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Ka-52 Walk Around http://vanveken.blogspot.com/2011/08/52-ka-52-walk-around.html http://vanveken.blogspot.com/2011/08/52-ka-52-walk-around_16.html Video http://vanveken.blogspot.com/2011/08/52-cocpit-of-ka-52.html

look at this stuff!!!

Now, this is no ****! Towards the end of the AIM/ACE -- EVAL, things had heated up between the Eagle and Turkey pilots. At the Nellis O’club many innuendoes and challenges had been thrown out as a result of the high profile dog fights between the Tomcat/Eagle Blue Force and the F-5Es. The Blue Force F-15 drivers were threatened with a court martial, flying rubber dog **** outta Hong Kong and having their birthday taken away if they even thought about locking horns with ACEVAL Tomcats. When the test sorties were finally over, a couple of F-15 instructors in the 415th training squadron took the bait. “Turk” Pentecost and I were a section. Turk was not nearly as cocky, arrogant and boisterous as D-Hose, but just as aggressive, smart, devious and just as good a stick. We briefed a very wide hook, an altitude split of 10k ft. and a radar sort @ 25nm by Bill “Hill Billy” Hill and “Fearless” Frank Schumacher. All pre-merge heat and radar missiles didn’t count. It was GUNS only at the merge. The wide hook enabled Turk and D-Hose to split the fight into (2)1v1’s, with one Turkey high, one low and lots of lateral separation. As Hill Billy and D-hose closed for a 250ft, guns kill on their Eagle, the comm went like this: D-hose: "Where are you Turk?" Fearless: "Right above you Hoser" D-hose: "We got two cons! Who’s out front?" Turk (mildly offended): "Who do ya think?" Both Eagles were gunned, “knock it off” was called, and the Tomcats RTB’d with a 500 knot, 6.5g, half second break at Nellis…cuz that was our salute and tribute to our fine VX-4 maintenance personnel. Knowing the gun camera film would be destroyed by the Nellis Photo lab, it was covertly sent to a secret contact at Grumman for processing. Bout a month later, December 6, the door slams open and General Knight, with 2 of his staff, doggie wobble heads entered demanding to know “who and where are Hoser and Turk?” Falcon (J.W. Taylor), OinC, stepped up asking if he could be of assistance. The General respondes with, “Your fighter jocks have no idea how their playful antics affect important political decisions!” Well, as General Knight proceeded to explain, Japan had contracted for twenty one F-15s, but an article in Aviation Week had talked about the F-14 being superior to the Eagle. With gun camera film to prove it, Japan was considering buying F-14s instead. The General told JW he wanted ALL copies of the gun camera film, the TVSU/VCR tapes, and audio recordings on his desk by 0900 the next day. He was obviously ****** when he arrived, but as a result of the humility and contrition displayed by Turk and D-hose, he was satisfied that his mission was accomplished. Of course, D-hose and Turk didn’t want to embarrass the F-15 community, and they never mentioned the incident again…UNTIL NOW! ……. A few months later at a VX-4 at JW’s , D-Hose sez “Hey Falcon, I know ya got a copy of that 16mm gun film,,,, how bout it? JW bugs for a few and returns with film I have in my hand right now. PS: The 8” x 10” single frame of the 16 mm gun film on my bulkhead in my ‘ war room’ shows a F-15 thru a F-14 HUD, radar lock, @250ft, Vc zero, piper on the pilot’s helmet, gun selected, No X over the ‘G’ = master arm on = half detent on trigger depressed, (which activates gun camera and opens the gun gass purge doors) with… Zero rounds remaining……. Good Thing!!!

Recently picked up this sim and wanted to say how impressed I am by the realism that I have seen so far. I am an E-2C Hawkeye NFO and, being fairly new to military flight sims, hearing a CAS 9-line line from the JTAC was pretty crazy. Working in the ABCCC world, I was interested to see how a flight simulator would handle it and so far I am pretty optimistic. In fact it will be interesting to see how far it will go before hitting the classified ceiling. Again, I am loving what I am seeing so far and look forward to seeing more. Now all I have to do is figure out how to configure my controller to handle all these key commands! Look forward to hearing from you all.

Two beauties playing together: 5HUBPRGjBCQ

Croatian Air Force patches There is a problem with these patches, as there was very little official about them during early period of CroAF - the one to which two-tone cammo is related. Pilots had patches of their own, ground crew different patches, and since MiG-21 was based at two Air bases, each airbase had a patch of their own. Each pilot, ground crew or any other person working at the base (and NOT related to aircraft) tend to display those patches in various ways, regarding position, design, layout. On top of that, same thing happened to CroAF (general) patch, Croatian flags, crests and any other patch. And, cos CroAF was established during the peak of Croatian Independence War, there was a lot of bureaucratic disorganization and confusion regarding correct numbering, names and layouts. For example, 21st FS patch displays number "1", and so on... In short, there were TWO squadrons, and the best options are: 21. ELZ - Eskadrila lovačkih zrakoplova (21st Fighter Squadron), stationed at 91st AB Pleso, Zagreb 22. ELZ - Eskadrila lovačkih zrakoplova (22nd Fighter Squadron), stationed at 92nd AB Pula

