This document contains additional specifications and procedures not covered in the original EF2000 documentation. This document last updated March 30, 2000.


3.2 Fixed Wing Aircraft: Fighters

3.2.1 SU35
SU-35 features FBW, thrust vectoring, and state-of-the-art ECM. The NO11 radar is effective up to 250 nm, and has multiple track (6 targets) capability. Some models also have a rear facing radar.

Like the EF2, the SU35 is equipped with TIALD. Enormous engine power is provided by twin Saturn/Lyulla AL-3 1 FM turbofans, developing 1/3 more thrust than the Eurofighter engines.

Name: SU-35
Constructor:Sukhoi
Armament:1 cannon 30 mm
Hardpoints: 14
Payload: 8000 kg
Length: 22.00m
Ceiling:18,000 m
Height: 6.00m
Span: 15.00m
Weight Max: ......
MAX SPEED:
At Sea Level: 740 k
At Alt: 2500km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 2160nm
With External Tanks:Inflight Refuel
Engines: 2
Max Thrust: 31,000 lbs x2

3.2.2 SU27 and SU33
The Su-27 aircraft is capable of running down an EF2000 in almost any situation. The SU27 was given exceptional range on internal fuel, since the SU24 was not capable of inflight refueling. If you are pursued by one of these aircraft, you must turn and engage it once it gets within your weapon's range.

The pilot in the SU27 has a helmet mounted target designator which is integrated with the fire control system, and operates a slave laser range finder and IR tracker. Onboard computers can return the aircraft to level flight from an angle if the "panic button" is pushed. The SU33 is the navalised version of the SU27, and has canards like the SU35.

The SU27 has ten hardpoints, and weapon loadout includes the AA10 Alamo A-D models, AA11 Archer, AA8 Aphid and AA9 Amos. Maximum external payload is 6000 kg.

Name: SU-24 Fencer
Constructor:Sukhoi
Armament:1 cannon 30 mm
Hardpoints: 10
Payload: 6000 kg
Length: 21.90m
Ceiling:18,000 m
Height: 5.93m
Span: 14.70m
Weight Max: ......
MAX SPEED: At Sea Level: 635 k At Alt: 1350km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 2160nm
With External Tanks:.......
Engines: 2
Max Thrust: 27,550 lbs x2

3.2.3 MiG29 and MiG29M
The MiG29 was the result of a 1972 requirement for a fighter to replace the MiG21 and SU15. It was aimed to produce a worthy opponent for the F15.

The MiG29 has an unusual door system which blanks the large under-fuselage intakes from mud and ice thrown up from the front wheel. This rough airfield system was deleted from the MiG29M because of weight.

The radar laser rangefinder and IR detectors are all linked together by the fire control system and work with the pilots HMD as on the SU27. In the late 1980s the MiG29 competed against the SU27 for more orders, and lost. As a result, the MiG29M was developed, with improved range, performance and payload.

The MiG29 has six hardpoints, and the M version has eight. Weapon loadout includes the AA10 Alamo, AA8 Aphid, AA11 Archer and various A2G ordinance.

Name: MiG-29 Fulcrum
Constructor:Mikoyan-Gurevich
Armament: 1 cannon 30 mm
Hardpoints:6,8
Payload: 3000 kg
Length: 17.32m
Ceiling:17,000 m
Height: 4.73m
Span: 11.36m
Weight Max: 18,000 kg
MAX SPEED:
At Sea Level: 700 k
At Alt: 1320km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 810nm
With External Tanks: 1565nm
Engines: 2
Max Thrust:8300 kg ea

3.2.4 MiG21
The MiG21 was designed after the Korean war, intended to fulfil the same air superiority mission as the F104 Starfighter. The MiG21 has been produced in more versions and in greater numbers than any aircraft since WWII.

Originally an interceptor, the designers kept the weight of fuel carried to a minimum to give the best climb rate possible. As a result, this aircraft has a maximum range of 683 miles with internal fuel, 1118 miles with drop tanks.

