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Wonder if it will bet better under Vista?

The one i saw was more like a sniper with a big proximity bang once it got close to the poor drone!

I've seen a ship hit a target with 1 or 2 shells of a 5" cannon from alot furhter than those pics were taken, going a damn lot faster. It did have a better radar than those ol' Aegis jobs though :P

ehehhe like this

Yeah the F-14 and F-18 had Link 4C (Fighter-to-Fighter), not much of the TADIL information is actually UNclassified only the actual platforms implementations of the standards. http://209.85.129.104/search?q=cache:mg559_gkY38J:https://www.doctrine.usmc.mil/signpubs/r325c.pdf+390th+link+16+tadil&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=safari The US AF, however has been very late on the seen util now, one of the reason the F-22/JSF and AWACS combo's will dominate. I'd love to see the outcome of an Indian Su-30 v 22/jsf/Eurofighter exercise. If the implementation of the data link in lockon for Russian jet's is accurate it's not going to help much. I would be betting in that recent exercise between the F-22s and F15s, the F-22s would have been soaking up the awacs pictures with radars off, sneaking into to position, then letting loose some properly modelled 120s. :) The pur flanker pilots in lomac would be screaming fowl even with the F-15 and undermodelled 120s. Anyway back to lurking. Cheers AT

Ahhh nope, not used on Fighters. It's a surviellance Link for C2 platforms ... If there was indeed something used on the F-15 I'd love to know what it was...

Got some info? :music_whistling:

Got some sharp jaggies happening there 2 pilotasso, no AA?

One squandron only, the 390th. Where's the myth busters when you need em :) Text below from June 2000!!. "b. F-15 Aircraft. F-15s are equipped with the TADIL J AN/URC-107 (V6) Class 2 radio sets. Pilots of TADIL J-equipped F-15Cs have greatly enhanced situational awareness (SA), enabling use of daytime tactics at night and in low visibility while reducing the potential of fratricide. A description of air control operations can be found in the E-2C air control section (see paragraph 4). Twenty-five F-15s are equipped with TADIL J AN/URC-107 (V) Class 2 radio sets. Twenty are stationed with the 390th Fighter Squadron (Mountain Home, Idaho). The other five are part of the 57th Test Group located at Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada, and are used for tactics development. The remainder of the F-15 inventory is slated to receive the lower cost MIDS Fighter Data Link radio set" While it would have been nice in 1.0 it wouldn't have fit in with the timeframe, now that we have BS though ... bring it on. If it's done well the flanker boys will be having a hard time getting a look in.

Lol me too, 4 gpu's bit of an overkill hehe http://www.maconintel.com/news.php?article=178 I think it's clocked at around

No doubt there would be "some" aircraft that would attempt to do it but not your lil old fighter. It's not impossible to do it, subs do but it all the time but they have a long time to narrow down the contact. ie take a bearing at time t, take another a t+1 another a t+2 etc etc. until you can safely say the target is somewhere inside a certain area. Have a search for Link16 parametric data ;)

Don't forget the grafx card on the Macbook pro is way underclocked, when running windows under boot camp you can bump it back up to it's normal speed. I leave it alone under os x, don't need the added speed for the day to day jobs. Drawling over a Mac Pro though, hear it will support quad cores x 2 (thats 8!! cores) very very soon, but I don't think my wife will let me hawk her engagement ring to buy one. :cry:

Me, using a MacBook Pro. But I have a Shuttle AMD dual core AMD box at home with an X800 card. Laptop seems to give the same frames if not better. They've just upgraded them to core 2s :thumbup:

Or any other aircraft for that matter, it's only been done with multiple sources of the data via C2 nodes. Suspect the F22 and JSF could use their wingman data to triangulate and calcualte the APPROXIMATE pos, but who knows if the money has stretched that far.

