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The group included planes and crews of the guards units of the Long-Range Aviation: a squadron of Tu-16 of 251st guards TBAP from Belaya Tserkva and two squadrons Tu-22M3 from Poltava 185th Guards TBAP. They were stationed at two nearby airfields, Mary-1 and Mary-2, the only ones available at that time, even if they were further from the target than the border bases (for the "long-range" the difference of 200-300 km was not significant). Mary-1 was home to the 1521st Fighter Air Base MiG-23 and MiG-29, which "played along" as the enemy during the training and periodic inspections of fighter pilots. Here 11 Tu-16s were deployed - three detachments and two control group vehicles. There was a local airport on the other side of the runway, which was another reason for the division of the Long-Range Aviation group. Mary-1 airfield was also used to receive "transporters" with the withdrawing troops, UN representatives were invited there, and the menacing -looking "Backfires" did not fit well into the ideas of Western diplomats about the implementation of the Geneva Agreements. Photo 01: Tu-22M3 from the 185th TBAP go on a combat mission. Airfield Mary-2, November 1988 Photo 02: The 1984 Panjshir operation involved Tu-16s from the 200th Bobruisk and 251st Belotserkovsky regiments. Source: Камуфляж И Бортовые Эмблемы В Афганской Кампании, Авиатехники Советских Ввс, Виктор Марковский - Игорь Приходченко

Version: Soviet 9.12 Airbase: Авиабаза 1521, Мары-1 - Центр боевого применения | Airbase 1521, Mary-1 - Combat Operations Center Squadron: Second 01 was squadron commander and had the squadron logo painted on the fuselage. Please see last photo.

Good morning all, Just like Creampie said (thank you) we do have a MiG-29 squadron (Авиабаза 1521, Мары - Центр боевого применения | Airbase 1521, Mary - Combat Operations Center) that trains and specialises in Fox 1 fights (we do know how to Fox 3 as well though). We are also the resident oppfor in a large multiplayer campaign. If anyone is interested in sharing the MiG-29 love feel free to pm me.

I'd rather have the Mary-2 airbase, so that we could get a Soviet Top Gun campaign. It would be a perfect spot for the upcoming MiG-29.

"Война не могла ждать, и соседний 156-й полк на аэродроме Мары-2 перевели из ПВО во фронтовую авиацию, оперативно переучив летчиков с перехватчиков Су-15 на Су-17М3. Меры по усилению ударных возможностей авиации южных округов затронули и другие полки и являлись частью предпринятых в ВВС реформ. С 1 декабря 1983 года оба полка объединили в 34-ю авиадивизию истребителейбомбардировщиков ВВС ТуркВО, сюда же влили 217-й апиб, а через год формирование мощного соединения завершил 735-й бомбардировочный полк из Карши на Су-24." Translation: The war could not wait, and the 156th regiment at the Mary-2 airfield was transferred from air defence to frontline aviation, promptly retraining pilots from Su-15 interceptors to Su-17M3. Measures to strengthen the strike capabilities of the aviation of the southern districts also affected other regiments and were part of the reforms undertaken in the Air Force. From December 1, 1983, both regiments were united into the 34th Air Division of Fighter-Bombers of the Air Force of the TurkVO, the 217th Airborne Division was also merged here, and a year later the formation of a powerful unit was completed by the 735th Bomber Regiment from Karshi on Su-24. Source: Выжженное небо Афгана. Боевая авиация в Афганской войне - Виктор Юрьевич Марковский

