here at CA. Have you checked the various weapons packs and standalone weapons in the downloads section? I myself hardly ever use the stock weapons anymore, considering we have much higher quality replacements.

Hm, that's an odd post. Frist, please make sure you are installing the mod correctly. I do not have any problem with it in my install. On a second note, did you see that the mod was released on January 30th, 2023? Considering the age of the game, this mod is still hot out of the oven. So, not sure what you have in mind when asking if it is still updated for SF2...

1949 - Su-15 (first fighter with that designation, not to be confused with the serial Su-15 from 1963) 2000 - X-32 If we ignored that fact that the Su-15 was designed and first flew in the Soviet Union in 1949, while the X-32 was designed and first flew in the USA in 2000, these look to me just like grand-grandpa and grand-grandson

Perhaps because TK wanted to add some features at some point, but never got around to actually doing it...

One more suggestion, if I may - KAI T-50 (TA-50) (F/A-50)

I believe bazillius means that if we are to choose between trainers and prototype aircraft and X planes, then trainers should win the vote and I agree with him on that point. I also agree that in the end the winner should not be some obscure model with limited use, but one that will be interesting and usefull to most members here. Also I would vote for a model, that can be made accurate with minimum compromise within the available resources. Let's take the Su-34 as an example. I would love to have it in game, but first we have the cockpit issue - a Su-34 with F-111 or B-1B cockpit - no, thanks, I'd rather have something else. Then we also have the various pylon and rail taypes used on the Su-34 for A2A, A2G missiles, bombs, drop tanks, etc. I doubt many modders would be interested and would spend the time needed to model all correct pylons and rails for the Su-34 and having bombs loaded on missile rails or missiles on bomb pylons is a no-go for me. In other words, I would perefer something less complicated, but accurately modeled, than something very complicated, but inaccurate or highly compromised.

Hi, EricJ, yes, I am aware of the SFP1 MiG-23UB, however it has issues and is not on par even with the stock TW MiG-23s. Same with the SFP1 MiG-21UM.

I would love to see more 2-seater trainer aircraft. So, Hawker Hunter T7/T8 (finding a suitable cockpit from what is already available might be an issue with this one), Grumman F9F-8T, 2-seater EurofighterTyphoon, MiG-21U/US/UM, MiG-23U/UB, CASA C-101. I would be happy to see anyone of these.

There are several screenshots, published here on CA by yakarov79, indicating he has been working on a TAV-8B for a while already.

Peoples Republic of Bulgaria Air Force MiG-21M 1980s style heading to intercept

alexis99, I do not have this problem in my install and I have not modified the Rafale in any way. Could it be that you are using a different Damocles pod, not the one that came with the mod? The Damocles pod is built into the aircraft model, so for it to work properly, you need to use the weapon/pod from the file.

Ravenclaw is the best person to go to as usual. He has created the excellent 275-gal drop tank, built into the NF-5A model by Sophocles. Perhaps you could talk with Ravenclaw, he surely has the dimensions since he has already created a model of the drop tank. Having personally seen how generous Ravenclaw is, I would not be surprised if he decides to save you time and provides you the ready model of the tank to incorporate into the Mirage F1.

Nose gear is different too - single wheel on the Su-27UB and 2 wheels on the Su-30. The number of pylons under the wings is also different - Su-27UB does not have the innermost pylons (see the picture below, the innermost pylons in the Su-30 drawing are loaded with red Kh-29 missiles):

Well, these are definitely F-5 275 gal drop tanks: The fact that all pictures from various angles represent just 1 airframe (3-6403) supports the theory that this could be just an experiment. I was unable to find pictures of other airframes fitted with such tanks. On the other hand fitting F-5 drop tanks to Mirage F1 in Iran makes a lot of sense considering how much IRIAF is exploiting the F-5 models, even to the extent of making their own variants - Azarakhsh, Saeqeh and Saeqeh-2. I would vote to implement both types, so players could choose on their own what to fit during a mission. In my opinion that would not be what-if territory. Can't wait for the Mirage F-1CT though, I am so happy it is its turn now.

For the NAVY F-4s, you will not find a better drop tank than the one, which is built into the stock models. All other drop tanks, that come from one of the weapon packs are actually older and not much of an improvement. Same stands for the stock USAF F-4C/D. Now, for the F-4E variants we are lucky to have the Ravenclaw's models and these come with excellent built-in drop tanks (could it be otherwise with a Ravenclaw's model!?).

