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  1. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]The missiles seem extremely weak - it took 3 of them to cause a BMP crew to exit and two more to make the BMP explode. Sometimes 5 missiles would fail to destroy a BMP - attacking anything heavier than a BMP was useless. This was the case for me with every model.

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

  2. Posted

    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... biggrin_o.gifwow_o.gif

  3. Posted

    smile_o.gif 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:

    Quote[/b] ]Another challenge for U.S. crewmembers is the subtle language differences. Although all the Indian airmen participating in the exercise speak fluent English, their speech is quicker, and the musical quality of their voices is something American ears here must quickly adjust to, officials said. “We’ve agreed to use U.S. communication terms during radio calls throughout the air engagements since the Indian air force will be participating in Cooperative Cope Thunder exercise later this year,†Captain Snowden said. The Indian airmen plan to take fighter, tanker and airlift aircraft plus a man-portable air-defense team and ground controllers to the annual multilateral exercise in Alaska run by Pacific Air Forces.

    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... rock.gifcrazy_o.gif

  4. Posted

    Quote[/b] ]Quote (Thud_and_Blunder @ May 24 2004,22:29)

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

    Worked for me

    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?!

  6. Posted

    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."

  10. Posted

    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?

  12. Posted

    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

  13. Posted

    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.

  19. Posted

    It's great to see addon-makers striving to increase and improve the range of units and equipment available to OpFPers worldwide.  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.  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.  I haven't any experience of the Egyptian AF using C130s for AAR, but then again my knowledge of their ops isn't exhaustive.  If it helps, the best image I can find is:

    su-baj-m.jpg

    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.

  25. Posted

    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.  Now, it may be that I've misinterpreted the readme somehow or other, but my DR-configured setup is hopeless.  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!

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