Russian medium Transport Planes

[marcusjm 0]

The one drawback at the moment seems to be a lack of medium sized transport for Russians.

Those VDV should have an An-26 at least or something similar where to drop from. Btw, I did see an an-26 "in development" on ofp.info. Did it ever get released as a beta or something like that?

Personally I think the an-124 is too big to use for para drops. Did they ever do that in the reallity?

Btw, for those who know. What sort of aircraft do they use in VDV trypically to transport around in? Or do they use helicopters more often? The Mi-26(or Mi-28) seems to be the only semi-realistic option so far. Possibly the BK-32 plane too but isn't it too small to carry around a BMD-3?

BM

[Gedis 0]

well...

An-124 Ruslan could do big paradrops, but VDV don't use it, at least it's no need to drop huge bmd and troop numbers...

basicaly vdv uses IL-76...

RKSL Studios are making it:

more pictures...

[marcusjm 0]

Great. That's really all that is needed then.

I don't use planes much but for paradrops they are great.

BM

[Gedis 0]

well, i can't imagine paradrop without a plane

but, we will wait long when this il-76 will be released... :/

so i'm patient... not like about Spetsnaz BRDM-2, BMD-1, BMD-2, RHS T-55, T62, T-72 and T-80 packs...

[marcusjm 0]

Well, the BK32 isn't too bad. They claim it is "unfinished" but it has worked quite well. I think propeller planes works much better in OFP than jets.

Maybe it is even more fitting for small islands like these?

Btw, what is the BK32 used for in rl?

BM

[FW200 0]

The Beriev Be-32K is quite shitty to be honest, the nose is all wrong and I should redo it sometimes, along with the updated cockpit I have. (That's what you mean with Bk-32?)

In real life it's a passenger plane, the military variant was just an idea from me, since the Russians didn't have any medium transport planes..

It most definatly would not fit a BMD-3 inside, perhaps the unfinished An-12 by BDM would be better for this purpose.

Hope to have answered your questions

[marcusjm 0]

The Beriev Be-32K is quite shitty to be honest, the nose is all wrong and I should redo it sometimes, along with the updated cockpit I have. (That's what you mean with Bk-32?)

In real life it's a passenger plane, the military variant was just an idea from me, since the Russians didn't have any medium transport planes..

It most definatly would not fit a BMD-3 inside, perhaps the unfinished An-12 by BDM would be better for this purpose.

Hope to have answered your questions  

Well it's usable at least. I mean; I dont really care about detailed cockpits etc since I only needed it to drop some VDV:s. I'll use the Mi-28 for vehicle transports in my little test campaign, at least until that IL comes along.

If you did it I still want to thank you. It is the ONLY option afaik if you want to para drop Russians. It's not horribly bad for that purpose. I simply do a deletevehicle anyway after the drop.

If I only knew how to make textures (I also thought about that AN-12). Maybe I should check some of those tutorials.

Btw, what happened to tha AN-26 by the user Geneasis? I see that there were no more posts about it after 2003. It looked pretty nice.

[BlackScorpion 0]

Mi-28?

You maniac!

[marcusjm 0]

Mi-28?

You maniac!

Oops. All those numbers messes with my head .

I mean just the Mi26 HALO.

BM

[RTR_Commander 0]

perhaps the unfinished An-12 by BDM would be better for this purpose.

I know we will be using BDM's AN-12 for our Iraqis at some point soon

[marcusjm 0]

perhaps the unfinished An-12 by BDM would be better for this purpose.

I know we will be using BDM's AN-12 for our Iraqis at some point soon

Wil the roundels be configurable?

BM

[RTR_Commander 0]

Yes you could easily change them to your suiting. Just i'd check the colour scheme and you'd need Russian or English numbers for the An-12 depending on what your wanting to change it to as our An-12 will have arabic numbers which are randomly changed and roundels of the Iraqi air force as well as the Iraqi flag on the tail of the plane.

[@rika 0]

Some times ago Gemenis have showed some screens from his An-26. But when his disk had broken , he lost all work.

Now he is working on other projects , so he haven't any time to resume his work. Maybe if somebody will be able to help him he will be start do this once again

[jakerod 254]

BDM started working on a An-26 as well but we only got to the engine before the mod died.

[FW200 0]

If he'll redo that An-26 (which I hope), tell him not to use double sided faces anymore, they cause those lighting errors you can see. (not lightNing, lighting!)

[marcusjm 0]

Btw, one question about that BK-32.

Why does it allways dive towards the ground after awhile? I've tried setting the height high but it allways dives after awhile. I set the AI at highest possible skill. I just barelly managed to drop 3 squads before it kamikazes, unfortunatelly it allways takes 1-2 guys with it.

BM

[Footmunch 0]

Work-in-progress shots of an An-72 Coaler being landed by the autopilot

Lots still left to do, however, especially on the cargo scripting.

[Silent N Deadly 0]

Looks great so far.

[Gedis 0]

well, sad news about that An-26, but i remember other mod

Operation Balkan MOD

An-26

That An-72 is awesome! Maybe An-74/32/30/22 in projects ?

[marcusjm 0]

What a nice plane. Good job.

How many seats will it allow?

BM

[Footmunch 0]

What a nice plane. Good job.

How many seats will it allow?

BM

Right now it's 36 (ie 3 12-man squads).

I may put together a BMD-launching version also, using Vit's

existing BMD addon and some paradrop scripting.

An-74 (mini-AWACS) may follow, but only as a high value 'target'

for west forces. I've got no time for full AWACS scripting.

[marcusjm 0]

What a nice plane. Good job.

How many seats will it allow?

BM

Right now it's 36 (ie 3 12-man squads).

I may put together a BMD-launching version also, using Vit's

existing BMD addon and some paradrop scripting.

An-74 (mini-AWACS) may follow, but only as a high value 'target'

for west forces. I've got no time for full AWACS scripting.

Sounds very nice indeed. With all fighter planes etc I have wondered why there were so few transports. They really do make sense in OFP.

Personally I prefer simple scripts so that it doesnt lag. The rest one can do with simple custom scripts.

Btw Footmunch. Can i make one little wish? It's nothing with the actual addon but when you are finished. Could you add the script commands in the readme.txt file? I allways end up de-pbo:ing stuff so I can check the cpp file for the script comands. But it would be so much easier to just line them up in the readme file.

I often wonder why it's so un-common to do that.

BM

[Gedis 0]

hm... I don't know any An-74 awacs, there is only An-71 Awacs...

but nice to hear, that it is in the plans!

[-ZG-BUZZARD 0]

Great news on the An-72, Footmunch!!! Is really looking great!!

[belgerot 33]

Impressive work on the An-72 Footmunch, great to see there is atleast another plane on the way It is a shame that the An-26 by Gemenis was never finished, but who knows? Would be worth someone helping out with it, and perhaps one day BDM's An-12 will be at 1.0 as well??