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The Lightning's main armament consists of 2 30mil cannon and 2 Firestreak (or Red Top) IR missiles. I have to say, the Fire Streaks are far more reliable and powerful than the early Sidewinders (in the early 60s)
First kill of the mission: a Firestreak smokes another Mig!
Friendlies called out a Mig-17 below the cloud layer; now he thinks he can out run my Lighting!
Mig-17s rarely go this fast, most I encounter will stay around 250kts and do gentle turns to try to sucker you into a turning fight...when they run, they cant out turn a train!
BIG mistake on his part...
As I said...big mistake....2 30mils make quick work of the Mig-17
Next target: another Mig-17..this time he is doing a good job, we got into a horizontal rolling scissors, HOWEVER, the Lighting has an incredible amount of power, so I was able to move it into my plane: the vertical fight.
The AI in this sim can be stupid...but here is a case of intelligent wingman AI. While I kept the Mig in the vertical scissors, my wingman made slashing attacks, after a couple, one finally unloaded some 30s into the Mig.
The above was the last Mig in our assigned area, so time to screw around: The Lighting bares it's fangs
"Olds Lead requesting fly-by"
The after-action report...as you can see, the Lighting dominates. In a mission like this I would expect half the kills and ~2-3 losses if we were using F-100s.
Graphics in the sim are much better than this, however as I said before, sometimes the airspace gets very VERY busy with hundreds of aircraft all firing and being hit, AAA, SAMs, flak, and large tanks battles on the ground...so to keep it running smooth, I crank the graphics down.
If you want to try Strike Fighters 2 ( The Israel one is a ton of fun too)
http://www.thirdwire.com/If you want to see the wide array of freeware addons for SF2:
http://combatace.com/files/category/388-strike-fighters-2-series-by-thirdwire/That's it for now...off to do some fishing.
Tailwinds,
Adam
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