Hi fighters! Today we have an architectural tour "From Rostock to Potsdam: Architectural gems on your map" of small towns in Germany. We will walk from the Baltic Sea to the central lands, from strict Hanseatic Gothic to lush Baroque. Fulda - a Baroque treasury Fulda city palace The cathedral constitutes the high point of the Baroque district of Fulda, and is a symbol of the town. Rostock was the largest port in the GDR and the center of East German shipbuilding. St. Mary's Church Kassel - the Fairytale capital of Germany. The city was made famous throughout the world by the Brothers Grimm. Kassel and its surroundings became the very treasury from which the famous fairy tales arose. A gigantic bronze statue of Hercules, 8.25 metres high and weighing 3 tons Kassel Lowenburg. The castle stands on a hill 92 meters high in the Bavarian Alps. Wilhelmshöhe Palace is a Neoclassical palace Orangery (Kassel) Potsdam. Situated on the Havel River and on the banks of several interconnected lakes, 20 km southwest of central Berlin. University of Potsdam and the New Palace Lübeck is a city in northern Germany. A port on the Baltic Sea near the mouth of the Trave River. Historically known as the largest center of the Hanseatic League. Major landmarks are included in the UNESCO World Heritage List @M-Flux get the helicopter ready! St. Mary's Church (Lübeck) Schwerin Castle is a fairytale island castle (1845-1857) — the "Neuschwanstein of the North" Schloss Charlottenburg (Berlin) - one of the most exquisite examples of Baroque architecture in Germany. We won't let you go without airbases: Sperenberg was as a key location for the Soviet forces in East Germany. The airport was a designated transport airfield, and so was equipped with heavy transport types such as the IL-76 and AN-22. The airfield also housed attack helicopters for defensive purposes, as well as out-stationed and transiting bombers. Great location, lots of forest, beyond which only the tails of the planes are visible. Hahn Air Base, a military airbase operated by the US Air Force. (USAF 50th Tactical Fighter Wing) Your F-16 will be based here. NOTAM: FLLW CHNNL, THEY SHW EXTRA STFF

Peshawar and its airfield are on the map, at least in texture form. ED added the Indian ocean after some whining, I hope they add at least this part of Pakistan and also the Mary and airfield in Mashhad in Iran.

LOL. from me Madame Flappi, votre mari est un génie!

Many users report black screen timeouts. With many other. I only have DCS. I used ot have X-Plane but delete it, as X-Plane FPS are too low for graphics fidelity offered. I managed to get a personal legal (but creatively bypassed restriction requirements) of Prepare3D which is based on MSFS. But Lockheed got wise, and yanked my Prepare3D desktop faster then F-35 DAS goes out of alignment. Other 3D apps are DCC (Houdini , Maya, Mari, NUKE). I only get black screen timeouts under DCS. I tried all sorts of back drivers, Game Ready drivers, Studio drivers. Currently on 572.83 Studio, just switched from 572.83 Game Ready. Went though more setting adjustments in DCS. Nothing, nothing helps. Eventually black screens and black flickering comes back. It is a curse that ED and Nvidia have been unable to address. As black screen is not a crash, not a freeze, there is no log file. As it happens in all theaters, in all mods, with or without add ons, its not a mod. Its DCS and Nvidia. I went down from my monitors' 144hz native refresh rate to 100 then to 60. Nothing helps. I do not think there is an answer or solution that is attainable at user level .

A map of Afghanistan with all air bases in service as of the 1980s with Mary and Termez (Kokaydi) airbases clearly shown. (Map by Tom Cooper) Source: Rooks in Afghanistan by Andrey Korotkov