There we go, Microsoft says SF is all ok :megalol: It's all good. http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=957 About Microsoft Windows Vista compatibility Microsoft Beta Testers who want to play StarForce protected games under Microsoft Windows Vista Beta need to download a special driver update from: http://www.star-force.com/support/sfdrvup.zip The update has been tested by StarForce and Microsoft testers to work with “Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory” and other games. StarForce drivers will be signed as soon as Microsoft launches the drivers’ digital signature program for Windows Vista. Please visit our website for driver updates regularly or subscribe to our newsletter. Also note that following your publishers’ news and updates may help solving compatibility issues. Contact our support for more information support@star-force.com

What are the black antennas for?

Reminds me of the good old warbirds day, motoring across the country in a tank to sit on an airfield and pummel it. Always plenty of players online when there were a few different options than just flying.

Only one jet out there hotter than an F-22 and thats the black widow. Shame it cost more than th 22. "It is universally held that the YF-23 was by far the better looking aircraft, and supporters offer a number of other reasons why the YF-23 should have won the ATF competition. The YF-23 was a very agile aircraft. The YF-23 is a very unstable aircraft; however, when this instability is coupled with a fly-by-wire control system, this results in a very agile aircraft. Another attribute that lends itself to high mobility is the uniqueness of the tail. On the YF-23, instead of using two rudders and two elevators, it uses a ruddervator, a combined rudder/elevator. This ruddervator is angled at a roughly 45° angle to horizontal. The YF-23 was stealthier than the F-22 Raptor. The two ruddervators reduce the Radar Cross Signature of the YF-23 significantly. This is beacuse instead of having four extremly large control surfaces on the tail, there are only two. The F-22 Raptor design utilizes the traditional configuration of two rudders, which are canted outward, and two elevators. This make the RCS larger. Another RCS reducing feature is the engines. These are mounted in nacelles in the wing that blend gracefully into the wing on the top, and form an extension of the fueslage on the bottom. The larger bottom fuselage lets it pack more missiles and other expendable weapons. The intake duct is angled up and inward to reflect radar beams and keep them from hitting the fast moving compressor face. The intake duct starts on the lower edge of the wing and moves through it onto the top of the wing. This feature can also reduce the RCS signature from a look down-shoot down radar from an aircraft flying overhead. Also reducing the RCS, is the way the leading and trailing edge of all surfaces are angled. All of the leading and trailing edges are angled the same. Therefore, the front of the right wing is parallel to the left wing's trailing edge, and the left section of the nose. For example, the leding edge of the wing is parallel to the trailing edge of the wing on the other side.'

5th Gen (F-22) uses Link16 "MIDS", soon to be replaced by the JTRS radio, but still using Link 16. One day it will move to an IP based connection but that is atleast 10 years away. Have u got a pic of one of the antennas, you'll probably find that it is just the satcom antenna for the ARC210 or similar radios, it's not used for tacital data links. Back on topic though the Wedgtail radar combined with long range missiles such as the meteor on fighters fitted Link 16 would be an tough combo to beat. Boeing didn't get fined 500 million for selling the radar to Australia for no reason ;) Cheers, AT.

There is no satellite involved in Link 16, it's a LOS link! Some unclass info for you.:pilotfly: http://www.tpub.com/content/et/14088/css/14088_141.htm

There is no satellite involved in Link 16! :pilotfly:

mmm no, :music_whistling: Link 16 is omnidirectional and small and to jam it you'll need one big jammer and as you can imagine due to the amount of noise it's putting out it wouldn't be around for very long at all. Some insight into the future of TADILS http://www.aviationtoday.com/cgi/av/show_mag.cgi?pub=av&mon=0904&file=networkcentric.htm

lol and i think GG likes the F-22 ( minus the software bugs ;P )

Don't laugh too hard :megalol: Have a look at the range of the meteor, I'rd rather be sitting back socking up the picture and lobbing them over the boarder ;) http://www.defenseindustrydaily.com/2005/05/meteor-missile-will-make-changes-to-accommodate-f35/index.php