Stormovik Soviet Attack Fighter Su-25

The year is 1991. In the wake of peace, Capitalist defense companies, sponsored by their corrupt governments, have launched terrorist attacks in the GDR with the intent of starting a civil war.

They have acquired advanced equipment from corrupt East and West Germans and Americans, and even traitorous Soviet military units.

Your squadron has been tasked with destroying the terrorists and their capitalist backers.

The graphics in this one are horrendous by current (late 1990's) standards. Given the age of the thing, this is to be expected.

It flies quite well. At least it did then, using current hardware I could not even get off the ground ... but is a bit unresponsive to the stick, especially while banking.

Ground objects were polygonal, but modelled in a quantity and variety which was quite ambitious for the time, just compare the object graphics with other sims of the time.

The Su-25 is well-suited for ground attack, and has IR AAMs for self-defense and for use against helicopters (more then one mission will see you sneak up on a defended transport helicopter to kill a terrorist leader or traitor officer). There are 10 hardpoints on which you can load a variety of weapons, most of them unguided.

The available weapons vary over time, the more powerful ones becoming available only after you attain enough rank in the Soviet Air Force.

The manual contains the standard sections about basic flight, friendly and enemy systems and cockpit instruments. Most of the story is told by newspaper headlines which are shown on-screen and form a semi-dynamic campaign (the types of missions are fixed, but target location may change.

J T. Wenting.

Takeoff

f I pressed the "T" key (which is Time Compression key in the game), then it allows my plane to lift-off -- try it, it worked every time for me! And, once lifted off, you can set the Time Compression "T" "off" and continue with a totally normal flight mission!

Mark