The Afghan epic of the Il-76 IL-76MD USSR-86740 lands at one of the southern airfields The Il-76 was one of the main "characters" in the introduction of troops into Afghanistan. Full-scale preparations for the upcoming operation began in mid-December. The main group of the 40th Army being formed was staffed by the Turkestan and Central Asian military districts, but the paratroopers were to carry out the first, most important, throw to occupy the most important objects in Kabul and other centers of the country. During the introduction of troops on December 25-27, 1979, VTA aircraft transferred the advanced forces of the 103rd Guards Airborne Division and the 345th Separate Parachute Regiment to Afghan airfields. The first plane with paratroopers took off on December 25 at 15:00 Moscow time (18:00 local time, when it was already dark). At 16:15 the aircraft landed in Kabul, and the last scheduled flight was completed at 14:30 on December 27, although individual flights continued to be carried out later, this time with the purpose of supplying the delivered troops and evacuating the injured. During the 47-hour operation, transport aircraft carried out 343 flights, including 76 Il-76s. In less than two days, 770 people, 894 units of equipment and 1,062 tons of various cargo were delivered to Kabul and Bagram. The tasks were completed with minimal losses. And yet, the transport operation was not without casualties - in its very first hours, an Il-76 from the 128th VTAP was lost in a crash. The loss occurred less than a month after the first Vitebsk crash involving an aircraft of this type, but this time in combat conditions, which is why it was initially considered likely that it was hit by enemy fire. On December 25, 1979, Captain V.V. Golovchin's plane was flying with vehicles and 34 paratroopers on board in another group of transport aircraft. At night and in difficult weather conditions, the plane crashed into a mountain near the Salang Pass on the approach to Kabul. Parts of the plane and flight recorders ended up in deep snow on both sides of the mountain range, and it was impossible to evacuate them from there. However, with the introduction of troops, the long and difficult work of the Military Transport Aviation in Afghanistan was only just beginning. In the winter of 1980, the 40th Army continued to be staffed with newly arriving units and provided with everything they needed - from equipment and ammunition to fuel and food. In addition, the winter that year was frosty and snowy, the roads through the passes became impassable and were constantly closed due to snowfalls and icing. This meant an even greater burden on the transporters who carried everything, since the command had set the task - the army's vital functions should be fully provided for by its own forces, without any recourse to local resources (and there was nothing to take there, even the Afghan army itself was increasingly fed by Soviet aid). The work during this period was carried out by a group of five or six Il-76s, which received cargo at the airfields of the TurkVO and delivered it to Afghanistan (and, of course, by local An-12 and An-26 from the Fergana and Tashkent air regiments). Of the Afghan airfields, of which there were 17 in the country, the "Seventy-sixths" landed only in Kabul, Shindand and Kandahar, which had normal "concrete" of an acceptable class and, what is no less important, a favorable approach scheme. Other airfields were mostly dirt or gravel, barely allowing for the work of lighter transport aircraft (An-12 and An-26), and the Il-76 base in Bagram was not used due to the proximity of mountains, which complicated the landing maneuver for a heavy aircraft, and the "Green Zone" approaching the airfield, from where shelling was frequent. During the entire Afghan campaign, Il-76 landings in Bagram could be counted on the fingers of one hand, and usually for some extraordinary reason. Usually, cargo for units stationed in Bagram, where the garrison was larger than in Kabul, was delivered to Kabul, and from there it was transferred to its destination by convoys or planes of the local 50th Air Regiment. When the flow of cargo increased, the Tashkent transport hub became like a "bottleneck". The capacity was limited by the lack of parking places, difficulties with refueling and preparing numerous aircraft. To relieve it, other border airfields of the TurkVO were used, mainly Fergana, Mary, Karshi and Kokayty. The last airfield, located near a small village on the edge of the desert, was the closest to the Afghan border, located some 30 km from it. In accordance with the increase in the scale of military operations, the workload of the military transport aviation increased from year to year. With the participation of the crews of the 196th regiment alone, 430 aircraft sorties were carried out in Afghanistan in 1983, transporting 3,496 tons of cargo and 16,238 people. The following year, 1984, 534 aircraft sorties were carried out, delivering 4,690 tons of cargo and 11,589 people. This year, the fighting army undertook a number of major operations aimed at defeating the “counter-revolutionary forces” - 51 of them were carried out in the first half of the year alone, including the famous Panjshir operation to eliminate Ahmad Shah Massoud’s formations and “strengthen the people’s authorities" on the ground. Since the Il-76 had a much better speed, altitude and rate of climb, this made it a safer means of transport, and the presence of a sealed and heated cargo cabin favorably distinguished it from the Spartan conditions of the An-12. The final argument in favor of the Il-76 was the modifications carried out with the installation of jamming blocks and an inert gas system, which significantly reduced the vulnerability of the aircraft. Since 1986, taking into account the greater safety and security provided by the Il-76, all air transportation of personnel to the DRA and home began to be carried out only on these aircraft, which is why for the majority of those who fought in Afghanistan and returned to their homeland, it was the most welcome machine. As a result, out of 880 thousand people transported during the years of the Afghan war by military transport aircraft, 780 thousand (89%) were transported with the help of the Il-76. It is not surprising that for most of the "Afghans" both the meeting with Afghanistan and the return home were connected with the flight on the "seventy-six". The work of the "seventy-sixes" in Afghanistan continued in the same routine manner until the last months of the war. When the deadline for the final withdrawal of troops approached, the volume of work for the transporters increased significantly. The VTA coped with the task. The last unit of the 40th Army left Kabul on February 4, 1989. The remaining small forces from the 103rd Airborne Division were tasked with protecting the Kabul airport, where transport planes continued to fly. They left Afghanistan on February 14 with the last group of military personnel, advisers and diplomatic workers. In total, during the Afghan war, VTA planes carried out 26,900 sorties in Afghanistan, transporting 880 thousand people and 426 thousand tons of various cargo. Of this number, the Il-76 accounted for 14,700 sorties (54.6% of the total, or slightly more than half), but they delivered 89% of all personnel and 74% of cargo - more than indicative figures, especially considering the almost one and a half year break in 1984-1985, which required modifications to the aircraft's protection. After the fall of the Najibullah government in April 1992, a decision was made to evacuate the Russian embassy staff from Kabul. Along with Russian citizens, diplomats from India, China, Indonesia and Mongolia, a total of more than 150 people, were to leave Afghanistan. Three Il-76s from the 110th VTAP with the crews of regiment commander Colonel E. Zelenov, political officer Lieutenant Colonel A. Kopyrkin and Major V. Malov were sent to evacuate the people. On the evening of August 27, 1992, they landed at the Kokayty airfield. According to the plan, at dawn the next day, the group was supposed to fly to Kabul, with cover provided by two dozen paratroopers on board the planes. After loading people, diplomatic cargo, and the bodies of two dead Russian citizens at the Kabul airport, the Il-76 of the lead E. Zelenov took off and headed home. At that time, the mujahideen, attracted by the excitement at the airfield, began a rocket attack. Nevertheless, the second Il-76 of Lieutenant Colonel A. Kopyrkin managed to complete loading and began taxiing for takeoff. There were still 56 people at the parking lot, along with Ambassador E. Ostrovenko and his wife, heading for Major Malov's plane. Another rocket hit the wing of the Il-76 and the plane caught fire. The pilots and paratroopers began to jump out of the burning machine, ready to explode at any moment, running around the parking lot. The crew of A. Kopyrkin's plane, which had already taken off, saw the Il-76 burning in the parking lot, stopped taking off and, turning around, taxied to the rescue of their comrades. Under incessant shelling, he picked up Malov's crew, the paratroopers and some of the passengers who had managed to run up to the plane. Another explosion near the Il-76 pierced several of its wheels with shrapnel, but the crew managed to taxi onto the runway and lift the heavy machine into the air. The landing in Kokayty had to be done "barefoot", with the rumble of brake drums on the concrete, but the hardy Il withstood this test too. IL-76MD at the airport in Kokayty. The border airfield often served as a trans-shipment base for the delivery of goods to Afghanistan. The aircraft is equipped with blocks with heat traps in the rear of the fuselage. The aircraft technician escorts the Il-76 that is taking off. Airfield Tashkent-Vostochny, April 1987 From the book "Il-76. Hero of Kandahar" by Viktor Yuryevich Markovsky

