[Keksz]

Albireo, on 19 October 2011 - 12:01 PM, said:

From what I can read, it says Lincer's avatar that is giving you the problem, not the XFA27 image.

yeah...not my fault as I can see.

[JianDaoXiao]

RoddH, on 19 October 2011 - 09:53 AM, said:

Major Ilich refueling Markov.

i saw another weapon for the pak-fa, in weapon selection.... any news?

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Keksz, on 19 October 2011 - 12:45 PM, said:

yeah...not my fault as I can see.

Sorry comrade. XD

[Kyuukei]

JDX: The three weapons for it are 4-shot air-to-air, QAAM, and (in campaign anyway) 3x Trinity warheads. Notably, the Trinity reloads WAY faster than you'd think.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

Kyuukei, on 21 October 2011 - 06:25 AM, said:

JDX: The three weapons for it are 4-shot air-to-air, QAAM, and (in campaign anyway) 3x Trinity warheads. Notably, the Trinity reloads WAY faster than you'd think.

Wow.. I didn't know Trinity could reload that fast lol.

[Tazuren]

Kyuukei, on 21 October 2011 - 06:25 AM, said:

JDX: The three weapons for it are 4-shot air-to-air, QAAM, and (in campaign anyway) 3x Trinity warheads. Notably, the Trinity reloads WAY faster than you'd think.

4 Trinities if you have the Extra Missile skill added.

[EstovakianHarrierPlus]

RoddH, on 19 October 2011 - 09:53 AM, said:

Major Ilich refueling Markov.

Just asking, can the PAK FA do buddy refueling?

[Millie]

I noticed that and thought it was a little awkward because as of now there's no information suggesting that it can. However, if it uses a similar outfit to the Su-35S, then I don't see why it couldn't. It wouldn't surprise me if the Russians eventually include it in a block upgrade, considering they really seem to like the buddy refueling system versus the central tanker concept.

[Kyuukei]

To be more precise, the Trinity reloads about half as fast as a regular missile. Also, it doesn't seem to cause any damage to objects on the ground; I hit the Burj Khalifa with it twice and the stubborn bastard didn't budge at all. Thing must be made of Nintendium-Plotanium alloy or something.

[Tazuren]

Kyuukei, on 23 October 2011 - 07:31 AM, said:

To be more precise, the Trinity reloads about half as fast as a regular missile. Also, it doesn't seem to cause any damage to objects on the ground; I hit the Burj Khalifa with it twice and the stubborn bastard didn't budge at all. Thing must be made of Nintendium-Plotanium alloy or something.

Non-target/hostile buildings seem to be unaffected by anything. Hell, I've fired about 5-10 rocket salvos into the buildings around Red Square and no damage appeared on them. Just guess it's gameplay that you can't damage buildings like that.

Also, since probably a lot of copies would be sold in the US, if you were able to do stuff like that the governments of countries would be furious over it as they would probably think that Namco Bandai was accepting of hatred directed towards them. Or something.

[Kyuukei]

But but you can hit the White House too I think! In theory.

Anyway yeah, that seems to be the case. Machinegun rounds will notably leave cute little bullet holes, but that's about all we get.

And, yes, you can indeed blow yourself up rather hilariously with Trinity. I can't think of many awesomer ways to die.

[Devil 505]

Millie, on 20 June 2011 - 02:49 PM, said:

Tornado, like it or not, the Russians were the ones who created the means to develop passive stealth technology in the first place.

Actually, that would be the Germans.

Wikipedia said:

After the war, Reimar Horten said he mixed charcoal dust in with the wood glue to absorb electromagnetic waves (radar), which he believed could shield the aircraft from detection by British early warning ground-based radar known as Chain Home.[6] A jet-powered flying wing design such as the Horten Ho 229 will have a smaller radar cross-section than conventional contemporary twin-engine aircraft. This is because, with wings blended into the fuselage, there would be no large propeller disks or vertical and horizontal tail surfaces to provide a typical identifiable radar signature.[3][4]

Engineers of the Northrop-Grumman Corporation had long been interested in the Ho 229, and several of them visited the Smithsonian Museum's facility in Silver Hill, Maryland in the early 1980s to study the V3 airframe. A team of engineers from Northrop-Grumman ran electromagnetic tests on the V3's multilayer wooden center-section nose cones. The cones are three quarters of an inch (19 mm) thick and made up of thin sheets of veneer. The team concluded that there was indeed some form of conducting element in the glue, as the radar signal slowed down considerably as it passed through the cone.[3]

