A LOMAC Mission Report: The Great Escape
A Lock On: Modern Air Combat Mission Report by Cat Early morning in the U.S. compound at Adler airfield. Located in hardened aircraft shelters on the east side of the base, American A-10A ground attack aircraft rested fitfully in their cradles of earth and concrete. In the ramshackle shed that served as the squad Maintenance office, […]
A LOMAC Mission Report: Red Lady Down Page 5
Back To Page 4 The 3M9M is radio-command guided. They must keep Vasily locked as the missile flies. He frantically manuevers as I call encouragement to him. The first SAM, he beams. It cannot match his flight-path and finally falls short. “Keep it up, two! Target in sight, in hot!” “Roger. Missile launch, two […]
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Back To Page 3 Suddenly, my collision alarm blares… there are mountaintops here… and I cannot see them.I must fly higher! As I do, the SPO-15 “Beryoza” flashes bright red, a steady tone. Off, then on again. “Two, mud-spike twelve o’clock. A medium-range air defense system. One, we are too high. We must get lower, he […]
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Back To Page 6 He desperately called for evacuation aircraft, knowing that there would be no rescue for her from the very headquarters of the enemy — if she lived. He could see a crowd of vehicles gathering near the wreck of 52 Yellow. Humvees. He choked back the bile in his mouth. “Turks.” […]
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Back To Page 5 I come from the sea. Vasily, from the mountains. The “Straight Flush” is looking away from me; Vasily is calling defensive again, meaning the SAM is locking him for another shot. I line up my B-8 rockets and trigger two long salvoes, using the flaming wreck of two 3M9M launcher […]
A LOMAC Mission Report: Red Lady Down Page 3
Back To Page 2 We drove to the weapons depot and supervised as the weapons, B-8 rocket pods and two KMGU-2f pods loaded with AO-25 bomblets were loaded onto the wagons, then sent to the flight line. They were quickly loaded, and I gently lowered myself into the K-36 ejection seat. It is overcast […]
A LOMAC Mission Report: Red Lady Down Page 2
Back To Page 1 Vasily is thoughtful, and sure-handed. But the “Kub,” our word for “Cube,” the code name for the feared 3M9M system, is setting up even now, and the weather is turning against us. I can see clouds sweeping in from the horizon already. I hope for a quick plan, for we […]
A LOMAC Mission Report: Red Lady Down
A Lock On: Modern Air Combat Mission Report by Cat The Commander set his jaw in a hard, unyelding line as he looked out into the overcast sky and forced himself to show no emotion, unlike the young lieutenant who slumped in one of the overstuffed chairs before his desk, squeezing a tumbleer of clear […]
Intel P4 Prescott and 3.40GHz “Extreme Edition” Page 2
Back to Page 1 Benchmarks Synthetic MadOnion’s 3DMark03 (CPU Only) – Patch: v340 Sysmark 2004 – Patch: None PCMark2004 – Patch: v1.01 Main Concept 1.3 – Patch: Demo only WebMark 2004 – Patch: None Games Falcon 4.0 – Patch: 1.08a and SP3 using PD Benchmark Ghost Recon – Patch: English Patch IL2 Sturmovik: Forgotten […]
Intel P4 Prescott and 3.40GHz “Extreme Edition”
by Bubba “MasterFung” Wolford Introduction: Intel Pentium 4 3.20GHz Prescott with 1MB L2 cache w/ 800MHz FSB Intel is on the move today by launching their newest series of CPUs. Prescott has been in the news for sometime now as Intel was hoping the move toward 1MB L2 could continue to dethrone the Athlon series from AMD. […]
TrackIR2 by NaturalPoint Page 8
Back to Page 7 Overall Opinions and Conclusions Well, to say I “really liked” the TrackIR2 would be an understatement. Some early bugs aside, the device installed without a problem, tracked well, and after learning how to use the device, proved an advantage in virtual combat. The ability to follow that bandit without stumbling […]
TrackIR2 by NaturalPoint Page 7
Back to Page 6 Flight Simulator 2004 FS2004 and it’s earlier sibling FS2002 both support the TrackIR. I didn’t test the TrackIR2 with FS2002, but it worked very well with FS2004 (although I thought head panning was slightly too fast for comfort). This is adjustable within the control panel of the TrackIR device which […]