Despite its age, its small size, agility and speed can make this fighter a dangerous opponent. Because its radar is situated in the inlet duct, it cannot be updated and all weather capability is especially limited.

Four hardpoints may carry the AA2 Atoll and AA2-2 Advanced Atoll.

Name: MiG-21 Fishbed
Constructor:Mikoyan-Gurevich
Armament: 1 cannon 23 mm
Hardpoints:4
Payload: 1500 kg
Length: 15.76m
Ceiling:15,250 m
Height: 5m
Span: 7.15m
Weight Max: 10,500 kg
MAX SPEED: At Sea Level: 700 k At Alt: 1203km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 593nm
With External Tanks: 971nm
b>Engines: 1
Max Thrust:7,500 kg


3.3 Fixed Wing Aircraft: Strike Aircraft
3.3.1 MiG27
This section still classified

Name: MiG-27
Constructor:Mikoyan-Gurevich
Armament: 1 cannon 23 mm twin gun
Hardpoints:7
Payload: 4000 kg
Length: 17.08m
Ceiling:14,000 m
Height: 5.0m
Span: 7.78m
Weight Max: 20,410 kg
MAX SPEED: At Sea Level: 635 k At Alt: 1017km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 242nm
With External Tanks: 1737nm
b>Engines: 2
Max Thrust:11,500 kg



3.3.2 MiG-31 (Foxhound)

Name: MiG-31 Foxhound
Constructor:Mikoyan-Gurevich
Armament: 1 cannon 30 mm twin gun
Hardpoints:7
Payload: 4000 kg
Length: 22.60m
Ceiling:20,600 m
Height: 6.10m
Span: 13.4m
Weight Max: 46,200kg......
MAX SPEED: At Sea Level: 1450 km/h At Alt: 2553 km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only:2100km
With External Tanks: .......nm
b>Engines: 2
Max Thrust:14,000 kg ea



3.3.3 Su-25

Name: SU-25 Frogfoot

Constructor: Sukhoi
Armament: 1 cannon 30 mm
4400 kg max payload
Length:14.5m
MAX SPEED: 975 km/h
Ceiling: 7000 m
Height: 5.1m
Weight Max: 19,000 kg
RANGE: 1250 km
Span: 15.5m Crew: 1
b>Engines: 2

3.3.4 Su-34
The Su34 is a development of the SU27 but intended for the long range strike and ground attack role. The tail cone houses a rear facing radar. The aircraft also carries rear facing A2A missiles.

The SU34 has a new terrain following and navigation/attack radar combinded with a modern MFD cockpit. Undercarriage is larger than normal with twinned wheels for all terrain use.

Name: SU-34

Constructor: Sukhoi
Armament: 1 cannon 30 mm
Hardpoints: 10
Payload: 8500 kg
Length: 22.40m
Ceiling:18,000 m
Height: 5.93m
Span: 14.70m
Weight Max: ......
MAX SPEED: At Sea Level:695 k At Alt: 1915km/h
RANGE
Internal Fuel Only: 2160nm
With External Tanks: 2490nm
b>Engines: 2
Max Thrust: unknown

• The Hind was first produced in its gunship version in 1977.
  
• Armament includes up to 12 AT-6 radio guided anti-tank missiles, and AA-8 Aphid A2A missiles on pylons.
  
• Hind helicopters are equipped with one 12.7 mm cannon which is highly accurate. Given their high maneuverability it is not recommended to get into a guns fight with them. Either make high speed strafing runs or take them down with missiles.
  
• Maximum level speed is 180 km/h. Max take off weight is 12,000 kg.
  
• Maximum range is 540 nm. Hover ceiling is 1500m, and operational ceiling is 4500m.

• The "Werewolf" was the world's first single seat close support helicopter.
  
• It is extremely agile and light, with 35% of its construction using composite materials.
  
• Armament consists of one single barrel computer controlled cannon with 500 rounds. Provision is made for additional 23mm gun pods and air to air missiles.
  