Indeed. To elaborate, the right rectangular portion of the flag is missing. We're missing the Atlantic Ocean! :mad: "A mari usque ad <missing>"

Una delle più grandi minacce per gli u-boot da '43 in poi erano gli aerei inglesi che pattugliavano i mari. DCS è un simulatore di aerei....

I guess a topical screen cap from "There's Something About Mary" would break forum rules...:lol:

Tonight, I fulfilled a lifelong dream. I went out drinking and there was a jukebox at the bar. I played "Lead Me On" by Teena Marie, the song that was playing when Maverick and Goose entered the officer's club early in the film. I can't tell you how awesome it felt; it seemed like I was in the movie!!!

There are two possibility, both stemming from the fact that to use CCRP you need a designated target. The target is already designated in DMT or TPOD. The solution is then simple; press the pickle, level-out, put the VV on the ASL, and wait for the magic to happen (CCRP drops the bomb on the selected target). The target is NOT designated in DMT or TPOD. Oh boy, Mary-Ann's farm house is in grave danger. So, CCIP is out of the question, bc putting the CCIP cross on the target would require putting the aircraft into an attitude you wish to avoid -- would put you into too steep of a dive, would cause you to go too low (*ahem* strike the ground), what-the-ever-reason. So when the manual says, you put the CCIP cross over the target, you have to understand, you may not be able to see the target (maybe just between the HUD and the lip of the cockpit). If you could visually put the CCIP cross on the target, you would not need CCIP-to-Auto, because if you saw the CCIP cross on the target, it would be solid, and pressing the pickle would release the bomb, with it aimed right on target. So, you have to use the cues you have to designate the target, such as the nav-line on the heading-tape, and the Reflection Bar on the ASL. Boy, Mary-Ann would have be ready to show you lots of... gratitude, if you had designated the target in advance, lot's of coconut creamy... gratitude ... :music_whistling: ..... *ahem* So, getting a bomb on target in this situation will require lots and lots of skill and training, or just about as much luck.

Ah, OK. I don't fly much in MP, I didn't know it was a server. If you're running the latest OB, then I don't know. I used JDAMs, both GBU-38 and GBU-31 and the worked fine for me. Kind of a hail Mary here, if you're running Nvidia driver 430.39, update to the latest one, since users have reported crashes with that one.

