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If you look on youtube and search for model resin art, you will find some good ideas of how you might achieve this, you can pour the resin in layers so getting the pose shouldn`t be a problem. Give it a go I would love to see the results.

If you fancy something to get you ready for the Apache I can't recommend "Apache over Libya" highly enough. Written by Will Laidlaw who was the CO of 4 British Army Apache's deployed to the Helicopter assault ship Hms Ocean in the summer of 2011. What started as a 6 week training deployment to the Med, to refine the types use on board ships turned into full on involvement in the Civil war in Libya. With 116 targets destroyed and numerous ProGad soldiers engaged with the cannon the small force was in the thick of the action. Engaged by SA-24 manpads, locked up by SA-6 and SA-5 this was a different fight than the highly experienced pilots were use to in Helmand where dominance in the air was the norm. Its a totally different read than say Apache dawn. The missions are described in detail, the careful planning to get through the dangerous costal zone, the attacks and the hair raising trips back to a ship that isn't always where it is supposed to be. Even has the YouTube links to the footage from the missions you are reading about. Great read, loads of useful insight of how to fight an Apache, flying from a carrier, what's not to loved about this book.

I`m currently making a 1/48 Supermarine Walrus, to sit on a 3d printed Battleship turret, this is the progress so far The turret printed on a fdm printer. Rear superstructure Ball race for the turret to rotate on and the base ready for painting:

My grandfather used to own some land next to someone who owned and flew a Corsair, he would let us visit his hanger. Love that plane.

I may be wrong But I thought if you enter a specific date in the mission editor (1990 for example) it would automatically restrict systems and weapons to that time period.

Banabrai, you are correct about the 80 mile range selector, my mistake, I think the repeater in the front cockpit only went up to 40 miles. When the Gr1b was originally introduced into service the navigator had to manually program in the Sea Eagle waypoints, the radar was not able to lock onto moving targets. This was rectified with a latter update. This is odd given that presumably the German Navy Tornado`s must have been able to do this with Kormorant? But like you I think its strange that is couldn`t lock sea targets further than 40 miles, when attacking a ground target could they be locked past 40 miles?

Just saw the post at the top of this page regard the range of the Radar against ship targets. The Buccaneer Blue Parrot radar did in fact have very long range against ship targets. It was designed to detect a Sverdlov class Cruiser (about 16000 tons) at 200 miles plus. Its original tactics would be to fly at high level, Mark the position on the Radar and then decend to low level. At 40 mile pop up again and turn the radar back on, then at around 12 miles the target would be marked on the pilot sight and loft attack automatically performed with either conventional or nuclear weapons. On the downside its performance over land was useless. Can't say about the German Tornado radars, but the Gr1b had a maximum range of 40 miles. When it took over the maritime strike roll it was a known weakness given the Sea Eagle range of over 60 mile. The Tornado Gr1b relied on target hand-off from Nimrods to a much great extent than the Buccaneer. The was a suggestion at one point to fit the 50 surplus Blue fox radars from Shars when they got Blue Vixen to the Tornado Gr1b fleet, but it never went past the initial stages. The Blue fox was developed from the Sea Spray radar which was optimise to detect ship targets and could detect a cruiser size target at around 120 miles.

Actually they all have radars that are comparable or smaller for example in the follow image of the Texas instruments radar in Tornado the attack radar is the top array, the tfr is bellow.

+1 Very well put!! I have just had 2 weeks holiday in the UK on the South Coast with some of the best summer weather we have ever had on a holiday here with 30C+ temps and it still rained for 3 days, and you would have been able to use a TGP for about 1 hour each day around Noon! The rest of the time the haze and clag was so bad I couldn`t tell where the horizon started and sea ended.

