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Pilotasso, believe me when I say that I almost never reply to something similar to what you have posted here, but this time I really couldn't help myself. With all due respect, let me ask you a question: Are you serving in the Air Force? Do you have any internal and reliable intel about recent Russian Air Force and its capabilities? As people said here before, it's very shortsighted to underestimate Russian hardware. It may be of older technology, but it works. Indeed, you are right when you talk about age of their equipment but you make a huge mistake thinking that when something is of older technology, it automatically means it's bad or inefficient compared to current hardware. Actually, Alamo missile family is still considered a very serious threat to any contemporary fighter aircraft. Speaking of which, how many of your praised Meteor "state-of-the-art" missiles are in active service in Europe? And stealth, basically, makes an aircraft harder to detect and track, but doesn't make it invisible! As I stated many times before on this forum, it's a pilot what makes a difference in combat. A well trained MiG-21 pilot using good tactics would make a bad day for an average guy in Typhoon, Rafale or whatever airplane you like. Also, technology is about money and nothing else. PESA radar certainly lacks some capabilities of the AESA array, but it's much cheaper and easier to produce and maintain. Let yourself answer this questions: How many F-22s or Typhoons are currently fully combat capable? And how many Russian Flankers? If you like to discuss this further, be my guest.

You eject and live, but they find it's your fault and you have to pay for the aircraft for the rest of your life, working as a truck driver in Euro Truck Simulator :D

С другом записали фильмик из лок-он 1.12, фильм о Су-27. Записан в 2-х версиях http://www.patricksaviation.com/sim_videos/167/Flanker (89.29 MB) http://www.avsim.ru/files.phtml?action=download&id=6488 (16MB) наш первый фильм, поэтому ещё, конечно не таkой зрелищный, как у Glowing_Amraam,но всё же... Коментарии приветствуются :pilotfly:

Hello, thanks for the reply. First of all, let me apologize for my fuse going off a bit. :doh: Since we are doing the same business, I assume you are a professional, so let's get the obvious stuff out of the way. Concerning the age of the ammunition, I can tell you that some AIM-9M-9 Sidewinder missiles (refurbished from older versions) we are using are almost 20 (twenty!) years old, and they still perform perfectly (live fires - not one gone a dud). Alamo missiles are indeed old by technology and standards, but definitely not by capabilities. That exactly was my point. When I was mentioning numbers of F-22s and Typhoons against Flankers, I had in mind the actual COMBAT READINESS :), meaning how many of them are currently capable of performing missions (including trained pilots, of course). Absolute numbers don't matter at all. About TVC, I seriously doubt that any aircraft manufacturer would do his business with the TVC capable aircraft, if the TVC would significantly decay the airframe. There are indeed some limitations, but the FBW system could easily handle them and take over the controls if the aircraft was put to dangerous situation. I guess you will agree with me on this. Since your brother is a fighter pilot, please ask him if he ever performed some dissimilar air combat against a fighter like Gripen or MiG. My point is that having superior airplane capabilities doesn't actually mean winning every fight you get yourself into. In WVR fight, for example, there is a rule of thumb: Lose sight, lost the fight. And Gripen, in particular, is very hard to spot by Mark I Eyeball, trust me. And your radar doesn't lock it instantly, so you have to rely on your senses. Ask Hungarians about their experience. We could spend an entire week arguing about our opinions, but please, believe me when I say that having a cutting edge aircraft and weapons makes no difference at all if you don't have pilots that can really use them to their advantage. And for that matter, Russians know their own capabilities and are proficient at using them. That's what makes them dangerous adversaries.

or on the ET a popular alternative is f33l the L33Tn3ss!!!

This is the best one .. :thumbup:.

Ah Pilotasso ... Why do I get the feeling that if someone said the Russians make good vodka, you'd say the Americans invented it & make it better (& ask why anyone would want to drink Vodka anyway :-)

The best option that I found to that problem is to add a couple of lines in the lockon.bat. You will find that file on the LockOn folder. Open it with Notepad and add the lines in bold: (Before doing enything and just in case, make a BackUp for that file!) Save it Remember to change this E:\Program Files\NaturalPoint\TrackIR4\, for yout path to the TrackIr Software. Mine is installed in the E Hard Dirve, but if you did an estandar instalation you will need only to replace the E for a C. Basicaly, with the first line we are deleing the file in the Input Folder, with the second the one in the Config folder, with the third we are indicating the path to our Track Ir Software and with the last one in bold, we are running the TrackIr Software before Lomac. So everytime that you execute lockon.bat (is the one that I always use to run the sim) it will do everything (delete both files and execute TrackIr software before Lomac) with only one click! Hope it helps!

Whose "top ten" is that? Cos my personal Top 10 looks very much different... There are quiet few "top 10" and all of them far away from my top 10. Thou there is no one authentic top 10 made by helicopter pilots who have flown all 10 of them and can put them in correct spot on the list. Here are some of "some guy" top 10: http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=nydibvd1pAM http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=aUz9_V53VcU http://ru.youtube.com/watch?v=uncm23dOFBk&feature=related

so guys, here we go, one little update picture, sorry that i cannot provide a bigger one, but the model is not complete, only the maingear is missing, and then we have to check the model in our simmod team. there for only this little picture. sorry just wanted to provide you guys a picture cause last time it was mean only to show a picture of the shadowside so you guys could not see much of the bird :D let me say it this way, we are getting very very close to the wrapping part and the animation part of this model so if nothing goes wrong this bird will :pilotfly:in a few weeks so that you all can enjoy the bird in :joystick::spam_laser::gun_sniper::gun_smilie: greets boomer

yea.. in slowmo with pilot ejaculating just b4 the ka-50 fireballs :joystick: