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I know it not a good source for a comparison but in the DI flight sim Tornado i have tried to dogfight with the other fighters and only had some luck against the Foxhound. Of course the sim didn't feature any auto-wing sweep either. You had to do it manually. The ADV is currently taking on a new role as a supplement to the ECR...armed with ALARM ARMs. The IDS GR1 camo was good and effective but as the RAF had switched to medium altitude operations it spots a grey low-vis camo very similar to the ADV. Have you watch the Area 88 OAV ? In Act III you see Nguyen Van Chom flying a F-105D as a fighter. He used boom and zoom tactics to advantage and bagged a bunch of AV-8A Harriers. Fun stuff. The Tornado is still too heavy to do this plus what DH just mention engines more optimised for low-level economy.

All the German, Spanish, Italian, Austrian and some of the British Eurofighters have a working internal Mauser 27mm gun. Some of the British planes that don't have the working gun retains it because it cause money to add concrete. Talk about stupidity. Shin in case you didn't know in a mock dogfight they pitted the F3 ADV vs the BAC Lightning, and the Lightning really gave the Tornado a good kick up its asz...i am not even going to start comparisons with other fighters safe for other large lumbering interceptors.

Come guys come up with some J-12 screenshots... Shin You didn't specify the conditions... The MiG-29K is likely to lose most engagements with the F/A-18F since the shitnet has 1. Superior engines, Airframe life. 2. Better Radar, EW Suite, 3 More weopon load and hard points. F-18F interms of Weopons is more comparable to Flanker. MIG-29K is limited to 5500KG at best. MIG has advantage interms of agility but in presence of AIM-9X, AIM-120D and Hawkeye 2000. This is not even a contest. as for the Tornado ADv vs F-4E i think the Tornado has slightly better cockpit visibility, swing wings but less gun ammo yet the single Mauser BK27 is a more hard heating weapon. The Phantom's M61A1 has more ammunition and better thrust to weight ratio. The Tornado is still a heavy interceptor even without a full warload. I think the Phantom has a slight edge here. If Kurnass had been rewired it would be much lighter than the stock F-4E so Kurnass hands down.

@Shin, David Can you guys find/come up with any screenshots for the 611 from AFDS ? If China ever builds it expect to see a rise in F-22A procurement. The Su-33 potrayed in LOMAC is actually wishful thinking since the Flanker doesn't have the modifications to carry most of the guided weapons depicted. The Su-33 actually lost agility due to its increased weight the engines not providing much increase inm thrust. The Admiral Kuznetsov is currently at port. Just like the bulk of the Russian Navy.

Think the CF SV-51 comes with the DD.Ivanov kit there is no mention of it being a reboxed combo containing the decals for that yucky pinky Sv-51.

Don't you think 611 looks like the one in AFDS

China fan impression of the new J-12 fighter.

Come on guys we are only asked to vote not to suggest something that is not already in the list. Besides didn't some people already get a Dragon II from Tanmen ? And jwinges forget 1/48, its not a toy.

Sewer Hornet has no business taking the Phantom's nickname. Meteor looks to be about the same length as the Slammer. How bout a Sewer Hornet armed with 10 FMRAAM taking on the role as mobile sam site ?

Here is the F-8D

It will be a rude change of routine i can assure you. No more 60 missile loadouts . The early Sidewinders even lose lock or explode prematurely. I think Wings over Vietnam is our best chance of flying and fighting in the Crusader and doing the Janes USNF Vietnam renactment. Another sim out there which has older planes is Jet Thunder. Will cover the much ignored Falkland War and operation corporate. Can fly the Shar FRS.1, Skyhawk, Etendard and Nesher i think.

David An F-8C and D is already available for SFp1 and since the mods are transferable we will have them in WoV too. Plus they are H and J models in the works.

Here is the Crusader screenshot from Wings over Vietnam

Here is the simhq preview http://www.simhq.com/_air2/air_034a.html @Shin Densetsu You know i think that Namco tend to make their games futuristic looking so there is little chance to have older planes like A-7, Skyray, Lightning and so on.

