WHAT... are you mental:rolleyes:

Fully agree with you Dutch_851. As I remember from my serving in to the army, 7,62 mm machine gun can do a tremendous damage indeed over metal datails. It really shred off steel plate of near 1 cm thick.

While I have no direct knowledge of it, I suspect that with the much more complex and detailed damage modeling of SoW, that hitting ground objects, or the ground itself (CFIT) will have much more realistic results.

As I recall from some long ago post on UBI, the current instant explode terrain strike was chosen as the best compromise given the computer power of the day, and the limitations of the game engine itself.

Any speculation about the source of the fire in these screen shots is just that, pure speculation. We have no idea what exactly has been hit, how many passes have been made, or even if the plane has been hit by flack and that Hurri is just flying by.

Still, I'll postulate that a .303 is easily capable of penetrating two or three thin sheets of aluminum at 200 or so yards (the skin and the fuel tank), and that eight 1200 rpm guns could be expected to put 20 or 30 of them in a couple square foot area given a good aim and a bit of luck. The only question is how many 3/8-1/2" holes spraying gasoline vapor do you really need to create a conflagration like we see in the screen shots, and if not how long would it take for the conflagration that does start to burn up enough of the shredded aluminum that there would be a big enough hole to support the one viewed. I speculate damn close on the first question, and not long on the second.

And that's all I have to say about that.

I asked this question but never got an answer...It would be cool to land between two trees, the wings to absorb the energy of the crash...just like you are taught in flight school:grin:

I am wondering just about this: Are these a "default" flames, or specially, individually scalable and individually tuned flames.

Looking great!

Hit the Delete key on IL-2. Is that what you mean?

Very impressive shots. It's getting better by the minute.

...Please...Steam...the horror... As before, if you must stay connected to the internet for validation, it can be a problem for events held.

The trees look very nice from down below. Some of these can be identified down to species (I saw a beech and a juniper in there). If they down look as good from the air is of little consequence. The only time I will have the chance to admire the vegetation will be when I am on the ground ayway.

Gents, about the fire: Planes were shot down in flames over Britain during BoB. While not every plane burned, a lot of them did. Clearly, a Hurricane has the ability to set a Ju 88 on fire every now an then.