Thud_and_Blunder

Just seen over on flashpoint.ru and flashpointzone.com that the Ukrainian border guard pack has been released. This URL should take you to the download link - 3 mb.

- Strange, I'm getting one-shot kills on BIS T80s every time.

HaTeR, When you say the 2A and 2B sights don't work properly, are you referring to the lack of 21X mag? Because apart from this - and the fact that the driver is by default the commander, as with other "car" class vehicles - your addon is the best thing I've seen in a while. It'd be nice if you could fly your TOW past a closer target to get to a high-value asset beyond, but beggars can't be choosers. Superb work; having done trials on countermeasures against Sa9 and 13 many years ago, I can vouch that although they're not perfect they are still pretty scary when things are going their way. One tiny word of note re the readme notes, though; IR missiles are oblivious to Chaff. Boy, does this system have possibilities...

A snippet from Flight International 25-31 May 2004 to interest those who like to operate Footmunch's finest offerings: "The (US)Air Force is meanwhile preparing to launch a major lobbying effort to support the F/A-22 programme, which is expected to cite the results of an air-to-air exercise staged between USAF F15Cs and Indian Air Force Su30MKs last February. Details of the engagements are still classified, but it is clear a poor showing by the F15C has shaken the Air Force's fighter pilot community. Service leaders have claimed that US-trained pilots in Sukhoi fighters usually defeat similar pilots in F15s and F16s, but now appear concerned that they have lost advantages in training and equipment. The exercise "certainly had us take a step back" says (Tyndall AFB commander) Brig Gen Larry New."

Thanks Placebo It was: US Air Force fighter 'community' shaken Taking up the point made by Tovarish - good spot by the way - I'll get onto Flight International and tell my ex-QFI from 1976 - who's now one of their editors - to pull his finger out! Excellent website put up by the IAF - I was particularly struck by the following passage: In other words, y'all r gunna havta slow down to ar way uv thinkin 'n speakin, cuz we reck'n we bin doin English longer'n youse all. Jus cuz we don' cope wi thingz in yore countree don' mean wur gonna change anythin' wen u cum Stateside... Fact is, the Indian Air Force is a competent, world class organisation with battle experience among its senior ranks. It has an old fashioned "work hard, fight hard" ethos - sadly reflected in its old-fashioned accident rates - and should never to be taken lightly by any neo-colonial bunch of bigots. Not that I'm accusing the good folk of Elmendorf of any such folly, natch. I thought it was just we Brits who were arrogant when overseas...

PlAcEbO - sometimes you're just that little bit too cruel, even for OFP! Now, can I have my headline back, neatly, capitals where appropriate, as I wrote it? Pretty please?!

Here, what happened to the capital letters I put in my title boxes?

...skylined like that, it'll soon be casevac (or deadevac..) in Afghanistan, once some tribesman with his trusty Lee Enfield No4 spots them..

- Oh no, has someone been letting the Brits/ Aussies/ Kiwis/ Cypriots/ Malaysians/ Indians/ Japanese drive?

All the links say that this (v1.2) is a private/non-public addon. Any links to one that is available to we mere mortals?

Life is very good to me sometimes - I was going to post a question about lag during Pathfinder (my poor 1.0 Gig Dell laptop takes its time...) when I see you've pre-empted me. Only one snag - the 6+ Mb download from Igor's page is zooming along at about 1.01 kb/sec! Are there any mirror opportunities out there, please?

There is a quite-well-known video sequence of a BTR-series APC with troops on board being blown-up. Another (aviation-related) bulletin board I occasionally read has had pictures from this video posted as a "sequence from a US TACP", claiming that it is the result of an airstrike on a Taleban target. I find this very unlikely - the video quality is too good, for a start - and would like to find out definitive information on the origin/provenance of the video so that I might disabuse the other forum members. I suspect that it is news footage of Afghan regular troops pre-2001, but can't find anything to prove it. Can anyone in the OpFP community help out with the background to this film clip? Thanks.

Again, my thanks to those who, by PM, have given me the references required to refute the disinformation on the other bulletin board. Moderators - please feel free to close/delete this (very helpful) now-complete thread.

Thankyou for your replies. Balschoiw - that is the video sequence in question; do you have any references which show who carried out the filming? You may indeed be correct about the Chechen involvement, but I need to disprove the US/aviation connection to the satisfaction of the moderators on the other board. Cheers

Are we still interested? Yes please - any time that suits you. How does yesterday sound?!

Hi Capt Would this be the same one mentioned in the earlier link on this board, here? Looks like I'm not the only one who doubles-up posts !

Hmm - I can just imagine what the RSM is going to say when he sees that dinky beard on the bloke on the left...LOL

Oops - duplicated! Mr mod - please delete this post.

Over on OpFP CZ they have news of John's Jagdpanzer pack v1.0 at around 22mb. Pics:

It's great to see addon-makers striving to increase and improve the range of units and equipment available to OpFPers worldwide. Â Please don't think me rude, but I shall be exercising my prerogative not to download your latest work - I shall hang on until the final version appears. Â This is partly because of the texturing, and partly because of the presence of what appear to be AAR hose-pods outboard of the engines. Â I haven't any experience of the Egyptian AF using C130s for AAR, but then again my knowledge of their ops isn't exhaustive. Â If it helps, the best image I can find is: Best of luck with your project, and many thanks for all the hard work you and the other addon-makers do on behalf of Flashpoint users everywhere.

The pictures below are from the flashpoint.ru site: pic 1, pic 2, pic 3, and pic 4.

Over on the ofp.cz pages, BKM have announced their Albanian "terrorists" (here) and their objects pack (here). These original links appear to work; the ofp.cz ones don't at the moment.

Over on the ofp.cz pages, BKM have announced their Albanian "terrorists" (here) and their objects pack (here). These original links appear to work; the ofp.cz ones don't at the moment.

Over on the ofp.cz pages, BKM have announced their Albanian "terrorists" (here) and their objects pack (here). These original links appear to work; the ofp.cz ones don't at the moment.

Sadly, I have to agree with Baphomet - I had no problems at all with any of the ECP iterations until I used the installer to update to the latest version. Â Now, it may be that I've misinterpreted the readme somehow or other, but my DR-configured setup is hopeless. Â I can be standing right next to an explosion yet not hear it, whilst other sounds (footsteps, helicopters) play on as normal. Edit - have just re-consulted the ECP site and realised that in the advanced section (gulp!) they have the DR config as a ZIP - downloading now!