• Up to 80 S-8 80mm air to surface armor penetrating rockets may be carried. Up to 12 laser-guided air to surface missiles with a range of 10 km may be carried.
  
• Nominal weight is 9800 kg. Max take off weight is 10,800 kg.
  
• Maximum speed in a shallow dive is 350 km/h. Max level speed is 310 km/h.
  
• Max vertical rate of climb is 600m/min. Hover ceiling is 4000m.
  
• Endurance is 1 hr and 40 minutes, or with external tanks 4 hours.
  
  
  
  4.0 Norwegian TOW Operations and Intelligence
  
  The section provides information specifically useful in the current campaign.
  
  4.1 Threat Level
  

• Intelligence predicts three levels of potential threat capability in the Norwegian theater. In the "Rookie" scenario few enemy aircraft will be scrambled to oppose your forces. Few anti-air assets will be active or responsive.
  
• In the "Pro"scenario many aircraft and anti-air assets will be active although their accuracy and efficiency will be sub-par.
  
• In the "Top Gun" scenario it is projected that air and anti-air assets will be exploited fully against the allies and numerous reserve forces will be ready to replace losses.
  
• ("Shift-d" will toggle through the scenario levels during campaign play).

• Tankers are visible on the briefing map under "Support Aircraft". However, they are not initially exactly where the symbols are. Remember that tankers travel long distances in a straight line for the purpose of ease of connection, therefore their position is not stable.
  
• For tanker waypoints, refueling may occur anywhere within 100 miles of that point. Switch to refueling HUD before you arrive at the refuelling waypoint.
  
• Switch to the following waypoint (refuelling +1) after all ships in your element are refuelled and back in formation.

• CAP missions are slated to last about 4 hours.
  
• (Shift-s will increment you by 30 minutes with each press. Re-evaluate the situation between time advances).
  
• The navigation system will automatically set the waypoint to your home base at the end of your mission. You may need to refuel several times during your mission. You may need to abort early if you run out of weapons.
  
• Manually advance your waypoint to home base to land ahead of schedule.
• DO NOT deviate from your flight plan unless necesssary. Your position could become strategic without warning and your instant availability could become critical.

Clark Janes runs EF2 on an AMD 133 overdrive and reports that it is great. I have heard of someone running the sim on a Cyrix P133+ and they reported it was fine also. I suspect that since the FPU in Cyrix is slower than Intel, that the Cyrix is a second choice to Intel, though because of the higher bus speed on the P200+ this may not be true on this machine. Steven Sjchmura is now running EF2 on a Pentium Pro 200, and reports that the frame rate is much better than a P166...! This is because of branch prediction, a larger L1 cache and a stronger FPU ....


Config file
Use buffers =25,1 and files=40. Load your mouse driver prior to your sound driver. Don't need the CD driver so don't load it!


Memory Managers and Smartdrive
Use of smartdrive requires use of himem.sys, which appears to cause lock-ups on some systems. Note that if you boot a DOS session under WIN95 you will likely be loading ifshlp.sys, which also appears to cause lock ups.
EF2 requires no memory manager and you will experience lock ups if you use one. Other disk cache programs that do not require himem.sys may be helpful. If you are running with 16 meg a disk cache may get rid of pauses when loading sound files, but you may experience lock ups. Using a cache with 8 meg is counterproductive.
Some users have run under QEMM 8.0 without difficulty.

System Optimization
It is sometimes necessary to defrag your hard drive prior to installation. This has eliminated lock ups for some. Similarly, when patching defrag your hard drive prior to reinstallation. Note that EF2 creates a large swap file and will not run unless you have around 25 meg of free disk space after installation.

Gamma Levels
On many systems the screen will appear too dark. The palette chosen for EF2 takes into consideration the dull skies and subdued lighting of Europe. You can adjust gamma using the ALT F7 and ALT F8 key combinations.