South African Air Force (335, "393 - Marie" & "395 - Sherdanor"), Korea, 1952 updated https://www.digitalcombatsimulator.com/en/files/2428128/

Wir können wieder drei neue Piloten bei uns willkommen heißen. :thumbup: Das sind Mary bei unser Harrierstaffel, Skyhopper & Fynn bei unseren 18ern. Wir wünschen euch viel Spaß bei uns und immer eine freie sechs! :pilotfly:

:thumbup: If you need help I’m available. We can Marie Kondo this place.

Manufacturing processes are free in Heaven, there is no cost. A person could build a SpaceShip bigger than the Universe and all it costs is time. No such thing as a Titanium plasma disruptor cannon or geostationary vegetable-shaped angel powered spacecraft. There are SpaceShips and Aerospacecraft not Spacecraft. Manufacturing is done through the Holy Spirit who has banks wormhole rod that can be influenced to produce bonded particles in the form of panels that fit together. HS is Living Artificial Intelligence, you can see some of his influences in the solar system which involve holographic projection wormholing particles of light in front of the eyes. This includes the following: Earths orbit around the sun Comet Tails Galaxies movement Red spot on Jupiter Bands of colour on Saturn Saturn's hexagonal poles(you cannot tell me an explosion created that lol.) Solar flares Sunspots You can turn each projection on or off via a prayer which requests that the individual no longer sees them. Or someone can make them flicker.eg comets tail So a prayer to God, Mary, Jesus and the Holy Spirit connects via wormhole telepathy to the Holy Spirit who then forwards the prayer to the Control Room where God, Mary, Jesus and HS work. Unusual yes in me mentioning this an example of the connection via wormhole telepathy to HS is 11:11 on the clock. Such events are triggered by the Holy Spirits representative which produces the brain pattern modulation signal in the brain for people to look at the clock at 11:11AM or PM although primarily PM NZDT. So we are discussing technology and how it works not religion as such although I could explain some events in the bible and what technology was involved in order for it to be achieved.:thumbup:

I had no issues after i landed and stopped. Requested launch and taxied to cat 2. Didn't need to stop but i taxy like Mary Poppins, guy must have been wanting his dinner because he was was waving at me already.

Nvidia have new GPUs releasing in a few months that will be a big jump in performance over the current 2080ti. AMD have big Navi releasing likely before that. Not a great time to be buying new PC parts or new builds atm. At the very least such parts will be cheaper as they are surpassed. Even Intels i10 CPUs are only a hail mary stopgap, they are still stuck on PCIe 3.0, while Zen 3 later this year from AMD will likely blow Intel out of the water. Also DDR 5 again from AMD possibly next year.

I have sailed a 26 foot sloop on Lake Ontario for the past 15 years. The fetch from Niagara-On-The-Lake to Toronto is about 30 or so miles. With determined winds of about 20 kts from the south, we can see open water waves going over 3 meters occasionally. For the record, too, I would point out the famous SS Edmund Fitzgerald, an American Great Lakes freighter that sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975, with the loss of the entire crew of 29. When launched on June 7, 1958, she was the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, and she remains the largest to have sunk there. Type: Lake freighter Tonnage: 13,632 GRT 8,713 NRT (from 1969: 8,686 NRT) 26,000 DWT Length: 729 ft (222 m) overall 711 ft (217 m) between perpendiculars En route to a steel mill near Detroit, Edmund Fitzgerald joined a second freighter, SS Arthur M. Anderson. On that November day, the two ships were caught in a severe storm on Lake Superior, with near hurricane-force winds and waves up to 35 feet (11 m) high. Shortly after 7:10 p.m., Edmund Fitzgerald suddenly sank in Canadian (Ontario) waters 530 feet (88 fathoms; 160 m) deep, about 17 miles (15 nautical miles; 27 kilometers) from Whitefish Bay near the twin cities of Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario—a distance Edmund Fitzgerald could have covered in just over an hour at her top speed. Now, for Lake Superior: Max. length 350 mi (560 km) Max. width 160 mi (260 km) Surface area 31,700 sq mi (82,000 km2) Average depth 483 ft (147 m) Max. depth 1,333 ft (406 m) While I was aboard the Forrestal (CV-59) along the coastal waters of Virginia, we encountered the edge of a heavy storm. She headed into the wind for safety yet, I saw with my own beady little eyes the occasional wave blowing over the bow as we plunged into them. For the record, the Forrestal's freeboard is about 100 feet.