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Gripen is optimal plane for country like Czech, which AF will never go to real combat. I have no idea about the unit price/maintenance and operational cost for F-16/JAS though. Gripens for Czechs are also brand new and leased, while F-16 were upgraded after general maintenance and had to be bought AFAIK. Both are good multirole planes, e.g. can do even better what Su-22 and MiGs did. Latest planes like EF are better, but much more expensive. If I am country like Israel which fights from time to time, I would select F-16 as it is combat proven. For countries like Czech, if the JAS is cheaper, it is a good choice. We have still MiG-29s but their operational cost is very high and A2G ability is rather poor.

http://www.exile.ru/2006-October-06/venezuela_enchilada_of_evil.html :lol:

Wasn´t it a R-77 hit?

I am afraid that just the wingman warning is possible. The IR seeker of the missile does not emit anything like radar-guided missiles.

Modernisation of our MiGs has been a good deal for some of our Air Force staff.. lot of bribery there. MiG-29 is too expensive to operate compared with JAS Gripen which is a similar plane class. We lost two of them + 1 pilot some 3 years ago during the low level night training flight.

Thanks!

Hi all, is there any way (except cutting the video to 16:9) to remove the bottom bar (with speed, alt etc.) when using external view?

I use an A-10 loadout mod which allows to use CBU. It works OK against soft targets/BMPs.

Looks like photography.

At 180.. yes? Now he is returning.. turning..

The question is, can a plane burdened with few MT of fuel and loaded with tons of weapons perform the same acrobatics as in clean "air show" configuration? When counting massive aerial engagements like Bekaa Valley or Desert Storm 1, how many times the pilots could use the Cobra/high AoA maneuvers and how often the stealthiness would have been of better use? I would choose stealth over the fancy acrobatics, like the speed and zoom of Corsair versus tight turn of Zeke at low speeds.

New 3d model of F-15 is almost finished and A-10 under construction. :thumbup:

AIM-9 is the best option for short range and especially to fire at enemy against ground. Radar guided missiles get easily spoofed by the ground reflections and enemy F-poling the missile trajectory. Somewhere I read the real Sidewinder got 97% hit rate at Falkland war :thumbup:

In my case, Lock On is killing IL-2 ;) After having fly on LockOn map, old IL-2 maps are just awfull.

I solved the problem as Walmis recommended in the F-15 thread.. I d/lded his graphics.cfg and meinit.xml and then the white parts on the model disappeared. Look for the f15_files.rar somewhere over there.

I think F-15 can attack 8 targets simultaneously. Russian fighters can track 10 targets, but they can attack at once only 4 (MiG-31), 1 (MiG-29, Su-27), 2 (MiG-29S, Su-27M). At least the manual says so on page 115.

After parking F-15 at the airport and switching off the engine, the open canopy disappears. Is it a bug related to the new 3d model or a general one?

I had the same problem with exe. I installed the F-15 pack.zip via Loman and it works OK now, even updated itself to newest version :thumbup: - great job indeed.