Joysticks and Soundcards
A variety of joysticks will perform well with EF2, including the MS Sidewinder, CH products, Suncom and TM products. The TM products offer the greatest flexibility, but can be challenging to program. TM is about to release a new Windows interface which should address this. CH and Suncom are the next choices, and the F15 Eagle looks to be an excellent product.

If you do acquire the TM gear, you may find yourself spending HOURS setting up a good config file. Many of us have already sweated this through, so dont' be shy about sending mail to other pilots to get a copy of a well developed command file.

There are almost a dozen different sound boards that will work fine with EF2. Soundblaster cards are cheap and are the nearest to plug and play. These cards perform adequately and also use less CPU time than the TB and some other sound cards. TB products may have a problem with EF2.

Graphics Cards
ARK 2000 chipsets, and the Matrox Millenium seem to be exceptionally fast. However, the new leader is the ET 6000 chipset, which is faster in raw pixel processing, though actual framerate seems not much higher. The Hercules Dynamite 128 uses this chip and sells for about $159 US through NECX. The Lightspeed 128 is about the same price but some have had difficulty running EF2. The Matrox Mystique, which like the Millenium and the Dyn 128 will also be Vesa 2 in hardware, will probably perform very well in DOS and should be comparable to the Verite chipset for 3d acceleration.

This issue gets complicated since 3d accelerator cards are just becoming available. The ET6000 does NOT do 3d acceleration, but chipsets such as the VOODOO GRAPHICS (3dfx) will attach to your 2D board and occupy another PCI slot. The best performance will come from a dual card setup where you run a high performance 2d accelerator alongside a high performance 3d solution, though your cost will be a bit higher. I just ordered the Orchid Righteous 3d for $265 from First Source International.

For further information on 3d hardware see the links on my main page. F22 will support Direct3d. Its a good bet that most of the flight sims released this fall and ALL in the new year WILL support Direct3d.

B. Block Revisions
This section outlines the major improvements added by each contractor block upgrade to the aircraft systems.

Block 2.0

• Added "shift-m" to place a JTIDS scope on the HMD.
• Lead stores (not wingmen stores) can now be changed in the campaign.
• Added HUD indication for external stores.
• Flight model altered, with improved modelling for inertia and drag.
• Overall difficulty greatly increased.
• AI for Russian pilots improved.
• HIt bubble for missiles and cannon increased.
• SAMs and AAA now active for both sides.
• Ability to alter radar range and mode w/o reference to MFD.
• Damage model and secondary damage model fixed.
• Graphics added for cannon damage.

• Added "shift-d" to alter difficulty level in the campaign (3 levels).
• Added "running in" command to wild weasel, anti-ship, and strike missions to specifically order wingmen to strike mission objectives. Note: this command will probably not work for targets-of-opportunity.
• Wingmen are more aggressive in atg operations.
• Added "alt-#" equivalents for all grey keys so WCSM2 users can now program these functions.
• Increased drop tank fuel capacity in accordance with manual, greatly extending aircraft range.
• Ability to alter DASS range w/o reference to MFD.
• DASS remains on when AP displayed in MFD.
• Shift-m activates a JTIDS repeater display on your HMD.
• alt 1-- Chaff.
• alt 2-- Flares.
• alt 3-- radar scan range up.
• alt 4-- radar scan range down.
• alt 5-- radar azimuth change.
• alt 6-- change radar mode.
• alt 7-- DASS range up.
• alt 8-- DASS range down.
• X -- lock nearest threat

• The major changes to this block are JTIDS, Escort and Wing performance, and WARGEN.
• JTIDS now receives additional information from AWACS and JSTARS, and this information is displayed via colored dots in the center of each air target, denoting the function of the target. As a result of this addition, new strategic possibilities are generated by improved SA.
• Escort flights are now commonly four ship units when available. This increases survivability greatly.
• Escorts are now slaved to the current waypoint set by the LEAD pilot. Ability to direct escort is now possible through manipulation of the waypoint.
• Escort is now generally more aggressive.
• WIngmen performance improved in both A2A and A2G.
• JTIDS bug crunched.