So does anyone have technical drawings showing how round TVC nozzles are actuated? I’m real curious to the way these things work.

I’ve asked before and i’ll ask again. Where in hades are they going to put enough fuel in that airframe to patrol the northern frontiers?

It seems almost all of the internal volume is taken up with weapon bays. Maybe they will not use a max load on normal operations and put a tank in one or more of those bays? If one looks at a see-through drawing of for example an F15, its internal volume is almost all filled with fuel bladders.

I can attest to that. I went to the Paris air salon a couple years ago and it was supposed to show off these incredible feats of agility, but a loud bang, a flame and a hasty landing put an end to that. The C 27 put on a great show though! :p

But thats ok. On the subject of exhaust nozzles, I can figure how two dimensional thrust vectoring nozzles work. Flat ones, like on the F22. But how in hades do the round ones like on advanced Flankers and the proposed Eurofighter upgrade work?

This picture is glorious. I want it postersize on my wall. What pure poetry of metal, power and sky.

Those early victors are truly gorgeous in the air to air shots. its funny because later models in different angles look fugly as hell.

I find that Indian delta winged jet quite a pretty thing too.

Dangerous waters is made by the same crew who made fleet command.
It is more focussed on individual platform command rather than overall fleet or theatre command. Think of it as an individual ship simulator instead of a strategy game. It has an active modding community AFAIK.
Sadly, with the cancellation of Harpoon IV there just isnt a game of the scope of Fleet command made since. If you want a less graphically attractive, but more accurate game of the same kind, you’d do no wrong in looking at one of the iterations of Harpoon. It has been kept up to date with new platforms etc.