Had the same opinion myself earlier but I've come to the conclusion that too much dashed stuff = baad :). Clutter. A previous suggestion here though with half icons for dlinked stuff I like more. Hollow/filled is also good. (perhaps it is why those things are used irl? ;)). Also dashed is bad from a programming point of view when you got different display sizes, resolutions, etc... Zoom levels and so on. Certainly it is doable, it's just ugly code though :P

Well: The ED F15 Strike Eagle have arround 2.800000 faces per fighter. The result is a very slow working simulation and a lot of frame troubles. I love the details of that beauty but it still have to work with "normally" hardware. So , thats my 2 cents, if you set a 500k limit for model, markings, damage model, numbers, lights and you bring the polycount down with LOD`s under 50k it should be working very fine. However: The work will need some time and the hardware limits grow up year per year. When the model will be complete its will work I`m sure. CU TOM

Ka-52 on low level http://vanveken.blogspot.com/2011/08/52-ka-52.html Example

aaron886 you don't know what you are talking about, you are off topic and you don't understand modeling. if you say he is a better modeler than i am, it's obvious you are off 3d max. i tell you something: 1.in modeling, 3d max has no secret for me, i earn money from max and i studied it at school for 5 years and i was working in max before school for another 5 years 2. i have 300k models too but i don't think that's a good thing for this sim, it is possible to insert them but i prefere to lower their number(that's smart and expert modeling) 3.if you have some doubt about the thing i'm an expert i show you my works, that you don't know about(personally pm me when you want to see) 4. it is the X time when you say offensive things to me, this being in contrast with your "pacifist attitude".when anybody else has a wrong attitude you are the first to make observation. i wonder when are you going to stop or when is your mouth going to be shut down?

I haven't flown the mission, but it reminds me of the Falcon 3.0 days with the Operation Fighting Tiger addon, in which we had to beat back the Russian amphibious assault on the Kuril Islands. Man I gave those Russian LCAC's hell...and the waves of AN-12's full of paratroopers too. I'm sorry, I blacked out there for a moment. What were we talking about?

Frostie I don't believe you are correct in thinking industrial production would be a factor in a 'WWIII' type situation. Basically the forces you have are only those on hand when the balloon goes up. Either the Soviets would reach their objective very quickly (Rhine and Channel Ports) since Western Europe is actually relatively small, or NATO would hold them and within a month the Soviets would start to run out of supplies (their units did not appeared geared for a prolonged war as NATOs were) which would get worse as time went on. By a second month of such a war the Soviet Cat II divisions may have made their way across Poland but this would be outweighed by the effect of US moving divisions across the Atlantic to the POMCUS sites and slower-moving divisions coming by sea (assuming the GIUK gap held and the Battle of the Atlantic was won by NATO [very likely]). As far as the air war goes, it takes far too long to train a modern pilot for anyone except the existing pilots to affect the outcome. In the case of a stalemate it would be too temping to use tactical nukes to break the deadlock and things would be resolved quickly one way of the other. Historical Notes: NATO publicly declared it would only use nukes if it had to, but wanted to avoid using them to prevent Germany from being devastated. The Warsaw Pact publicly declared it would not use nukes first but actually planned to use tac nukes in massive numbers, calculating that using them against NATO up to the Rhine would result in NATO using them along the Vistula against the second echelon forces crossing Poland. Needless to say, when the archives were discovered a few years back the Poles were not happy at all at what their 'ally' had planned. Very fortunately none of this came to pass. Also, in the 1960s it is likely the Warsaw Pact would have won a conventional war (primarily using sheer numbers). By the 1980s the balance had swung in NATOs favor with the UK and US units increasing in relative quality and the proliferation of large numbers of good ATGMs, which would have made armoured assaults against prepared defences pretty hard. Even without ATGMs do some research on Lt Zvika Greengold and what he was able to do against 5 Syrian Armoured divisions (the actual number was around 188 IDF tanks vs around 2000 Syrian tanks, 10:1 odds but guess who held out long enough to win - which is all NATO needed to do in Europe).

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This is probably because WW3 thankfully has never materialised. If it did then im pretty sure you'd see a massive ramp up of production much like WW2. After all allied forces in WW2 didn't have multitudes of tanks and planes hanging around in the 1930's just waiting for war to break out did they. What you call modern wars are infact small scale wars which have occured for eons. If a large scale war broke out between major countries every F-15E that got sent up would find a worthy opponent to shoot it down. This is when mass production occurs, not during small scale wars against inferior opponents.

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Altough the plans of Barnes/Akers are free for use we specificly asked them to use their plans and to modify them with their aproval . We've got their aproval wich stated: Plans are free to use for the FS community but not for buisness purpuses. (excuse my english but you know what i mean ;) ) Our version is a heavely modifided version of that of B/A A lot of hours went into it but also these plans are free to use. Just send me a PM and i will send it to you. note: Give me a couple more days to make the format a bit more understandable Grtz, Jedi

Here's my possibly unnecessary 2c... Just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it's not possible. He's clearly a better modeler than you are, so now is a great time to stop applying your limitations to his modeling. Let him do his thing... it's his model, and he's clearly the expert here. :noexpression:

On my keyboard I press ' to get in mission scoring. Look for the Score value (0-100) to see your progress - anything over 50% is a mission pass. Nate