Sundowner.pl

The MFD's are not the issue, if you search well, you'll find everything that the ones on F-16A/B MLUs and C/D CCIPs are showing, including JDAM and HARM operations. The real top secret data is the one that we really don't give a hoot, the Data Links frequency, its coding, and how often the frequency change etc. You won't even notice those things even if they done it wrong. The only platform its relevant data is still classified are both F-22A and F-35s... and you really don't want them here... unless you want to become a God :smilewink:

umm... no ;) The rotor is old one, there is only a plan to mount a new one, but its not made yet.

Yup, that data is not about Desert Storm, its about Iran-Iraq war thru the 80's.

Actually they are mounted, for training purposes mostly - because let's face it, where today they need them ? Afghanistan ? Iraq? There is no air threat, so why waste one pylon mount for something that won't be used. Yet on most exercises they fly with them - because those exercises usually simulate an air threat in the area. And if those machines will go tomorrow into fight without total air dominance on their side, they will fly with ATAS block I. One more thing, if you say that they do not use them... why there was recently an order signed to modify ATAS systems to block II standards ? Fight helicopter vs jet fighter is a nasty one I have to admit, but helo drivers have some tricks in their sleeves for those situations - other than Sidewinders and ATAS. BTW, nice video of ATAS live fire test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAc-xi6knqw

It is not the only one to have a2a missile, it is the only one to fly operationally with Sidewinders. OH-58D, MH-60 and AH-64 use ATAS - shorter range, but twice the missile count. The USMC AH-1W, just like the Taiwanese Super Cobras fly with Sidewinders simply because they usually do not have enough fighter jet cover... something I see all the time in this game :smilewink: .

Oh, good, then the Ka-50 will be no problem in missions... the USMCs AH-1W will hunt them down easily :thumbup: and actually... any US produced helicopter can accommodate ADU-299 adapter with LAU-7 launcher, even the SH-60: BTW what's up with the AMASE pod on the US Army AH-64D ? Only Netherlands got those :huh:

We are already waiting long for that add on, so I think waiting longer for a polished version is doable from our side. The question is: is it doable to change the way buildings and trees perform in this sim from ED's side?

Yes, both IR cams - one in PNVS (top turret) one in TADS (lower turret) can move with crew heads - both have ability to chose the sensor.

Hope ED won't forget ADU-299 adapters with LAU-7 launchers for AH-1W, AH-64 and SH-60s and few other if they will be added ;) About flying with 16 hellfires: its the same as with flying with stingers and sidewinders - it's a case of need. The Apache never had to fight without total air dominance so they never go into combat with their stingers, or sidewinders under/on their wings. And they never fight with such great number of tanks per one Apache that they needed more than eight AGM-114s for a mission.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWWPVjA3juQ 2:48 Su-34 firing its GSh-30-1, I can see a lot of smoke :smartass:

The heat is not the issue... at least not in itself. The problem are the gases produced by the propellant, they coat the paint with soot and chemicals, and with heat they react with it. If it's not protected by anything it will stay as integral part of the plane paint job. On F-16s those gases are not so aggressive, so simple cooper coat sprayed over gun port is all what's needed. In MiG-29 case its not so simple, the whole left side of plane was coated with some sort of lubricant that doesn't allow those chemicals mix with the paint, but it reacted with it - hence that greenish color. The whole plane will be washed, it will take some time, but there will be no trace of that soot.

No smoke ? Oh, "you're livin' in dream world Neo..." :smilewink:

That statemant is wrong. It is huge because it was based on Mi-8 components (whole engine bay, engines, transmission, main and tail rotor, etc - all are the same as in Mi-8/17 and Mi-14). It was the same with Sikorsky Blackhawk that flew before russian hind. It was based on H-3 Sea King components, so it have also a lot of empty space to use, so it also had troop transport capability. It also had wings to unload the rotor, and held some speed and climb records. But after it crashed, Americans decided that dedicated attack hellicopter will perform better in tank hunting and CAS missions than a hybrid like Blackhawk and Hind, so they go with AH-56 and later AH-64. That's something Russians realized like two decades ago, and still can't decide with what construction to go, the Mi-28 or the Ka-50 - its all politics, they just can't test them both and see which one is really better.

I'm talking only about midair lightning strikes. On the ground all planes are grounded, so no problem there.

