NATO Fighters reviewed at MiGMan's Flight Sim Museum

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NATO Fighters

NATO required Advanced Tactical Fighters to run. It has since been ported to Windows 95 (yay!) and released as part of Fighters Anthology. (Check out my huge guide to these sims).

Player aircraft added to the Advanced Tactical Fighters lineup were:

Eurofighter 2000
F-16 Falcon
Saab JAS 39 Gripen
Su-35 Flanker

As well you were now able to fly any aircraft in the sim - over 100 different types! This was the biggest line-up of flyable aircraft ever seen in a combat and has yet to be equalled.

Of course, to achieve this number, many aircraft shared cockpit art and there were a few boo-boos made in the aircraft data. I remember the F-111 having only 3,000 lbs of fuel as a notable gaffe... it actually holds 3,000 GALLONS ! (about 18,000 lbs)

Corrections to aircraft data and the ability to fly any aircraft had been available for a couple of years thanks to the work of 3rd party (fans) utilities that ran under Windows. (The sim ran in DOS).

Objects in the sim :
AAA and SAMs
Aircraft - Attack and Bombers
Aircraft - Fighters
Aircraft - Logistics
Aircraft - Reconnaisance
Aircraft - Rotary Wing
Buildings
Misc. Objects - MiG- Microwave - Moose
Ships
Vehicles - Armour
Vehicles

Crimean Peninsula
Graphics Preferences

Some of the other aircraft :
MiG-29 Fulcrum
Flying the MiG-21
B-1B Lancer

Evolution of Graphics

Read about early 1990's graphics

Read about Texture Mapping

Links

A moving map display finally appeared in the cockpits of NATO Fighters. You could also download target info from AWACS, J-Stars and E-2C Hawkeye aircraft.

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