If I remember correctly (and I might be mistaken because it was a while ago)there was a thread on the other third party projects company section who were making the typhoon (we will not speak their name:cry:) talking about PIRATE. In that there was a reply from someone who was a serving RAF engineer, who basically said it was pretty much useless/unserviceable most of the time and some aircraft had the black boxes controlling it just for ballast. I had suggested otherwise in the thread, but I would bow to someone's first hand knowledge in retrospect. Now this may have changed, as I said the thread was a while ago and part of project Centurion was to upgrade PIRATE, so it may work better now.

I think in real life that PIRATE doesn`t work that well.

I wonder sometimes if people on this forum have no interest in the history of aviation? You do realise that there were whole generations of all weather attack aircraft that's primary sensor was Radar? F111, Tornado, Intruder, su-24. Have you never heard of radar offset bombing. As some people have pointed you would never use ins to strike a pin point target, even the best ins will drift., heck fly heatblurs tomcat for an hour and see where the Ins thinks you are! I don't doubt plenty of current F18 pilots say they never use the a/g radar, but if you think about type of conflicts they have been involved with for the past 20 years why would they. That's not to say it hasn't in the past been vital and given this is a game, maybe you might conceed doing something other than plinking targets with LGB's might be fun. Hornets have relied on a-g radar in the past before the widespread use of gps weapons and navigation. The following is from Major Steve Pomeroy who flew F-18's with VMFA-333 during the first Gulf War: "My most memorable mission was a big strike. I'm a striker rather than one of the SEAD escorts. My particular target is a railroad yard. Lousy weather, pitch black, low overcast so you can see all of the AAA and surface to air missile coming through it, but you can't physically see the target. We can acquire the target based on radar predictions. You're looking through the head up display showing slant range, elevation. You're told the computer where the target is and the weapons are released base on that information"

+1 The Alarms in game at the moment have totally the wrong flight profile. Lobby some Alarms over an airfield while they get jp233 spread over them would be the best fun since 1992

I set the count to 2 and leave the interval to the default. if you then set the program to G, this fires 1 flare from each of the dispensers, so you get 8 flares in 2 bursts of 4.

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Had this happen on a multiplayer server the other day, I accidentally shot down a missile aimed at another player. I had launched a Aim9 at a Mig 29 and I thought I hit it, but it carried on flying. I was then shot down a moment later. I checked the track and actually what happen was I had locked the Aim9 onto a R27 that had been fired at another player and by chance flew between me an my target at just the right ( or wrong)moment.

Is there any server I can do a test to make sure I have setup srs correctly. I have been into the 4ya training server over a couple of days and not heard a peep over the radio. Srs was showing 8 clients connected. I ask for a radio check and one other play could hear me, but I couldn't hear them. I have done audio check in the client and I can hear my own voice. It matbe that no one is using srs on the server, or it could be I haven't set srs up correctly.

I`m printing them to attach to the model typhoon, so they have the inlet to the ramjets covered, these are expelled when the missile is launched. Having said that I do have them modelled open as well,

Super excited about this news, looking forward to watching the Typhoon devevelope. I know it's a long way off but one day, maybe will get to shoot one of these in dcs world I made this in fusion360 to 3d print for a 1/48 model typhoon I'm making

Edit Extranajero beat me to it!! Have a look at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EQqfxiGgd8 Although this is the Tornado Moving map display, the Tornado/Harrier/Jaguar moving map are very similar in operation.

if you have a look at: https://apps.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/a432176.pdf This has some interesting diagrams showing how the aircraft are stowed in the hanger. As a general rule in naval architecture, you need a 1000 tons of displacement for each aircraft you want to operate from a carrier, and this gives about enough hanger space for a third of the total complement

The Blue fox had a range of about 23 miles for a fighter size target and over 60 miles for large aircraft (Airliner) in a look up situation. It had a pretty good performance in sea search mode over 100 miles for ship targets, which given its lineage being developed from the Sea Spray radar isn`t surprising and makes it a more useful platform for Sea Eagle than the Tornado whose radar is limited to 40 miles.

its quite an old book but the following is excellent: https://www.amazon.co.uk/FACT-FILE-TORNADO-Aviation-Fact/dp/0861012011

Subs17 are you RAAID????