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And what happens if you never truely establish air-super? Do they stay on the ground? The Red AF only had to keep NATO off the backs of the tankers to win! A regisment of T-72s sitting at Ramstein AB is the best air-superiority weapon out! In a WWIII scenario you wouldn't have the luxury of saying "We'll only send in the A-10s when we have control of the air ... " that may never happen! You may never shut down the AD network ... you haven't got enough HARMs!! GWI and GW2 are nothing like WWIII - not even close

Unlike LO, the question is would 1 x F-15 been able to handle 4 x Mig-23/29/Sus again and again and again ... remember the old joke about the 2 x Russian tank commanders sitting in Paris "I hear we lost the air war ...". They only had to keep the NATO airforces off there backs for a short while and they had a load of AD with them too! Unfortunately, that doesn't make a very good sim for people who like to fly Russian a/c!

I didn't because I'm sure the A-10 is the most survivable plane out there ... low-level battlefield AD is just too dangerous (Tunguskas) and too numerous (manpads). Up high, above 10k would have been filled with Migs, SU, SA-10s etc ... look at Kosovo - A-10s had to go high and Apaches couldn't work - and that was nowhere near as hot as WWIII! I was just saying that the environment was too hot for any plane to fly - lots of good men(women) on both sides would have died very quickly!

Its a great plane, but operating with all those 'double-digit' SAMs around, in often bad vis and the biggest air battle ever raging overhead ... I think it's life would be very short. 1970s possibly, 1980s it would have been just too hot over Europe.

They aren't going to do much with only 12 missiles! ;)

I've just checked the Janes on-line service and it doesn't say that now ... sorry

Wow - so, that extra 1,200lbs of thrust is that necessary! Worth lugging all that water, water tank, pipes, pumps etc around while not needed.

Cheers IK ... Interesting.

Its simple ... its locked on BEFORE launch - so why would it need a datalink?

No, but with an R-73 you may have a tail chase range of 2miles, but with a big R-27ET you may have 8miles - hence the reason for having them.

I think (but could be totally wrong) that Sea Harriers used it while hovering ... hence they were limited to how long they could hover by the amount of water they carried.

Best movie I've seen for a long time GA - very impressive. perhaps I'll buy BS after all. James

Some forms of jammer are EXACTLY like an out-going radar source ... thats how they work! But our Soviet friends developed them ... they must have thought they would work and be worth while! The implementation of some of their technology may suck, but they have some very bright people and good ideas!

Well said Pilotasso! Lets hope BS has fixes this arcady behaviour!

Did you mean semi-active? ;)

So one method homes in on a source of RF energy and the other method homes in on a source of RF energy. Ok ... so why build a completely new seeker for that?

I've got a picture somewhere of the seeker (AGAT 9B-1103M active radar) for the PROPOSED R-27AE ... If there is a specific passive homing version of the R-27 - the P ... then should the vanila version be capable of HOJ?

Yes ... we were passed by many :( Very frustrating, sitting in the car, 2miles from the base hearing the F-15 do its thing ... they really should move it somewhere with decent road access, its too big for the road network at Fairford. The Red Arrows were good ... but there is something about a fast jet using an afterburner that the Hawk just can't match! The F-16 was superb ... flares are just great and this year he poped more than last year! The Swiss F-18 was also good ... plenty of condensation forming when turning hard (Please one for LO!!) Well worth visiting ... perhaps I'll camp there next year!

Outstanding Teka! Really ups the beauty of this sim ... you work is much appreciated. James

The traffic was TERRIBLE! Worse than last year ... 3hrs to go 10 miles! Thunderbirds were good! Most impressed.

I watched one fly years ago at a show ... it may have been the last public display back then - you will not be disappointed! Noise, smoke, fleeing kids ... GREAT!

I'd vote for that ...

Never really used the AIM-7 ... but I recorded lots of tracks showing the 27ER do it! I guess the 7 is modelled the same way.

I assume you mean match just on range ... bigger motor on the 27E compensating for the bigger, draggier missile. I thought it was generally accepted that the 27E out-ranged the 7/120? As soon as you start turning surely the bigger (size and control surfaces) heavier missile would loose entergy faster? Unlike in LO, where the 27 can U-turn and re-attack! Also, I guess the 120 is alot smarter, being 10 years younger and with more advanced ICs, reprogrammable etc.

But Ice, we know a missile fired from 40k' will go much further than one fired from 1k' ... I've seen figures like x3 We know a missile from from an a/c at 150kts will not have as much energy as one fired at 1000kts ... These things are the basics! Regardless of the time period of the sim, this is how missiles work.