In early 2008, Northrop-Grumman paired up television documentary producer Michael Jorgensen, and the National Geographic Channel to produce a documentary to determine whether the Ho 229 was, in fact, the world's first true "stealth" fighter-bomber.[3] Northrop-Grumman built a full-size reproduction of the V3, incorporating a replica glue mixture in the nose section. After an expenditure of about US$ 250,000 and 2,500 man-hours, Northrop's Ho 229 reproduction was tested at the company's classified radar cross-section (RCS) test range at Tejon, California, where it was placed on a 15-meter (50 ft) articulating pole and exposed to electromagnetic energy sources from various angles, using the same three frequencies in the 20–50 MHz range used by the Chain Home in the mid-1940s.[3]

RCS testing showed that a hypothetical Ho 229 approaching the English coast from France flying at 885 km/h (550 mph) at 15–30 metres (50–100 ft) above the water would have been visible at a distance of 80% that of a Bf 109. This implies an RCS of only 40% that of a Bf 109, from the front at the Chain Home frequencies. The most visible parts of the aircraft were the jet inlets and the cockpit, but caused no return through smaller dimensions than the CH wavelength.[3] However, the speed of the aircraft, combined with the 20% advantage created by its stealth characteristics, would have made it a serious threat, able to begin an attack before defenses could be brought into play and continuing at a speed too fast for conventional fighter aircraft to nullify.

With testing complete, the reproduction was donated by Northrop-Grumman to the San Diego Air and Space Museum.[3][7] The television documentary, Hitler's Stealth Fighter (2009), produced by Myth Merchant Films featured the Northrop-Grumman full-scale Ho 229 model as well as CGI reconstructions depicting a fictional wartime scenario where Ho 229s were operational in both offensive and defensive roles.[8]

[Millie]

But it wasn't until Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction was published that we actually had stealth theory on our hands. We surmised RCS return through experimentation and size before that point, and had some good ideas that ultimately resulted in the SR-71's shape, but Ufimtsev's report gave us actual calculations that could be used to create purpose-built stealth aircraft. To be fair, the only reason the Russian's ignored it for aircraft design initially is because their microprocessor industry was always behind ours, allowing us to use our advanced computers to both build an unstable aircraft and design it in such a way as to completely reflect radar away from all sides of the hull.

[Devil 505]

Millie, on 21 November 2011 - 06:53 PM, said:

But it wasn't until Method of Edge Waves in the Physical Theory of Diffraction was published that we actually had stealth theory on our hands. We surmised RCS return through experimentation and size before that point, and had some good ideas that ultimately resulted in the SR-71's shape, but Ufimtsev's report gave us actual calculations that could be used to create purpose-built stealth aircraft. To be fair, the only reason the Russian's ignored it for aircraft design initially is because their microprocessor industry was always behind ours, allowing us to use our advanced computers to both build an unstable aircraft and design it in such a way as to completely reflect radar away from all sides of the hull.

Still, you seriously have to wonder what kind of data that Horten Brothers were working off of when they built the Ho 229 back in the day.

Back on topic, I'm starting to like the PAK FA more than the Shinden. I even managed to shoot down that ICBM more quickly with it.

EstovakianHarrierPlus, on 21 October 2011 - 09:38 AM, said:

Just asking, can the PAK FA do buddy refueling?

If the PAK FA has "wet" external hard points, then it's technically feasible to mount a buddy pod. If I recall correctly, the Su-33 uses buddy refueling as well.

[Kyuukei]

Since this is a Multirole in both Assault Horizon and the AC2 remake, shouldn't it be moved to that section?

[JianDaoXiao]

Pak-FA model, Albireo skin

[viperzerof-2]

I would have loved for this to appear in game and then Scarface one just says. isn't it supposed to be 1998? and then reality breaks in half

[Keksz]

viperzerof-2, on 18 March 2012 - 04:42 PM, said:

I would have loved for this to appear in game and then Scarface one just says. isn't it supposed to be 1998? and then reality breaks in half

Logic??? IN MY ACE COMBAT?!
how dare you...

[Shieldheart]

Naw,

We even got an active Berkut and MTD back in 1995. So why not PAK-FA in 1998

Andohbytheway nice model as always JDX

[JianDaoXiao]

F-35 in 1995! XD