Back to the main topic, the FBW is pretty well shielded against static in western fighters, there are numerous cases when F-16s and F/A-18s were struck by lightnings with absolutely no effects. There are cases when pilots in F-16 were hit by lightnings thru the canopy and menage to bring jets back to base (there were two such cases, in one the pilot was a female), there is also a case when two F-15Es were struck by lightning nearly simultaneously with no effect - the lightning hit first jet radome, went out thru left vertical stabilizer, hit second jet to the radome and left thru wing - no negative effects. The problem is with bigger planes, some time ago B-52 was struck in the radome which caused a fire, in 60s and 70s few civilian airliners were downed by lightning strikes to the wings - resulting fire to the fuel stored there. Last western fighter downed by a lightning strike was a F-106 - pitot tube took the hit, the jet went down with pilot inside, since then no other wester fighter was lost by lighting strike. As for easter unfortunately I herd there were some issues with MiG-21s and 23s resulting some crashes, but I have no info on that.

It is Elbit CoMPASS stabilized EO/IR targeting sight system. Polish Special Forces ? GROM, 1.st PSK and Formoza. I don't know if any SF will be specialized in CSAR missions, if so it will be the 1.st PSK (1 Pułk Specjalny Komandosów - 1st Special Commando Regiment) they're more like Green Berets, when GROM is more SFOD-D like. Formoza is our Combat Divers regiment, so I would count them out of that.

Yup, that's our new "gunship", it's a prototype - a modified "slick" 0901. First of the 09xx series that were modified to NVGs use by the crew. The 'Gluszec' have full glass cockpit, FADEC enhanced engines, and few other things that you can see on these photos. What will change is the machine gun under the nose. There is project underway to make .50cal 3 barrel Gatling system similar to American GAU-19/A. There will be probably a whole new main rotor, probably 5 bladed.

As you can see most of the life fire exercises are at Baltic sea shore... we are scared to death of Sweeds, they invaded us once, and they'll sure do the same again soon :megalol: The Russian equipment is there only because we have literary tons of them from times when Berlin Wall stood tall, so instead adopting whole new western systems and trashing the eastern - we modified the post-Soviet equipment, and some of those modification are really good, like that OSA. American AH-64 crews have real trouble to come close to them during our joint exercises, they were usually tagged "dead" well before they could lock on the SAMs. In the next few years we will acquire new Norwegian NASAMS systems and probably some ex-German Patriots too.

The Eurofighter cost twice as much as an Viper, and at this point can't perform STRIKE, CAS nor SEAD missions :smilewink: The missile is CATM-120B - it is training version of AIM-120B.

We won't get HARMs with airplanes, we need to bough them separately. The same with SDBs I think we'll order them when all squadrons go operational, and the tasks will be distributed among them. The JHCMS I a step ahead compared to Shlem - it is only half the weight, and gives pilot some information about the target offset angle etc. (who played Falcon 4.0AF knows what I mean).

I don't know the exact number, but enough to maintain those birds we already have, but still less then half of what we will need. Lots of men are still on training in US, we just start to receive jets, and there is still a year of time for the first squadron to reach its operational numbers.

Currently there are 3 certified Viper jocks here in Poland, the rest is finishing training in US, and will arrive shortly. We also have few USAF pilots who participate in F-16 system introduction program.

Well our Vipers can carry Penguin and Harpoon missiles, but we will not use them for ASW role, and there was no missiles bought for them to perform that role. Well not yet anyway, the number of roles we need them for is already pretty big, for a 48 aircrafts we will have. Polish Anti Ship doctrine will base only on ship and shore-launched RBS-15 missiles.

I meant pilots certified in both airplanes ;) Yeah, a nice cosy bar would be great, I know one in Opava... well actually I hope it still exist, I haven't been there for nearly two years :)

I really hope so. Yet, you know that training fight say nothing abut the fighting machines, but only about the man, no life ordinance used, so nothing can go wrong from the lock on, to hit, as the Viet-nam was very good example of that ;) No I'm not a fighter pilot, and to my knowledge, there is no one out there certified to fly combat mission in both 39 and Viper, so... ;) About that "man, not the machine" thing.... well a human can't fly by itself, so I think the machine helps ;) The men is very important, but when we talk academics like here, the graphs and tables do count. Yes the aerial combat* is very complicated topic, but you can break it down to few simple things. When we talk about an air warfare**, well that's way more complicated. Back to the topic, both airframes are very capable, but designed to do different things, the Viper suited most of our needs, so we bought it, the 39 did not, but did suited Czech and Hungary... and the South African thing is a story for a different discussion ;) * - as let say 1vs1, 2vs1, 4vs4 etc. ** - as an Air Force vs Air Force