This is Part I of the “Operation Frantic” campaign. This package contains all of the aircraft required for Operation Frantic. In this package, you will find all aircraft and repaints required for this campaign, which I also use in numerous other ETO campaigns. The aircraft in this package include the aircraft and repaints of Akemi, Allen, Andrew Wai, Kelticheart, Beepee, Captain Kurt, CFO Gauges, Chefkoch, DauntlessDriver546, Dbolt, the FDGv2 freeware team, the FDGv2 Donationware team, Gabriel Miranda Naon, Ignacio Alfredo Mendive, Jerry Beckwith, the Groundcrew team, David Copley, Krystof Malinowski, Morton, Lawdog2360, Sopwith Chameleon, Maxstuka, OBIO, Paul Rebuffat, RobH, Shessi, SteveB, thicko, VB_Planes, and Watchdog22.
All aircraft in this package have been modified, when necessary, to include the appropriate repaints, when possible, for the aircraft. To lessen issues with frame rates with many waves of aircraft in the sky, all exhaust effects have been removed, if they were included in the original models.
Kelticheart has also been generous enough to provide new prop textures for the Donationware Mustang, the FDGv2 B-17s, C-47 Cargo plane, the K Malinowski Ju-88s, the Groundcrew He-111, and the DCC P-38 Lightning model! Many thanks for this gifts, my friend!
Additionally, all weapons required for the aircraft have been included This includes the work of the FDGv2 team. The only separate files that will be required are the AI bombs by Tango Romeo. This should eliminate the need to hunt down many of these hard-to-find weapons that we all, at one time or another, have spent a good deal of time looking for.
“Operation Frantic,” is a campaign of twenty-five missions that attempts to chronicle the seven shuttle-bombing missions conducted by the US 8th and 15th Air Forces in the late Spring and Summer of 1944 between England / Italy & three Soviet bases located in the vicinity what is now Kiev, in the Ukraine. This was an actual event that occurred in WWII, and I have done my best to provide synopses of each mission so you can get an appreciation of the actual raids, and have made many of the raids as close to the facts as this sim will allow, though the raids are certainly scaled-down.
Please note that great care has been taken to include specific information in the mission description and debrief sections for each mission, so if you are interested in the history, you should certainly feel free to read them. This campaign is not a rework, it is a brand-new effort on my part to bring a relatively unknown aspect / exercise of the war to light, much like my Corpo Aereo Italiano / Chianti Raiders did for the Battle of Britain. The primary source material for this campaign leans heavily on “The Poltava Affair” by Glenn Infield, though USAAF chronology websites and other materials also proved exceedingly useful, especially for the size of the raids and the aircraft types used.
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All aircraft in this package have been modified, when necessary, to include the appropriate repaints, when possible, for the aircraft. To lessen issues with frame rates with many waves of aircraft in the sky, all exhaust effects have been removed, if they were included in the original models.
Kelticheart has also been generous enough to provide new prop textures for the Donationware Mustang, the FDGv2 B-17s, C-47 Cargo plane, the K Malinowski Ju-88s, the Groundcrew He-111, and the DCC P-38 Lightning model! Many thanks for this gifts, my friend!
Additionally, all weapons required for the aircraft have been included This includes the work of the FDGv2 team. The only separate files that will be required are the AI bombs by Tango Romeo. This should eliminate the need to hunt down many of these hard-to-find weapons that we all, at one time or another, have spent a good deal of time looking for.
“Operation Frantic,” is a campaign of twenty-five missions that attempts to chronicle the seven shuttle-bombing missions conducted by the US 8th and 15th Air Forces in the late Spring and Summer of 1944 between England / Italy & three Soviet bases located in the vicinity what is now Kiev, in the Ukraine. This was an actual event that occurred in WWII, and I have done my best to provide synopses of each mission so you can get an appreciation of the actual raids, and have made many of the raids as close to the facts as this sim will allow, though the raids are certainly scaled-down.
Please note that great care has been taken to include specific information in the mission description and debrief sections for each mission, so if you are interested in the history, you should certainly feel free to read them. This campaign is not a rework, it is a brand-new effort on my part to bring a relatively unknown aspect / exercise of the war to light, much like my Corpo Aereo Italiano / Chianti Raiders did for the Battle of Britain. The primary source material for this campaign leans heavily on “The Poltava Affair” by Glenn Infield, though USAAF chronology websites and other materials also proved exceedingly useful, especially for the size of the raids and the aircraft types used.
"Rami"
Submitted by Rami
