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Hi folks, long time I've dreamed about to make a website and introduce Lock-On in Turkey than get people who's interest with it. Now the dream is real and its rising. English side is going to build for our foreigner buddys soon. Turkish or whatever just all welcome. :drink: www.lockontr.com

Yeah, same here. This is the very reason I don't fly LOCKON anymore or if I do (and that is very, very rare) I fly with just a few guys I like. Forget hyperlobby, its just a festival of insults. This forum seems to be turning into that as well....I mean when you get old timers (like the ones posting just above) hurtling insults left and right, its time to move on to other games and sims.:( Never thought I'd see the day the LOCKON community turned into the Falcon community.:cry:

I think Fraps works the same for all of us, it's just that you have to make your expectations fit *your* PC and the software's abilities. Fraps is doing a staggeringly difficult job when you consider the fact that LOMAC pretty much sucks up all the CPU and graphics power you can throw at it. Even with a dual core, 2.4GHz AMD and a fast, PCI-E bus graphics card (both of which help according to the Frap's creator, but nowhere near as much as I'd hoped) I set Fraps to record at 15fps (force it in the options). I fly at 800x600 with x2/x4fsaa (no fsaa is better but I dislike it enough to put up with the potential frame rate hit). I have LOMAC set to maximum settings except for viewing distance, and when I record I slow LOMAC down to 1/2 or -- usually -- 1/4 speed. That way I can usually get the frame rate to be fairly solid at 14-15fps. When recording a clip pause the action, start Fraps recording, let the frame rate settle (it sometimes takes a few seconds), then start LOMAC again. Making movies is hard work, and it took me many, many hours and lots of dodgy movies to work out you only win if you stop trying to fight the hardware. No two PCs are identical and there is no substitue whatsoever for putting in hours of work to find out how to get the best out of *your* setup. You may have to cut down on detail in LOMAC. You may have to fly at a resolution you dislike. You may have spend far longer than you ever hoped getting a single clip recorded smoothly. You may even have to record at 1/8th speed, accelerate that x4 in your editor, render that at full quality, then put it back into the editor to speed it up to normal. But that's life... just when you thought it couldn't get any more messy, complicated, or annoying it does! The only things anyone needs to make a movie are patience and perseverance. It's the 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration thing again. Get used to it. :-) Here endeth the lesson. Andrew McP

Here are some screenshots from China Central TV-7 Military Report afew days ago.Maybe ED can make a Taiwan terrian and sell to PLA.:thumbup:

The site is in Swedish! http://www.freewebs.com/swedenfighters/

I'm having really hard times while resisting to post few pages long post about Mi-28N vs. Ka-50/52 comparison. When it comes to helicopters, especially with Kamov involved I usualy flood the area:D The meaning of special operations is limited use of helicopters(3-4) vs small groups of terrorists in very complex terrain(high mountains with deep valeys). This imposes two requirements to the helicopter- high maneuvearbility and power efficiency(energy performance) and independant targeting capabilities. The coaxial rotor design of the Kamov helicopters leaves behind all kind of single rotor competition be it Mil or western built. The maneuvarability, easy controls along with tremendous rotor thrust available makes the Kamov most suitable for the task. This has been absolutely proved during the combat trials of the Ka-50 in Chenchnya in 1999-2000. However, those trials have shown the Kamov's weaknesses- the Shkval is meant to operate in the flat european landscape where it's stand-off range could be fully used. But for indipendant targets seek in complex terrain it has been almost useless- as been reported only 3 Vikhrs have been launched by the two Ka-50s during the entire operation, all three have been confirmed to hit their targets. The main weapons have been the S-8KO blast-fragmentation 80mm rockets and the gun. So the current Ka-50 has almost zero ability for a free hunt in mountain landscape especialy in night. AFAIK that's one of the reasons why the 52 has been developed. It should serve as a mini AWACS providing target data for 3-4 50s or attacking itself because it features the same weapons as the 50, even shown with other ordnance, which hawever hasn't been proved to be usable. So by 'dozens' I suppose they have meant 1 dozen. Because that actualy covers the initial info after the 28N won- they said that a short serie(12-15 pcs) of 50/52 mix(probable proportion 3:1 or 4:1) will be supplied for Spetznaz ops. But don't think that the road of the 28N is covered with roses. Not at all. I worked together with a Klimov design bureau representative last summer during TBO extension of Ka-32's gearboxes and I asked him a lot of things about this Mil/Kamov competition. I asked him about the 28's gearbox because I didn't actualy know who's making it. He said that it is a Mil design (all Kamov helicopters use Klimov gearboxes) and now after installing the more powerfull engines this gearbox has started to release chips(sign that you'll most probably have to replace it) after... 10 hours of operation. Which is a rediculous number for a single rotor helo. So they have huge problems with the main gearbox after they have installed the new VK-2500 engines and I haven't heard of any resolution of this problem nor any news about the serial production. What he also mentioned at the end was that like every military order in Russia the decision is first of all political. IMO the Ka-50/52 is more perspective than the Mi-28N and I'm sure the time will prove it.

