Vampyre

Not exactly stopped, as it looks like Conny was just making steerage, but close. Judging by the steam from the cats, they were launching with a slight tailwind. S-3's have taken off with the ship at anchor before... I cannot seem to find the video of that though although I know one exists.

The F-414-GE-400 and F-404-GE-402 are the exact same physical size

Not really a good indicator. Some Super Hornet squadrons have taken to removing the inboard pylons and to the layman (of which probably a good 80-90% of the posters on this forum are) a pylon is a pylon regardless if it is a SUU-62, SUU-79 or SUU-80. The key differences are the IFF antenna, width and shape of the LEX, LEX fence, Shape of the H-stabs, RWR antenna's, communication's antennas, larger size of the Super and the anti-smash strobes. There are other smaller details as well but those are the primary tells.

I see my old squadron didn't make the cut. VFA-146, along with VMFA-323 was one of the two F/A-18C squadrons in CVW-9/CVW-14/CVW-11 while I was there. Not one of my photos but a good top view of DIMON 300 right after we had to replace door 18... the first diamond is missing on the spine. Here's a shot with all of the diamonds present. Again not one of my photos. Then there was the Marine Aviation Centennial bird transferred to our squadron from VFA-122 for our 2013 cruise. I got a lot of photos of this one before it was repainted in TPS and squadron colors. Also, There was this jet we called Magnum which was transferred in from NSAWC and we repainted with the "Blood Diamonds" and gave a 357 MODEX. Again not my pics.

It will only be worth it if we have a DCS: Bodily Secretions that has a slider in the mission editor that goes to 200%.

You are going to have to do a better job explaining what you are doing and what the real problem is. I am going to assume that, from the depth and substance of this report, that you have not read the manual. https://belsimtek.com/upload/docs/DCS_F-5Е-3_Flight%20Manual_ENG.pdf There are several things that will keep the missiles from firing. Missile stations have to be selected and gun/missile camera switch has to be in gun/missile. If that is set up properly you should hear a sidewinder growl. If you have previously jettisoned any stores, the select jettison switch has to be returned to the center (off) position. Also, if you have dropped any ordnance or fired any rockets then the external stores selector has to be put back to the safe position. You have to lock you're target by getting a tone from bore sight and uncaging the seeker if you need to attain a better position to fire.

The weapons are not the same. Iranian Tomcats used the AIM-9E which was in the USAF line of sidewinder missiles and the AIM-7E-4 Sparrow. USN Tomcats would have used the AIM-7E-4 until around 1976/1977 when that missile would have been quickly replaced by the AIM-7F. There are rumors that some AIM-7F/M's made it to Iran through the black market and Iran-Contra but that has never been confirmed. As for the Sidewinders, USN Tomcats would have never used the AIM-9E but instead used the AIM-9G/H until 1982 when the AIM-9L was introduced. The AIM-54A is realistically the only missile the IIRAF would have in common with a mid-80's USN Tomcat if one were to use purely historical loadouts.

The AAQ-29 mounted on a boom offset port gives it away as a modernized CH-53E Super Sea Stallion. There are no S-65's that have had a FLIR mounted in this way.

Yes, and the J, N, and P were developed within the USAF line.

Regardless of whether the USAF used them or not, NAVAIR never procured them. They were a missile developed for the USAF even if the USAF never actually used them. The AIM-9P and its iterations are based on the airframe of the AIM-9J and a lot of them were upgrades to the existing stocks of USAF AIM-9J's.

AIM-9P and AIM-9P5 are Air Force missiles. In real life you will not see it on a Harrier.

Radar guided AAA. Probably a M-163 Vulcan, ZSU-23-4 Shilka or Gepard.

F99th-Vampyre #14 F-5E

That is absolutely not true. The F-105G carried bombs on a regular basis in Vietnam to destroy the SAM launchers and support vehicles.

Yes. The track radar is mounted on the individual launcher vehicles. It is inside the large green radome on the front of the turret.

The AGR-19A is primarily designed for use on helicopters. AGR-20A is for fixed wing fast jets. AGR-20A includes a CAD to force the guidance fins open, a modified guidance section and is designed for operations in freezing temperatures and turbulance of high altitude and high speed flight.

The USMC uses the AGM-65G as their IIR Maverick. The D is a USAF variant.

That is the prototype for the Su-27, not a MiG. Google Sukhoi T-10.

Evidently, the pods were paid for but the guns never materialized... might as well use them for something, right?

The F-4E has never been a naval variant. For naval variants you want the F-4B, F-4J, F-4N, F-4S or F-4K (Phantom FG1). There was also a USN F-4G back in the 60's that had updated nav suite and ACLS... it only made one war cruise in Vietnam before the jets were converted back to F-4B's and the designation dropped. The USAF, in the late 70's then picked the F-4G designation up for the Wild Weasel V modified F-4E's it was replacing the F-105G Wild Weasel III airframes with.

Need a little more information as well... Map, map location, QFE, fuel load, weapons load, air temperature. Are you using the PSS?

I have not noticed any significant difference in takeoff or landing in the Normandy pre alpha.

Top Gun didn't come from a book... it was a article from a magazine. I wouldn't have minded seeing a movie made of the book Final Flight. Looking forward to the A-6E and A-7E to populate the virtual carrier decks.

The book is always better than the movie.

I assume zionid put the bulls there for a reason. I'm trying to answer his question as thoroughly as possible.