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Battlegroup Frontlines BF2 Mod |
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Written by SixPack
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Sunday, 09 July 2006 |
Ladies and Gentleman, we would like to present the awesome power of the BF-109E4. Today we are showing off some ingame shots and we have done some renders that hopefully will make it to your desktop. You can find some more pictures in the developers diary in the forum.
 
 
The Messerschmitt BF-109 was the most produced of the German fighters during World War 2 with around 38,000 of all marks being produced. Development evolved from the BF-108 Taifun four-seat tourer and was entered in the competition for fighters against designs from Arado, BFW, Focke-Wulf and Heinkel. Messerschmitt`s design emerged as a small angular low-wing cantilever monoplane with retractable landing gear,
leading-edge slats and enclosed cockpit. These features, together with its all-metal, flush riveted monocoque fuselage, made it the most modern of the contenders. Heinkel`s had an open cockpit and no slats, Arado had an open cockpit and fixed landing gear, and the Focke-Wulf design had a braced, unslatted high wing. Such modernity was striking, and rather controversial, drawing from Ernst Udet the comment that the aircraft would `never make a fighter`. The first prototype was originally to be powered by the new Junkers Jumo 210A engine, but it was unavailable for the BF 109 V1 prototype and so in the resulting trails the BF-109V1 was powered by an imported Rolls-Royce Kestrel V of 695 hp (518 kW) and it rolled out in September 1935. In the competition at Travemunde the BF-109 performed well and to the surprise of many was awarded a contract for 10 development aircraft (although Heinkel was also awarded a similar contract). Final trails were held at Travemunde in November 1935 and in these the BF-109 was selected for production. The first versions entered service in early 1937 and saw some action in the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) with the Condor Legion. Production of the `E` (Emil) of the BF-109 started in 1938 with the first BF-109E-1`s rolling of the production line in early 1939 powered by the 1,100 hp (821 kW) DB 601A engine and being armed with 2 cowl mounted 7.92 mm (0.31 in) MG 17 machine-gunsand two more in the wings with provision for two 20 mm MG/FF cannon in place of the wing machine-guns. The Emil was the first true mass-production model of the basic design, and by the end of 1939 it had replaced all previous models in the first-line service with the Luftwaffe, and 13 Gruppen, each consisting of 40 aircraft, were operating with this type when the Second World War started. The BF-109 was the main fighter of the Luftwaffe from 1939 until the summer of 1941 and it served on all fronts with the Luftwaffe before it was gradually replaced with the BF-109F (Friedrich) with the more powerful Daimler Benz DB 601E-1 of 1,200 hp (880 kW) and armed with One 15mm (0.59in) MG 151 mounted between cylinder heads and firing through the propeller hub and two cowl mounted 7.92mm (0.31in) MG 17 machine guns.
Specs:
Type: Single-seat fighter
Origin: Bayerische Flugzeugwerke
Model: Daimler-Benz 601Aa
Type: Liquid Cooled Inverted V12
Armament: 2 cowl mounted 7.92 (0.31") MG17 with 500 rpg and 2 20mm MG/FF Cannon with 60 rpg in the wings
Number: One
Horsepower: 1,150hp
Wing span: 32 ft. 4.5 in.
Length: 28 ft. 8 in.
Height: 8 ft. 10 in.
Weight: 2505 kg
Empty: 4,440 lb.
Maximum, Loaded: 5,520 lb. |
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Written by SixPack
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Saturday, 08 July 2006 |
he Mi-24, the first helicopter to enter service with the Russian Air Force as an assault transport and gunship, was developed on the basis of the Mi-8's propulsion system. Additional missions include direct air support, antitank, armed escort, and air to air combat. The helicopter was used extensively in the Afghanistan War, becoming the "signature" weapon of the conflict. The Mi-24 is a close counterpart to the American AH-64 Apache, but unlike this and other Western assault helicopters it is also capable of transporting up to eight troops. The Russians have deployed significant numbers of HINDs in Europe and have exported the HIND to many third world countries. Source- Model: Blitz/Gaverty
- Bundle: Gaverty
- Unwrap: Hoofer
- Skin: Hoofer
- Script: NA
- Sound: Sonicvalley
Old faithful is currently being put into game.
  
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POE2 News Mod for BF2 # 72 |
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Written by SixPack
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Friday, 07 July 2006 |
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In our last news posting we commented that we would discuss some of our server backend development. It’s been very important to us to make POE:2 as a complete package that caters to all types of gamers. EA/Dice has done a great job with making their ranking system for BF:2 and we realize that there are a lot of gamers that play the game for this feature. Stating that we’ll begin by discussing what Kmkz & Melugo have been working on since they joined the team last year. The team discussed this thoroughly and decided that instead of having a “ranking/award” system that we would prefer to have a statistical system that keeps track of your POE:2 playing history. POE:2 Gamers will be able to view their stats through a nice easy-to-use website which we will be providing to the community.
Next up is some of Squirrelly’s initial work that he did for our Level Designers. Something he was able to complete quickly was creating new vegetation sprites that we could use on our maps.
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