CH is more durable and programable if not as good looking and has certain problems with buttons reach on the stick. X52 is also an Option, it will feel a bit awkward due to its loosness for those who are new to saitek stuff, I have MOD'ed mine to fix that but if you wary of doing that I reccomend you the CH for having a sturdy stick that works out of the box and outlast everything else without having to MOD it ever. I have analysed all both these sticks before in 2 threads: http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=15906&highlight=thunderdome http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=21199&highlight=improve

I personally use the Cougar and would recoment it to those tho like the best HOTAS out there in terms of programability and longevity, but be ware stock cougar does not have very good gimbals (at least in earlier batches) and most people having it also purchased moded gimbals, which are quite expensive. So if money is no issue go for the Cougar, but if you are not prepared to spend any more money on it I would recomend X52. Definitely get some rudder peddals and... TrackIR. That will vastly improve your flying skils and game immersion. Do a bit of research on www.frugalsworld.com forums to find out more about the Cougar itself. They have a forums dedicated for Cougar programming, technical issues, discussions, modding and what not else: http://forums.frugalsworld.com/vbb/forumdisplay.php?f=8

I don’t know… "dozens" of Ka-50s? The only official word on this matter was Sergey Ivanov's (Russian MoD) announcement on April 4th that the Arsenyev plant will be awarded contracts to upgrade in-service helicopters in addition to the recent (presumably the late 2006) order of new Ka-50s. No numbers were mentioned. The only official numbers came earlier in 2006, when it was announced that the defense procurement budged would include 12 new Ka-50/52 airframes (number per type unknown) through 2012. That would make what, two and a half airframes per year? An optimist would call this the return of the Black Shark. A realist would call this providing some cash flow and work for the firms involved. A pessimist would call this an opportunity for somebody to launder a few million dollars. Also, I don't believe any of the various single seat night-capable versions of the Ka-50 have gone beyond company prototype stage, so I would be surprized to see them entering service. The only night-capable Black Shark with a future is the Ka-52. On the other hand, there has been quite a buzz around the Ka-50/52 recently, so perhaps there are bigger plans. Here is the freshly repainted Ka-52 prototype: http://www.airforce.ru/photogallery/zinchuk/ka-52/page_03l.htm http://www.airforce.ru/photogallery/zinchuk/ka-52/page_04l.htm P.S. Mods, can we move this thread into "The Ka-50 Black Shark Thread" sticky, as the same news was reported there first, or vice versa.

Couple of questions on ECM Blinking: If you launch a 120 then lose TWS or STT then later reaquire the target will the updated track info be sent to the missile? (in lockon not RL), same question applies to semi-active missiles. Anybody know how HOJ is affected by blinking if you manage to get a shot off? Does it continue to track?

работай в Premiere - дешево и сердито, можешь обрезать, вырезать как только пожелаешь :thumbup:

Ты список пилотов РАФа видел? Их там немало.:D Лучше вместо РАФа брать USSR.:pilotfly: Там отборные пираты.:)

That bastard, Ming...he hit the printscreen button while I was blinking. I couldnt find the button to printscreen back so I shot all my flares in his face to slow his system to a crawl. He comes back with this scripted cobra BS and shoots an R-73 at me. Punkass...hes gonna be scrubbing my toilet out with his toothbrush tonight...

There was a bus load of chinese chaps (I wonder if it was the same guys:D ) who joined the virtually empty 504 server t'other day naturally I welcomed them all with a good selection of missiles all round:D They did have some connect issues though as there pings were all around the 600 mark.

You could use it as a basic training aircraft, just to learn flying, it is not ace combat or something and when you know absolute nothing about flying and just have looked topgun it would be nice to have a dedicated trainer, buy by the way a Su-25UTG would also be good for that:music_whistling:

http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=15600 Вот тут - очень хорошая кампания - из 5 частей )) там как раз с самого начала - прикольным сюжетом даже - Эпоха перемен называется http://www.akbis.narod.ru - тут тоже можно глянуть - там она есть