SwingKid

Israel is there so that two multiplayers can both fly the F-15C to fight "balanced." I just don't see what contribution Chizh is making to this discussion. His standards and conditions are obviously just getting in the way. In fact, I don't think he even sees the value of an eight-missile Ukrainian Romanian MiG-21SMT with former Yugoslav insignia at all! Why is the title post about him? Leave his opinions to F-15E wishers, please. ;) -SK

Are we talking about a storyline putting Romanians, Yugoslavs and Indians into the Caucasus, or a first step towards changing the Lock On map, or just another lost aircraft that is not an F-15E, for making random screenshots with no explanation? :huh: -SK

;) -SK

Antenna engineer at a major mobile phone manufacturer in the US. Who would've guessed? Wow, he looks just like you. :) -SK

On the balance, grad school was about the same. It's the months of transition stuff (graduating, relocating, changing insurance, etc.) that's been keeping me away. Bureaucrats are slow. -SK

Why -anybody seen any games around here? ;) -SK

And SwingKid finally got a job, leaving him no time to post - but he was always a bit of a crank anyhow. :) -SK

Kommersant has a reputation for these types of fantastic "conspiracy" articles. The owner of the paper is a sort of Ahmad Chalabi-type oligarch who wants to be president of Russia, and thinks he can get there by scaring western countries into believing modern Russia and China are a militarily potent axis of evil under their current leadership, in need of regime change. About the only weapons left that it hasn't yet claimed Russia to be mass-producing and proliferating abroad are Terminator-like cyborgs and trained sharks with lasers strapped to their heads. "The Varyag is under construction since 1999..." Sure, I guess they never heard of Google Earth. -SK

Yeah... "ya want a dynamic campaign with that?" :) Repped. ;) -SK

I just don't understand the physics of it. How does a medium- or high-PRF radar distinguish which pulse is which (for measuring target range by its round-trip travel time), when the second, third, etc. pulses are transmitted before the reflection from the first pulse is received? I thought this was supposed to be done by FM ranging - assign a slightly different frequency to each pulse. But when the reflected signals themselves contain a mish-mash of Doppler shifts from different parts of the rotor that have different apparent rates of closure, how can you tell which frequency shift is target Doppler, and which is FM ranging? It seems to be like finding a snowman in a blizzard. Perhaps this is only a problem when the helicopter is very near the transmitter, so the rotor returns are detectable? e.g., for a Patriot based at an airport, or for a missile radar that must approach the target? Perhaps at longer ranges, the rotor has small enough RCS that it's ignored - but this would seem to contradict the other half of Rhen's comment above, that even when the helicopter is stationary, the rotor returns are still detectable. Must be magic. :dunno: -SK

Is this true of Russian Doppler radars also - they are able to track helicopters without difficulty? Or, western fighter radars have some special capability to allow this? Alex Zuyev referred to the AA-12 as having a "new anti-helicopter" capability, partly from which I had inferred that earlier air defenses lacked it. -SK

That's interesting - what's the real reason Patriot radars not supposed to be located near airports then? The claimed reason is that returns from helicopter rotor blades interfere with their Doppler radar. Is that just a cover story to hide problems endemic to the Patriot system, and help prevent friendly fire? I took it at face value. -SK

Ahh, a man of my own heart - the first building model. :) Rep! -SK

Уверени? :) "If you use 3ds max in your pipeline now, and have written custom tools to export game data, integrating gmax dev is a snap: Just recompile custom 3ds max plug-ins using the gmax dev SDK. Every existing custom 3ds max plug-in you recompile with the gmax dev SDK becomes an integral part of your Game Pack. It's that easy." Прочитайте, пожалуйста, "Summary: How to build a Game Pack - For 3ds max-based development teams" -SK

И так же - возможно ли их легко сделать для бесплатного "gmax?" http://images.autodesk.com/adsk/files/gmax_whitepaper.pdf#search=%22convert%20gmax%20to%20max%22 -SK

Чёрт.. а как бы правильно по-русски то спросить? :) Возможно ли, так же сделать с GMax? -SK

GK - С которой прогаммой вы создаете эти модели? -SK

Я тоже. Мой новый Windows background. :) Спасибо! -SK

Музыка к глазам :) -SK

This is a smiley - :) and this is a winkey: ;) -SK

No, it never existed at all - it was just an imaginary airbase (mostly copied from Kirovskoye) that ED put there for fun. And, you're correct - it was not possible to create a new one, only to move an existing one. So that's why Razdolnoye was chosen. For more information, here is the thread about the original version of the Merzifon mod, where people were requesting the addition of trees around the base: http://forum.lockon.ru/showthread.php?t=7097 -SK

What did they do, protect by StarForce? :P -SK

*cough* Either that, or a free copy of Lock On... ;) -SK

AFAIK, there is no Russian text in the manual meaning "BVR". "ДВБ" simply translates to, "long-range combat." Any range given for a passive-seeker missile will be its aerodynamic flight range, not its seeker range, since the latter for a passive seeker depends on target emissions, which vary according to the target, not the missile. -SK

The R-27R datalink antennas are visible as small, white, elonganted bumps on either side of the missile, just behind the control surfaces: http://www.sinodefence.com/airforce/weapon/r271.asp They aren't always visible on "mockup" R-27R missiles in photographs. Since the R-27T lacks these antennas, we know it has no datalink, and no LOAL capability. There are two types of launch rails employed by R-27 missiles: the APU-470 rail-launcher, and the AKU-470 "catapult" launcher. Either rail is compatible to carry either missile, R-27T or R-27R. Only the rail launcher contains the nitrogen cooling bottle for the R-27T seeker. Only the catapult launcher can be used underneath the Su-27, however, since the missile needs to clear the aircraft body. Therefore, the R-27T on the fuselage pylons is not a combat-viable payload. To model them on these stations in Lock On, their seeker performance should be degraded, compared to when they are used from the wing stations with APU launchers. -SK