MiG-21MF with APU-13U launch rails for the R-3R missiles, oh I do like that! Nice touch there.

I would love to see and fly in SF2 a better MiG-21U/US/UM model than the one available.

I guess a very brief description of the differences would be that provided in Wikipedia for EQ-6 - new Sherloc digital RWR, new Cyrano IV-SP1 radar, and capable of carrying two Exocet missiles at once. 30 built Mirage F1EQ-5 is capable of carrying a single Exocet under the fuselage. Other sources indicate Cyrano IV-MR radar with terrain avoidance capability for the EQ-6. An interesting piece of information on the EQ-6, that I came across, is that back in 1989 those were equipped with rails to carry and launch Kh-29L soviet/russian laser guided A2G missiles. On a different note, I am happy to see new Mirage F1 variants with later cockpits and more recce, ECM, etc. pods included in the weapons list, so I hope we are close to the moment when it will be time for updated Mirage F1CT/CR versions.

Thanks for the mod, Kevin, greatly appreciated. I am by no means an F-16 expert and I may be wrong, but I think there are a couple of errors with the new models of the F-16A/B ADF variant - I would say the shape of the tail fin is wrong on both the A and B ADF models. F-16A/B aircraft had the shorter and narrower triangular base for the tail fin. The wider and longer triangular base was introduced with the F-16C/D Blk25 aircraft. By looking at the F-16A/B ADF models in this mod, I would say they have the F-16C/D longer and wider triangular base for the tail fin with the ADF specific side bluges added and blade antenna removed. On a second note, according to the F-16.net site, the F-16B ADF differed from the F-16A ADF not only in being a 2-seater, but also in the lack of a Bendix-King AN/ARC-200 high freqeuncy single-sideband radio. The radio, being installed in the leading edge of the tail fin of the F-16A ADF lead to the flight control accumulators being relocated to the side of the tail fin. To provide sufficient space for the flight control accumulators, 2 long bulges appeared to the side of the F-16A ADF tail fin. Since the F-16B ADF did not have a Bendix-King radio installed, the flight control accumulators were kept in their original location and so no side bulges were needed for the tail fin. It means, that the F-16B ADF looked much like the F-16B Blk15 OCU with just the "bird-slicer" antenna added in front of the cockpit and in front of the front landing gear well. I have attached a couple of pictures of real F-16B ADF and a few screenshots from Mue's tool - of the F-16B ADF from this mod, of the previous F-16A ADF model from TMF, of the F-16C Blk25 with the blade antenna hidden for the purposes of illustrating my point, of the F-16B Blk15 OCU model and a couple of scrreenshots from the front to illustrate the incorrectly shaped wider triangular base of the F-16B ADF model compared with the F-16B Blk15 OCU model. I think the older F-16A ADF from TMF had the correct size and shape of the triangular base of the tail fin and the F-16B ADF should have the same size shape but without side bulges. I hope I will be excused for the nit-picking. Kind regards, Svetlin

That's great. Love to see 2-searers. I wonder what kind of mischief the guys in the cockpit did to deserve a no-seat-flight punishment. Technicians must have been mad at them.

No disrespect, but if I were you, I would not take all pictures as pure truth. I do not mean you are looking at a fake picture. It seems to me the aircraft on the picture is being prepared for an exhibition or something similar and is being loaded for show purposes, not necessarily for practical purposes in an actual warfare. I am not an expert and I might be wrong, but there seems to be too liitle clearance between the AIM-9s and the rocket pods. The other thing that is making me look with a suspicious eye is that in the picture you have a TER loaded with 2 rocket pods and a bomb at the same time. I have not seen other examples of such mixed load on a TER. Until someone knowledgeable or experienced says otherwise, or until I saw inflight pictures of such load on an aircraft during a real mission, I would rather consider this load as an unrealistic one, just for show purposes. Again, I mean no disrespect.

Take a look at that picture: You will notice that the Matra Magic missile is loaded on an angled rail. As far as I know the anlgled rail was for French IRMs and the straight one was for AIM-9s. Probably the Magic missile needed bigger separatiion from the inner pylon stores. I am thinking of those bomb-carrying fuel tanks, that had bombs hanging on the sides, designation RPK-10.

OMG, absolutely love it! Please apply the same magnificent treatment also to the RPL-501/502 and the RPL-522, if you have the time of course.