Not Iron's crappy DCS thread. ;)

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Buddy worked on F4's in Germany for a few years, said the plane leaked hydraulic fluid everywhere

That's not entirely accurate. They leaked hydraulic fluid, oil and fuel everywhere.

The F-104 and F-4 did indeed both use the General Electric J79 engine. The F-104 was the only fighter to carry the M61 cannon, it was also the first (F-104C) of many fighters to carry the M61A1 cannon.

There is a free mod for the Starfighter by VSN. (Germans that have made quite a few mods). It's pretty fun to fly and very fast with excellent acceleration. I took down 4 MiG-21's with a Starfighter. I loaded it with 6 AIM-9's and went out to bully some MiG's. I did that several times and only once did I not kill all four and that was only because I lost sight of him and couldn't figure where he went. He likely rtb'b and I missed it while I was killing all his friends.

If you like to boom and zoom, this is the Cold War jet for you.

I tried this with the F-106 also and let's just say that I was less than successful in that endeavor. The Delta Dart isn't as fast or nimble as the Super Sabre and has a more sluggish acceleration to boot.

That M61A1 20MM Rotary Cannon sounds wicked as hell. How about the damage it did to that prehistoric-looking helicopter? lol total destruction.

Interesting factoid, the Starfighter spent less than a year on active duty service with the USAF. I'd guess these film clips were shot sometime in the 1955-1958 time frame.

I watched many strike films from Vietnam during training classes in the USAF. Napalm always kinda fascinated me and I'm not sure why because it's a pretty horrific weapon. To this day napalm strikes are my favorite to watch even though intellectually I know people are getting turned into burnt toast.

Maybe the fascination is similar to watching a mushroom cloud form as a result of a nuclear detonation. How the fire spreads during a napalm strike is pretty darn cool looking, so maybe that's it.

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Interesting factoid, the Starfighter spent less than a year on active duty service with the USAF.

I should have kept reading. It was reactivated for the Berlin crisis and again for Vietnam. In Vietnam it flew over 5000 combat missions, many of them BARCAP for early AWACS. USAF initially ordered over 700 of them but cut the order to less than 200.

Cool stuff coming including the F6F Hellcat, F-4U Corsair and the Eurofighter Typhoon.

There is a MiG-17 on the way also and if the issues between ED and Razbam ever get sorted out there will be a MiG-23 as well.

I agree that they need to address certain theater issues, like Vietnam, Korea and dubya dubya too. Folks have been asking for a Vietnam map forever and some say we can't get one until there are destructible objects in the game. Don't we already have that? Bomb a fuel tank and it burns. Others say it's an issue with the amount of trees but we have the Kola Peninsula map that has loads of trees.

I think the AI aircraft need to be detuned a bit because I have Tacview files that show AI Fishbeds sustaining 8g turns and not losing speed and, in some cases, accelerating. I have yet to figure out how to beat that and one guy on the ED forums just says "use BFM" but when pressed for specific solutions posts training videos of how to teach wingmen to work together.