As an IL-2 fan since day one and an avid follower of the development of SoW i simply cannot wait for this to be released! However, I will have to. Not only because its earliest likely release date is Q1 2011 (Which I doubt will happen!), but I will need to seriously save up for a better rig.

This game will demand the power of at least a quad-core processor, probably min 4gb RAM and unthinkabley large graphics memory just to make it look nearly as pretty as envisaged by Oleg.
It is still difficult to run IL-2 perfectly smooth and ‘maxed-out’ even with the best machine money can buy today.

I wouldn’t worry too much about the tracers AdlerTag, from what i’ve read, we still haven’t seen the finished textures let alone everything else (effects etc).