Range for AIM-54C Phoenix is 150 km. Novator's 400km range is a bit optimistic in my opinion...would be hard to hit a fighter size target at such range. I thinks its of of an AWACS killer type weapon.

For those wondering what is a VF-9 this one done by TWDC a while back...

@David Hintgen Are you getting the upcoming Wings over Vietnam ? It has the F-8 and will feature carrier operations. Sounds promising but so was its grandfather SFp1.

There was actually a 1/35 vinyl line ? I though the Saturn was the same scale as the 1/60 Brocken, Phantom, Helldiver and Police labor series. So the 1/35 as tall as the MG line because as the same time remaining a overglorified shampoo bottle ?

@David Hintgen Is there really a new Area88 in the making ? ------------------------------------------------------- As for the R-10X series of Delphinus...i really hate the v-stab of that thing because it looks too much like the conning tower of a submarine.

Some this is a Vinyl kit ?

Is there really a MG Shaft Saturn labor out there ?

Just got posted....am having some internet trouble...some spyware got into my system Anyway here are the specs for the AAM-L Length: 7.4m Diameter: 510mm Weight: 750kg Height of target: 3m-30000m Warhead: HE frag (directional effect) Warhead weight: 50kg Guidance: active radar + inertial Range: up to 400km

Royal Thai AF selects Saab Gripen Thailand picks Swedish fighters over Russia's Fri Oct 8, 2004 09:05 AM ET BANGKOK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Thailand has picked a Swedish/ British consortium over a Russian firm to replace its ageing fleet of 16 American-made F-5 fighters, a deal that could be worth $230 million, the Thai air force chief said on Friday. A Swedish government delegation would come to Thailand this month to discuss details of a barter trade deal that could swap Swedish fighters for Thai agriculture products, Air Chief Marshall Kongsak Wantana told reporters. "We have decided to pick JAS 39 Gripen fighters to replace our F-5 fleet," Kongsak said. "The Swedish government will send a delegation in the next one or two weeks to talk with our Commerce Ministry officials to seek a conclusion to the deal," he said. In September, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra told Swedish counterpart Goran Persson Thailand would buy Swedish fighter jets only if Sweden agreed to buy agricultural products in exchange. http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?t...storyID=6452975 Sweden's Saab (SAABb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research) is eager to secure a contract to sell about 20 JAS 39 Gripen fighters, made with Britain's BAE (BA.L: Quote, Profile, Research) Systems, to the Thai air force and Thaksin said he was ready to buy "whenever the Swedish company can deliver". But Persson said at a joint news conference with Thaksin in Stockholm he could provide the right political conditions for such a deal only by improving bilateral economic relations through a new working group on trade. Kongsak said the jets would be sold at a "friendly" price on a government-to-government contract and would cost about 600 million baht ($14 million) each, putting the bill at 9.6 billion baht ($230 million). Kongsak said the air force decided against Russia's Sukhoi Su-30 because Thailand had never used Russian warplanes. Russia's Vedomosti business daily said in August Thailand wanted to buy at least six Sukhoi Su-30s worth $200 million. It quoted a source close to Russia's arms trade authority as saying Thailand, which has equipped its air force with U.S. fighters, had sent a defence delegation to Russia to Irkut (IRKT.RTS: Quote, Profile, Research) , which has a licence to produce the Su-30. Su-30s, together with MiGs, form the backbone of Russia's arms trade and go mainly to Southeast Asia, where Indonesia, Vietnam and Malaysia have long been buyers. ($1=41.41 baht)

Considering the amount of effort that went into the design of AC5, ie squadron patches, worlds, orgs.. I think this is a great opportunity to release a whole bunch of items...love to see more AC5 theme models kits, diecast, mechandise and action figures(like those dragon and BBi types). Not very likely but possible.

The White X-02 i though it can't be purchase and you need all S in ACE mode to get it? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- R-103 Delphinus #3 model kit....pretty cool ehh http://homepage2.nifty.com/sparrow2/build09-r103.htm